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discovered their crime, and was shocked at their perverseness in protesting that their mother was justly slain, because she was an enchantress and "full of evil". "In killing your mother, you have filled yourselves with evil," exclaimed he. "By your mother you lived; _ by your mother you continued to live. She could not be full of evil, when the only business of her life, was, to sustain her sons." _ And so he left them in anger; but knowing they were entirely destitute of food, he presently brought them venison, and made bows & arrows for them, telling them what particular birds they were to shoot when he was away from them, and directing them, at such times, to keep within certain bounds. One day they complained to him that they could not find birds where they ranged and he ordered them to obey his first instructions and not to overpass the limits he had set for them. Now and then, for four successive days, he would return without game, but would not explain the cause; _ yet prepared mystical bitter drinks for them, saying, after they had taken those, the game would be plenty. Their curiosity was awakened by the strangeness of these proceedings. Day after day they secretly stole out after their father, gradually exceeding their bounds more and more. At last,