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have a very amusing game which I always phiy when anyone comes 

 to visit me. We wager our necks. I have splendid canoes made of 

 white flint with which to race on the waters." "Very well," snid 

 Ganyadjigowa, " that is what I used to play with." The old man 

 started to get the canoes, and bringing them all out, said, " Now, 

 take your choice." Looking carefully and seeing a poor old canoe, 

 (ianyadjigowa said, " This will do for me." " Oh, pshaw ! " an- 

 swered tlie old man; "that is the worst one I have; you ought to 

 take something better. That canoe can not help you. It will tip 

 over when you sail it." This was, however, the boat possessed of the 

 greatest power, which the old man wanted to use himself. " Well," 

 said the old man, " let us go there." Now the lake was a little way 

 inland. When at the edge of the lake, they put the boats on the 

 water, the old man saying, Hau onen. The two canoes started. 

 Ganyadjigowa's canoe having the greater magic power, the old man 

 was left behind. When Ganyadjigowa got to the other end of the 

 lake he said, " Where is my uncle," and sat waiting. After a great 

 while he saw the old man coming, away behind. When the latter 

 came up, he said, " Let us rest until to-morrow." After a while Gan- 

 yadjigowa pretended to go to sleep. The old man looking at him, 

 said, "He is asleep now;" so getting into Ganyadjigowa's boat, he 

 said to it, " I want you to go where the sun goes down." Ganyadji- 

 gowa heard all. The boat rushed off through the air. Ganyadji- 

 gowa, getting up, looked at his uncle's boat. " What a mean boat my 

 uncle has," he said, then exclaiming, " I want you to go where my 

 uncle has gone." Thereupon with a white flint stone he struck the 

 bow of the boat. The canoe, becoming srtive, went very fast, faster 

 than his uncle in the old boat. While flying Ganyadjigowa com- 

 menced his song, " Now we are in the race of my uncle — Onen daon- 

 diyentadon nhaknosenP 



In a little while he saw a small speck ahead. As he drew nearer, 

 the speck became larger and larger. At last they arrived at the place 

 where the sun goes down, and the old man reaching there first, 

 Ganyadjigowa said : " You cheated me. I am going to cut your head 

 off." The old man answered : " Oh ! I have not cheated you. I tried 

 to wake you, but I could not, so I let it go." " Why did you come 

 so far? You live way back at the other end of the earth," declareil 

 the young man. "Oh, that is nothing; I came to see how the sun 

 goes down," was the reply. "No; I think you tried to get away 

 from me," said Ganyadjigowa. "No; I was going back soon," re- 

 torted the old man. "Well, let us go," said Ganyadjigowa. "Very 

 well," said the old man. Soon they went back, whereupon Ganenaitha 

 =aid: "Now go to sleep. I want you to stay until morning." But 

 Ganyadjigowa did not sleep, but watched the old man until morning. 

 Then he said, " Now, let us start. Wait until I say ' Go.'" Having 



