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\Next da}' he a.i»aiii went toward the woods. There the mouse'" was 

 trying to climb over. Ajjfaiii he put her across. And, after he had 

 traveled for a \vhik% he came to a mountain covered with x.i'l.o-.oj»'a.^^ 

 Then he ate it, stayed there all night, and continued eating- next day. 

 When he swallowed the last of it, he spit out part. He spoke the 

 same words as before. And beings spoke to him as they had done 

 before. Then he went home and went to bed. 



\'ery early next day he went out to challenge some one to a wrest- 

 ling match. When he started to wrestle with the thing which had 

 destroyed his younger brothers, he said: "Now, when you throw me 

 down, stand awaiting me." Lnmediately they seized each other. Then 

 he was thrown down. As soon as that happened, he (the opponent) 

 pronounced the w^ords. 



And after he had gone through the air for a while, he came to the 

 Hint. At once he rubbed a medicine Mouse-woman had given him 

 upon himself. Now, when he struck on it, he pulled it down. At 

 that time his younger brothers' bones burst out of it. Then he spit 

 medicine upon them. And as soon as he got down [he found] the other 

 still standing there waiting for him. Then he threw him down. 

 "Future people will see .you.'' He became a kind of brittle rock.^* 



After that his younger brothers again disappeared. 



After he had lain in bed awhile day broke, and he began to think of 

 the animal he had put over [the log]. Then he went thither. Lo, she 

 was again trying to climb over. He put her across. And he watched 

 to see which way she went. Then she went in at the butt end of a 

 clump of ferns. And a house stood there. 



Then she said to him: "Come in, my son; news has come that you 

 are going to borrow something from me." Then he entered to her, 

 and she let him sit down next to her. Then she turned to the wall. 

 She took a tray out of one of her boxes. On both sides of it sat [carved] 

 mi(*(\ She placed a piece of dried salmon which was in it before 

 him. And he tliought: " I have been fasting a long time. What a 

 small thing I am going to eat." Then she said to him: " Eat it. How- 

 ever small it looks, it can never be consumed." He took it. While 

 doing so he looked. It was still there. And he again picked it up. 

 He was unable to consume it, and she put [the tray] back. 



Then she again turned round toward the wall. She put a single 

 cranl)erry in front of him. Then he picked it up with a spoon. That, 

 too, he was unable to consume. 



Then she turned round again. And she took something blue out 

 of the l)ox.''' Then she l)it otf part for him. "Here is something for 

 you when you think of eating medicine. Go up to Gu'lg.a lake. 

 There lives Among-the-hemlock-boughs. who destroyed your 3'ounger 

 brothers. When you come to the shore opposite him where the ground 



