THE BROTHERS WHO BECAME LIGHTNING AND THUNDER. 31 
17. THE BROTHERS WHO BECAME LIGHTNING AND THUNDER.* 
When the world was new there lived among the people a man and 
his wife and one child, a boy of about twelve years. The people called 
the man ‘‘ Medicine-Man.’’ Now and then he went out on the hunt, 
and never was known to come home without killing a deer, and almost 
every time he came home with a big buck. One time when he was 
out hunting he killed a deer and then started back for home, and when 
he reached home he found his little boy there alone and not as usual, 
for he looked weary and frightened. When his father asked him where 
his mother was he began to cry and said he did not know; that all he 
knew was that she took a water bucket and went down toward the 
creek. Hesaid that he had run over there two or three times calling 
his mother, but no answer came. ‘hen both the little boy and Medi- 
cine-Man went down to the place where the woman usually went to 
get water, but they could not find her. They found foot-prints at the 
edge of the water, and then the Medicine-Man knew that his wife and 
the mother of his only child was dead and gone; that something had 
taken her life; so they came back to their home and mourned for her 
six days. They built a fire and watched it and stayed by it for six 
days and nights. 
The seventh day Medicine-Man told his son that he was going hunt- 
ing, for their meat was about out. He went out to hunt and the little 
boy stayed at home alone. While his father was gone the boy would 
play around the house, shooting with his bow and arrows. When 
Medicine-Man came home he found his little son there waiting for 
him. Medicine-Man went out to hunt the second and the third time 
and found the boy safe on his return. ‘The fourth time he went out. 
While he was gone the little boy went out to play. While he was 
shooting with his bow and arrows he saw some one coming toward 
him. He was not a man, but a boy of his own size, and had with him 
a bow and arrows. Medicine-Man’s boy was afraid of him, and was 
about to run and cry when the unknown boy spoke to him, saying: 
“Don’t be afraid of me, brother ; I know you don’t know me. I am 
your elder brother.’?’ The unknown boy looked queer to him. He 
had a rather long nose and very long hair, but Medicine-Man’s boy 
was not afraid of him since he had spoken. He continued: ‘‘I know 
you are lonely ; that is why I thought of coming down here to see you. 
Every time our father goes out for a hunt I will come to see you, but 
you must not tell him that I came to see you while he is gone. Say 
nothing to him about me. Now, brother, let us see who is the best 
*Told by Wing. 
