The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24

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 over, but not frozen to their gravelly
 bottoms. At one certain place, also,
 there was a deep hole where the water, falling over a precipice for
 untold ages, had scooped the under rock so as to form a large depression
 in the bed of the stream. At this place there was usually an opening in
 the ice. So this unfaithful woman
 whose name was Tah-go-nay-go-shig-
 oke, decided to do her husband to
 death at this place. With the coming
 up of the sun on this particular morn-
 ing, she set out from home to the
 place chosen for the terrible deed.
 She had wrapped him we'll in the best
 robes she had at command and had
 tucked him in tightly and then she
 sewed him up snugly and firmly: she
 was going to make her work sure.
 She then took sleeve of each arm of
 an old dress and put one on each side
 of him. In addition, she gave super
 natural powers to the sleeves and told
 them to answer any question the help
 less man should desire to ask and to answer any questions so as to make the asker believe that she herself and not her arm-sleeves were making the
 replies. She then put him onto the toboggan sled and drew him down to the rivers brink in the vicinity of the previously mentioned large, open pool at the foot of the falls in the stream. On her arrival at the place where the open ice was, she slid the tobOggan under the ice on the downstream side. She then fled the place.
 "The man-god was under the ice, but did not know it, as he had no means of knowing anything except by feeling. Soon, however, he began to feel a little wet through the numer- ous robes that were wrapped around him. On being thus made uncom- fortable, he exclaimed: old woman why am l getting wet?' 'Oh,' ex- claimed the Gress-sleeves, 'just little water has splashed on you. You'll be all right soon.'
 "He continued to float down stream under the ice. Soon he began to get very wet and again exclaimed: Old woman, how is it that l am getting so wet?' Oh answered the sleeves again, It's warming up a bit and the snow is getting pretty slushy, and, of course, one on a sled can not help but get wet. We'll be out soon. Then you'll be drier. Don't worry 7, Again there was silence for a time as they drifted farther and far ther down stream under the ice. Now and then they went smoothly along. Then the toboggan would strike against boulders and would descend quickly and koughtly over rapids. At length, becoming exasperated at such treatment, this god father of all men exclaimed again: old woman, what means this? I am drenched to the skin. am bumped about here and there. What means it?' 'Oh, an swered the sleeves for the old woman, We are just going over some rough places. It will be better soon.'
 But this first god of mankind be- gan to mistrust that something was wrong, that some diabolical deception was being practiced upon him. He had always been a good natured fel- low, but now his wrath was kindled. His rage knew no bounds. He wig gled his body in his furious struggles. He tore, he broke asunder the robes and cords that bound him down to the toboggan. He crushed the ice to shivers with a wrench of his head. He burst his cocoon-skin. He sprang from the water to the rivers bank, a full developed male human being, developed in every way as the men that walk the earth today, except that he was a giant in size. lie had, arms, legs, face, eyes, nose and mouth. He was in every respect full developed man.
 "As soon as he reached the bank and found that he could run about at will, he began to try to find his wife. He looked about and finally found her tracks. Then after her he ran with the greatest possible speed he had at his command. Every now and then he could see her ahead of him; knew that he was gaining upon her. Every time he would see her going over the top of some ridge ahead, he would yell: old woman, stop, old woman. I, your husband am coming, stop,' but she ran all the harder. She could hear him and feared the