so that the people were very
hungry. At last they heard that the Thunder Boys were now living
in the far west, beyond the sun door, and that if they were sent for
they could bring back the game. So they sent messengers for them,
and the boys came and sat down in the middle of the townhouse and
began to sing.
At the first song there was a roaring sound like a strong wind in
the northwest, and it grew louder and nearer as the boys sang on,
until at the seventh song a whole herd of deer, led by a large buck,
came out from the woods. The boys had told the people to be ready
with their bows and arrows, and when the song was ended and all the
deer were close around the townhouse, thehunters shot into them and
killed as many as they needed before the herd could get back into
the timber.
Then the Thunder Boys went back to the Darkening land, but
before the}' left they taught the people the seven songs with which to
call up the deer. It all happened so long ago that the songs are now
forgotten — all but two, which the hunters still sing whenever they go
after deer.
WAHNENAUH] VERSION
After the world had been brought up from under the water, ''They
then made a man and a woman and led them around the edge of the
island. On arriving at the starting place they planted some corn, and
then told the man and woman to go around the way they had been
led. This they did. and on returning they found the corn up