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swiftly, with the bear close behind him, until he came to a stream 

 which looked very deep. They two could just jump over it. So the 

 youngster sprang across, and the bear leaped after him. Then the 

 youngster sprang back to the other side and the bear did the same. 

 Thus they jumped across many times. Now as the young man ran 

 he felt that his strength was growing greater, while he saw that that 

 of the bear was failing. Seeing the bear failing fast, the youth, 

 making a great loop, sprang once more across the stream, with the 

 bear after him. Then he made a loop on the other side, and on going 

 across the river, he saw the bear still weakening. Pursuing the same 

 course once again, he passed the bear about the middle of the stream — 

 he going one way, and the bear the other. The bear did not follow 

 bj- sight but by scent alone. Lastly, the bear did not cross the 

 stream, but followed all the bt>3'"s tracks. Now, the beast had failed 

 so much that the youth was just behind it as it kept tracking him. 

 As the bear almost failed in trying to jump across the river, it 

 scrambled to get a footing. Then the boy shot from the bank be- 

 liind, the arrow entering the middle of one .of the animal's forefeet.^"' 

 At this the gi'eat bear scrambled to the bank; then reeling from tree 

 to tree, it staggered and fell. Eising again, the beast struggled for 

 !'. time, but at last it rolled over dead. 



The young man left the bear's carcass after he had taken thiee 

 hairs from its "whiskers" and one tooth out of its mouth. Then 

 going back to the spot where he had left his bundle and getting it, 

 he followed the trail of the twenty men. Rmining fast, he overtook 

 them, whereupon he said, " I have killed Ganiagwaihegowa, of which 

 you were so much afraid." They were naturally greatly astonished, 

 for no man had ever been able to kill this creature, so they said : " If 

 he has done this, he must have great orenda. Let us go back and 

 see." So they turned back, and after traveling until sunset they 

 came to the place where the body of Ganiagwaihegowa lay. They 

 saw that it was of enormous size, and said : " We will burn up the 

 body; we will keep up the fire all night until it is burned. Then 

 each man shall take a little of the ashes and a few of the bones, just 

 enough for medicine to give him its magical power." After the tire 

 had gone out, the men went to sleep; in the latter part of the niffht 

 they stirred the ashes with sticks until each found a piece of bone. 

 The chief said: "You must be very careful about taking the rem- 

 nants of this bear. Let each one before taking up his bone say what 

 gift he wants, what power he desires." Most of the men desired to 

 be good hunters and brave warriors and some to be fast runners. 

 One man said, however, "I want to be admired by all women." 



The things the young man had chosen were good for every pur- 

 pose, but he did not let the others know that he had taken anything. 

 The headman said, "We will go on in the same direction; that is, 

 toward the north." The men had changed their opinion of the 



