^rS] FICTION 175 



of the young couple, she said: " Here are the tracks again; they have 

 passed on. I am sorry tliat I killed the old man." 



The brother and sister went to the third uncle. Rushing into his 

 lodge, they found him making a net. His eyes were closed and filled 

 with matter, but still he was at work. He had long upper eyelids 

 lianging down on his cheeks. Raising the lids he cleaned his eyes; 

 then with a piece of buckskin he tied the lids across his forehead. 

 When the brother and sister rushed in, they said, " Uncle ! " but he 

 did not hear them. They called again, " Uncle ! we are running away 

 and want your assistance," but he did not stop, for he failed to hear 

 them. Then the brother hit him on the head with a corn pounder, 

 whereupon, raising his eyelids, he said, " I heard a voice." The 

 brother and sister exclaimed, " AVe are closely pursued by a Ganiag- 

 waihegowa." " I will help you as far as I can. but your grandfather, 

 who lives near here, will do more than I. Run to him," was his 

 answer. They hurried on. 



The Ganiagwailiegowa came nearer and nearer. The old man laid 

 a long net across the trail, in which the Ganiagwaihegowa was 

 caught. After struggling somewhat, she cleared herself. On com- 

 ing to the old man's door she asked, " Have you seen two people pass 

 this way? " " No! " said he. The old man had told them to run to 

 their grandfather, and they had done so. 



On reaching their grandfather they found S'liagodiyoweqgowa 

 there, who had rattles. When the brother and sister came up S'hago- 

 diyoweqgowa told them to go on and that they would come to a lodge, 

 and that the people in that lodge were very strong in sorcery, having 

 great orenda. 



The boy and his sister went on. The bear came to the S'hago- 

 diyoweqgowa, whom she killed after a hard fight. The two fugitives 

 reached the lodge, in front of which was an old Djogeon *" woman, 

 who was very small. She told them to go in and sit down. She had 

 three sons inside and also a great deal of bear's fat. The old woman 

 told the bo3's to make a fire on the tracks of the brother and sister 

 and to put over it to boil a kettle of bear's oil. They made two fires, 

 putting two kettles over them, into which they poured the oil. Then 

 the three boys got red willow, from which they soon made a number 

 of arrows. 



The Djogeon woman stood near the first kettle when tlie Ganiagwai- 

 hegowa came rusliing along asking, "Are the two persons here who 

 made these tracks?" "Yes; they are in the lodge." was the reply. 

 The Ganiagwaihegowa started to go around the kettles, but the 

 woman said, " No. you must go the way they went, right through the 

 fire, kettles and all ; you must do the same as they did." On starting 

 to do so the (xaniagwaihegowa got her paws in the boiling oil and 

 overturned the first kettle. Badly burned, the monster fell back, 



