game of ball, the Wolves knew
that he meant for them to go and kill the two boys. They promised to
go. Then the bird's down blew off from Kana'tfs shoulder, and the
smoke carried it up through the hole in the roof of the townhouse.
When it came down on the ground outside, the Wild Boy took his right
shape again and went home and told his brother all that he had heard
in the townhouse. But when Kana'ti left the Wolf people, he did not
return home, but went on farther.
The boys then began to get ready for the Wolves, and the Wild
Boy —the magician — told his brother what to do. They ran around
the house in a wide circle until they had made a trail all around it
excepting on the side fromwhich the Wolves would come, where they
left a small open space. Then they made four large bundles of arrows
and placed them at four different points on the outside of the circle,
after which they hid themselves in the woods and waited for the
Wolves. In a day or two a whole party of Wolves came and sur-
rounded the house to kill the boys. The Wolves did not notice the
trail around the house, because they came in where the boys had left
the opening, but the moment they went inside the circle the trail
changed to a high brush fence and shut them in. Then the boys on
the outside took their arrows and began shooting them down, and as
the \\ olves could not jump over the fence they were all killed, excepting
a few