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"In truth," spoke up Batter as he flew to a limb over Manabush so as to 

 be heard more easily without talking loud enough to be heard by any one 

 else, "this monster's heart is in his little toe. Aim for that next time you go 

 to battle with him and you will succeed." 



The morning of the third day Manabush again gave the warwhoop. Im- 

 mediately King Sealion came out with his full equipment for battle. The 

 fight was on. Manabush aimed for the little toe of his adversary. The ar- 

 row struck squarely and penetrated the vital regions. King Sealion keeled 

 over and died there and then, seeing him fall. Manabush ran to him. took 

 out his big knife and scalped him. He then sailed across the surf to where 

 he had left his grandmother, singing his song of victory as he went, as 

 the Indians have since sung when returning from a battle field. 



When his grandmother heard him coming singing the victoi-y song, she 

 started out to meet him in her canoe. Meeting him, she took the scalp 

 and went on ahead of him to shore. Landing, she called the village neigh- 

 bors and all commenced to have the war dance around the scalp in the 

 middle of the dance hall, as it has since been the custom of the Indians to 

 dance the war dance down through the ages. Thus they danced till they had 

 completed the orgie. after which they smoked the pipe of peace. 



This dance lasted four days. Then Manabush bade his grandmother good- 

 bye and started west over the earth in quest of other "hurtful" beasts. 

 After four days of journeying he met four wolves, one of which was a 

 ch^ef. These accompanied him for four days in his passing westward. As 

 he thus journeyed with them, he noticed every evening when they camped 

 for the night that they would pile sticks in a heap and King Wolf would 

 jump over the pile four times, after which the wood would catch fire with- 

 out the aid of a fire-starter. By watching them, he also learned the art. 

 On they ti-aveled. As they thus journeyed, young wolves followed along 

 behind and chased down the moose and deer and killed them as needed. 

 Then they would dress and cook some and all would eat to their satisfaction. 

 So all had a pleasurable time. 



After journeying four days with the wolf pack, he chose for his compan- 

 ion one of the young wolves whom he called his nephew. Leaving the rest 

 behind, he then traveled on in his western travels. The evening of the first 

 day after they had parted company with the other w'olves they came 

 upon the track of a moose which it was decided his nephew should chase 

 on the following morning. That night ]\Ianabush had an unfavorable dream. 

 The next morning as a consequence of the forboding evil foreshadowed in it. 

 he cautioned his comrade to be careful. "The dream was about chasing this 

 moose," he said. "It was a bad dream about you in this chase." He con- 

 tinued : "In chasing this moose you arc to track. wheneviM- you come to 

 a little stream always cut a tree down and walk across it. Don't jump 

 over the stream. Be careful." 



As per arrangement, the nephew started out on the chase, Manabush fol- 

 lowing his tracks. Soon he came to a little stream over which he fell a tree 

 as he had been instructed. He then crossed it safely. After a while he 

 came to another very small stream which he thought he would jump, as it 



