ZTiTi] FICTION 3].7 



things — wamj^um, shells, and valuable skins; there were man_y people 

 and lodges. After they had seen all the village, Hosto3'owanen said : 

 "Now, you must not stay any longer. I do not want you to die 

 here. Run southward and you may be saved." The chief went home 

 and Doonongaes went southward. He ran fast, and when night came 

 he slept in a hollow tree. The next mornini; he said, " I am going 

 westward. I do not mind what that chief said." Toward midday 

 he was hungry. He said : " Oh ! my neck is sore ; it has been sore for 

 a long time and feels as though something were in it. How can I 

 cure it? " Having found a spring, he lay down to drink from it, but 

 t:aw the reflection of someone in the water. " Oh ! that looks like my 

 wife, Hawiqson(t). Why is her face reflected in this water? I ac 

 far from her now. This is strange," mused Doonongaes. Being 

 frightened, he did not drink but, jumping up, he ran toward the 

 south, forgetting which way he was going. He ran all night. Just at 

 daylight he fell down from weakness. " Why," thought he, " am I 

 getting so heavy and weak? Is it because I am hungry?" He lay 

 there and could not rise; he was too hungry, for he had not eaten 

 anything for a whole year.^*" He thought : " Well, there is no need of 

 my standing up. I am a snake." Changed from a man into a great 

 snake, he went on, saying, '" Well, I am traveling again." At noon, 

 coming to a village, he went into the last lodge, in which lived an 

 old woman and her granddaughter, who were very poor. " I want 

 to stay with you a few days," said Doonongaes. " I have nothing to 

 eat." answered the old woman. " I want merely to sleep ; I do not 

 care for eating," Doonongaes replied. " Then you may stay," said 

 the old woman. The next morning, before she was out of bed, Doon- 

 ongaes asked, " Had you a family long ago? " " Yes," she answered, 

 " a long time ago I was married and had a large family, but only two 

 are living now." "W^ell," said Doonongaes, "you must have kept a 

 bow and arrows." " Look around," said the old woman to her grand- 

 daughter, " and see whether you can find a bow and arrows." After 

 hunting for them, at last she found a bow and arrows. Doonongaes 

 straightened the arrows and strung the bow. Then he shot through 

 the smoke hole, saying to the arrow, " Go for a large bear." Soon 

 they heard the sound of approaching footsteps and then of some- 

 thing falling in front of the door, at which the old woman said : " I 

 think that man Dagadij'e has come again, for he is always rushing 

 through the village. He does not kill, but he chases our peojiie." 

 Doonongaes laughed at her words. "Why do you laugh?" asked 

 the old widow. "I laugh at what you say," replied Doonongaes. 

 "Well, what do you think the noise was?" she asked. "I do not 

 know," said Doonongaes. " Go and see." Going to the door, she 

 exclaimed, " Hwuf Hwu/ There is a great bear here!" The old 

 woman made a hole under the jaw of the bear and, putting her 



