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the door and the couch, slie said. " I am sorry you have not done as 

 I told you to do. I can not .stay with you. but I. decided to come once 

 more and tell you that I know everythinj? you did at home and I can 

 not stay." She disappeared as suddenly as she came. 



Day after day the orphan went hunting, but he saw no gunic. He 

 ate all his provisions, and had to shoot small game — s(niiri'els and 

 birds — to eat. for he was hungiT. Keturning home, he told tlie |)eople 

 that he had seen no game. This woman who had befriended tlie 

 orphan, it was said, was a gliost woman. 



(■). IIaiinowa (tiik Tritii.E) and IIis Kokcks on the Wakpatii 



Ilahnowa dwelt alone in his own lodge. He was a great warrior 

 and had led many war parties succe.ssfnlly. 



One day the thought again came to him that he should go on the 

 warpath. So following the lead of his desire, he made the necessary 

 preparations and then boarded his canoe and paddled away along 

 the river, singing as he went along, '" I am on the warpath. I am on 

 the warpath." When he had gone but a short distance from his 

 lodge he was hailed by a man who came running to the bank of the 

 I'iver calling out, "Hallo, f riend 1 Stop a moment! I will go too. 

 We will go on the warpatii together." So Hahnowa sto]j]ied at the 

 landing, and there on the bank stood an elk, which said to Hahnowa. 

 " 1 should like to go with you on the warpath." Hahnowa replied : 

 " Before giving my consent, I desire to see you run, for we might 

 be defeated and then we shall have to run for our lives, and unless 

 we can escape through our speed we shall be killed and scalped. Now. 

 therefoie. run to that moimtain and return." The elk ran with 

 great swiftness to the mountain and was back again in a \ei-y slinrt 

 time. But Hahnowa said. "You can not go, for you do not run last 

 enough. Only swift runners may go with me." 



Keentering his canoe, Hahnowii started off, singing, "I am mi the 

 warpath. T am on the warpath." In a .short time a man hailed him. 

 saying, "Come back to the landing. I should like vei-y much to go 

 with j'ou on the warpath." So Hahnowa turned and made a land- 

 ing. Then he said to his friend, "You must run to show mr your 

 speed, for _'^ou can not go with me unless you can run very swiftly. 

 Therefore run to that second mountain and back at your highest 

 speed." Then Senon '' showed his great orenda and started off. l)ut he 

 had not got fairly started before Hahnowa called him back, saying. 

 "Come back; that is enough. You can go." So they two got into 

 the canoe and started off, the Hahnowa singing. "I am (in the war- 

 path. I am on the warpath. But you. brother, smell (|uite strong." 



As they paddled along they saw another man, who hailed them. 

 Making a landing, they asked the man what he desired. Tn reply he 



