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place food there." Then came the question, " Can I see him?" The 

 newly arrived woman said : " Wait two days, and you can see him ; 

 then he will come out as a full-fledged man. He shall be a Turtle 

 no longer." This lodge was situated at the bottom of the lake. 

 The young woman's brother did come out a full-grown man. After- 

 ward he lived with the strange man's sister as her husband, and his 

 sister became the wife of the strange man who had rescued her from 

 S'hagodiyoweqgowa on the shore of the lake. 



[It is not known by the story-teller who this man and his sister 

 wei'e, nor who the four brothers were, with the exception of one, 

 S'hagodiyoweqgowa. These four brothers ai'e Whirlwinds. — Editor.] 



65. The Moose Wife 



A young man living alone with his mother concluded to go into 

 the forest to hunt for a whole year, collecting and drying meat, and 

 intending at the end of that period to return to visit his mother. So 

 he traveled a long way into the forest to a region in which he thought 

 there was plenty of deer and other game. There, having built a 

 cabin, he began housekeeping by himself. His daily routine was to 

 make a fire, get breakfast, and then start off to hunt. He would stay 

 away hunting all day. Often when he got home at night he was so 

 tired that he would not take the trouble to prepare supper, but throw- 

 ing himself on his couch, he would go to sleep. He was collecting a 

 great quantity of cured meat. 



One evening when he was returning from a long tramp he saw as he 

 neared his cabin smoke issuing from the srnoke-hole in the roof. At 

 this he became greatly troubled, for he thought that the fire may have 

 spread and ignited his lodge. Running into the lodge as quickly as 

 possible, what was his surprise to find a bright fire burning in the 

 fire-pit, and his kettle, which had been suffered to boil, hanging on 

 the crook in such a way as to keep its contents hot. He wondered 

 who had come to cook for him, for during the time he had lived there 

 and during his journeys he had never found a cabin, nor had he seen 

 a human being. He searched all around to see whether he could find 

 a trace of a person's visit. He saw that the deer he had brought 

 home the evening before was dressed and hung up, that a pile of 

 wood that he had cut had been brought in, that everything had been 

 put in order, and that even corn bread had been made. On the way 

 home he had thought of going to bed the moment he set foot in the 

 cabin, so he was greatly rejoiced to find a warm supper awaiting him. 

 He sat down and ate the supper, soliloquizing, " Surely the person 

 who got this ready will come back," but no one came. 



The next morning he started as usual to hunt. When he returned 

 in the evening he looked to see whether smoke was coming out of the 



