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man's head, and heads all around the lodge with flesh on them. He 

 wondered where the boj's got these for they were too small to go out 

 to hunt. " Perhaps they will be able to cut my head ofl:'," thought he, 

 running away. A few moments later one of the boys said to the 

 other, "Did not you think some game came to the lodge just now? " 

 " Yes," replied the other. " AVell, let us hurry out; we will soon bring 

 it back," said the other. Taking their knives, they ran out and 

 around the lodge. Seeing the trail, they ran along it until they 

 were at Doonongaes's heels. When he turned and saw the two boys 

 behind him, each with an uplifted knife ready to strike, he seized the 

 first boy and threw his knife away. Then he did the same with the 

 other boy, and putting a boy under each arm, he hurried on. As he 

 went along, he saw a high precipice, whereupon he said, " Perhaps 

 I had better throw these boys over, for they annoy me." After throw- 

 ing them over the precipice, he walked on. Presently he heai'd " Tcuf 

 Tcu! that man walking over there falls (is about to fall)." Doo- 

 nongaes turned aroimd to see where the voice came from, with the 

 remark, " This sounds as though they meant me." He stood looking 

 around; soon he heard some one laughing, and saw a man high up 

 on the cliff. "It is absurd that he should make sport of me," said 

 Doonongaes; "I will punish him." Doonongaes hurried toward the 

 man, who was ahead. AVhen he came to the spot where he thought 

 the man was, he could not find him, and could see no one. Soon he 

 saw far ahead the man peep from behind a tree, then dart back and 

 peep out again. Doonongaes ran to the tree, and going around it, 

 said, " Now, I will punish you, you scoundrel " ; but he found no one 

 there. Pie looked everywhere. At last he saw another tree far ahead 

 with the man peeping from behind it. He hurried to the place, 

 saying as he ran after the man around the tree, " I have caught you "; 

 but when he got around, he could see no one. " This is provoking," 

 said Doonongaes, "he is making sport of me; I must punish him 

 without fail." 



Doonongaes sat down under the tree to rest from the chase and 

 closed his ej'es ; in a little while he was sound asleep. The man came 

 back and, seeing Doonongaes asleep, said, " I thought this man said 

 he was going to beat me." As he stood looking at Doonongaes he 

 resolved to kill him. Taking out a flint knife he cut his throat. At 

 first foam came from the cut but no blood; then it seemed as if 

 Doonongaes blew a great breath, whereupon out came the blood 

 streaming in every direction. Then Doonongaes died. " I did not 

 have much trouble," thought the murderer, who was one of the 

 Djoniaik ^^'' peojile, " though he called himself powerful " ; and sitting 

 ■on the tree above the body he continued to laugh. 



Wlien Doonongaes was killed his blood ran down the precipice. 

 The people who lived in the ravine below said they saw it. "This 



