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had been told to do, taking the scalp off to some place where there was 
no one and putting it away for ‘his wife’s dead relatives. When he re- 
turned home the dancing was already going on, and it lasted all that day. 
When night came the young man thought to himself: “Well, my wife 
would never know anything about it if I should dance with some other 
woman ; suppose I try it.” He said to himself: “My wife is on earth; she 
will not leave me again.” The dance continued, and he danced with 
another woman and that night was with her. ‘When he left her he went 
back home, and his wife was gone. The young man supposed his 
wife to have gone off somewhere with some other woman to dance. 
The next morning she did not return; for she knew what he had been 
doing just the same as if she had been with him. He began to mourn 
again and went to his wife's grave, but there was no sign of anyone 
appearing to him as his friend had done. So this was the man who 
told that there was such a thing as death and life again after death. 
He also told that a man who dies in battle will enter into the Above- 
happy-when-he-gets-there and be happy. This man lived for a while 
and finally died. 
60. THE CRIPPLED BOY WHO DISOBEYED THE GODS.* 
Many hundreds of years ago, when our people came from the north . 
on their way to this point where we are living, there was a village called 
Windy-Village-on-Hill-side (Setsketskalikatatish). In this village lived 
-Wrist-Guard-on-each-Wrist (Wychastaqual). When but a small boy 
he was crippled, and after he was grown up he was the ugliest man 
in the village. He was of no account for anything. During these 
times there were many men who had got great powers by visiting 
Windy-Village-on-Hill-side. Wrist-Guard-on-each-Wrist took a no- 
tion to visit this place. It took men one whole day to go there, and a 
day to come back; but it took Wrist-Guard-on-each-Wrist two days 
to go there. On ‘his arrival at the foot of the mountain he began to 
pray to the gods who were supposed to live in this mountain. He 
climbed the mountain and on reaching the summit he stayed there four 
days without anything to eat or drink. During the first night, before 
he went to sleep he could hear human beings talking, but could not see 
any one. While asleep he had all sorts of dreams, and when he woke 
up, about daylight, he could hear two stars talking together regarding 
him. They said to one another: “Well, we will all have to go on as 
long as the darkness continues.” Wrist-Guard-on-each-Wrist then 
*Told by Towakoni Jim (Towakoni). 
