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frightened. Shortly Djogeoii came up to her, saying, laughingly, 

 " Ha, ha ! Thei'e is Gadata ^^* sleeping, and she is following the trail 

 of a very poor hunter. Get up. Do not sleep. Your man is near here, 

 and you should go to meet him." But the girl, covering her face, 

 kept quite still. He shook her, called her names, and teased her in 

 all manner of ways to seduce her, but without result. When daylight 

 came he ran away. Thereupon Gadata arose, and after making a cold 

 bite do for breakfast, she again took up the trail. Just as she had 

 been told, she found the camp of the hunter not far from the spot 

 where she had slept the night before. When the hunter saw her, he 

 said to her, "Are you following me?" She replied, "Yes. My 

 grandmother told me that I should try to become your wife, as she 

 said you are a good man." He then welcomed her, and they went on 

 together. At midday he ate some of the bread which the young 

 woman had brought, and in the aft«rnoon he killed a deer. After 

 this he had very good luck at all times, for he had a wife. 



One day while he was hunting he saw a small lodge, whereupon he 

 said to himself. " How strange it is that I never before saw this 

 lodge." On entering a small woman welcomed him and ga\e him a 

 bowlful of fine green-corn hopiiny. While he was eating it he saw a 

 wee, tiny baby. Seizing the infant and placing it in his bosom, he 

 ran away with it, the little woman pursuing him. Immediately there 

 was a tempest. The wind twisted trees and tore them up by the 

 roots, sending them flying through the air in every direction. 

 Gripped with great fear, the hunter now thought that he was surely 

 about to die. As he was running past a fallen tree a small man, 

 springing upon it (it was he who had tormented Gadata), called out 

 to the hunter, " You have stolen my baby. Give it back to me at once." 

 The hunter stopped, saying, " Yes, I stole it because I never saw be- 

 fore anything so pretty. Here it is — take it." So saying, he handed 

 it back to the little man, who was Djogeon. Then Djogeon carefully 

 unwrapped the baby, and taking a tin}' arrow from among its wrap- 

 pings, gave it to the hunter, saying to him : " Take this and keep it. 

 It will bring you good fortune and success in all your undertakings — 

 in hunting, in warfare, or in any other pursuit." As soon as the 

 hunter had returned the baby, the tempest ceased and the winds 

 calmed down. Then the hunter returned to his home with his wife 

 and always after this episode had the best of fortune. 



92. The Man Killed by the Three Hunters^"* 



A man with his wife and child lived happily together in a village. 

 One day the man said to his little family, " We will start off to the 

 woods tomorrow to hunt." They set out the next day and v.ere two 

 days and nights on the road. Having reached their destination, thev 



