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River, and left him there. The Gull-man asked the young Eagles to 

 show him their quills, which he found to be rather short. He then asked 

 the young birds to show him the stream from which the old Eagles 

 drank. He next got some Porcupine quills, and put them into the water. 

 When the Eagles came to drink, as they had so often done before, they 

 did not notice that anything had been put into the water. They were 

 both choked by the quills. The young man, for he had again been 

 transformed to that shape, took the quills of the Eagles and put them on 

 his arrows. 



Beshtine then went for him, and took him to the tent in his canoe. 

 The young man took it into his head to kill Beshtine, also the old wife 

 and her daughter, so he poisoned them all. Sometime after this he turned 

 into a black Wavie, thereby becoming brother to all the animals. He now 

 began to be hungry, and spoke to the weeds that grow on the rocks, 

 saying, " If I eat you what will be the consequence? " " You will be filled 

 with wind," answered the weeds. Well, he ate some of them, and got very 

 full of wind. He then made a fire on a rock, and got badly burnt in the 

 region of the hips; after the scorching he felt as if drunk, and walked 

 into a pond. Shortly after leaving the pond he came to what appeared to 

 be a piece of dried meat, but was told by a small bird, it was the skin burnt 

 off his own body; then the man-wavie broke the dried meat to pieces, 

 and threw it on some birch trees; it then became touch-wood. This 

 was the origin of touch-wood. 



As he went on his way he met a black bear eating berries, and lived 

 with the bear for a long time. He used to pick berries and let the bear 

 eat them out of his hand. He wanted to get away from the bear's com- 

 pany, so he took a berry in each hand, and squeezed the juice into the 

 bear's eyes; this was rather painful, and to comfort his companion he 

 made him a sweating house; took him in and said, "Put your head on 

 this stone"; the bear did so, and the man taking up another stone, 

 smashed the bear's skull. When he had killed the bear his mind was 

 at ease, and he thought he would make the acquaintance of a white crow; 

 for this purpose he went up into a tree, but after he got up into the trees 

 they pressed so close together that he was entangled in the branches, 

 and was unable to move. The Whiskey Jacks seeing this began eating 

 the bear, and would not give over, although the man was calling "My 

 brother ! that is my bear, leave him alone". When the Whiskey Jacks had 

 eaten all the bear, the trees opened out and he was able to get down. 

 He found nothing but the bones of the bear. He made a fire, broke the 

 bones, and made grease of the marrow. When he had finished this he 

 went farther on, and met some Muskrats whom he told to freeze the 



