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and took from the elder brother the game, which she carried away. 

 So the next day the younger brother started off in the direction tlie 

 strange woman had taken. He soon came to a lodge, and on entering 

 he found a young woman, who smiled and began talking to him. 



In the afternoon he started for home; but after he had gone some 

 distance he saw that he was returning to the lodge which he had just 

 left, and was greatly disturbed about himself. Thereupon he went 

 in an opposite direction. AVhile he was walking along, his elder 

 brother, coming up behind him, said, " My brother, it is strange that 

 you do not know that there is a fishhook caught in your neck." Hav- 

 ing removed the fishhook and fastened it to a near-by bush, the elder 

 brother said to his younger brother: " Your only safe course now is 

 to escape from this place as quickly as possible. I will aid you to 

 escape." Then the elder brother, causing the younger to become 

 small, after opening one of his arrows introduced him into it, and 

 after securing him there, told him, "When the arrow strikes the 

 ground, quickh' get out of this arrow and then run for your life." 

 Then he shot the arrow off into the air. 



When the young woman drew on the fishhook she found that she 

 could not pull it to her; following along the line, she found that the 

 hook was fastened to a bu.sh. This caused her to get very angry, and 

 she said, " Young man, you can not escape from me ; this world is 

 too small for that." Thence she quickly went to the young man's 

 lodge but he was not there, so she tracked him to her own lodge and 

 back again to the bush. There she found the trail of the arrow, 

 which she followed to the spot where it fell. On finding there the 

 tracks of the young man, she pursued his trail with great speed. 

 As she approached the young man he heard her footsteps and, pull- 

 ing off his moccasins, he told them to run ahead to the end of the 

 country; "' further, he transformed himself into a stump right where 

 he stood. The pursuing woman soon came up to the stump. Halt- 

 ing there, she looked up and said," Why, this looks like a man"; but, 

 as the tracks of the young man apparently passed on, exclaiming 

 "Why do I waste time here?" she ran on. When she reached the 

 end of the country, behold! there stood the young man's moccasins. 

 Then she hurried back to the place where she had seen the stump, but 

 it was no longer there. Finding, however, fresh tracks made by the 

 young man, she followed them. Soon the young man heard lier ap- 

 proaching again, whereupon he cast a stone behind him, with the 

 remark, " Let a high rock extend from one end of the country to the 

 other." As soon as he had spoken the words the great ridge of rock 

 was there. 



When the young woman came to the rock slie could go neither 

 through it nor over it. Finally she said, " I have never heard of 

 this high rock; surely it can not extend across the country. I will 



