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Show 118 EXPLORATION OF THE CANONS OF THE COLORADO. Finally he returned in advance of the people whom he had enlisted, bringing with him Shin-au'-av, the wolf, and To-go'-av, the rattlesnake. When the three had eaten food, the boy said to the old woman: "Grandmother, cut me in two!" But she demurred, saying she did not wish to kill one whom she loved so dearly. "Cut me in two!77 demanded the boy; and he gave her a stone ax, which he had brought from a distant country, and with a manner of great authority he again commanded her to cut him in two. So she stood before him, and severed him in twain, and fled in terror. And lo! each part took the form of an entire man, and the one beautiful boy appeared as two, and they were so much alike no one could tell them apart. When the people or natives, whom the boy had enlisted, came pouring into the camp, SMn-au'-av and To-go'-av were engaged in telling them of the wonderful thing that had happened to the boy, and that now there were two; and they all held it to be an augury of a successful expedition to the land of Stone Shirt. And they started on their journey. Now the boy had been told in the dream of his three days' slumber, of a magical cup, and he had brought it home with him from his journey among the nations, and the So'-hus Wai'-un-ats carried it between them, filled with water. Shin-au'-av walked on their right, and To-go'-av on their left, and the nations followed in the order in which they had been enlisted There was a vast number of them, so that when they" were stretched out in line it was one day's journey from the front to the rear of the column. When they had journeyed two days, and were far out on the desert, all the people thirsted, for they found no water, and they fell down upon the sand, groaning, and murmuring that they had been deceived, and they cursed the One-Two. But the So'-kus Wai'-un-ats had been told in the wonderful dream of the suffering which would be endured, and that the water which they carried in the cup was only to be used in dire necessity; and the brothers said to each other: "Now the time has come for us to drink the water." And when one had quaffed of the magical bowl, he found it still full; and he gave it to the other to drink, and still it was full; and the One-Two gave it to the |
