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water. The ice had frozen heavily. The man cHmbed up and went 

 on a branch that projected over the lake, and sang- four times. At 

 the end of each song- he whistled and bent forward as if about to jump 

 down. The fourth time he really jumped, and striking the ice, broke 

 through and went under it. He was out of sight a long time, but 

 finally the ice near the opp>osite shore cracked and broke and the man 

 emerged with a beaver in each hand. He came back and said to his 

 wife : "Cook this. Now I have something to eat." His wife skinned, 

 the beavers and they had plenty. 



Nih'a^^a'' had watched him closely, and, after the men had eaten, 

 they talked. When Nih'a"ga" prepared to leave, he said : "My friend, 

 I think we are alike. I have the same powers as you ; I also have water 

 where I live, and my tent is painted like yours. Now I am going, but I 

 want you to come to me. Then you will see me do what you have done.'* 

 The other man said : "Thanks, my friend ; I will surely come to see 

 you soon." As soon as N'ih'a^ga" got out of sight of his friend, he 

 began to run and ran all the way home. Before he reached his tent 

 he called to his, wife: "Take down the tent, we will go to another 

 place tO'iive!" His wife began to strike the tent. "While you get 

 ready to move I will kok for the new place to camp," said Nih'a"(^''. 

 He found a lake which had a dead tree at its shore, looking like the lake 

 and tree which the other man had. He returned to his wife and to- 

 gether they went to that place. Then he got clay of diflFerent colors, 

 and said to his wife: "Stretch out the tent covering; this is a new 

 place for us to live and we must paint our tent freshly." Then he 

 painted the tent skin, set up the same number of poles as the other man 

 had had, painted them as he had seen them, and made the fireplace just 

 like the other one. When he had finished all this he helped his wife to 

 put up the tent, fastening feathers and tails of the same kind as he 

 had seen, to the tent and the tent poles. He also painted -the door of 

 the same color. Then he waited for the other man. Finally he saw 

 him coming. He ran inside and said to his wife : "Come, sit here ! 

 My friend is coming to visit us ; he will remain some time. We must 

 treat him well." He made her sit down in a certain place, thoup^h she 

 did not know the reason. He told her : "Do not cook for him till I 

 tell you to." The other man came up and saw the tent and thcught: 

 ''Indeed, he has a tent painted just like mine. He must have the same 

 medicine." Then he coughed. "Come inj my friend, come in, and sit 

 down here," said Nih'a"Qa". He made him sit in the same place as he 

 himself had sat in in the other's tent. After a while he also said • "Well, 

 my friend, I have nothing to give you to eat." Then he told his wife 



