326 SENECA FICTION, LEGENDS, AND MYTHS ikth. ann.32 



said Tsodiqgwadon. AVhen they met, Doonongaes asked the stranger. 

 " Where are you going ? " " To the north, to see the phice where White 

 Hair lives," was the reply. " What would you do if I should 

 wrestle with you?" inquired Doonongaes. " Oh I I should liUe 

 that," he said. So they began to wrestle. Doonongaes threw his ad- 

 versary ; and then, taking hold of his head and Tsodiqgwadon of his 

 feet, the two began to pull, and they pulled until his legs and arms 

 were stretched out to a great length. Thereupon Doonongaes said. 

 " We will call you Gaisonhe." -"* 



Leaving him, the two traveled on. The second morning they saw 

 some one ahead, an ugly-looking man who had a great deal of 

 wampum wound around his body. He was shooting arrows as he 

 sat on a stone. Doonongaes and Tsodiqgwadon looked in the direc 

 tion his arrows were going and saw many deer standing there, but 

 they noted that his arrows never struck one of them. Going up to 

 the man, Doonongaes asked, " What are you doing? " " I am trying 

 to kill deer. I have tried all the morning, but I can not kill one," 

 said he. " Such a shot as you are can never hit anything even if he 

 were to shoot 10 days," said Tsodiqgwadon, adding, "I will help 

 you." As the man shot, Tsodiqgwadon blew on the arrow, which went 

 into the ground, at which Tsodiqgwadon said, " You will never see 

 that arrow again." Immediately it took root and turned to Oholiwa 

 Ohnoh.-'"^ Tsodiqgwadon changed the man into an owl, after which 

 they went on. 



Just at midday the two came to a cliff. As they stood on the 

 edge, looking down, Doonongaes said, " It seems as if some people 

 live down there." Tsodiqgwadon replied : " I think so. Let us go 

 down." When they reached the bottom, they saw that under the 

 cliff was a plain, or opening, with the cliff' hanging over one side of 

 it. The plain had three points — a northern, a southern, and an east- 

 ern. At each point there was a lodge. Doonongaes went south and 

 Tsodiqgwadon went nortii. Looking into the lodge that stood on 

 the southern point, Doonongaes saw an old man working at some- 

 thing. " W^hat is he doing making such a noise ? " thought Doonon- 

 gaes. The old man, looking up, said : " This odor is like that of a 

 man. How could anyone get in here, for my master guards the 

 entrance to the cliff ? " The old man, who was of the Odjieqda -"* peo- 

 ple, was making a wooden bowl. He went to work again, saying, 

 " I will not waste time smelling." Doonongaes heard him. and. say- 

 ing " I will make him waste his time," he thrust his horns under 

 the lodge, and. lifting it into the air, threw it down so that it broke 

 into pieces. The old man, however, still sat on the ground in the 

 same place. Doonongaes laughed. The old man thought to him- 

 self, "Who is that laughing? " and, looking up, he said : " Oh ! that is 

 S'hodieonskon.-"' Well. I will not do anything. I will go and tell my 



