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Then the third brother said, " It must be I of whom she is think- 

 ing. I shall go there tomorrow." So the next morning he went 

 to the lodge of Turtle, and finding the sister at home, he sat down 

 beside her, saying, " I am here to know whether we can become man 

 and wife." She acted toward him just as she had toward his broth- 

 ers; so he returned to his home, where he related to them how she 

 had answered him. 



Then Turtle, her brother, said : •' I think that we are now about to 

 die. The next man who will come is S'hagodiyoweqgowa, the eldest 

 of the four brothers. You have made a great mistake. You 

 should have accepted the youngest brother. I would have consented 

 had you asked me. The youngest brother is a good man, and he 

 possesses great orenda. But the time is now past. S'hagodiyoweq- 

 gowa has volunteered to come to ask you tomorrow to be his wife." 



The next morning S'hagodiyoweqgowa, saying to his brothers, " It 

 has become evident that it is I of whom she is thinking," started to 

 call on her at the lodge of Turtle. Finding her at home, he said, 

 " M}' wife, I have come after you, so you must go home with me ;" 

 thereupon, seizing her arm, he attempted to pull her along with him. 

 Being very angry, she bitterly resisted him. Turtle, her brother. 

 ■was at one end of the fire, concealed under the ashes. While S'hago- 

 diyoAveqgowa was struggling with the young woman as he held her 

 by the arm, she managed her defense in such manner as to cause 

 her captor to step on her brother, who at once bit his toe, causing 

 him to release her. Then S'hagodiyoweqgowa said, " Brother-in-law, 

 let go of my toe," but Turtle still hung to it. At that moment the 

 visitor, taking his staff and putting his foot on the end of the firelog, 

 struck Turtle on the head with the staff. As he did so. Turtle at 

 once grew magically in size and in the strength of his bite. As 

 S'hagodiyoweqgowa struck him again Turtle increased in size as 

 before and his bite grew more painful. But S'hagodiyoweqgowa 

 kept on pounding him, seemingly unaware that Turtle's size in- 

 creased with his blows. Turtle continued to grow larger and 

 larger and continued drawing in S'hagodiyoweqgowa until he had 

 swallowed his entire body. 



Two days later S'hagodiyoweqgowa came away, passing through 

 Turtle's bowels. Thereupon Turtle said to his sister: " In 10^-^ days 

 S'hagodiyoweqgowa will regain his consciousness, and then he will 

 pursue us. To run away is our only safety; so let us flee hence." 

 Placing him in a basket, which she put on her back, Tiu-tle's sister 

 started away as fast as she could go. 



After the expiration of 10 days, as Turtle had predicted, S'ha- 

 godiyoweqgowa regained consciousness and, looking around, saw no 

 one there. Then finding tlie young woman's tracks, he pursued her. 

 The fugitives had gone a long way when Turtle said to his sister. 



