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Thereiipon tliey went directly to the place. Skahnowa was on 

 his daily rounds. "Where has he gone?" asked Tsodiqgwadon. 

 "Oh! he has gone around the lake. He will be here soon," said 

 Doonongaes, who began to cook. Just as they were sitting down 

 to eat, they heard footsteps, and a man sprang into the lodge, calling 

 out, "What are you doing in here? Go out!" "Oh! be quiet," 

 said Tsodicjgwadon. "Well, what right have you in my lodge?" 

 answered Skahnowa. " Be reasonable," said Tsodiqgwadon. 

 Skahnowa dropped his head; then, raising it again, he asked : " What 

 are you doing? Are you on some errand of importance?" "We 

 iiave come to see what you have been doing with your master," re- 

 idied Tsodiqgwadon. " It is a great annoyance to have people come 

 to try the strength of Doonongaes since your fight with him took 

 place." " Is that man there my master? " asked Skahnowa. " Yes; 

 he is," replied Tsodiqgwadon. "How came he to be alive again?" 

 Skahnowa asked. "That is nothing strange among us people of 

 great magic power — persons who are possessed of potent orenda. We 

 die and become alive again ;^'^ that is the way it was with Doonon- 

 gaes," said Tsodiqgwadon. " Now I understand," said Skahnowa. 

 " I will not quarrel with him ; he can have his own lodge. I will never 

 trouble him again." Tsodiqgwadon said to Doonongaes, " Let us go." 



So they went along the lake shore and were soon at home. The 

 ground about was covered with tracks. Eveiything had been eaten ; 

 not a scrap was left. "What are you going to do now?" asked 

 Tsodiqgwadon. " The best I can do," said Doonongaes, " is to go 

 liome with you and you can give me a couple of women to live with. 

 Skahnowa will forget his pi-omise and will attack me if I stay hei-e." 

 " Very well ; come along and I will take you to a woman," Tso- 

 diqgwadon said, so he brought him to a filthy, ugly-looking creature 

 of the Hanondon ''- people. " Here is a woman — I want you to stay 

 with her," said Tsodiqgwadon. Doonongaes replied, " I want an- 

 other." " Well, let us go on a little farther," declared Tsodiqgwadon. 

 They soon came to a lodge in which was a woman of the Hawiq- 

 son(t)^" people, dirty, and so badly deformed that one of her feet 

 was on her forehead. " Well," said Doonongaes, " I suppose I shall 

 have to live with these w-omen. You are the ruler here." 



Tsodiqgwadon left him. Night came and Doonongaes hung his 

 head, saying: "I think my friend Tsodiqgwadon has treated me 

 badly. I will not stay with these women. I will go away." He trav- 

 eled all that night and the next day; he traveled southward 10 whole 

 days and nights. When iO days had passed Tsodiqgwadon went to 

 the place where the women, Hanondon and IIawi(json(t), lived, say- 

 ing, " I will see how my friend Doonongaes is getting on." He asked 

 the women, "Is Doonongaes at home?" "No," they replied. 



