84 SENECA FICTION, LEGENDS, AND MYTHS [ eth. axn. 3a 



iiig file :i l)low, saying that it was probable Odegwiyo was concealed 

 tlu'ivin, as the voice issued from the fire. Just then the boy was 

 greatly surprised to hear outside of the lodge the voice of the dried 

 woman's sUin singing. "I have detected (out-eyed) Odegwiyo." 



The old woman shouted to her daughters, "Have courage, my 

 children, and do your duty," and then she derisively added. "Ode- 

 gwiyo, you indeed have courage," signifying her conteni]it for the 

 orenda, or magic power, of the boy. Her children rushed out of tiie 

 lodge, each one carrying her war club, and they sought for the boy 

 outside of the lodge, but could find no trace of him. When they had 

 about given up trying to find him, the dried-skin figure of the woman 

 again began to sing, "Verily, I have told a falsehood"; and the old 

 woman answered, " Forsooth, this is discouraging." and struck the 

 dried skin of the woman a terrible blow. The empty skin Hew 

 away, alighting on the top of another and larger tree. 



In the meantime the boy got possession of the tobacco and at once 

 went out of the lodge, carrying it in a band which he had around 

 his neck. He had not gone far when the old woman said, "I have 

 been saying this for a long time. Now, Odegwiyo is yonder indeed 

 carrying away the tobacco." They pursued him for some distance, 

 but as he had outwitted them and had .shown them that he po.ssessed 

 as powerful orenda as they had, if not greater, they soon gave up 

 the cha.se. [Text incomplete.] 



3. D.TOCKO.N (DwARF-SrAN) AND HiS UxCLE 



Djogeon lived in the woods with his uncle. When the boy was old 

 enough to learn, his uncle taught him how to shoot: for this purpose 

 he took him out to hunt. When the uncle grew too old to hunt tiic 

 nepliew then went alone. 



About noon one day while following an elk. a woman sitting on a 

 log at the edge of an opening in the forest called to Djogeon. saying. 

 "Come here and rest; T know you are tired." At first he paid no 

 attention to her. but after sh« had called to him the third time he 

 went to her and sat by hci- side. She talked to him, and before he 

 realized it she had his head in her lap and had begun searching 

 therein for vermin. 



He soon fell asleep, and when she was satisfied tlint he was sleeping 

 soundly she put him into a liasket which she placed on her bad- and 

 started off with great speed, traveling until the sun had almost set. 

 Then stopping, she put her basket down and roused the young man. 

 asking him, " Do you know this place? " " Oh. yes," said he, " my 

 uncle and T used to hunt here. I know the place very well." They 

 spent the night tiierc. 



