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took him out, and directed him to ascend a high, & very smooth pole, standing in the yard, and dry himself. That the boy did. The father then told him to come down, as he then knew him to be his own son. He then dressed him well, tied a small squash to his wrist, with a string of beads affixed to it, and told him to go again to that wicked man and play with him. The boy obeyed, and soon won all the property the man had. But after after his property was gone, the man bet his life. This the boy also won. The man then resolved to run away, and pretended that he wanted to drink. The boy however would not suffer him to go, but struck his [rod?] into the ground, and water came out which he told the man to drink. The man feigned a desire to wash in the creek. The boy suffer him to go, but followed him. The man ran and the boy pursued, frequently very near him. The man, however, often changed his appearance, sometimes resembling an old man, and sometimes appearing like a little babe, and urged his course onward to the west, for a great distance. At last the boy overtook him, bound him down to the earth, caused a grape vine to grow out of his breast, and placed a crow on the vine to watch, and give warning whenever he moved. This man is to lie there till the last day, & then arise.