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then he pretended to be very sick and caused it to be rumored about 
that he was about to die. Soon he heard that the person he had been 
watching was sick. Then the medicine-man pretended that he was 
dead, but before he pretended to die he told his sons to put a bow and 
some arrows in his grave, and told them not to put much earth over 
him when they buried him. As soon as the person heard that the 
medicine-man was dead, he pretended to die also, and was buried. 
That night he jumped out of his grave and went to get the medicine- 
man. ‘The medicine-man heard him coming, and so he jumped out of 
his grave and shot an arrow through the cannibal and killed him, so 
that he never came back to life again. Then the medicine-man told 
the people what he had done, and ever since that bows and arrows 
are always put in the graves with the dead, that they may shoot the 
cannibal. 
35. THE MAN WHO MADE ARROWS FOR GHOST.* 
Two men arose and went out to hunt before daybreak, and they were 
a long way from their village when the sun came up. They hunted 
all day and far into the evening, but did not find anything. They 
decided to stay in the timber and sleep that night, so they might hunt 
next day, for they hated to go home empty-handed. They threw them- 
selves down on a soft, grassy place and slept soundly, for they were 
weary. After they had been asleep for a long time both awoke with 
a start and listened. Soon they heard a voice whooping, the same that 
had awakened them. One of the men was so frightened that he jumped 
up and ran for home through the dark. ‘The other man was brave and 
was ashamed to run, for he had not run from anything in all his life. 
He arose and stood his ground. Soona dead person stood before him. 
He asked the man if he could help him get into Spirit Land. He 
said: ‘‘I have been trying for a long time, but can not get any farther, 
for my bowstring has a knotin it. Can’t you give me a bowstring and 
make me two new arrows?’’ ‘The man said that he would, and so he 
sat down to make the arrows. Then he put a new string on the dead 
person’s bow. ‘The dead person shot the arrows and went up in the 
air with them. Before going he told the man that he would whoop 
when he was high up in the air, to let him know that the arrows had 
carried him up all right, and he wanted the man to whoop back, to let 
him know that he had heard him. The man listened'and soon he heard 
a whoop. He answered it, and then he heard nothing more, so he 
knew that the man had entered Spirit Land. The next day he returned 
to his people and told them the story, and ever since that time bows 
* Told by Wing. 
