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The "Big Indian" was asleep, but very soon awoke after the Beaver 

 came. He took a stick off the fire, and killed them all with it; after this 

 he roused his son-in-law, who was in the same camp with him, and told 

 him to go to another "Big Indian" who lived some distance away. 



He went for this giant as he was told: on his return, as he was 

 nearing his father-in-law's tent he called out to him that the "Big 

 Indian" was coming; he then turned off the track, and let the "Big 

 Indian" go to the camp alone. Shortly after this the son-in-law heard 

 the two big Indians fighting above him, as he thought, in the sky. 



Big Indian No. i said to his son-in-law, "They are going to throw 

 me down; you take the axe and cut the sinew in theother Big Indian's leg". 



Big Indian No 2, after having his sinew cut, was easily overcome by 

 his foe, and was thrown down, and his fall made the earth shake as 

 by an earthquake. He fell on a sheet of water, but his body was so 

 large that the place where he fell became dry land across the lake. 



This story is not complete, the rest is forgotten. 



CHAPTER VI. 



This is about an Indian, his wife, and two children. They were 

 really animals, but resembled the Indians of to-day. 



One day they were breaking into a Beaver house, when the wife 

 took it into her head to leave her husband. When he found that she 

 had really run away he went in pursuit. The woman soon came to a 

 family of ants (those that live in rotten sticks) and took one of them for 

 a husband. The woman's first husband came up, chopped the stick the 

 ants lived in, and killed the ant that his wife had taken for a second 

 husband. 



The woman and her first husband then had a fight, and killed each 

 other. Their two children, who were boys, took up their parent's 

 axe (made of Beaver teeth), Indian awl, and fire steel, and started 

 out to seek their fortune. When their Father and Mother killed each 

 other, her head had been taken off, but having had an ant for her 

 second husband, she was able to come to life again. After coming to 

 life she went in search of her boys. As the boys fled their Mother's 

 head pursued them in the track. 



Before their Father died he told them that as they were running 

 away they should throw down at intervals their comb, fire-steel, and 

 awl, and that nobody would be able to overtake them. The biggest of 



