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see and know me." " Pay no attention to her," said the man ; " she 

 threw you away." 



They had been home two days, when the woman heard that the 

 hunter had brought back a little boy (the hair had fallen off the boy 

 and the man had made him clothes). Visiting the hunter's lodge, she 

 watched every movement of the boy. He was afraid of her; he knew 

 her thoughts when she threw him into the tree and knew them now. 

 He said, "This man is my father; he brought me home." But she 

 made up her mind the boy was hers and urged him to go home with 

 her. One day, when she knew the hunter was away, going to his 

 lodge, she tried to catch the boy, but he ran into the woods, ci'ying 

 from fright. She followed him. The hunter came back, and not 

 finding the child, looked for tracks, soon discovering that the boy had 

 fled from his mother into the woods. The man was sorry, for he was 

 afraid he would never see the boy again. He searched for him for 

 several days. Then he happened to think that perhaps he had gone 

 to their old hunting lodge. On finding him there, he asked. " Why 

 did you leave me? " The boy answered: "A woman followed me. I 

 thought she was going to kill me. She called me her son. I did not 

 like it. I told her I had no mother, but she tried to catch me. I 

 would rather live here all the time." The man was willing, so, having 

 built a better lodge, they remained there. The boy was an indu.strious 

 worker and the man became ver}' fond of him. One day the boy said, 

 " I want a playmate." " All right," replied the hunter; " your mother 

 is going to have a child. I will bring it." This did not satisfy the 

 boy; who wanted a companion near his own age. So, going to the set- 

 tlement, they brought back the man's sister's child, who was only a 

 little j'ounger than the bear-nursed boy. 



Now there were three in the lodge. When he went off hunting 

 the man often left the boys at home, telling thom not to go far from 

 the lodge. After the lapse of time, however, they began to venture 

 farther and farther away from the lodge, until one day, when they 

 were quite far oft' they saw that the leaves and grass and hills and 

 valleys and everything else were moving together westward. Look- 

 ing more closely, they saw a large body of land moving, even with 

 game on it and moving as if it were a river. Presently they noticed 

 a coon sitting on the moving ground and going along with this 

 stream, or river, of land."' Watching it made them forget every- 

 thing. As the coon looked at the boys they v;ere about to shoot it 

 with their bows and arrows; one indeed drew his bow, but the coon 

 held up his paw against his face to ward off the arrow .i At last the 

 elder boy said : " Let us go home now ; we will come here tomorrow 

 and play all day." 



When the hunter came back he had killed several bears and had 

 driven one to the lodge. Calling the boys, he said, '' I drove this 



