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went by into the bouse, and tin' Copperhead crawled off without trying
to do anything.
So the people still died from the heat, and they went to the Little
Men a second time for help. The Little Men made medicine again and
Changed one man into the great I'ktena and another into the Rattle-
snake and sent them to watch near the house and kill the old Sun when
she came Eor dinner. They made the I'ktena very large, with borns
on his head, and everyone thought he would lie sure to do the work.
hut the Rattlesnake was so quick and eager that he got ahead and coiled
up just outside tin' house, and when the Sun's daughter opened the
door to look out for her mother, he sprangup and hit her and she fell
dead in the doorway. He forgot to wait for the old Sun. hut went
hack to the people, and the I'ktena was so very angry that he went
hack. too. Since then we pray to the rattlesnake and do not kill him,
because he is kind and never tries to bite if we do not disturb him.
The Lktena grew angrier all the time and very dangerous, so that if
he even looked at a man. that man's family would die. After a long-
time the people held a council and decided that he was too dangerous
to he with them, so they sent him up to Galun'lati, and he is there
now. The Spreading-adder, the Copperhead, the Rattlesnake, and the
Lktena were all men.
When the Sun found her daughter dead,