"I will tell you how I do it. I will fix you; I will fix you right here on this road, just as I fixed that other man. I made a hole in the ground; a long hole, a pretty big one. I lined it with rocks; I made a little fire of manzanita wood, and when it was nice and warm in the hole, I put plenty of pitch in, and put the man on top of the pitch. It was good and soft for him, and nice and pleasant on the pitch. I put a flat rock over the hole. He stayed there a while and was cured." Putokya believed all this; had full faith in Metsi, and said,-- "Very well, you fix me as you fixed that other man; make me new again, just as I used to be." Metsi added: "I put pitch very thick, one foot all around, and put him in the warm hole; covered him up. Pretty soon he began to stretch and grow; grew till he was as good as ever. That is how I cured that man." "That is good," said Putokya. "Fix me in that way; fix me just as you fixed him." "I will," said Metsi. "I will fix you just as I fixed that man, and you will come out just as he did; you will be in the right way and have no more trouble; you will never be sick again." Metsi did everything as he had said; made a long deep hole, put in fire and a great deal of pitch, a foot thick of it. He placed Putokya on the pitch; put a wide flat stone over him, put on others; put the stones on very quickly, till there was a great pile of them. The pitch began to burn well, to grow hot, to seethe, to boil, to blaze, to burn Putokya. He struggled to bound out of the pitch; the stones kept him down, the pitch stuck to him. He died a dreadful death. If Putokya had got out of the hole, there would have been hard times in this world for Metsi. When Putokya was dead under the pile of rocks, Metsi threw away his old things, his basket and buckskin petticoat, put on his nice clothes, and went along on his journey. Metsi was a great cheat. He could change himself always, and he fooled people whenever he had a chance; but he did a good thing that time, when he burned up Putokya. TIRUKALA PERSONAGES After each name is given that of the creature or thing into which the personage was changed subsequently. =Chíchepa=, spotted chicken-hawk; =Chikpina=, weasel; =Hapawila=, water snake; =Jewinna=, chicken-hawk; =Jewinpa=, young chicken-hawk; =Kedila=, soaproot plant; =Matsklila=, turkey buzzard; =Pakálai Jáwichi=, water lizard; =Tirúkala=, lamprey eel; =Wirula=, red fox. =Weanmauna= means the hidden one. * * * * * Tirukala lived near Jamahdi, on the Juka Mapti Mountain, and he was thinking, thinking for a long time, how to change this world, how to make it better. "I have to fix this country. I will fix it now," said Tirukala. "I will make it better to live in."