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good while, until he dropped all the bones that. he had in his body ; 
that at the last he would drop his head, and then the boy must gather 
all the bones up, put them on a pile, cover them with buffalo calf’s 
hide, take the black arrow and shoot it up just as hard as he could, and 
when he heard the arrow coming down to tell him to get out of the way, 
that the arrow was coming right on him, and that the pile of bones 
would get out of the way. Then he started climbing up the tree and 
the little boy sat on the ground looking down. After quite a while he 
saw one of the bones drop, and then another and another, and so on 
until all the bones had dropped, and then he gathered them up and 
piled them together and covered them with the buffalo calf’s hide. 
Then he shot the black arrow just as he was told, and when he heard 
the arrow coming down he cried out: ‘‘ Look out, brother, the arrow 
is coming down right on you. Get out of the way.’’ His brother 
jumped out from the buffalo calf’s hide, and the arrow struck right 
where the hide was. He said, ‘‘ My father gave me very dangerous 
power, and so, brother, you must climb up the tree and he will give 
you power, too.’’ ‘The little boy climbed the tree, and he went clear 
up as far as the other boy had gone. He did not know where he was, 
and it seemed like a dream to him, and when the bones began to fall 
from his body he did not know it. All he remembered was that there 
was some one talking to him, but he did not see who it was, and the 
next thing he heard was, ‘‘ Look out, brother, the arrow is coming 
right downon you. Get out ofthe way.’’ He jumped out of the way 
and saw his brother standing there. His brother asked him what kind 
of a power he had received, and he told him that it was a great power. 
The boy told his brother to show him what kind of a power he had, 
and then the little boy began making a loud noise that sounded like 
thunder when it rains, and then the unknown boy let his tongue out 
and it looked like a flash of lightning. 
They went on until they came to a large lake, and when they looked 
near to the edge of the water they saw the trace where the wheel had 
passed into the water, but they could not find any place to cross. 
They sat down on the bank of the lake and began to pray again, and 
the boy planted another pecan nut, and soon a large tree sprang up ; 
but this time the tree did not grow upward, but bent over across the 
lake to the opposite bank, and so made a bridge for them to cross upon. 
They went across the lake, and when they got across they saw the 
trace of the wheel, and a little way from the landing place they saw a 
narrow road leading toward the east, and a little way from the end of 
the road they saw that the trace of the wheel was gone. A little way 
from there they saw an old man going toward the lake, and then the 
