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so heavy that at noon he had only reached the edge of the clearing 

 where their lodge was. Sitting down there, he ate his lunch. Yen- 

 yent'hwus, who was watching him all the time, said, " Poor brother, 

 I think he will come back soon." She looked again, but he was gone. 



In the evening Hodadenon looked for a hollow tree in which to 

 spend the night. Having found one, he crawled in, and was lying 

 there at his ease when in the early part of the night he heard a man 

 coming up. When he reached the tree, the man called out, " Hodade- 

 non, are you here? " " I am," answered Hodadenon. " Well," asked 

 the stranger, " what would you do if one of the Ganiagwaihe should 

 come to eat you up ? " " Oh, I should have f uq with him," said 

 Hodadenon. 



The other went away and soon a very large Ganiagwaihe came. 

 Pointing his arrow at it, Hodadenon shot the bear in the neck. Then 

 away ran the bear. The boy said, " I will go to sleep now, for there 

 is no use in being troubled by such creatures." The next morning 

 when Hodadenon came out he found that the trees had been torn 

 up by the roots all along the track of the bear. At last coming to 

 the place where the bear lay dead he thought, " I shall have nothing 

 to do with such an ugly creature," and drawing out his arrow, he left 

 the bear's carcass lying there. 



The next evening he found another hollow tree, into which he 

 crawled, prepared to sleep. But early in the night he heard some 

 one come up to the tree and say : " Hodadenon, you are now here. 

 What would you do if a S'hagodiyoweqgowa should come to kill 

 you ? " " Oh ! I should have sport with him," replied Hodadenon. 

 " It is well," the other returned, going away. 



Very soon a S'hagodiyoweqgowa, a very large one, came up to the 

 tree. At once Hodadeiion, drawing his bow, shot it with his magic 

 arrow; then, retiring into the hollow tree again, he went to sleep. 

 In the morning he saw a trail along which the trees were broken 

 down and torn up by the roots. Following this trail he soon came 

 to a point where he found the S'hagodiyoweqgowa lying dead. This 

 being had a face of most terrifying aspect. Hodadenon, remarking 

 to himself, " I will not have anything to do with a creature of so 

 malign aspect," drew out his arrow from the body and went on his 

 way. 



During that day Hodadeiion came to a great lake on the farther 

 side of which was a village. He searched until he found an oak 

 puifball, which he placed at the water's edge. Entering this ball, he 

 caused the wind to blow it across the lake to the village on the opposite 

 shore. Hodadenon went through this village without stopping until 

 he came to the last lodge on the side farthest from the lake shore, in 

 which lived an old widow and her grandson. Addressing the grand- 

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