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track made l\y the young man, anti this act caused him to reel and 

 stagger, so potent with evil orenda was the body of the old woman. 

 They were at this time two days' journey apart, but the old woman, 

 who had transformed herself into a huge bear, was rapidly overtaking 

 the fugitives, every moment drawing nearer and nearer to them, for 

 she was indeed running rapidly. 



Finally the young man overheard the old woman, who Ixid resumed 

 her real character (that of a gx'eat bear), say: "Thou shalt surely 

 die." As he listened to the words he drew from his fawn-skin pouch 

 the feather of a wild pigeon. Casting this back of him he made the 

 invocation : " Right away let there be a roost of pigeons here and let 

 .their numbers be so great that their droppings shall form a rampart 

 stretching across the world and e(]ual in height to half that of the 

 tallest tree." As soon as he had finished speaking the air resounded 

 with the sounds made by the alighting of many thousands of wild 

 pigeons; among these sounds one heard, Gdk, ffdk, gdk, gdk, and 

 DuTTi — m.*^^ 



There was no possibility for anyone else to possess more orenda 

 than that possessed by the young man ; so he passed on, and behind 

 him the great bear came on a run. The monster arrived at the I'oost- 

 ing place of the wild pigeons. Thei'e was a rampart of their drop- 

 pings extending upward half the height of the tallest trees. The 

 bear made an attempt to force its way through the great rampart of 

 droppings, but was unable to do so, merely becoming thoroughly 

 covered with the filth. It was not easy for the monster to extricate 

 herself from the great rampart, hence she decided on another coui-se 

 of action. 



She started on a run along the rampart's edge, saying: " There has 

 never been a time when a pigeon roost extended across the world." 

 After following the rampart for a long time she became tired and 

 returned to the place where the tracks of the fugitive seemingly en- 

 tered the rampart, where she lay down for the night. In the morn- 

 ing there was nothing to be seen, for the rampart had disappeared. 

 Thereupon the bear exclaimed: "How exceedingly unfortunate this 

 is; verily, he is a great wizard." Starting in pursuit again, she 

 placed her paws on the track of the young man, causing him to 

 stagger and reel. 



Not long after this he heard her speak again, saying: " Thnu shalt 

 surely die." At these words the young man took from his pouch a 

 piece of rock, which he cast behind him with the words: "Let a rock 

 cliff rise here at once which shall reach across the world and which 

 nothing shall have the power of clearing, nothing that has unusual 

 orenda." With this the young man passed on, but as soon as he had 

 ceased speaking the rock cliff stood complete. In a short time the 

 great bear arrived at this cliff. She failed in an attempt to go 



