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.geah fell to the gioiind ( )kte«iul()n jjicked it up and carried it back 

 to the lodge. 



Xow when the old witch saw that the door-flap did not stop swing- 

 ing, she was very angry. She pushed it to, but unknown to her the 

 daughter kept it swinging to and fro. At this time Okteondon, 

 striding in, threw the bird on the ground, saying, " There ! you have 

 him for your 'eat-all" feast (ffagsahon) ." "Oh, son-in-law!" said 

 the old woman; "you must give me one of the wings for a fan; my 

 old one is now worn out." " Oh no ! " said Okteondon ; " you can 

 not have it," and he threw the bird on the fire to remove its feathers. 

 Then Hot'hoh. Okteondon's friend, placed a kettle of water over 

 the fire. When the feathers were burned off S'hadahgeah, Okteon- 

 don, after cutting up its body, put all the pieces into the kettle. 

 ^Alien it was cooked, he took out the flesh and skimmed off every 

 drof) of fat from the soup. " Xow," said the old woman, " you must 

 invite all the men of distinction in the village." " I will invite 

 whom I please," said Okteondon, " and do just as I like." Going 

 out of doors, he shouted, " I invite you, all Dagwanoenyents, to an 

 'eat-all' {yaqsahon) feast." Soon they began to come one after 

 another. AVlien all were present. Okteondon said : " I have invited 

 you to a feast in which everything must be consumed. You must eat 

 the meat, drink the soup, chew the bones and swallow them." So 

 they began to eat, and soon they had devoured everything, leaving 

 not a drop of grea.se or fat, nor a bit of bone; then the Dagwanoen- 

 yents laughed, feeling good when they had finished their task. They 

 boisterousl}' exclaimed, "It made a fine meal; it was her late hus- 

 band's flesh." 



Kahenchitahonk, the great witch, notorious and cruel, was now 

 ferociously angry. Seizing the wooden pestle, or corn-pounder, she 

 stiuck the Dagwanoenyents with it, whei'eupon they fled at once from 

 the lodge, some going out of the smoke-hole, some through the 

 doorway, and others in their great haste making large rents in the 

 walls of the lodge, through which they escaped. Wlien she had 

 driven them all out of the lodge, she said: "I think the coming 

 night will be very cold; so I must fetch wood for the fire." Bring- 

 ing much wood, she then made a great fire, saying, " Xow, I will 

 be able to warm my back"; then she went to sleep with her back 

 to the fire. The wife of Okteondon said to him: "My mother will 

 dream again tonight and will exclaim, ' I dreamed that my son-in- 

 law killed the White Beaver and brought it here before 'the door- 

 flap, which he will fling back in going out, stopped swinging, and 

 that if he does not return before the door-flap stops swinging, some- 

 thing direful will happen to us.'" Late in the night all over the 

 lodge they heard the old woman groaning, and rolling and tossing 

 about: finallv she fell into the fire, scattering the coals around the 



