The brothers hired old man Kaltsik to help them. Kaltsik made a basket and put the five brothers into it; then he made a web, took the basket up into the air, let it down into the web, and started.
“Don’t look down till I tie you to the sky,” said the old man. “If you do, you will fall out and get killed.”
When Tekewas woke up, she ran back to the house and asked: “Where are my brothers?”
“I don’t know,” said the old woman.
“Yes, you do. Here is a trail going up to the sky!” [[98]]Tekewas was so mad that she ran around the house so fast and so many times that she set it on fire.
Old man Kaltsik was half-way to the sky when he saw the blaze, and said: “Your house is burning!” The eldest brother forgot and looked down, over the edge of the basket. That minute the web broke, and the five brothers fell out, one after another.
The mother and daughter were fighting; each had a wooden paddle. When Tekewas saw her brothers falling, she said to her mother: “You mustn’t say: ‘Fall this side’; you must say: ‘fall in the middle.’ ”
“Fall this side! Fall this side!” cried the mother.
Tekewas knocked the paddle out of her hand into the fire. Four of the brothers fell into the fire. When sparks flew out, Tekewas pushed them back with her paddle. As often as her mother got her paddle out of the fire, Tekewas knocked it in again. The youngest brother fell last.
“This side! This side!” cried his mother.