two nice fat strangers. Now we'll have a grand
feast!" They caught the hoys and dragged them into the townhouse,
and sent word to all the people of the settlement to come to the feast.
They made up a great tire, put water into a large pot and set it to
boiling, and then seized the Wild Hoy and put him down into it. His
brother was not in the least frightened ami made no attempt to escape,
hut quietly knelt down and began putting the splinters into the tire,
as if to make it burn better. When the cannibals thought the meat
was about ready they lifted the pot from the fire, and that instant a
blinding light rilled the townhouse, and the lightning began to dart
from one side" to the other, striking down the cannibalswaited until it went
up again, and then they went through and climbed up on tile other
side. There they found Kana'ti and Selu sitting together. The old
folk received them kindly and were glad to see them, telling them
they might Stay there a while, but then they must go to live where the
sun goes down. The boy- stayed with their parents seven day- and
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then went on toward the Darkening land, where the}' are now. We
call them Anisga'ya Tsunsdi' (The Little Men), and when they talk
to each other we hear low rolling thunder in the west.
After Kana'ti's boys had let the deer out from the cave where their
father used to keep them, the hunters tramped about in the woods for
a long time without finding any game,