Z^i^] FICTION 205 



Then, running to the lodge, he looked in again. The Odjineowa 

 men, seeing him, said, " Let us be sure to kill him this time," and 

 rushed out with their clubs. The boy escapeil, however, to the woods, 

 and when the naked men came to the edge of the woods the sticks 

 of Hodadeiion became people and fought, killing all the men. There- 

 upon Hodadeiion came, and after dragging the men one after another 

 into their lodge, he set fire to it, burning them all up. 



Having taken the sticks back to his sister's woodpile, Hodadeiion 

 went on until he came to the tall stump of a broken tree on which 

 stood a man, who called out ^'■Ogongaqgeni hiwaden, My eyes have 

 outmatched yours, my nephew," but the boy thought, " He does not 

 see me," so he passed by. The uncle did not see him. When the boy 

 walked up, the uncle said : " You have come to me. I am an Hodi- 

 adatgon, a great wizard. ^Aliat would you do if it should rain 

 spears upon you ? " " Oh," said the boy, " I think my sister and I 

 would be vei-y glad, for we have no spears to fish with now." Then 

 he ran home with all his speed. "WHien near the lodge he saw his 

 sister go into it, whereupon he ran around it, saying, " Let our lodge 

 be stone," and straightway it was stone. Just then he heard a 

 terrible roar, and a great rain of spears came down; some broke on 

 the roof, others fell on the ground. When the shower of spears was 

 over, his sister said, " You have gone toward the north." " Yes, but 

 I shall not go again," replied the boy. 



After a while he went out to play. While playing he thought, " I 

 will go to my imcle and be the first to say, ' Offongaggeni, My eyes 

 outmatch yours.' " So he went on until he came as near his uncle as 

 he could without being seen. Then he called a mole and, entering 

 his body, he traveled underground up to the roots of the stump on 

 which his uncle was standing. Coming out, he cried, ^^Ogongaggeni 

 kawknosen, What would you say if a fire should come and burn up 

 that stump and the woods and all else there is about here?" "Oh, 

 nephew, that is too much," answered the uncle. " I did not say that 

 is too much," replied Hodadeiion, " when you sent a rain of darts on 

 my sister and me." At that moment thick smoke was seen coming, 

 and soon the woods were in a blaze on every side. The fire spread to 

 the spot where Hodadeiion's uncle was. He fell off the stump, and, 

 his head bursting, an owl came out of it and flew away. 



Hodadeiion thought, " Now, I will go farther." He had not 

 traveled far through the woods before he came to another clearing, 

 in which there was a lodge. Peeping through a crack, he saw within 

 an old man with both eyes closed. All at once he called, " Come in, 

 nephew! come in!" l^Hien the boy went in the old man said. "I 

 always play a game of dice with people who come here. If I win, 

 T shall have your head; if you win. you shall have mine." The old 

 man brought out six night owls' eyes {hihi ogas'^hoon) for dice, say- 



