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might be able to hear from the lodge. She was greatly surpris?cl to 

 hear her husband therein weeping; she recognized his A'oice. At 

 once she rushed forward to the side of the lodge, and peering through 

 the crevices in its bark walls she was surprised to see Dolidanegeii 

 standing there weeping as he was being tortured with fire. The 

 mother stood there holding a basket in her hands, at the same time 

 drawing brands out of the fire, with which they touched their victim 

 around the ears, causing him to weep. The tears which he shed were 

 wampum beads, which were caught on a buckskin spread out on the 

 ground for the purpose. Then the old woman would gather the 

 beads into her basket. 



His wife saw this taking place — a provoking sight — and without 

 any thought of what was going on and regardless of any fear as to 

 consequences she rushed into the lodge and, seizing her husband, 

 drew him out of the lodge. As soon as they had come out she called 

 in a loud voice : " Hither do ye come, you brave ones, my own guardian 

 beings, ye small humming birds." And they two, wife and husband, 

 quickly ran around the lodge, the wife shouting exultingly, "Let 

 no person whatsoever escape from the lodge, no matter how great 

 a wizard he or she may be; let the top and the bottom and the sides 

 of the lodge be clo.sed up, and let the lodge become red hot. Have 

 courage, my guardian beings, have courage." These came to her 

 aid, making the sound dauFi^ wjiile they worked. Suddenly the lodge 

 burst into flames, and then the imprisoned women wept — the imfortu- 

 nate mother and her daughters. Slowly the sounds they made in 

 their frantic eiforts to escape died away to silence. 



Then the young wife said to her husband, " Now, let us go to our 

 home." So they started ; but the husband could scarcely walk be- 

 cause he had been so cruelly tortured. Finally they reached the 

 lake, whereupon the young wife said, " Hither do thou come to give 

 us aid, thou the great leech, as thou art called." Just then they saw 

 it make its appearance above the water in the middle of the lake. 

 It was not long before it came up to the place where they two were 

 standing. Then the young woman said to it, " Do you help us two,, 

 for M'e are to be pitied, my husband and myself. He is named 

 Doiidanegen, a famous name. We two will mount on your back, so- 

 now make a straight course for the place whence we two have 

 departed." The great leech, obeying the young woman's command, 

 bore them across the lake to their own shore. Then the young woman 

 gratefully thanked it, saying, " I am thankful, and I make my 

 acknowledgments to you for aiding us. Now you are again free." 



So husband and wife returned to their home whence they had 

 gone on this adventure. "Hlien they had arrived near the lodge the 

 young man overheard his uncle weeping within it. He heard him 

 sincfing his lamentation, " Oh, my nephew ! my nephew, my nephew,. 



