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which ran on until they were near the Great Head, when he looked 

 out. He was almost afraid to come forth, so terrible was this enor- 

 mous object, but he sprang out of the mole with his arrow drawn, 

 crying as he did so, " Uncle, I have come after you ! " Away sped the 

 arrow ! As it whizzed through the air it grew to the size of a large 

 tree. When it hit the Great Head above the eyes, with a loud laugh 

 the latter, rolling off the rocks, swept along in the air, making a broad 

 track of fallen trees as it passed through the forest like an immense 

 cloud. The young man kept ahead by running with lightning speed. 

 As the Great Head was nearly on him, he turned and shot another 

 arrow, which drove it back some distance, and again he got ahead. 

 This act he repeated whenever he was in danger of being overtaken, 

 otherwise he would have been killed by the big trees that fell in the 

 track of the Great Head. So on he ran for his life, and as his last 

 arrow was spent, he reached home. Each time the rebound of the 

 Great Head decreased, so it gained on him continuall3^ 



■\\niile the pursued and the pursuer were still a long way off, the 

 elder brother began to hear a frightful roar and to feel a great wind 

 rising. Thereupon, saying, " My uncle is coming," he opened the 

 skin doors (there was one at each end of the lodge) and put great 

 pounders on them, and made a big fire. When the younger brother 

 reached the lodge he took up the pounder, and as the Great Head 

 came down to the threshold and rolled in, both brothers began 

 pounding it and kept on doing so until it rolled almost to the end 

 of the lodge and became silent. At this the young man said: "I 

 brought you here, uncle; now, you must stay with us and tell us 

 where our brothers are." " I can not stay," replied the Head, " but I 

 will help you, and your brothers will come back." 



By this time the elder brother, having rubbed nearly all the mold 

 from the man's face, found he was his brother. The Great Head 

 blew on the body, whereupon the man became well and sound again. 

 Now there were three brothers. At night the Great Head would re- 

 main outside the lodge, gnawing the hickory bark provided for it. 

 After a time it said, " I can not remain and must be going home, but 

 I will take you to the spot where your brothers are"; so they started 

 olF together. The Great Head would make long leaps, springing high 

 from the ground. It conducted the young man to the woman on the 

 rock. As they passed the first woman the Great Head said, " We 

 shall have to kill this woman." She tried to make the Great Head 

 laugh, but it would not, saying, " Oh, woman ! Come down and be 

 bones." Enraged at these words, she tried to spit at the Great Head, 

 which repeated the words. The third time, both women rolled off, 

 and as they fell their bones made a noise like the pouring out of many 

 shells, and the Great Head said, " Scatter the bones." So the young 

 man, gathering them up by handfuls, threw them in every direction, 



