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boy who had the power of lightning said: ‘‘ We must kill this man, 
because we know he is a bad man; he is a cannibal.’’ When they 
met this old man Lightning boy said to Thunder boy: ‘‘ This is the 
old man who took our wheel, and he has it with him now, and it isin 
his right side.’’ ‘They killed the old man and found the wheel and 
took it, and then they went on and they saw, a long distance from 
them, a smoke, and they went there and found many people. The 
people did not know who they were at first; they thought they were 
the old man, for this old man whom they had killed was their head 
man ; and so these two brothers killed all the rest of the people. They 
began to look all around and finally they came to a pile of human 
bones. ‘They found the bones of the wife of Medicine-Man. Only 
one little finger was missing. ‘They piled the bones together and cov- 
ered them with the buffalo calf’s hide, and Lightning boy shot the 
black arrow up, and when they heard the arrow coming down they 
said: ‘‘Look out, mother, the black arrow is coming right on you. 
Get out of the way,’’ and the woman jumped out of the way. The 
boys greeted their mother, and then they all started back for their 
home, and when they came near to their home Lightning boy said that 
he was going on ahead. The other boy and his mother came on behind. 
Lightning boy got there first and found their father a very old man, 
and still weeping for his children. The yard around the grass house 
was overgrown with tall trees and weeds and grass, for the old man 
was not able to work any more. Lightning boy told him that his son 
and his lost wife were coming. The old man was glad, and went out 
to meet them. They all lived happily for a number of years; then 
the father and mother died. The boys were lonely then, and so they 
decided to leave this world. They went up in the sky, and now when 
the clouds gather together for a storm Lightning and Thunder, which 
are these two boys who once lived on the earth and killed the monsters 
that lived here, are seen in their midst. 
18. SPLINTER FOOT BOY. 
An orphan boy who lived alone with his grandmother was a famous 
hunter and often went out on a long hunt with his friends. One time, 
while they were a long way from home, the boy was wounded by a stick 
that pierced his leg and broke off inside of it. His leg festered and 
swelled up so that he could not walk and his friends had to carry him 
home. His leg continued to swell until it was as large as his body ; then 
the skin broke, but instead of the stick coming out, achildcame. The 
boy was angry and would not look at the child or have anything to do 
with it. His grandmother took pity upon the baby and cared for it. 
