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When the old birds left the nest again the young Eagles stuck some 

 feathers upon the Indian, who was thereby enabled to fly to the main shore 

 (the nest being on an Island in a river). Shortly after the Indian got 

 ashore, he met his Father and lived with him for a long time. Whilst 

 he was hunting Beaver one day, an Eagle carried him off again and brought 

 him to his former friends, the young Eagles, who on seeing him said, 

 "We must not kill this fellow, having saved his life once already". 

 The Indian then took it into his head to destroy the Eagles, and accord- 

 ingly set fire to the nest. 



Here ends the story of the man who married the mouse. 



CHAPTER IV. 



The Man who dreamt of the Buffalo. 



There was a certain Indian who used to dream about Buffalo, and 

 finally found himself among them. In the Winter he and other Indians 

 used to travel about. One day this man was sitting at the bottom of a 

 rock when a buffalo brought him in its mouth a piece of fat, and told 

 him to take it to his father. He brought it to his father, who was with 

 the other Indians. Then they all made snares to kill the buffalo, and 

 when chasing them into the snares, he of the dreams got transformed 

 into a buffalo, and said to his father and friends, "When you see a male 

 buffalo do not kill him because that will be me". This buffalo Indian 

 after that always used to decoy the buffalo to where the Indians had 

 snares. When the next summer came he left the buffalo country and 

 went back to his people, and became a natural Indian again. 



Here ends the story of the Indian who dreamt of the Buffalo. 



CHAPTER V. 



A big Indian once lived upon the earth, and very probably was the 

 sama man who burnt the Eagles, only he had increased to a great size. 



He told his son-in-law to get some Beaver for him, so the young 

 man started out and soon came to a Beaver house; there were some 

 partridges about so he did not touch the Beaver house, but passed on, 

 and soon met the big Indian. The Beaver seem to have followed him 

 from the house, for they arrived just after him at the same place. 



