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Spitting on his hands, the young man rubbed his father and sister 

 and dog, and they became as well as ever. Then he said, " Now, we 

 will go home." Thanking his grandmother, they started for the 

 sisters' cabin. When they came near, the sisters ran to meet them, 

 saying, " We will be your father's wives." And they all lived happily 

 together. 



36. The Dagwanoentent (Daughter of the Wind) and Her 

 Husband 



There were a nephew and an uncle, who lived together in a bark 

 lodge in the woods. The imcle gave the nephew nothing to eat, 

 making him live on fungus. He told him he must not go north to 

 collect fungus, but always south. The uncle himself went hunting 

 every day but brought back no game. At home he lived on chestnut 

 pudding and bear's oil. The nephew could not find out for a long 

 time how he made the pudding, but at last he discovered the process. 

 The uncle had a little pot and a chestnut. He would put the least 

 bit of chestnut into the pot, saying, " Watchisgwengo, Swell, Pud- 

 ding." Thereupon the mush would increase in quantity. 



The next day after his discovery the boy did just as he had seen 

 his uncle do, with the result that he had a good meal of chestnut 

 pudding. He did likewise every day while his uncle was hunting. 

 Then he began to wonder why his uncle forbade him to go north- 

 ward. After thinking over the matter a few days, he determined to 

 go in that direction notwithstanding his uncle's injunction. 



The boy started on his journey, traveling until he came to a 

 Long Lodge. In the lodge was a great supply of venison and bear 

 meat, and skin bags of bear's oil were hanging all around the wall. 

 The only person within was a woman, who was sitting in the middle 

 of the room, with her head bent down. There was also a small boy 

 toddling around, who clapped his hands and laughed when he saw 

 the young man. The woman took no notice of him. The young 

 man plaj'ed a while with the child. After a time he started for 

 home, taking with him a small piece of meat which he had filched. 

 The uncle, returning home, prepared his pudding in secret as before. 



Thus it happened every day from year to year. It was the custom 

 for the old man to set out to hunt and for the young man to go to 

 the Long Lodge to play with the little boy. The woman never 

 moved nor spoke. 



The little boy of the Long Lodge was about 15 when one day he 

 said to the young man : " You and I are cousins. Your uncle is my 

 father and that woman sitting there is my mother." The nephew 

 then asked, ''Why does she never speak?" He asked her various 

 questions, but she would not answer him a word. Thereupon with 

 his bow and arrow he shot at a bag of bear's oil which hung above 



