The old man said to Kai: “I will run with you again, but you must run on the left side.”
Kai ran on the left side; his father-in-law pushed him off many times, but he didn’t strike the water. He floated away, a feather, and when the old man looked back, there was Kai. At last he pushed Natanatas into the water.
Natanatas called out: “Don’t eat me! Don’t eat me!” His sons thought he was Kai and they ate him, but his spirit escaped and he was alive again. He scolded his sons, said: [[365]]“Why don’t you kill this man? You must run with him and kill him. We have more power than he has.”
Kai ran another race, pushed his brother-in-law into the water, and his brothers ate him up.
Then the old man said: “We won’t run again. My sons feel badly, their brother is dead.”
Kai’s wife scolded her father, told him he had killed his sons, that she didn’t like him any longer, and wouldn’t stay where he stayed. Then she and Kai and Góshgoise crossed a high mountain, and came down to a meadow. They built a house and lived there always. [[366]]
THE SPIRIT OF THE TULA GRASS
CHARACTERS
| Blaiwas | Eagle |
| Ndukis | Hawk |
| Tusasás | Joker (Skunk) |