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■ward, adding: "Come; go thou on." '■'■Goh, it is true, thou art 

 strong, elder sister," he said. 



" AVhat thing is it named, tiie thing that I have killed?" 

 " Djoqgweyani "" it is called," she said. " Djoqgweyani is it 

 named, elder sister?" he asked. "That is its name,"' she replied. 

 " Does it taste good ? " he asked. " It tastes good," she answered. 

 " Dumplings are what it requires, for dumplings are what people 

 put with it." After reaching home she plucked the game, after 

 which she " set up " the kettle and put in dumplings [with the meat]. 

 Constantly did Hodadenon stand around about the fire saying, " So 

 it will indeed taste good to us? " " Ho. it certainly does taste good," 

 she said. When it was done she removed the kettle [from the fire] 

 and placed the mess on pieces of bark, and the soup and dumplings 

 in a bark bowl. Then they ate. Hodadenon kept saying constantly, 

 "It is so good, is it not, elder sister?" "Oh, yes! it is good," she 

 would reply. " Djoqgweyani — is it not true that is the name of the 

 thing I killed? " he would say. "That is its name," was her answer. 

 When they finished eating, he said, " Tomorrow again will I go to 

 hunt. Then indeed a large game animal will I kill." 



It was a usual thing in the evening that this boy did not go to 

 sleep at once. Continually in the dark noises were heard here and 

 there; then, again, under the bed these noises were heard. What he 

 was doing was not known. So the elder sister said : " My yoimger 

 brother, what are you usually doing making noises in the dark, yes, 

 even under the bed, for long periods; and, too, you go about laugh- 

 ing? " "Well," said he, "I will tell you. It is this. I am engaged 

 in hunting fleas. They are very palatable, tasting good to me. I 

 have now told you. Whenever one escapes I laugh. So never 

 ask me this again." He added, " Now again I will go to hunt." " Let 

 it be so," she said in reply. 



Thereupon Hodadenon went out. For a short time his voice was 

 heard around about outside the lodge: then again nowhere was his 

 voice heard by his elder sister. On going out of doors and looking 

 around without finding traces of him, she reentered the lodge. Not 

 A'ery long after, all at once she heard approaching footsteps; then 

 .something struck the door, which opened, and there stood her 

 younger brother, Hodadenon. He said: "My elder sister, get the 

 burden cradle right away; forsooth, I have killed a large animal, and 

 you are not able to bring it without the burden cradle. I wonder 

 what the animal is called. Perhaps Baldheaded is its name; per- 

 haps Snot-nose is its name; perhaps Tasseled-with-Hemlock-bough "' 

 is its name." " Come, go on ! let us go back there," she replied. 

 "But you will take the burden cradle," he added. She answered: 

 " Oh I I am fully prepared to bring it. Go thou on. Let us then 

 start." 



