pouches for them," said the people. So they sewed up the
water pouches of the Pelicans. They finished sewing them.

"Come, drink it dry again. Do your best. Beware lest we fail," said
the people. They drank the stream dry again. Again very little of the
water was left.

"Ho! warrior Gray Squirrel, wherever you may be moving. They have
nearly killed me. Be coming hither again," said Big Turtle. He came
back again. He bit and tore the throats in many places. It made their
throats very bad. He made them bad to be sewed at all. It was
difficult to sew them.

"Yet we shall fail," said the people. "Gray Squirrel is abominable! I
think Gray Squirrel is the only one with Big Turtle. I think he is the
only one siding with them. Therefore we have failed to hurt them,"
said the people.

They ceased. When it was night, Big Turtle went back. He reached his
comrades again.

"Ho! Warriors, when men get the better of their enemies in a fight,
they usually go homeward. I suspect that your sisters are tired of
waiting to dance!"

They went homeward. He walked around them, rattling his gourd.

"Warriors, I said that I would do thus, and so it is," he said. He
burnt the grass.

He burnt the grass so that they might think he was coming home after
killing the foe. At length they arrived at the village. They tied
scalps to a stick. Then those in the village said, "Yonder come those
who went to war!" The returning warriors raced around and around as
victorious warriors do. People said, "There they are coming home,
having killed the people of the enemy."

An old man shouted: "Corn Crusher says that he killed one. _Halloo!_
He says he killed her right at the lodge. _Halloo!_ Comb says he
killed one right at the lodge. _Halloo!_ Awl says he killed one right
at the lodge. _Halloo!_, Gray Squirrel says that he killed three
right in the midst of the people. _Halloo!_ It is said they held the
war chief, Big Turtle, right among them, in a great uproar. _Halloo!_
It is said they failed to injure him. _Halloo!_"

Big Turtle walked very proudly, carrying his shield. He went homeward
to enter the lodge. He sat there telling them about himself. As people
wished to hear it, they continued arriving there.

"Why did they fail, when they were so near you? If you sat very near
them, how is it that you are alive?" asked the people.

"I pretended to be afraid of water, so I am alive," he said.

"If so, then those over there have no eyes. How is i