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threw him as he had thrown the first man, and he turned into a Yellow- 
hammer (Hatsok). Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer then asked the third 
man if he wanted to go back to his home, and he answered the same 
as the first two men. So Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer threw him, and 
he became a Towhee (Itchitihakao). Now, the man from the fourth 
village was asked about going home, and he said the same as the others 
had said. So Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer took him up and threw him, 
and he became a Red-Bird (Itschidisaskatsa). If the yellowhammer 
be closely examined, it will be found that the feathers on its back are 
of different color from those on the other parts of its body. This is 
because when the Yellowhammer dug his hole by the cave, he made it 
too shallow. When the wind blew, his back being very near the surface, 
the skin was blown off, so that now, the coloring of the feathers on the 
yellowhammer’s back signify that he once had a scar on his back. 
Now Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer set out to return to his village. 
On his way home, he came to a place where the people were having a 
big dance. He stopped there for a while, and asked the people what 
their dance meant. They answered him, saying that they were dancing 
because their enemy had been carried off and killed, and now they could 
all live on, without any one killing any of their number. The Early- 
Morning-Deer-Slayer took some ashes from the fire and threw them on 
the heads of the people and commanded that their heads should always 
look that way. The people after that looked as though some one had 
thrown ashes on their heads. Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer went out 
again, and when darkness came, he stopped to rest. At this place he 
killed a deer, for after he had got out of the cave he had great powers, 
and he had commanded his arrows to come to him and they came, so 
that when he stopped to rest at night the killed a deer the same as usual 
for his meat. While Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer was at this place some 
men came around, whispering to each other, saying: “That is surely 
Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer.” They went to him, and asked him if ‘the 
was not the same Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer that they had known. He 
answered that he had got away from the monster, and invited the men 
to eat with him. One of the two men was his friend. They ate with 
him, and left him with joy and started for the woods, where they are 
always seen. They were Opossums (Kadaiok). 
Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer continued his journey home; and when 
he arrived there he found that all the people had moved away. He fol- 
lowed their trail, until one day as he went over the hill he saw some one 
still going. He stopped for a while and wondered who it could be, 
and finally discovered that it was his sister. He took one of his arrows 
