identity to the children, and running, around the village use their switches indiscriminately, with a few exceptional cases.  I saw a woman whipped, she taking the babe from her back and holding it in her arms.  This woman requested the whipping that she might be rid of the bad dreams that nightly troubled her.  After the Sai-[=a]-hli-[=a] leave the kiva the children are called by the priest of the K[=o]k-k[=o] and told to sit in front of him and the other priests, including the High Priest of Zuni.  This august body sits in the kiva throughout the ceremony.  The Priest of the K[=o]k-k[=o] then delivers a lecture to the boys, instructing them in some of the secrets of the order, when they are told if they betray the secrets confided to them they will be punished by death; their heads will be cut off with a stone knife; for so the K[=o]k-k[=o] has ordered.  They are told how the K[=o]k-k[=o] appeared upon the earth and instructed the people to represent them.  The priest closes by telling the children that in the old some boys betrayed the secret and told that these were not the real gods, but men personating the K[=o]k-k[=o], and when this reached the gods the Sai-[=a]-hli-[=a] appeared upon the earth and inquired for the boys.  The people then lived upon the mesa t[=o]-w[=a]-yael-laen-ne.  The mothers declared they knew not where they had fled.  The K[=o]k-k[=o] stamped his feet upon the rocky ground and the rocks parted, and away down in the depths of the mountain he found the naughty boys.  He ordered them to come to him and he cut off their heads with his stone knife.  This story is sufficient to impress the children that there is no escape for them if they betray the confidence reposed in them, for the K[=o]k-k[=o] can compel the rocks to part and reveal the secrets.

A repast is now served to the priests and the boys and others in the kiva.  The food is brought by the wives and sisters of the four Sai-[=a] hli-[=a] to the hatch way and carried in by the K[=o]k-k[=o], who have returned to the kiva.  The feast opens with a grace said by the priest of the K[=o]k-k[=o], who immediately after collects upon a piece of H[=e]-wi (a certain kind of bread) bits of all the food served.  This he rolls up and places by his side, and at the conclusion of the feast he carries it to a distance from, the village over the road to the spirit lake and making a hole in the ground he deposits it as an offering to the gods.  Each child goes to the godfather’s house, where his head and hands are bathed in yucca suds by the mother and sisters of the godfather, they repeating prayers that the youth may be true to his vows, &c.  The boy then returning to his own home is tested by his father, who says, “You are no longer ignorant; you are no longer a little child, but a young man.  Were you pleased with the words of the K[=o]k-k[=o]?  What did the priest tell you?” The boy does not forget himself and reveal anything that was said, for the terror overhanging him is too great.