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Djothowandon's. Dagwiinoenycnt, looking around, said : " My ser- 

 vant is not at home. I think he lias gone to the southern end of the 

 earth. A very churlish people live there. He is going to try to make 

 them good and quiet. If they do not obey him, I must go to eat them 

 all." "How far is it from here^ " asked Ganyadjigowa. "Oh! you 

 would not get there in fifty winters," declared Dagwanoenyent. " If 

 that is true," retorted Ganyadjigowa, "it will be a hundred winters 

 before your servant will come back." "Oh, no!" said Dagwanoen- 

 yent; "my servant travels very fast. He will be in a place as soon 

 as he thinks of it." "I do not believe that," said Ganyadjigowa. 

 " Get out of here ! " said Dagwanoenyent ; " some people are coming 

 this morning who will bewitch you if you are around here." 



Ganyadjigowa started off. Soon he saw Dahdahwat coming. 

 When Dahdahwat came near he was going to strike Ganyadjigowa, 

 but the latter said, " Do not kill me. I am not strong enough in 

 orenda to fight you." Dahdahwat chased him and kept biting him 

 until he was dead. Then said Dahdahwat, " I have killed S'hodieon- 

 .skon,°* who has great power magically. I will go home now." While 

 on the way he saw a man coming toward him. When they met 

 Dahdahwat greeted him with, " Where are you going? " " Oh ! I am 

 going to see the man who' was killed this morning," said the stranger. 

 " Well, what is your name? " said Dahdahwat. " My name is Djoiii- 

 aik," replied the stranger. " What are you going to do when you get 

 there?" asked Dahdahwat. "Oh, nothing!" and they passed on. 

 When Djoniaik came to the spot where Ganyadjigowa lay and saw 

 how Dahdahwat had bitten him, he dug many kinds of roots, and, 

 making a powder of them, began to doctor Ganyadjigowa; he rubbed 

 the powder over his body, and soon Ganyadjigowa was alive again. 

 Ganyadjigowa said: "That is the kind of man I am. Where is the 

 Dahdahwat?" Djoniaik answered: "Do not say that. He must be 

 near by." Ganyadjigowa. would not stop, but kept scolding and 

 scolding, getting more angry all the time. Djoniaik went off. 



"Now, I must go to my friend, Dagwanoenyent," said Ganyadji- 

 gowa. When he got to his friend's lodge Dagwanoenyent laughed, 

 saying, "A man came here to notify me that I should go to see the 

 spot where you lay dead." "Oh, pshaw!" said Ganyadjigowa; "I 

 shall never die. Have you never heard the old folks say that if 

 S'hodieonskon died he would soon come to life again? " " Yes," said 

 Dagwanoenyent, " I have heard so. Is that why you came to life? " 

 " Yes," declared Ganyadjigowa. " Well," said the old man, " I want 

 you to go where the churlish people live. My servant has come, and 

 he says they will never be quiet. I have heard old men say that S'ho- 

 dieonskon can make churlish people quiet." "All right, I will go," an- 

 swered the voung man. When he came down from the rock on which 



