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The next morning the men returned to their fires. One of the men, 

 however, had lost his leggings and his moccasins, for the woman with 

 whom lie had slept had robbed him of them. The sisters warmed up 

 the cold hominy for their breakfast, and after eating it went aboard 

 their canoes and sailed away through the air, leaving a trail '*^ therein. 

 In the camp of the men Okteondon opened his pouch and, taking 

 therefrom a pair of leggings and a pair of moccasins, he gave them 

 to the man who had been robbed of his own. When the men had 

 prepared and eaten their breakfast, and had made the necessary pro- 

 vision for their journey, they started off, following the trail of the 

 canoe of the women, which was plainly visible in the air. Toward 

 evening they again saw smoke in the distance ahead. When yet 

 some distance from it Okteondon said: "We will encamp here." 

 Again going over to the camp of the women, he walked through their 

 fires and upset the kettles of hominy. Then returning to his own 

 camp, he went out to hunt, in order to get meat for the supper of 

 his friends. But he had to go a long distance befoi-e finding any 

 game, for the woman who stole the foolish man's leggings had 

 stretched them out over the country, her very long arms describing an 

 imaginary circle with them, at the same time telling the game ani- 

 mals included therein to go outside of this circle. So Okteondon 

 had to do likewise before he could find a bear. Finally he killed 

 one, the carcass of which he brought into camp. When he returned 

 to camp he upbraided his three companions with the words : " You 

 have been the cause of my being tired by your folly. You know 

 that I forbade you taking anything to the women, even a small por- 

 tion of meat. But you failed to obey my advice, and I have now 

 experienced some of the effects." Procuring a kettle in the same 

 way as he had done before, Okteondon then proceeded to cook the 

 bear's flesh. When it was done he and his companions ate their 

 evening meal. After they were through eating they went over to 

 the camp of the women, where they found them sitting each with a 

 bark dish of hot hominy on her knees, which she was cooling. They 

 sat with their faces turned toward home and with their backs to- 

 ward the camp of the men. The youngest of the sisters asked Ok- 

 teondon to eat with her. Later, separating into pairs, they all went 

 to bed together. As the night passed Okteondon grew angrier and 

 angrier, and so he lay awake. At last, when he thought that all 

 were asleep, he said, addressing a tall tree standing near the canoe 

 which contained the clothes of the women : " I want you, Tree, to 

 bend down to me." Thereupon the tree bent down to him and Ok- 

 teondon placed the canoe among its topmost branches. Then he 

 said, " Now I want you to stand upright again," and the Tree again 

 resumed its erect position. He immediately added, "I desire you, 

 Tree, to be covered with ice," and it soon so happened. Okteondon 



