llTi^] FICTION 213 



fusion of the moment suiBcient care had not been taken to put to- 

 gether the bones belonging to tlie same persons, hence one had an arm 

 too short, another a leg; but Hodadeiion went around among them 

 stretching and arranging these defective limbs. Then he said to their 

 possessors : " I have now brought you to life again. You must remain 

 in one place for two days while I go to get meat for you." 



So, selecting a comfortable spot, they patiently waited. Hoda- 

 defion went out to hunt and lulled a great quantity of game. He 

 sent men to bring it into the camp. These were gone all day, but 

 they brought in an abundance of meat. When all had returned, 

 Hodadefion said : " Now, m.v brother is tired. Stay here and rest. 

 I must go away for a short time, for I have much work to do." 



Thereupon Hodadeiion started awaj'. As he hurried along he heard 

 the sound, " Dum, dum, dum ! " This, he knew, was caused by the 

 man whose name was Deagahgweoses, in making tobacco, which he 

 pounded with a mallet. When he arrived at the lodge he found the 

 old man sitting inside hammering tobacco and singing. He yondyen- 

 gonni goyengwayen gens, signifying " Wherever one makes tobacco, 

 one f)ossesses tobacco customarily." And when the tobacco rolls 

 were ready he would tie them with bark cords. Addressing him, 

 Hodadeiion said several times, " Well, uncle, I have come to your 

 lodge," but the old man gave him no recognition. Then Hodade- 

 iion struck the old man a blow on the head with a small mallet 

 which was lying near, saying at the same time, " I have come to visit 

 you, uncle." But even then Deagahgweoses paid no attention to the 

 visitor. Again Hodadefion struck him a blow, saying, " Uncle, I 

 have come to visit you." Then the old man exclaimed, " I do think 

 that the mice have thrown down the stone bowl," but he kept on at 

 work pounding his tobacco. So Hodadeiion struck him still another 

 severe blow, whereupon the old man raised his upper lids, which 

 hung down over his face to his chin. Carefully tying them back 

 with bark cords, he scraped out the filth from his eyes with a clam- 

 shell, saying, " I think that some one has come into the lodge." 

 Then, looking around and seeing Hodadefion, he asked him, " For 

 what do you come here ? What do you want ? " Hodadeiion re- 

 plied, " I have come for tobacco." The old man refused tobacco to 

 his visitor, saying, " You will get no tobacco here." Then starting 

 up, exclaiming, " I will kill you ! " he pursued Hodadefion with a 

 large club out of doors and around the lodge. Hodadeiion outran 

 him and was soon far ahead of him. Finally, turning and facing 

 the old man, he shot two arrows into his body. Thus died Deagah- 

 gweoses. 



Then Hodadeiion cast into the air toward the west a large quan- 

 tity of tobacco, saying as he did so, " Go ye to the lodge of my sister, 

 Yenyent'hwus." Far oil in the west Yenyent'hwus picked up the rolls 



