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dren as his sons, but supposed they belonged to people living in the 

 cabin. 



As he was very hungry and tired, he thought he would go in and 

 ask for food. The woman turned her back as he entered, but the 

 eldest boy, recognizing his father, ran to him and put his hand on his 

 knee. The father, however, not recognizing the child, gently pushed 

 his hand away. At this moment the mother, turning around, saw 

 this action. '" There," she said, " I told j'ou to keep away from him, 

 for he does not love you." Now the man, recognizing his wife, cried 

 out, begging her to forgive him and to receive him home again. 

 He seemed to be sorry, and begged so hard that she forgave him and 

 brought him his little daughter, born after he had gone away. Ever 

 afterward he was true to his Moose wife (for she was a Moose 

 woman), and never again left his home in the woods. He and his 

 little family were always very happy. 



65. S'hagoditoweqgovva 



[Modern] 



A number of Indians traveling northward from their village met 

 a S'hagodiyoweqgowa, with whom tliey talked. He said, " Hawenniyo 

 caused me to be around to assist you." His mouth was drawn up on 

 one side and down on the other. Continuing, he said : " If anyone 

 mocks us in earnest, we will enchant him by sorcery. You may go 

 to work making a mask representing a face lilce mine, and then you 

 can cure by means of it the sick who are troubled by us, the S'ha- 

 godiyoweqgowa. In this way you may take my place." So the 

 people made wooden masks, to be used as directed. This, it is said, 

 is the origin of the Society of False Faces, or Maskers, so prominent 

 among the Seneca. '-- 



C6. The Porcupine's Grandson and the Bear 



A widower, who had a small son. married a second time. Soon 

 after this event he took his wife and child into the foi-est to hunt. 

 They lived very happily until the new wife began to think that her 

 husband loved his child better than he did her. This troubled her 

 beyond measure, so that she became very uneasy, thinking of nothing 

 else. Then she began to study how to get rid of the boy, and at last 

 resolved to destroy him. 



So one day while her husband was out hunting, she took the boy 

 into the woods to a cave, whose mouth was closed witli a rock. She 

 rolled away the stone from in front of tlie opening, at tlie same 

 time telling the boy that there were bears in the cave, and that he 

 must run in and scare them, so that they would run out at the 

 other end. He crept in, and immediately the woman rolled the stone 

 back over its mouth, and then deserted him. 



