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The man and the dogs went on until they came to the other side 

 of the lake. There they saw an old man and an old woman. The 

 man and the dogs asked if they might stay there with the old couple. 

 The old man and the old woman said that they had no food for the 

 man and the dogs. 



"We will hunt for you," the hunter said. 



"All right, then," the old couple answered. "But be careful. Our 

 chief is very evil, and he may want to challenge you to a game. He 

 may want you to race against him." 



Soon afterward the Chief came and said that he wanted to race 

 against the hunter. The hunter agreed to race him. 



But the Little Dog said, "Don't race against him. You wiU lose. 

 But lend me your clothes, and I'll run in your stead." 



So the man stripped and put his clothes on the Little Dog who 

 became just like a man, just Hke the hunter. 



Two days afterward the race was run, and the dog won. 



Then the Chief said, "Let us play baU. If you win, you may cut 

 off my head, and you will be chief of all of this settlement." 



The Little Dog said to the hunter, "I am too small to play ball. 

 Get our larger brother to play. We'll go hunting." 



Two days afterward the Chief came, and the game began. The 

 Little Dog and the hunter went off to the woods, but all the time the 

 Little Dog knew all about the game, as if he were seeing it. 



The dog won, and the Little Dog knew it. 



So he said to the hunter, "It's all over now. We'll go back." 



They went back, and the hunter became chief of the settlement.'* 



5.— THE BOY AND THE MANEATING WOMAN 



There once lived a maneating people. 



A man lived with his son, and a woman lived in their neighborhood. 

 She was a maneater. The man would go out to hunt, and what he 

 killed, he always brought to the woman. If he had not done this, the 

 woman would have eaten him. The man went out to hunt every day. 



The boy cried for his father to give him meat. He especially wanted 

 liver. His father said, "I can't do that. I am buying om* lives. 

 If we do not give her meat, she will kill us." 



One day the man went out hunting and came home at nightfall. 

 The boy went out and examined his father's arrows. They were 

 stained with blood for half of their length. 



The next day the boy decided: "I will go and see agili:si." ^^ His 



'* stories similar to the above are In Swanton (1929), from the following sources: Creek (two examples) 

 (pp. 23-26); Hltchltl (two examples) (pp. 92-94); Koasati (p. 194); Natchez-Cherokee (pp. 243-245). There 

 is a Tasgigi specimen In Speck (1907, pp. 160-161). 



« Mother's mother (for additional connotations see Gilbert, 1913, p. 225). 



