[1] There was once a woman who was very bad, and she had a daughter who was as bad as she was. One day she had a son, but, instead of being glad, she was furious, and wrote to her husband that she was going to send him the boy for him to kill as he had done with the older children. But the boy had received from a man, to whom he had done a favor, a bow and six arrows which he had hidden and no one knew he had them.

One day the mother received a letter telling her to send the child. She told him then to prepare to go with his sister and that they would meet a blue lake and a red prairie, but he was to pretend to be blind and was to say nothing, otherwise the bad spirits would catch him. The boy started with his sister, and they arrived at the blue lake. "Oh! how pretty it is." said the child, and immediately the lake regained its ordinary color.

"You are a fool," said the sister, "but you will pay me for this."

They walked and walked until they reached the red prairie. "How pretty this is!" said the boy, and immediately the prairie became green again.

"What a fool you are," said the sister, "you will see what you will catch."

On leaving the lake and the prairie the boy had heard a voice which said: "Thank you, thank you."

Finally they arrived at the house of the father who was the Government. He was very tall, and he had only one foot. He tried to catch the boy to kill him, but the latter took his bow and shot an arrow between each one of his father's toes, and one in his heart.

As soon as the man was dead, the little voice which had said: "Thank you," found its body in the house of the Government and became a beautiful princess.

"Oh! it is you," said she to the boy, "who gave back their natural colors to my lake and my prairie, and who killed the Government who had robbed me of everything I had. I shall marry you, and we shall punish your mother and your sister, who killed your little brothers."

The wedding took place and they sent me to relate it to you.