father. The
old folks at once came running down, and as soon as the Wild Boy saw
them he struggled to free himself and cried out, "Let me go; you
threw me away!" but his brother held on until the parents leached the
spot, when they seized the Wild Boy and took him home with them.
They kept him in the house until they had tamed him, but he was
always wild and artful in his disposition, and was the leader of his
brother in every mischief. It was not long until the old people dis-
covered that he had magic powers, and they called him I'nage-utasun'ln
(He-who-grew-up-wild).
Whenever Kana'ti went into the mountains he always brought back
a fat buck or doe, or maybe a couple of turkeys. One day the Wild
Boy said to his brother, ''I wonderwhere our father gets all that
game; let's follow him next time and find out." A few days afterward
Kana'ti took a bow and some feathers in his hand and started off
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toward the west. The boys waited a little while and then went afti r
him, keeping out <d' sight until they saw him go into a swamp where
there were a great many of the small reeds that hunters use to make
arrowshafts. Then the Wild Boy changed bimself into a puff of
l>ird's down, w hich the wind took up and carried until it alighted upon
Kana'ti's shoulder just as he entered the swamp, but Kana'ti knew
nothing about it. Theold man «ut reeds, fitted the feathers to them and
made some arrows, and the Wild Boy- in his other shape