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he was able to kill much game in a day. When he returned to his 

 small cabin he did not cari-y the game, but would stand at the door 

 and say, '' Let the game which I have killed be piled up beside my 

 doorway." AVhen this was done he would say, " Let the skins come 

 off and the meat be quartered, put up to dry, and be smoked." Then 

 he would enter nis cabin, paying no further attention to the game. 

 In the morning he would find the meat hanging up to dry and a large 

 heap of skins lying at his door. He would then spend the day in tan- 

 ning the skins. 



One day while he was out hunting he saw Gaasyendiet'ha,^^ where- 

 upon he pointed his finger at him and Gaasyendiet'ha at once fell 

 dead. Haiendonnis took off his skin for a pouch. Going some dis- 

 tance farther, he beheld a panther. On pointing his finger at it, the 

 panther fell dead and he then skinned it. In like manner he killed 

 and skinned a fox. With these three skins he was enabled to make 

 three pouches, which, on his arrival at his home, he hung on the wall 

 of his cabin. 



After a while the thought came to him, " What sliall I do with 

 these three pouches? " Then he took down the pouch made of the 

 skin of Gaasyendiet'ha and commanded it, saj'ing, " Stand upright 

 here." Instantly Gaasyendiet'ha stood there before him alive. Then 

 Haiendonnis made the other two pouches come to life in the same 

 manner, and there they stood inside his cabin. Meanwhile the rumor 

 spread that Haiefidofmis had settled down in that place and that he 

 was possessed of potent orenda, or mighty magic power, and that 

 he was a sorcerer through possession of this mysterious potency, 

 which worked good for his friends and evil for his enemies. 



Not far from the cabin of the mysterious Haiendonnis stood the 

 lodge of a woman and her three daughters. The mother was re- 

 puted to be a great witch, and it was said that she had come there 

 to dwell because no one in the settlement of her tribe wanted to live 

 near her. 



One daj' she said to her three daughters, "Let us pound corn for 

 meal and make corn bread." So, having prepared the corn for the 

 mortar, they began to poimd it, each using a pestle. The corn was 

 soon reduced to meal and the mother made it into corn bread. Fill- 

 ing a basket with this, she said to her eldest daughter, Deyondenni- 

 gongenyons,"^ who was a very handsome giid, " I want you to go to 

 Haieiidoiinis's lodge to learn whether he will marry you or not." 

 They lived one-half day's journey from Haiendonnis. Willingly 

 obeying her mother, the girl started with the basket of corn bread. 



Haiendonnis saw the woman coming with a basket on her back, 

 and he exclaimed : " Hoho ! There is a woman coming. I think 

 that she is coming to see me. I do wonder if indeed she desires to 

 marry me." Then, addressing the pouch, Gaasyendiet'ha, he said : " T 



