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ahead. "Oh. pshaw!" thought he. "I will go there." He started, 

 but as he advanced so did she. When he came to her fire there was 

 no one there, so he said, " I will .stay here." Soon he saw another 

 fire ahead, which he knew to be the fire of the woman whom he was 

 following, whereupon he said! " I am ashamed to stop here, so I will 

 go on." He reached the second fire, but no one was there. Then 

 he said, " I will go back to my own fire and stay there." When he 

 reached his camping place the woman was back again at her first 

 fii-e. He followed her all the next day, always at the same distance. 

 On reaching an opening she went into a lodge. Following, he 

 found her sitting on one side of the fire, and an old man on the 

 other side with his head bowed. Seating himself near the woman. 

 Doonongaes asked her, "Do you not want to marry me?" She 

 made no reply. He asked again, " Will you marry me ? " He 

 asked three times, but received no reply. Then the old man, who 

 was a Dagwanoenyent (i. e., Cyclone), raising his head, said to the 

 girl : " You have brought home game. Wash my big kettle, grand- 

 daughter, and boil some water, and I will kill the game." At this 

 he began to sharpen his flint knife, whereupon Doonongaes ran 

 out. with the old man following him. Doonongaes mused ■ " What 

 trouble comes to lUe : I shall die aow. This is because I tried to 

 catch the girl." The old man was close upon him now. and as he 

 lifted his knife to strike. Doonongaes stepped aside, so the old man 

 cut his own knee. He fell down on account of th" pain, but spitting 

 on ills hands, he rubbed the wound, thus cunrig it instantly. Then 

 springing up, he ran on. All day he foliowed Doonongaes. Many 

 times he cut himself as lu did tlie first time, but always healed the 

 wound with spittle. At sunset Doonongaes said. " What a shame! 

 i ought to kill that man " Turning himself into a snake, he tore 

 him to pieces. As he threw off the le^s, he said. " I want you to 

 become owls," and away they fliw. owls. He niuile the old man's 

 flesh into all kinds of birds. '^*' 



Then he said. " Xow. I will go back to the girl : it may be that she 

 will marry me." Reaching the lodge just at midnight, he went in and 

 said to the girl. " Your grandfather is dead." "Is that true?" she 

 asked. " Yes, I have killed him," said Doonongaes. " Well, what 

 do you want?" she demanded. " I want to live with you," said Doo- 

 nongaes. "Very well." she replied; "I was afraid of the old man — 

 this is why I did not answer your questions at fii'st." Doonongaes 

 stayed with Ganos,-"° for that was the girl's name, a whole month. 

 Then he said one morning. "I must continue my journey." 



So Dooi.ongaes .set out. and after traveling northward for IG days 

 and nights, he came to the edge -"' of the earth. It was very cold 

 there. As he looked around, he saw a lodge in which he found a very 

 old man with white hair reaching to the ground all around him as he 



