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in. The elder ones thereupon said to one another, "Here comes the 

 hunter, and he will now surely kill us all; let us leave this place and 

 take up our abode elsewhere." Then the Moose people started in a 

 body to escape, but the hunter attacked them, dealing death in every 

 direction, and following them until but two of them remained alive. 

 These he captured, the hunter saying to them. •• Now, you find your- 

 selves in this cedar swamp, where you must hereafter live and feed 

 upon the mosimiu (willows); this will be your food for all time." 

 While saying this to the Moose he placed some willow twigs to their 

 mouths to let them know how they tasted and what they thereafter 

 would have to subsist on. 



Then the hunter returned to his wigwam, and his adopted people 

 were thenceforth left in peace. 



THE YOUNG MAN AND THE BEARS 



The youngest of the three brothers at whose home Ma'nabush had 

 been staying, and who had accomplished the exploits of destroying- 

 most of the ana'maqki'u and of restoring his two elder brothers to lib- 

 erty, now decided to go away, because both he and his sister feared 

 that the surviving bears of the ana'maqki'u would visit them and do 

 them injury in revenge for what the boy hunter had done to then- 

 people. The sister urged her brother to go, and gave him her shaki- 

 pan (a stone ornament which she wore in her hair) and a large handful 

 of blueberries. These things he was to use as she instructed him, at 

 a time which would come when every other means of self-preservation 

 failed. 



The boy hunter still had her four arrows — the one with which he had 

 set afire a large tree, another with which he had broken open the stone 

 wigwam of the bear ana'maqki'u, and two others which were to become 

 of great use to him. Then he started away in a direction new to him, 

 to find a place where he might live in safety. 



While he was leisurely going along one day, he heard behind him a 

 peculiar sound, as of many footsteps. Looking back, he beheld some 

 bears following him, and he at once realized that the ana'maqki'u had 

 discovered his trail, and that they were now in pursuit of him. lie 

 began to run, crying out, "What shall I do"? The ana'maqki'u have 

 found my tracks, and are after me ! " The country in which he was now 

 passing was an apparently endless prairie, with nothing growing upon 

 it but short grass; but as he flew onward he heard a voice, which 

 said, "So soon as the bears catch you they will kill you; now you must 

 use your arrows." Immediately the boy hunter remembered that he 

 had his weapons and the articles which his sister had given him. Tak- 

 ing an arrow from his quiver, he fixed it to his bowstring, and as he 

 was about to shoot it into the air before him he said to the arrow, 

 "When you come down, there shall be about you a copse covering an 

 area as wide as the range of an arrow. There I shall hide myself." 



