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Rh grains of variegated corn. Then it ran up to its master from the east and shook its wings four times, each time shaking out four seeds. The first time it dropped pumpkin seeds; the second time, watermelon seeds; the third time, muskmelon seeds; the fourth time, beans. "E'yéhe, sĭlín (Thanks, my pet). I thought you had something for me," said Natĭ'nĕsthani.

494. He went away from the flat, roasted wood-rats for a meal, and when he had eaten he made two planting sticks, one of grease-wood and one of tsĭntlĭ'zi214 (Fendleria rupicola). He returned to the flat and began to make his farm. He dug four holes in the east



with the stick of tsĭntlĭ'zi, and dropped into each hole a grain of white corn. He dug four holes in the south, with his greasewood stick, and placed in each hole one grain of blue corn. He dug four holes in the west with the tsĭntlĭ'zi stick, and planted in each one grain of yellow corn. He made four holes in the north with the greasewood, and put in each one grain of variegated corn. With the implement of tsĭntlĭ'zi he planted the pumpkin seed between the white corn and the blue corn. With the implement of greasewood he planted watermelon seed between the blue corn and the yellow corn. With the stick of tsĭntlĭ'zi he planted muskmelon seeds between the yellow corn and the variegated corn. With the stick of greasewood he planted beans between the variegated corn and the white corn.215 He looked all around to see if he had done every thing properly, and he went to the west of his farm among the foot hills and camped there.