aw the four bundles on the opposite side of the room, and
he guessed at once that there lay his four uncles. When he had finished
eating he took out his little pipe and filled it with "kini-kinic," and
commenced to smoke, wondering how the old woman had managed to fool
his smart uncles. He couldn't study it out, so when he had finished his
smoke he arose to pretend to go. When the old woman saw him preparing
to leave, she said: "Grandson, will you kick me on the left side of my
backbone. I am nearly dead with pain and if you kick me good and hard
it will cure me." "All right, grandma," said the boy. The old witch lay
down on the floor and the boy started in to kick. At the first kick he
barely touched her. "Kick as hard as you can, grandson; don't be afraid
you will hurt me, because you can't." With that Stone Boy let drive and
broke two ribs. She commenced to yell and beg him to stop, but he kept
on kicking until he had kicked both sides of her ribs loose from the
backbone. Then he jumped on her backbone and broke it and killed the old
witch.

He built a big fire outside and dragged her body to it, and threw her
into the fire. Thus ended the old woman who was going to turn his uncles
into horses.

Next he cut willows and stuck them into the ground in a circle. The
tops he pulled together, making a wickieup. He then took the old woman's
robes and blankets and covered the wickieup so that no air could get
inside. He then gathered sage brush and covered the floor with a good
thick bed of sage; got nice round stones and got them red hot in the
fire, and placed them in the wickieup and proceeded to carry his
uncles out of the hut and lay them down on the soft bed of sage. Having
completed carrying and depositing them around the pile of rocks, he got
a bucket of water and poured it on the hot rocks, which caused a great
vapor in the little wickieup. He waited a little while and then listened
and heard some breathing inside, so he got another bucket and poured
that on also. After awhile he could hear noises inside as though some
one were moving about. He went again and got the third bucket and after
he had poured that on the rocks, one of the men inside said: "Whoever
you are, good friend, don't bring us to life only to scald us to death
again." Stone boy then said: "Are all of you alive?" "Yes," said the
voice. "Well, come out," said the boy. And with that he threw off the
robes and blankets, and a great cloud of vapor aros