HBwS] LEGENDS 603 



wrapped her up in furs in a close bundle and replaced her in the 

 bark case, which he carried on his shoulder out of the lodge. 



The youth directed his course toward the place where the skull of 

 his other uncle protruded out of the ground. He arrived there 

 bearing on his shoulder the case of bark. His mysterious uncle said 

 to him, " AVell, nephew, what has happened since you were here the 

 last time ? " The nephew replied, " Everything you said has come 

 to pass as you desired." The uncle answered : " Now it is your other 

 uncle's turn to kindle the fire, and he is gathering the necessary fuel 

 for it. This is what your uncle is now doing. So perhaps you will re- 

 turn thei-e never to come back here alive. When you reach your lodge 

 he will have completed his preparations, and the fire too will be a 

 great one. It shall be your duty to watch him carefully during the 

 night. Just at your back — behind you — shall stand the case of bark 

 containing your sister. At midnight your uncle will be suddenly 

 roused again, I know, by an evil dream, and will again scatter the 

 firebrands in all directions. Some will fall over your bed, and so you 

 must be up and out of the way. At the first symptoms of his di-eam 

 you must leap up and, going over to the opposite side of the fire, you 

 mu.st take down his war club and strike him a blow with it; then 

 at once raise it for a second blow. When he shall say, ' Now it has 

 ceased,' you must ask, 'What thing is causing you to see marvels?' 

 Then he will answer, 'The thing that the dream has commanded 

 me is baleful and difficult of accomplishment.' " 



The nephew asked, "Well, what did the dream command you to 

 do? " The uncle replied, "It said that when daylight came again I 

 must haul you around in a sledge made of green, fresh-peeled bark, 

 ten times around this lodge, and that you must be entirely naked. 

 You know that this lodge is very long. It said also that something 

 evil would befall you, should you, my nephew, fail to see that this 

 desire is carried out as the dream has declared it." 



The nephew, Gadjis'dodo', answered, " Let it be so." The two 

 thereupon returned to their respective beds, and there they lay down 

 to rest and sleep. 



Very early the next morning S'hogo""gwa's arose, saying to his 

 nephew, " Oh, my nephew ! I am now going to fetch the bark sledge 

 required for our purpose." To this tlie youth Gadjis'dodo' replied, 

 " So be it." The old man went out, and it was not long before he re- 

 entered the lodge, saying, " I have now completed my preparations 

 out of doors; now we two will go out there." They went forth, and 

 the old man at once began to wrap the youth in the newly stripped 

 bark which he had prepared for the purpose and to bind him vei'y 

 closely with bark cords. After coming out of the lodge the old man 

 had said, "Now undress yourself fully," and there in front of the 

 doorway the youth undressed himself. There stood the bark sledge. 



