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were frightened, but after a while one of them, saying " I will not be 

 afraid," went straight up to him and talked with him some time be- 

 hind a tree. Then she came back, telling the others to go, that there 

 was nothing to be afraid of. So they went, one by one, and after all 

 had been there he went away. One of the women whistled out his 

 name and called him, but he had gone after fooling them all. S'ho- 

 dieonskon and the man in the hemlock boughs were one. 



Siiodieonskon went on again, soon coming to an opening where 

 there was a number of bark lodges. Going into the lodges he said, 

 " There is a man coming to destroy all the people, and to escape him 

 they must cover all the smoke-holes, -for he has a long spear which 

 he thrusts into them to spear the people." Then he invented a name 

 for the man. All went to work covering the smoke-holes of their 

 lodges. The chief of the village had two beautiful wives. S'ho- 

 dieonskon coveted them and did not tell the chief the story of the 

 man with the spear. When all the other lodges were covered and 

 full of smoke, S'hodieonskon ran over the roofs, frightening every- 

 body almost to death: not daring to go out,. all remained half stifled 

 in the smoke. At last S'hodieonskon, climbing the roof of the chief's 

 lodge, speared him to death and took his wi^'es and all he had. 



In due time the funeral of the chief was held, and all came to bury 

 him. S'hodieonskon, appearing among the mourners, cried, saying: 

 " I am sorry for the chief ; he was a friend of mine, and now he is 

 dead and gone. I am so sad. I "do not wish to live. You must bury 

 me with him." So they put S'hodieonskon in the ground beside the 

 chief. The next day some boys who were out at play heard a man 

 calling for help, his voice seeming to come from the graveyard, 

 whereupon they went to the spot. The voice seeming to come out of 

 the grave, they ran and told the people. The people agreed to dig 

 him up. When they had done so S'hodieonskon, standing on the 

 ground, said : " There is a very important thing to be done. I came 

 back because the chief had two wives; they mourn for their husband, 

 and I feel sorry for them. I am sent back to marry the two widows." 

 After talking over the affair the people said it was a great thing that 

 a man should be sent back from the other-world to marry the widows 

 of their chief, so they consented to the arrangement, and S'hodieon- 

 skon, having married them, settled down. 



57. The Cannibal Uncle, His Nephew, and the Nephew's 

 Invisible Brother 



An uncle and his nephew dwelt together in a forest, subsisting by 

 hunting. They lived in a lodge which had a jDartition through the 

 middle and a door at each end. Neither one ever entered the part 

 occupied by the other, all communication between them being held 



