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farther. If I can not catch the game animal, I shall go for my sister, 

 who will find it." 



Going on a short distance, he found the game animal lying dead. 

 He ran for his sister, who came, and thanking him, said: "This 

 time you have brought me Onogengowa." *" She brought a strap 

 braided out of hemp bark, so as to carry the meat home on her 

 shoulders. Having skinned and cut up the deer, she divided it into 

 pieces. Hodadenon wanted to carry a part, so his sister, cutting 

 off the feet, tied them together, and gave them to him. She carried 

 half the meat home at one time and then went back for the other 

 half. 



The next day Hodadenon went a little farther than before. On 

 seeing a game animal walking along, he said to it, " You must be 

 what they call Dasidowanes." '" The game animal, seeing him, 

 jumped, but he said, " Keep still." It stopped, whereupon, drawing 

 his bow, he shot an arrow into the animal, which rushed through the 

 woods and out of sight. Hodadenon cried, " Look out ! that is my best 

 arrow." Following, he found the animal dead, with the arrow point 

 sticking out of its body. He said to it, " You are Dasidowanes": 

 then he ran for his sister. When she came, she said, "This is 

 Ganiagwaihe." "' She skinned the bear and cut off the feet. She gave 

 her brother the fore feet to carry, while she lierself took half the meat 

 home, and then went for the rest. They had a good supper that 

 night, and the sister got more hair oil. 



The next day they went out again, as usual, Hodadenon to hunt 

 and Yenycnt'hwus to plant. The brother went to the spot where he 

 had killed the bear, but could see no game. Then he traveled in a 

 circle, but could see nothing. As he looked toward the north it 

 seemed very pleasant. There was an opening, or clearing, in front 

 of him, and he thought he would go into it, hoping that he would 

 find game there. In the middle of the clearing was a lodge. On 

 peeping through a crack in the wall he saw a crowd of naked men 

 of the Odjineowa " people, dancing. Very soon one of these men said, 

 " Some one is looking at us," and then another said, " Let us kill 

 him." 



Hodadenon ran back to the woods, the men chasing him to the 

 edge of the opening, where they turned back. Hodadenon went a 

 short distance toward home; then, taking a long stick of wood from 

 a pile which his sister had made, he carried it to the edge of the 

 opening, where he stuck it into the ground, saying, " "When the men 

 in that lodge run after me with their clubs, do you fight against 

 them to help me." Then he brought another stick, which he put down 

 by the side of the first, with the same words. He kept on m this way 

 until he had a great many sticks standing in the ground. 



