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The maiden remained there one entire year, and she properly ful- 

 filled the duties of a good wife. A little later she gave birth to a 

 daughter. The child was very handsome, and she was also very large 

 and healthy and strong. In all respects she was of the size and 

 hardiness of a child who was lai'ge enough to be borne on the back 

 in a cradle board. 



Now the time had arrived in which the men who were capable of 

 doing so severally went out to their hunting grounds — autumn had 

 come. One day the young man said: "My dear mother, you will 

 prepare provisions for a journey, for I am again going out to hunt, 

 and I am thinking of having my wife accompany me, as the child 

 is sufficiently strong and hardy to be borne on her mother's back 

 in a cradle board. I will bear by means of the forehead strap the 

 provisions that we will take with us." 



Then the mother proceeded to prepare the com bread in the usual 

 way, and the parched corn meal sweetened with honey or maple 

 sugar. When the bread was cooked she removed it from the boiling 

 water and set to work preparing the pack, in which she placed all 

 the bread, making what was called a wrapped pack. When she in- 

 formed her son that she had completed the task of preparing the 

 food for the journey, he said : " Tomorrow, very early in the morn- 

 ing, we two will start on our journey." 



Accordingly next morning the husband and wife set out. The 

 wife bore their child on her back by means of the cradle board and 

 forehead strap, and the husband carried the wrapped pack, contain- 

 ing boiled corn bread and parched corn meal mixed with sugar and 

 honey, by means of the forehead strap. After traveling all day, in 

 the evening they reached a spot where it was the custom of the hus- 

 band to camp for the night; this was a good day's journey from 

 their lodge. He set to work at once repairing the temporary shelter 

 and kindling a large fire. Meanwhile the young wife warmed up 

 some cold meat and the boiled corn bread which they had brotight 

 in the pack. Their evening meal prepared, the two ate heartilj'. 

 When they had finished their supper they made ready a rude couch 

 of bark and boughs on which they lay down for the night. The 

 wife's mind was contented. 



In the morning the husband rekindled the fire, and the wife 

 warmed up more of the cold boiled corn bread. When tliey had eaten 

 their fill the husband at once repacked their belongings. He also 

 closed the temporary shelter in order to preserve it for their return. 

 Then he said to his wife: "Now let us depart. Our journey will 

 require fully the time of the entire day, and we will arrive at 

 my hunting camp in the evening." As predicted, they reached their 

 journey's end as the sun was sinking low in the west. Its crimson 

 rays shot upward through the treetops and along the western sky. 



