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which is Mountain-Lion, with bow-string. He cuts off hoofs of animal and puts 
them on poles. Man returns home and sticks poles by his lodge. People in village 
remain there without further molestation. 
34. EARLY-MORNING-DEER-SLAYER, WHO OVERCAME ELK. 
Five villages are in line from west to east. In last village toward east lives 
chief, Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer, with his mother and sister. Chief is Moun- 
tain-Lion and great hunter of deer. He finds out that something is going to 
take his life, and he is so troubled he stays in bed all the time. Powerful animal 
appears in village toward west. People shoot at it, but arrows drop off. Animal 
goes through four villages unharmed and enters last village. Chief gets up 
and takes his bow and four arrows, two painted red and two painted black. He 
goes to meet enemy and shoots him with arrows, but animal is uninjured. It is 
Elk. Elk takes chief on his horns and turns back to where he came from. Man 
from each village follows to see where chief is taken to. Elk travels so fast that 
he leaves men far behind, and man bends bow around his head and causes animal 
to go slower, so that men catch up again. They see high place where Elk 
lives in great cave with his children. When Elk reaches this place it stops to 
dump chief off, and he kicks it in back of head and down both go. Elk is first 
and is eaten by his children. Chief gets hold of root of tree half way- down. 
Men come and look down and chief tells them to dig hole big enough for them 
to lie in. Then, swinging bow-string, he causes north wind to blow until it blows 
him out of place and there stops. Chief says he will return to place he came 
from. He asks men from village if they will go back. They say it is too far, 
so chief throws them away, and man from first village becomes Sparrow, man 
from second village becomes Yellowhammer, third man becomes Towhee, and 
fourth man Red-Bird. Chief sees people dancing because their enemy is killed, 
and he throws ashes on their heads. His arrows come back to him and he 
kills deer. Two Oposstim come and eat with him. He sees sister and shoots 
arrow over her that she may see it. Sister is packing Coyote’s children and 
chief destroys them. He makes Coyote pack sister and string splits him in two. 
He shoots arrows to four directions to be used by other generations. Arrows 
cause fire which burns his village. Chief and sister are Mountain-Lions. 
35. TROUBLE AMONG THE CHIEF’S CHILDREN. 
Chief of village has son and daughter, both of whom refuse to marry. Man- 
fond-of-Deer-Meat comes to daughter and is found in bed with her. He is only 
hunter, and father tells daughter she must either go elsewhere to live with him 
or send him away. Man and woman go away together, and after seven days’ 
travel they find a place to live in. They make home and live there for a long 
while, having plenty of meat and corn. Man shoots at deer sitting down and 
misses it. Deer runs and man looks for arrow, but can not find it. Next day he 
goes in search of arrow instead of hunting. He does this every day, without 
success, and they eat up everything they have. Then man cuts the flesh from 
body until he is nearly nothing but bones. Person comes and tells wife that man 
will never find arrow. Big-Hail-Deer has taken notion to ruin him, and that 
