^K^^^i^'] FICTION 167 



About midday they saw a middle-aged man of the Ohohwa people 

 riinninof across the road, who was saying : " I have lost my arrow. 

 I was shooting a fisher on a tree and the arrow has gone so far that 

 I can not find it." The elder daughter put her basket on a log and 

 both girls hunted for the arrow. The strange man ran around the 

 girls, and seizing the basket of marriage bread, carried it home. The 

 younger sister did not like hunting for the arrow and reminded her 

 sister of what their mother had said, but still she had to follow her 

 elder sister. After a while, failing to find the arrow, they returned 

 to the log; discovering that the basket was gone, both girls went 

 home. The mother asked them what had become of the bread. The 

 younger said. "A man asked us to look for his arrow, and I think 

 that he stole it." The old woman scolded them, saying: "You do 

 not love me. You know that I am suffering for meat, and still you 

 disobey me." Then she said to the younger girl, " We will make 

 more marriage bread to-morrow and you and your youngest sister 

 shall go this time." 



The next day they made 22 loaves of marriage bread. The day 

 following, after the old woman had dressed their hair and had given 

 them the same cautioning as before, the two girls set out. Going by 

 the same road, they again met the Ohohwa man, whom they asked 

 how far it was to the lodge of Doendjowens. " Oh," he said, " it is 

 not so far. It is right over here." showing them his own lodge. 

 There they foimd Ohohwa's wife and one little boy. The girls put 

 down the marriage bread near the woman, thinking that she was 

 Doendjowens. 



"^Mien the man came home he sent his wife to the other side of the 

 fire, telling her to pretend that he was her brother. She did so. He 

 sat between the girls, talking to them. Soon the little boy began 

 to say. ''Father! Father!" Thereupon Ohohwa said: "This is 

 my sister's son. His father was buried yesterday and the boy is call- 

 ing for him." Then Ohohwa began to cry for his brother-in-law. 



At last somebody was heard running. He came and kicked at the 

 door, calling, "Ohohwa, they want you at Doendjowens's long 

 lodge." Ohohwa said to the girls: "They are always using nick- 

 names here. My real name is Tagonsowes." He continued: "They 

 are holding a council and can not get on without me, so I must go. 

 You lie down here whenever you like, and I will come home soon." 

 Then he went away to attend the council. 



The younger girl whispered: "Let us go out. This is not Tagon- 

 sowes's lodge. If we could get the basket we might go on." When 

 Ohohwas wife fell asleep the younger girl took the basket of mar- 

 riage bread out of doors, saying: "We must go on. Let us put two 

 elm logs in the bed." They did so, and started away. 



