^,"i«j;?4] • FICTION 311 



I have come back," said Doonongaes. "You Doonongaes? No; I 

 am sure my master was killed and that his body has decayed bj' this 

 time," said Skahnowa. " No; it is I. I have come to life," answered 

 Doonongaes. For a time Skahnowa was silent: at last he said: "We 

 will test this matter. Go to my lodge and bring the hind quarter of 

 a bear." " Very well," replied Doonongaes, and he started, disap- 

 pearing in the water of the lake. Coming out at a distance from the 

 lodge, he killed a bear and, without having gone to Skahnowa's lodge, 

 brought a hind quarter. Skahnowa said : " You went quickly. Did 

 you bring what I sent you for 'i " " Yes. Here it is," replied Doon- 

 ongaes. " This is fresh. All the bear meat I had home was roasted. 

 You are not Doonongaes. Go out of this lodge," said Skahnowa. 

 Beginning to cry, Doonongaes went out. Skahnowa then started on 

 his round of the lake. Doonongaes had not gone far when he said, 

 " What a coward I am ! It would be stupid of me to give up my 

 lodge." He went back but did not find Skahnowa there, so he took 

 possession. The next day at noon Skahnowa returned just as Doon- 

 ongaes was ready to eat. " What are you here for?" asked Skahnowa. 

 " I told you to go away." " Why should I give up my lodge? " asked 

 Doonongaes. " If you do not go away, I will beat you," said Skah- 

 nowa. They began to quarrel, and then, going outside, began to 

 fight, moving along the lake. They fought the rest of the day and all 

 night. The next morning Skahnowa said : " This is a hard task. It 

 may be that he is my master. The only thing that makes me doubt 

 it is that he did not do what I asked him to do. He did not go to my 

 lodge." Finally he said to Doonongaes: "Let us give up fighting." 

 " No," replied Doonongaes, " let us have it out. A man has to be 

 killed, one way or another." " Very well," said Skahnowa, so they 

 fought again in good earnest. Being of equal magical strength, they 

 fought day and night for one month. ^'^'^ Then Skahnow-a said: " We 

 would better stop fighting. I think neither of us can conquer." 

 " Yes," replied Doonongaes, "it is useless to fight longer; but I want 

 you to promise not to order me out of my own lodge again." " Very 

 well," answered Skahnowa, " you may keep the lodge ; the owner of it 

 was killed long ago." Doonongaes asked: "Do you not really know 

 me?" "I know my master is dead," said Skahnowa. 



Doonongaes now went back to the lodge, thinking : " How can I 

 get possession of my lake. I must manage to control it again." 

 The next night as he lay thinking, he fell asleep and had a dream, 

 and in the dream a man said: "I have come to say that'you have 

 been fighting with your servant Skahnowa. We people of orenda, 

 or magic power,^*^' know immediately what is going on. All the peo- 

 ple of magic power are stirred up now. and if you wish to live, you 

 must go to Tsodiqgwadon. All these people fear him. You must 

 get up and go now, for these people will be here exactly as the sun 



