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siblj' he started away to carry out this injunction, but when he got 

 out of sight of the lodge he went to the lodge of another woman, who 

 also was of the Ohohwa people, where he remained all day. Toward 

 night he started for home. On his way he met a fine-looking woman. 

 He addressed her, saying, " Where are you going, my cousin ? " She 

 replied, " Oh, I am only going home." He asked, " Let me go home 

 with you ? " Answering coquettishly, "All right, if you can over- 

 take me," off she ran with great speed, with him in pursuit. This 

 woman was of the Djohkwehyanih *^ people. 



All night long they ran toward the north. About midday they 

 came to a lodge, which the woman entered. The Ohohwa man fol- 

 lowed, but on entering the lodge he did not see the woman, but only 

 two old men. He asked them, " Have you seen a woman pass here ? " 

 The two men sat with their heads down and did not answer the 

 question. But on the question being repeated by the intruder, one 

 of the men, looking up, said. " It seems to me that I heard some 

 sound," and the other made the same remark. Then he who spoke 

 first said. " Then get our canoe." Going to another part of the lodge, 

 the second man returned with a bark canoe and two basswood knives. 

 " Now," said the other old man, " seize the game that has come to 

 our lodge." The intruder drew back as the old man advanced, cau- 

 tioning the old men, saying: "Be very careful, old men. You are 

 Nosgwais people, as I know. I came only to ask for inform'ation." 

 But as the two old men advanced the intruder turned and fled. The 

 old men chased him with great speed. After a while, turning and 

 running back to the lodge, he seized a wooden mallet and the first 

 man that appeared at the doorway he laiocked on the head, and he 

 did likewise to the second man. As the old men picked themselves 

 up they said, " It seems that there is a great deal of fun in the game 

 animal that has come to us." On their making another attempt to 

 enter their lodge the intruder again knocked them down. There- 

 upon one of the old men said : " Get up and do the best you can 

 [magically]. Are we to be beaten in this way? It would indeed 

 be a singular occurrence for us to be overmatched by the game ani- 

 mal that has come to us." But in making a third attempt to enter 

 the lodge the old men were still again knocked down. But the in- 

 truder said to hin/self , however, " I can not kill these people, and so 

 I would better try to escape." So, passing out of the doorway at 

 the opposite side of the lodge, he saw the tracks of the woman going 

 directly northward. He followed them all day. When night came 

 he still saw her tracks leading in the same direction. He remarked 

 to himself, " I will soon overtake her, I think." But these tracks 

 werenotthoseof the woman. He had made a circuit and at daybreak 

 he was near the starting point. He looked down and, seeing his own 

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