Z^i^] FICTION 97 



inhabited by a Cro\^ with a large family, who were very poor. The 

 young man was left at a tree outside the lodge to converse with Crow. 

 He told Crow the story of the Long Lodge and the recovery of the 

 chief's daughter. The Crow hurried over to the lodge of the chief 

 and said to the chief and his wife, " Your daughter has come to 

 life." The old woman, taking a club, began to drive the Crow out of 

 the lodge, saying : " You lying wretch ! You know that no one has 

 ever come to life after being dead more than ten days." "Oh, well; 

 do not l:)eat him," said the chief, " it may be true that our daughter 

 has come to life, though dead twenty days." " She has," said the 

 Crow, " for she is over by my lodge." " Well, bring her here," said 

 the chief. 



The two yoimg people then came on invitation, and, as they were 

 both willing, the young man became the chief's son-in-law. After 

 they had been married a few days the J'oung man told his wife to 

 go and get the best bowl her father had, for he was sick at his 

 stomach and wished to vomit. She brought the bowl, and he vomited 

 it full of the most beautiful wampum. This was an act which young 

 wizards are expected to perform after marriage. " Take that now to 

 your father." said he. She took the bowl of wampum to her father 

 as a gift from her husband. The old chief was delighted, and said: 

 " That is the finest num I have ever seen. I knew that he was of 

 good stock. This wampum will do me great good." 



Two or three days later the young man said to his wife : " You 

 go and borrow your father's bow and arrows, for I want to go to 

 hunt. All the young men of the village are to hunt tomorrow, and 

 1 must go. too." Starting very early, each one went out alone to 

 hunt deer. The Crow went with the young man, and he said, " I 

 will fly up high and look all ai'ound to see where the deer are." The 

 Crow saw ten deer some distance ahead, and, flying back, said to the 

 young man : " I will fly behind those deer and drive them this way. 

 You can kill all." The young man stood behind and waited until 

 the deer passed by; then he turned and, as all were in a line, he killed 

 the ten with one arrow. The Crow said that in the village they never 

 gave him anything but the refuse. " Oh ! " said the young man, 

 "you can have one deer for yourself today." The Crow flew home 

 with the news, and said : " What are all the other young men good for ? 

 The chief's son-in-law has killed ten deer long before sunrise and 

 the others have killed nothing." None of the other hunters had good 

 luck that day. 



At night there was a fea&l and a dance in the Long Lodge. The dis- 

 appointed hunters planned to take vengeance on the young man, the 

 chief's son-in-law. When going around to dance he came to the 

 middle of the Long Lodge, by means of witchcraft they made him sink 

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