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ing back slightly, thought. " Pshaw ! what a coward I am ! I can 

 play tricks on the old num." Going outside, he put liis horns under 

 the lodge — up it flew in the air and then fell to the ground. (The 

 lodge was of stone.^"'*) "Very well," said the old man, "I will kill 

 you." So he went out. " What are you doing ^ "" he asked; " I think 

 you are trying to throw my lodge over. Do you want me to cut your 

 head off again? I can do it very easily," he added. "All I want," 

 replied Doonongaes, " is that you release the women." " I will not 

 release them," declared Ilas'honyot. " You must," said Doonongaes, 

 and taking a reed, called owl's arrow, he hit him on the back; the 

 blow glanced off without hurting the old man a bit. Again Doonon- 

 gaes asked, " Will you let me have the women ? " " No," exclaimed 

 Has'honyot. " Well, I am going over there a short distance. I will 

 come back soon," said Doonongaes. 



(loing into the lodge, Has'honyot asked his attendants, the blood- 

 suckers: "What shall we do? I think he intends to kill us. Do 

 you think he can do it?" "Yes; we think he has gone for help," 

 they rejoined. Doonongaes had gone to find the Djihonsdonqgwon'" 

 people. He came to the place in which they all lived, one great 

 lodge — a mound lodge. Peeping in, he saw a great many people 

 walking around. Immediately one spoke to the others, saying, 

 " Hurry up ! we have some game here." Straightway there were 

 great confusion and crowding and rushing to and fro. There 

 seemed to be rooms all over this immense lodge, above and below 

 and on every side. Entering, Doonongaes said : " Let us have peace. 

 I came here to lead to a work which you will like; I know you 

 will. I have come to hire you to kill a man over there." They said 

 to one another, " Let us get ready to go." Their chief lived on a hill 

 near by, but they did not notify him. Doonongaes led them to 

 Has'honyot's lodge, saying, " I want you to kill this old man, but do 

 not harm the women." A great many went into the lodge, filling it, 

 and there was a vast crowd outside. Some time passed, and then 

 Doonongaes heard the old man scream and saw him run out. When 

 outside the crowd around the lodge caught him. They released the 

 women. They hurried home, accompanied by Doonongaes, who left 

 the Djihonsdonqgwen to fight with the old man until they thought he 

 was dead. When the women reached home they said, " We are now 

 the wives of our great chief, Doonongaes." " Thank you. my daugh- 

 ters," said their mother; "he has saved you, and it is right that you 

 should live with him." So Doonongaes went to the lodge of the two 

 women and did not return to Ganyodaes. 



After a long time had passed both women had children, and he 

 continued to live with them until one day he said, "I am going to 

 the place where my friend, Has'honyot, used to live on the high 

 rocks." When he reached the foot of the rocks, he saw something 



