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After running around in circles and making many tracks around 

 the lodge, the brother then went up the smoke-hole and stood on the 

 roof. There was visible a long streak, or trail, which the arrow had 

 made through the air. Running under this trail, he soon came to 

 the spot where the arrow had struck the stone, and then he followed 

 his sister's tracks. 



The old woman, the murdered man's mother, growing tired of wait- 

 ing for her son, went over to the neighboring lodge to see what he 

 was doing. She found the lodge empty. While sitting there bj' the 

 fire, a voice spoke to her out of the flames, saying: "My friend has 

 killed me. My friend has killed me." Thereupon she dug down 

 under the hearth until she found her son's body. On reaching home 

 she became a (janiagwaihegowa. Then she followed the girl's tracks to 

 the spring and back again to the lodge. She could find no one in the 

 lodge. At last, looking up through the smoke-hole, she saw the trail 

 of the arrow through the air. Hurrying out, she ran toward the east. 



In the meantime the young man had overtaken his sister before she 

 had gone far from the stone. After a while they heard the roaring 

 of Ganiagwaihegowa. The girl trembled from great fear and grew 

 weak. Her brother encouraged her. Stopping at night, they lay 

 down and slept a little. The young man dreamed that a woman came 

 to him, saying: '' You think you and your sister are about to die, but 

 you are not; hero is a stone with which to defend yourself. Tomor- 

 row about noon throw this piece of stone behind ^^ou, with the words. 

 ' Let there be a ridge of rocks across the world so high that nothing 

 can climb over or pass it.' " 



In the morning he saw near the brush lodge the ver}- stone he had 

 seen in his dream. He took this piece of stone with him. Before 

 midday they heard the roaring of Ganiagwaihegowa. At noon the 

 young man threw the piece of rock behind him, and at that moment 

 a ridge of rocks, rising so high that no living thing could climb over 

 it, stretched itself across the world. 



On coming to the ridge the Ganiagwaihegowa saw that the tracks 

 of the brother and sister went through the wall. She clambered up 

 and then fell backward, howling terribly and crying, " I will over- 

 take and eat them both." The young man's sister heard the words 

 of the monster. The Ganiagwaihegowa ran toward the north, but 

 could find no end to or ojDening in the wall of rocks. Then, coming 

 back, the monster ran to the south, but could find no end there. Once 

 more returning, she lay down near the tracks l)y the wall. It was 

 now night. The Ganiagwaihegowa staid there until morning. On 

 rising she was greatly surprised at finding nothing but a small stone 

 in her way. Picking up the stone, she ground it to powder in her 

 mouth, and then, roaring terribly, went on. 



