TACOMA AND THE INDIAN LEGEND OF HAMITCHOU 



on a fair morning, he would think it a good omen ; if 

 on a sulky morning, he might be somewhat depressed, 

 but would not on that account turn back, as a Roman 

 brave would have done on meeting the matinal wolf. 

 In fact, he keeps Talipus, his tamanoiis, as a kind of 

 ideal hobby, very much as a savage civilized man enter- 

 tains a pet bulldog or a tame bear, a link between 

 himself and the rude, dangerous forces of nature. 

 Loolowcan has either chosen his protector according 

 to the law of likeness, or, choosing it by chance, has 

 become assimilated to its characteristics. A wolfish 

 youth is the protege of Talipus, an unfaithful, 

 sinister, cannibal-looking son of a horse-thief. Wolfish 

 likewise is his appetite ; when he asks me for more 

 dinner, and this without stint or decorum he does, he 

 glares as if, grouse failing, pork and hard-tack gone, 

 he could call to Talipus to send in a pack of wolves 

 incarnate, and pounce with them upon me. A pleasant 

 companion this for lamb-like me to lie down beside in 

 the den of the late Sowee. Yet I do presently, after 

 supper and a pipe, and a little jargoning in Chinook 

 with my Wolf, roll into my blankets, and sleep vigor- 

 ously, lulled by the gratifying noise of my graminiv- 

 orous horses cramming themselves with material for 

 leagues of lope to-morrow. 



No shade of Sowee came to my slumbers with warn- 

 ing against the wolf in guise of a Klickatat brave. I 

 had no ghostly incubus to shake off, but sprang up 

 recreate in body and soul. Life is vivid when it thus 

 awakes. To be is to do. 



And to-day much is to be done. Long leagues 

 away, beyond a gorge of difficulty, is the open rolling 

 hill country, and again far beyond are the lodges of the 

 people of Owhhigh. "To-day," said Loolowcan, "we 

 must go copa nika ilihee, to my home, to Weenas." 



Forlorn Caudal is hardly yet a frisky quadruped. 

 Yet he is of better cheer, perhaps up to the family-nag 

 degree of vivacity. As to the others, they have waxed 



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