i^'k^w^'xr] FICTION 321 



say that Dooiiongaes will marry his daughter now." So she told the 

 chief what he said. " Very well," he answered, sending his daughtci' 

 to the old woman's hut. Doonongaes asked her, "Do you want to 

 marrj' me^ " " Yes; for you killed the eagle," she replied. " Would 

 it please you if I should appoint a man to marry j'ou ? " Doonon- 

 gaes added. " Yes," was the girl's answer. " This is the man I ap- 

 point," declared Doonongaes. Turning to the " Shabby Man," the 

 girl said, '"Come, we will go home to my father's -lodge." At this 

 the man laughed for gladness. 



Doonongaes spent a whole year with the old woman. One morn- 

 ing he said: " Now, I am going to the southern end of the earth. I 

 want to know how things are there." "Very well," replied the 

 grandmother. " Come in on your way back," she said. '' I will," said 

 Doonongaes. lie left all the wampum with the old woman, for if 

 he wanted any he had only to cry in order to get it. After traveling 

 all day and all night, in the morning he came to a great oi)ening m 

 the woods. As he stood looking around the place, he saw some dark 

 object in the west. Looking- very sharply, he said : " What is that 

 dark tiling^ Is some one watching? " He stood there a good while. 

 Ju.st at midday, seeing that the object was lying down, he thought: 

 "What can that be? I must go there and see." He ran thither as 

 swiftly as he could, and on coming to a piece of smooth ground, 

 there he found one of the Djainosgowa family. The one that iiad 

 been standing up was the old man who guarded the opening; he was 

 now lying down to sleep, for it was just midday. There were two 

 old Djainosgowa persons and iive cliildren. Doonongaes, frightened, 

 ran into the woods, thinking: "I must go home. I do net want thesa 

 Djaiiios people to kill me." 



So Doonongaes ran a whole month, day and night, until he reached 

 the lodge of Tsodiqgwadon, whom he found sitting by the fire with 

 his head hanging down. When ht looked up and saw Doonongaes 

 he said, " Oh, my friend I are you alive? " '' Yes; I have been trav- 

 eling," said Doonongaes. "Why did you leave your two wives?" 

 asked Tsodiqgwadon. " Oh ! I do not think those women good 

 enough for me; they are too ugly," was his answer. "Why did yon 

 tell me you wanted them? " he was asked. "' I did not want them. I 

 wanted good-looking women,'' he said. '' Well, you can not have two 

 beautiful women," declared his questioner. Soon they heard a noise, 

 at which Tsodiqgwadon said, " Sit down behind me." A stranger, 

 enteiing. asked. "Have you seen Doonongaes?" "I have not." an- 

 swered Tsodiqgwadon. "Well. I have tracked him to this lodge," 

 came the reply. "What of it? I have not seen him" was the reply. 

 "You must have hidden him," persisted the stranger. "No: I tell 

 you I have not seen him.'" The stranger, who was Djainosgowa, and 

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