The five brothers were mad; they didn’t listen to the old man, but shot at him with arrows, and pounded him with clubs; then they built a fire and tried to burn him. When they couldn’t kill him in any way, they got scared and ran off.
The old man called to them to stop, but they didn’t listen; then he said: “We shall follow you; you cannot get away; wherever you go we shall go. You will never get home.”
The old man and old woman followed the brothers for a long time, and at last they caught up with the eldest brother. Right away he was old and weak. He stumbled along for a little way, then fell to the ground and died.
They overtook the second brother; he also grew old and weak, fell to the ground and died. The third brother reached the lake; he was running on the ice when Komúchass overtook him; he grew weak and fell; the ice broke and he was drowned. The fourth brother died in the same manner. The youngest brother thought he was going to get away from the old man; he was only a few steps from home when Komúchass overtook him. Right off he was an old man; he stumbled along a step or two, then fell to the ground and died.
This is how old age came into our world. If the five brothers had let the old man and his wife alone, they would have [[72]]stayed in their own country, and there would have been no such thing as old age.
Komúchass turned the bodies of the five brothers into five rocks, and those rocks are still to be seen in the Klamath country. [[73]]
LEMÉIS AND NUL-WE
CHARACTERS
| Kókolaileyas | The Necklace (Kŏko means bone) |
| Leméis or Limālimáas | Thunder |
| Nul-we |