wife was
called Selu (Corn). No matter when Kana'ti went into the wood, he
never failed to bring back a load of game, which his wife would cut
up and prepare, washing off the blood from the meat in the river near
the house. The little boy used to play down by the river every day.
and one morning the old people thought the} 7 heard laughing and talk-
ing in the bushes as though there were two children there. When the
boy came home at night his parents asked him who had been playing
with him all day. "He comes out of the water," said the boy. "and
be calls himself my elder brother. He says his mother was cruel to
him and threw him into the river." Then the} 7 knew that the strange
boy had sprungfrom the blood of the game which Selu had washed
off at the river's edge.
Every day when the little boy went out to play the other would join
him. but as he always went back again into the water the old people
never had a chance to see him. At last one evening Kana'ti said to his
son, "Tomorrow, when the other boy comes to play, get him to wrestle
with you, and when you have your arms around him hold on to him
and call for us." The boy promised to do as he was told, so the next
day as soon as his playmate appeared he challenged him to a wrestling
match. The other agreed at once, but as soon as they had their arms
around each other, Kana'ti's boy began to scream for his