" And when she examined one of the infants she found his flesh was nothing but flint and there was a sharp comb of flint over the top of his head, but the flesh of the other was in every respect like a man-being. " It seems that these two were antagonistic from their birth, the grandmother clinging to the flint child and driving the other into the wilderness ; and in his wanderings he came to the shore of a lake and saw a lodge standing there. Looking in the doorway he saw a man sitting there, who said to him, ' Enter thou here. This man was Great Turtle, who gave him a bow and arrow, and also gave him two ears of corn, one in the milky state, which he told him to roast and eat as food, and the other, which was mature, he should use for seed corn. " He also endowed him with preternatural powers. And when

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he was about to depart, he said to the young man, ' I am Great Turtle, I am thy parent.' " SapHng, which was the name of the young man-being, created animals out of earth, and birds by castiijg handfuls of earth_into •the air. He also formed the body of a man and the body of a woman, and gave them life and placed them together. Returning shortly after he found them sleeping. Again and again he returned and still they slept. ' Thereupon he took a rib from each and substituted the one for the other and replaced each one in the other's body. It was not long before the woman awoke and sat up. At once she touched the breast of the man lying at her side, just where Sapling had placed her rib, and, of course, that tickled him.