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growling. In making for tlie second kettle, that too was upset in 

 the same way and she was burned still more. Then the boys killed 

 the Ganiagwaihegowa with their red-willow arrows, and, building a 

 fire, they bui-ned her bones to powder, so that the monster could not 

 come to life again. 



The old Djogeon told the brother and sister to stay two or three 

 days at her lodge and rest; then her sons would take them home. 

 She told her sons that this old Ganiagwaihegowa woman stole a 

 young boy and girl from them and took them away, wishing to make 

 the girl marry her son. The boys took the brother and sister two 

 days' journey, which was as far as they could go. Then they directed 

 the former fugitives so that they got home. 



It is said that the Ganiagwaihegowa woman's boy had a tuft of 

 yellow hair hanging down his back, and that when he was killed, 

 his companion, having cut off this tuft, fastened it to the top of his 

 own head. When the Ganiagwaihegowa woman's boy went hunt- 

 ing, he would send his arrows home and they would go into the lodge 

 just where they belonged; but after the other man obtained the hair, 

 his arrows would go home in the same way. for the orenda was in the 

 tuft of yellow hair. 



34. The Potent Boy '" 



A man and his wife lived together in an ugly looking lodge in the 

 woods. They had a son four or five years old. 



After a time the woman gave birth to another boy, not longer than 

 one's hand, who was very bright and lively. Wrapping the little fel- 

 low carefully, the father, thinking he could not live, placed him in a 

 hollow tree outside the lodge. Then he burned the body of the 

 mother, who had died wdien the baby came into the world. 



The man went hunting every day as before. The older boy played 

 around the lodge by himself and was lonely. After some time had 

 elapsed he heard the baby in the hollow log crying, for he. too, was 

 lonely and had nothing to eat. The elder boy found his little 

 brother and, making souji of deer intestines, gave it to him to drink. 

 He drank the soup with great relish and became much strength- 

 ened. The brother gave him plenty of it. At last the little fellow 

 came out of the log and the two boys played together. 



The elder brother made the little one a coat of fawn skin, which 

 he put on him. This made the baby look like a chipmunk as he ran 

 around. They went to the lodge and played there. Noticing a de- 

 crease in the stock of provisions, the father asked the boy what he 

 did with the deer intestines. " Oh," said the boy, " I ate a good deal 

 of them." Then looking around the fire and seeing a small track 

 and very short steps, the father said : " Here are the tracks of a boy. 

 Wlio is it? " The boy told him how he had found his little brother in 

 a hollow tree, and that he had given him soup and had made him a 



