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place my head in its correct position with relation to the rest of 

 my body. Finally, seal up the lodge with the logs as I have said." 



Then the sister of the youth, with her flint knife, beheaded her 

 brother, afterward withdrawing in deep sorrow. Thereupon the 

 six brothers of the dead youth set to work constructing the log 

 lodge as they had been instructed to do, using the largest logs they 

 could handle. When they had finished this task they placed their 

 sister alive in the lodge with the body of the slain brother, just as 

 he had directed, and covered the rude but strong structure with the 

 largest logs it was possible for them to obtain and handle. Then 

 they returned to their own camp. 



When the brothers arrived there they were somewhat surprised 

 to see that the bride of the eldest had mysteriously disappeared. 

 They marveled greatly at this singular occurrence, which they could 

 not explain, for there were no traces of her having been attacked by 

 an enemy. 



While they were thus perplexed there suddenly arose a terrific 

 hurricane and windstorm, which was the work of the notorious 

 witch Gaho"'dji'da"ho"k, the mother of the missing bride. At the 

 height of the tempest, within the lodge of great logs, the head of 

 the youngest brother became reunited to his body, and the youth 

 came to life. At once he said to his sister, possessed of potent orenda, 

 " Oh, my sister ! press with all your might both your hands over both 

 my eyes and keep them there until I tell you to remove them." The 

 sister quickly obeyed her brother, for she knew that the storm 

 maidens would snatch away the eyes of her brother if possible. The 

 tempest swept the ground in all directions from the lodge as far as 

 the eye could see, trees being torn up by the roots and tossed about 

 as if they were grass stalks. The camp of the six brothers was 

 swept away and they were destroyed with it. 



Nevertheless the lodge in -which the youngest brother and his sister 

 were inclosed was left intact, and the two inmates were imharmed, 

 except in one respect: When the rage of the storm had subsided, 

 the brother said to his sister, " Now you may take your hands from 

 my eyes, for it was of no avail for you to have held them there. 

 Gaho"'dji'da"ho"k has overmatched me in sorcery; her orenda has 

 overcome mine." From this "speech the sister learned that the 

 -youth claimed to be a wizard, possessed of orenda of abnormal 

 potency and efficiency. But she was greatly astonished and agitated 

 to find that her brother's eyes had been snatched out from under her 

 hands during the storm and that consequently he was blind, for on 

 removing her hands from his face she saw the eyeless sockets. 



Without any ado the brother said to his sister, " Let us leave this 

 place. Remove the roof of logs so that we may get out of this 

 lodge." Then the sister, who was abnormally strong for a woman, 



