“Why do you come without deer?” asked Sedit.
“We danced on the flat and painted.”
Sedit said nothing. All ate; then Sedit thought, “I wish you boys to sleep.” All fell asleep. Sedit went to Kele, woke him up, and said,—
“My sons went to hunt, but came home without deer. What shall I do with them?”
“Let them hunt birds. Let them hunt gophers and grasshoppers in the meadows. Gophers are as good as deer.”
“All right,” said Sedit; and he went home and slept.
They brought grasshoppers and gophers from the hunt next day, and Sedit was satisfied.
“Let them live on that kind of food,” thought he.
They told of their hunting that day. “We wanted water,” said one of them, “and met an old woman. ‘We are dry and cannot find water,’ said we to her. ‘I will give you water,’ said the old woman; ‘come with me.’ We followed her a while. I was afraid and said to my brothers, ‘Do not drink the water she gives.’ One of my brothers shouted at the old woman and frightened her. She fell back and turned into a swamp with a spring in the middle of it. We didn’t go near the spring, but were nearly lost in the swamp.”
“That is a wicked old woman,” said Sedit. “That is Tunhlucha Pokaila. She drowns people often. I met her once and she came near drowning me. Don’t you go near her again. Hunt gophers and grasshoppers elsewhere.”