Ziy!?;] LEGENDS 677 



It SO happened that there was a kettle of boiling oil over the fire; 

 this boiling oil was bear's fat. The beast came on the run to the 

 opening of the cavern, and, crouching low, thrust in her nose. At once 

 the mother of the two fugitives cast a ladleful of boiling oil into the 

 face of the great bear. The pain caused made the bear fall over 

 backward some distance from the cavern, and she began to howl and 

 writhe around on the ground. But the relentless old woman carried 

 out the kettle of boiling oil to the spot and poured the remainder on 

 her eneni}'. which finally died there in great agony, just as the old 

 Avoman had threatened. 



Then the old woman, their mother, said to the two returned chil- 

 dren: " You two who have been absent for so long a time have now 

 returned home again ; and I suppose that you would have been made 

 captives had you not escaped. Now, you and I will dwell together 

 again." Thereafter the mother and her children were again con- 

 tented in their minds and dwelt together happily .^^* 



Suddenly he saw a man lying prostrate with his feet in the water, 

 who was gi'oaning and saying, '<'/!', V"«', V/T-'. Hahadodagwat'ha said 

 to him: "Well, what is the matter with you, my friend?" The man 

 replied : " I am very ill ; have pity on me and take me to a dry place 

 and lay me there.'' Unsuspecting, the young man said : " So be it. 

 I suppose that I can carry you on my back." When he knelt down, 

 the strange man had great diificulty in getting on his back and in 

 securing a hold on the young man's neck. 



Then Hahadodagwat'ha arose, and going a short distance to a dry 

 and pleasant piece of ground, said to his patient : " Now, you can lie 

 here." But the stranger replied: "Oh! just a little farther." But 

 Hahadodagwat'ha answered, " Lie down here." The man would not 

 consent to dismount, however, but kept on saying: "Only a little 

 farther." So Hahadodagwat'ha went some distance, when he said 

 again: "Now, get ofl'; this is a fine place in which you can lie down." 

 But the man persisted in saying: "Only a little farther.'' Hahado- 

 dagwat'ha would not consent to carry him any farther, saying: " You 

 must now get down by all means." Thereupon he began to shake 

 himself with great violence, saying: "Get down! Why do you not 

 get down ? " But the nuvn would not get off his back, although 

 Hahadodagwat'ha told him that he was very tired. Then, going to 

 a hickory tree standing near by, Hahadodagwat'ha said : " If you do 

 not get down, I will rub you off against this tree;" but the man 

 remained without making any reply. Hahadodagwat'ha rubbed his 

 body violently against the hickory tree standing there, saying the 

 while: "Why do you not get down? " But he himself was injured 

 by the rubbing, so he gave up the task. He said : " This man has 

 caused me great (prospective) trouble." For a long time he contin- 



