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"When the two were through eating the boy said : " My elder sis- 

 ter. I shall now take a rest because I am tired out. Just now we 

 have an abundance of meat." Then he rested. Indoors he walked 

 around, and indoors, too, he seated himself at times, and for a long 

 time he went about hunting fleas. The sister went to fetch wood for 

 fuel, taking the burden frame with her, so the boy was left by him- 

 self. 



Suddenly he was startled by the sound of some one singing in tlie 

 loft above: "My younger brother, tobacco. Once more I want to 

 enjoy a smoke, my younger brother." . Climbing up into the loft, 

 the boy was surprised to find a male person lying there, having a 

 very large head and an enormous suit of hair. Hodadeiion said: 

 " Gwe, what ails you ? " The man replied : " My younger brother, I 

 desire to smoke. Yonder lies a pouch made of skunk skin; in it 

 there is a very small quantity of tobacco and there is also a pipe." 

 Having found the pouch as said, Hodadenon took out of it a very 

 small piece of tobacco ; also a pipe. Next he proceeded to cut up all 

 the tobacco, and kept saying, " I shall use it all, as it is my custom 

 to do, for it is abundant seemingly." Having completed his prepara- 

 tions, he took from the pouch the fire flint and the punk, and struck 

 off sparks that set fire to tiie tobacco. Then, placing the pipe in 

 the man's mouth, he said: "Now you shall smoke." Replying, "I 

 thank j'ou, my younger brother," the man drew in the smoke, and 

 smoke settled all over his head. Thereupon mice in large numbers 

 came out of his hair because of the tobacco .smoke that settled into it. 

 Hodadeiion then ran away because he was choking with the smoke. 



Just then his elder sister returned and said in a loud voice : " What 

 are you doing ? What are you doing ? " Hodadenon replied evasively : 

 "My elder sister, what is the reason that you have not told me that 

 a man lay in the loft who is your elder brother? You have con- 

 stantly said that we two were alone, and that that was the reason 

 I am called. Hodadenon." The elder sister replied: "The reason 

 why I have not told you before is because you are inattentive." The 

 younger brother answei-ed: "I cut up the tobacco because my elder 

 brother kept saying that he desired to smoke, and I used all of it, 

 for there was onlj' a very small piece left, and it would seem there is 

 an aliundance of tobacco growing. As soon as I placed the pipe in 

 his mouth he drew in the smoke and blew it out, whereupon his hair 

 became filled with the smoke and many mice came forth from it. 

 The room was filled with smoke. I was choking from the effects of it 

 when I descended from the room. That is what you heard and led 

 you to say that I was doing mischief." 



The sister retorted : " I do say that you are careless and inattentive. 

 You used up all the tobacco. At all times it was my habit to scrape 

 only a very small quantity, which I put into his pipe, and he would 



