^„"/Ji'^] FICTION 83 



3'ou with these chipmunks for the favor I ask of you." Seizing the 

 proffered chipmunks, the Rattlesnakes began to swallow them. 



Starting onward again in his journey, the boy continued his course 

 until startled by seeing the two S'hagodiyoweqgowa standing in the 

 narrow opening of the great rock. Going into the forest, he pro- 

 cured some lichens, which he cut up. Making his way to the place 

 where the two S'hagodiyoweqgowa were standing, he said to them, 

 " Do not enchant nie; for this favor I will recompense you witli this 

 tobacco," and, casting it to them, they received it, and he passed them 

 and kept on his journey. 



He had gone a long distance when he came to the place at which 

 the two Blue Herons were on guard on the farther bank of the river, 

 at the end of the log-crossing. Immediately he M'cnt along the river 

 a short distance and then began fishing; soon he took two fish. Re- 

 turning to the spot where the two Herons were, he said to them, '' You 

 must not give the alarm, for I will recompense you with these fish for 

 the favor which I ask of you "; he gave each a fish and then passed on, 



Not far from there he came to the tree on which the entire dried 

 skin of a woman hung. For a moment he stood there and then he 

 said, "Come hither, thou mole; I am hungry (wearied)." Then the 

 mole came forth from out of the ground and the boy said to it, " I 

 am entering your body and I want you to go along beneath the sur- 

 face of the ground and come out directly under the place where that 

 woman's skin hangs yonder." So he entered the body of the mole, 

 which went along at once under the surface of the ground. AVhen it 

 reached the place where stood the tree it came out directly under 

 the woman's skin. Then the boy came out of the body of the mole 

 and, addressing the dried skin of the woman, said, " You must not 

 tell that I am here. Do me this favor and I will recompense you 

 with wampum."' Then he went into the forest and peeled off some 

 slippery elm bark, which he formed into cylinders resembling wam- 

 pum : placing these in his pouch he returned to the spot where the 

 woman's dried skin hung. When he arrived there he said to the 

 dried skin, "Now, I am bringing you a wampum belt,"* and he 

 attached the belt to the tree beside which she then stood, as he had 

 requested her to descend from her usual position. 



Again entering the mole, the boy went to the lodge, into which he 

 went without anyone knowing of his presence; no one of the Seven 

 .'listers nor their Mother knew of his entrance into their lodge. There 

 he found a kettle of hominy seasoned with the flesh of the bear {gan- 

 nya'gu'ai-geon owa ne sha'gat), which he began to eat. But he 

 was surprised to hear a voice coming out of the fire say, Odegwiyo 

 hodel-honi. Then the old woman said, "This is certainly ))rovoking: 

 it is perhaps true that Odegwiyo has indeed come into the lodge." At 

 once she got her war club, with which she furiously struck the burn- 



