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It was now Okteondon's turn. That nifjht he had a dream, groan- 

 ing and rolling around until his mother-in-law, arising, struck 

 him on the head with the corn-pounder, saying: "Wake up I "What 

 is the matter? Are you dreaming? " " Oh ! I had a dream," said he. 

 "Well, what was it?" said the old woman. "I dreamed," he told 

 her, "that I, must hunt and kill the great Ganiagrwaihe and give a 

 feast. I will invite all the people in the village." The next mornmg 

 Okteondon killed the (hiniagwaihe, and having brought it into the 

 lodge, singed it and cut it up while Hot'hoh set a kettle of water over 

 the fire. When the flesh of Ganiagwaihe was cooked, Okteondon said 

 to his mother-in-law, " Go and invite all to come." So going out, 

 she invited all those personages v.hom she herself liked. While she 

 was gone, Okteondon said to his wife and his two friends who had 

 accompanied him from his uncle's home, " You must get out of this 

 lodge at once " ; so they fled .from it. Then all the newly invited 

 guests entered — the old woman, her other two daughters, and the 

 people of the place. Addressing them. Okteondon said : " Here is the 

 flesh, the fat, and the bones. Eat all up clean; I leave all to you." 

 One of the chiefs said to the people, "We have now all eaten." 

 Passing out of the lodge, Okteondon ran around it, singing, •" Let 

 this lodge become stone and the gi'ound under it stone, so that the 

 greatest witch can not get out of it, and then let it become red-hot." 

 So while the people were inside the lodge eating and drinking and 

 saying, '■^Tloho! this is a grand feast," the building began to grow 

 hotter and hotter, until finally it became red-hot. Some one on the 

 inside exclaimed so loud that he was heard without, " Let us get out 

 of here as fast as we can; something is wrong! " They tried to do 

 so, but they could not get out. One leaped up to the spot where 

 the smoke-hole had been, but those outside heard him knock his head 

 against the solid stone roof and fall back. Soon another said, " I 

 will go out through the ground." After a while the sound of the 

 voices and the sci'eaming inside began to die away, and all was quiet. 

 Then the lodge of stone burst, falling to pieces, and the heads of the 

 people inside burst, one after another, and out of them sprang 

 screech owls, horned owls, common owls, and gray and red foxes, which 

 rushed away, out of sight. The people invited to the feast were all 

 Ofi'gwe'' Tien'nehs gon'neks-hKo .'" The sisters sailing in the canoe 

 deceived men all over the country, luring them to this village to be 

 devoured by the inhabitants. All except the wife of Okteondon were 

 thus burned up with the old woman. 



Wlien all was over, Okteondon and his wife and his two friends 

 went to the shore of the lake, where they found a large heap of 

 bones of men. These they gathered into some order near a large 

 hickory tree, whereupon they pushed the tree over toward the bones, 

 saying, " Rise, friends, or the tree will fall on you ! " At this warn- 



