34 TRADITIONS OF THE CADDO. 
After a while one of the big squirrels came out, and sticking his 
tongue out like a snake, took the younger brother into the tree. The 
other boy stood there watching the squirrel take his brother into the 
hole. He did not try to help his brother, for he knew he could get him 
out of the hole whenever he wanted to. After the boy had disappeared 
he weut back to their home, and when he got there he found their father 
already returned from the hunt. The father asked him where his 
son was, and the boy told him that his brother and he were making 
lots of arrows, and that he came home after fire to.dry the arrows with 
it. He took the fire and carried it to the timber, where he placed it 
near the tree where the large squirrel was. Then he brought some 
hard, red stones and put them in the fire, and when the stones were 
very hot he took one of them and threw it into the hole, and then 
another one. While he was. standing there watching the hole he saw 
the large squirrel come out from the hole and drop down on the ground 
dead. Then he went over and cut the squirrel’s stomach open and 
found his brother in there, still alive. Hetook him down to the river 
and washed him and then they both went home. 
Sometimes these two boys would go out to make arrows. One time 
when they went out the unknown boy made two arrows for his young 
brother ; one he painted black and the other he painted blue. They 
made a small wheel out of bark of theelmtree. One of the boys would 
stand about fifty yards away from the other, and they would roll this 
little wheel to each other and would shoot the wheel with the arrows. 
They played with the wheel every day until finally Medicine-Man’s 
boy failed to hit the wheel, and the wheel kept rolling and did not stop 
until it went a long way from them, and they never found it again. 
The boy felt very bad, and he wanted to get the wheel back, and so 
the unknown boy said: ‘‘ Don’t worry, brother, for we can get the wheel 
back again.’’ And so they started out, and they did not let their father 
know where they were going, nor how long they would be away from 
home. They went a long way and they could see the trace of the wheel 
all the way. Finally the unknown boy said: ‘‘ Well, brother, we are 
about half way now, and we must stop forarest.’’ They began praying 
to the spirits to helpthem. The unknown boy had two pecan nuts, and 
he told his brother to watch, that he was going to put one of the nuts 
in the ground. Then they began to pray again, and while they were 
praying the pecan nut began to sprout, and it grew taller and larger. 
Finally the tree grew so tall that it went clear up into the sky, and 
then the unknown boy told his brother that he was going up on this 
tree, and that he must sit near to the tree, but must never look up to 
the sky, but down on the earth, and that he was going to be gone for a 
