Having completed his talking with Kingfisher, he started for the sand 
point mentioned, after he had made a strong bow and had prepared bull- 
rush tops for arrows. When he got near the sand beach he said to him- 
self: “I will be a tree-stub’. And on reaching the place he turned into 
a stub of a poplar tree. Then after while as the sun ascended the heavens, 
the snakes came out to sun themselves on the sand as they were wont to 
do. The white bears came last, followed by King Snake. The others had 
noticed nothing; but King Snake at once noticed the tree-stub. “What 
is it?” he asked. On scanning it further, he exclaimed: “I believe that is 
Manabush standing there!” He then turned to one of the chief snakes and 
said: “Go to yonder stub. Climb it. Then coil around it and squeeze it 
hard.” This snake chief did as he was bidden. He coiled himself around 
it and squeezed; but Manabush never moved. After this snake had tried 
his crushing powers for a considerable time. he gave it up and went back 
to where King Snake was, saying: “That can’t be Manabush.” King 
Snake, however, was not satisfied. He turned to a white bear and com- 
manded him, also, to examine the supposed stub, saying: “You go and ¢limb 
on that stub to its very top. Then climb down so as to scratch it as you 
descend.” The bear did as he was told. Manabush nearly yeiled, but never 
moved. Going back to his master, the bear said: “That cant be Mana- 
bush.” Being satisfied, King Snake immediately came ashore and stretched 
himself on the sand in the sun. 
After all the reptiles were fast asleep, Manabush turned to be a man 
again. He then took out his bow and arrows and went near King Snake 
and shot him in the body, but without injuring him in the least. He then 
remembered what Kingfisher had told him, that to injure King Snake he 
must shoot his shadow. So with the second shot he aimed at the beast’s 
shadow, and instantly the reptile stretched out and gasped in awful pain. 
Seeing this, Manabush started back to get a few logs together to make a 
‘aft, for Kingfisher had told him that if he wounded King Snake, he would 
flood the world to the top of the trees in revenge. Then the water would 
go down again. But if he killed him, he would destroy the whole world in a 
mighty flood. The waters had already begun to rise. So he got on the 
raft he had succeeded in making and floated about as he watched the water 
rise until the trees all disappeared. Then the water went down again. 
After it had got dry on the earth again. he went back to tell Chief Wolf 
what had happened. After narrating this to the wolf tribe, he went back 
to the lake where he had had the encounter with King Snake; he knew by 
the world’s not being destroyed utterly that this snake had only been 
wounded. Consequently, he had it in his mind to make sure of his killing 
him, be the consequences what they would. 
As he was walking along the shore of the lake on his return, he heard 
something rattling. Looking ahead, he saw a large frog-like, old lady of 
the bad-witch type jumping along. She had a rattle which she used in 
doctoring the sick. She also had a pack of basswood on her back. 
“Helloo, grandma,” he shouted to her. “Where are you going?” 
