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with his people, and that they were chiefs, and the Trickster-Spy was 
asked to look out for them at any time. In the meantime he would go 
around hunting for game, and having great powers he always brought 
home meat. When out somewhere, if he should happen to see some of 
his enemies about to see him he would turn into something else, such 
as a deer or coyote, and this is the way he wandered around. Once 
in a great while he would look over the hill to see if his brothers-in-law 
were coming. One day as he went over the hill to see if he could see 
any one, he saw four men coming, and a large crowd of people following 
them. When he saw this he turned right back to where he was living 
and told his wife that he had seen a great many people coming. Then 
he lay down on the bed, covering his head with a robe. The. Trickster- 
Spy’s wife told her father and mother that their boys were coming 
home; that they would be in before night. Not very long afterward the 
people were heard coming into their homes, and the boys, the four 
chiefs, returned to their home. 
On their arrival they saw some one else at their home, lying in 
their sister’s bed. After they had all arrived the old man told his sons 
that they had a stranger living with them and that he was their brother- 
in-law, and that he had kept them alive by hunting and had been good 
to them, and for this reason they would have to allow him to live with 
them. The chiefs were satisfied with their brother-in-law, because he 
had taken care of their people, and so the Trickster-Spy lived with 
these people for a long time. The time came when the wife of the 
Trickster-Spy had a boy, whom they called Son-of-the-Trickster-Spy. 
After this child was born Trickster-Spy would always take him along 
hunting. Once upon a time as the Trickster-Spy was out hunting, 
he noticed that the boy was pretty heavy, for he had been growing 
rapidly. So the Trickster-Spy came to a large tree, climbed up in it 
and left his child there ; but before he left, he took the child and painted 
him with white clay from the shoulders to the top of his head; then 
he started on. It happened that some of his own people, the Trickster- 
Spies, came along and knew his ways, and besides, ever since he had lived 
with his new wife he had sent out war-parties against his own people; 
so when they came to this tree they saw something up in it, and found 
that it was a child. They knew that it was some of the Trickster- 
Spy’s work, and therefore took the child down and at once started back 
home. It was early in the day when they fourid the child. Late that 
afternoon the Trickster-Spy came back to where the child had been 
and found that some of his own people had taken it. He at once 
started to trail the people; having great powers, he could travel as fast 
