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there just as soon asI can. You must not let him go until I get 
» there.’’ ‘The little boy understood. 
The other boy had already run away twice and this was the third 
attempt. This time Medicine-Man placed himself in the middle of the 
fire. The boy went out and began to play. Soon the other boy came. 
He asked the boy where their father was and he told him he went out 
to hunt. The unknown boy began to look around, and finally he said: 
*“Who is that man in the fire?’’ and then he ran back to the woods. 
The next day the boy went out and began to play and the unknown 
boy came again, and asked the boy the same question. ‘The boy an- 
swered that their father had gone out to hunt. This time Medicine- 
Man had placed himself behind another door, and the unknown boy 
found him again and went back to the woods. And so the fifth time 
came, and thistime Medicine-Man placed himself in the air, and when 
the unknown boy came he found him again and went back to the 
woods. 
Medicine-Man tried once more. If he failed the sixth time he could 
do nothing more, for he would have used all his powers. He told his 
boy to go out again to play as usual, and this time his own boy did not 
see which way he had gone. Finally the other boy came and asked 
where their father was, and he told him that he was out hunting. ‘This 
time the unknown boy believed him, and so he came near and sat down 
by him and the little boy got hold of his hair and said: ‘‘ There is 
something crawling up in your hair, brother,’’ and then the boy told 
him to get the bug out of his hair; and the boy began to do as he had 
been told, and when he got through he called out, ‘‘All ready, father.’’ 
Medicine-Man jumped out from the grass house, and then’they cap- 
tured the boy and took him into the grass house and held him there 
for six days. At the end of the sixth day the little boy boiled some 
water and they washed the other boy, and Medicne-Man cut his nose 
off and made it look like a human nose. Medicine-Man said: ‘‘ You 
have been coming here when I am absent and have been playing 
with my son and you call him brother. Now you may be his brother 
and stay with him and go out and play with him.’’ The boys went 
out to play, and before Medicine-Man went to hunt again he went 
over to see the boys and told them he was going to hunt, and told 
them to stay at home and not to goto acertain place in the timber, 
where some very large squirrels lived, for they often killed little chil- 
dren. After their father was gone the unknown boy told his young 
brother they would go there and see the squirrels, and so they started. 
They could not find the place for a while, but finally they did, and 
they stood there for a good while watching the big hole in the tree. 
