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which represented a bullfrog and the stem a water snake; when 

 this pipe was smoked the bullfrog would croak and the snake would 

 wriggle and try to swallow the frog. Lastly the uncle gave his 

 nephew a fine bow and a quiver full of arrows, and a war club. 



Then, addressing his nephew, the uncle said : " Now, my nephew, go 

 directly toward the west. It is six years' journey to the country 

 whither you are going. For a long distance from here on all sides 

 the people have been carried off, and we are the sole survivors of our 

 tribe: this is the reason you must go so far to obtain a wife. There is 

 a dangerous spring halfway between here and your destination; it 

 is close to the path, but you must not under any circumstances stop 

 there or touch the water. Fai'ther on, about midway between the 

 spring and the chief's lodge, dwells an old man, a great sorcerer and 

 robber. You must not pay any attention to him. Do not on any ac- 

 count stop with him or listen to him." 



The two brothers started on their long journey at sunrise. By 

 midday they had reached the spring, although it was distant three 

 years' ordinary traveling. As soon as the elder brother saw tlie 

 spring he became very thirsty and strongly desired to drink of the 

 water, but the Turkey Brother exclaimed, "Our uncle warned us not 

 to touch this spring, for it is dangerous to do so." As they were pass- 

 ing on, the elder brother, looking again at the spring, became so 

 thirsty that he went back to drink from it. Lying on his hands and 

 face, he started to drink, when something caught him by the hair and 

 pulled him into the water. Gripping the creature, he succeeded after 

 a long struggle in drawing it upon the bank. It was a strange 

 creature covered with hair and resembling a man in form and size. 

 As it lay on the bank it gasped and piteously begged to be returned 

 to the water, saying, " Oh, grandson, throw me back into the water ! " 

 " Oh, no ! You must remain where you are," he sullenly replied. He 

 stooped the second time to drink, when another creature seized him, 

 but this also he pulled out of the water. It, too, gasped, " Oh, 

 grandson, throw me back into the water ! " Without making a reply 

 he stooped a third time to drink and was then undisturbed. The 

 water was very sweet and wholesome. When he had drunk his fill 

 he killed the two creatures. Then with the Turkey Brother's help he 

 collected a great pile of dry wood on which they placed the two 

 creatures and soon burned them to ashes. Thereupon they continued 

 their journey. 



In the middle of the afternoon they came to a place where there 

 were many tall trees. There they saw a poor-looking old man, who 

 kept running around in great haste, shouting : " Oh, grandson, shoot 

 it ! Look here ! Such a fine raccoon ! Oh, shoot it for me ! Just one 

 arrow you need spare me." He begged so urgently that the elder 

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