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And he did, and when the storm was ended he and his grandmother 

 came out and the ground was covered with spears. " No matter," said 

 he ; "I will get poles and fit them on lor fishing"; but when he brought 

 the pole he could not find any spears. "How is this'?" he asked. And 

 his grandmother said, " They are melted — they were ice." 



The boy was very much disappointed and mourned aloud. " What 

 can I do to punish the old fellow?" he cried. "Heed my warning," 

 said his grandmother, " and leave him alone." 



But the lad was determined. He started off once more, taking with 

 him a stone round his neck as a charm. He watched the direction in 

 which he had heard the voice, and all at once he saw in the middle of 

 the lake a great head, with a face on every side of it. He cried out, 

 " Ha! ha! uncle, I have you now. How should you like it if the lake 

 dried up!" "That it will never do," said the voice. "Go home," 

 mocked the lad, "and see!" And he threw the stone which he had. 

 As it whirled through the air it became very large and fell into the 

 lake, when, at once, the water began to boil. 



Then the boy returned to his grandmother's cabin and told her all 

 about it. She said, " It has been tried again and again, but no one has 

 ever seen him before or has been able to hunt him." 



Next morning he went over to the lake and found it all dried up and 

 all the animals dead, and only alarge frog remained, into which the man 

 had been turned. So the boy killed the frog, and no more trouble ever 

 came to him or his grandmother. 



THE DEAD HUNTER. . 



A man aud his wife went Imnting, and after a hard day's march they 

 came to an empty wigwam. So they entered aud found in it a dead 

 man, laid out with his tomakawk and all his fine things. They found 

 corn in plenty, and the squaw made bread, aud then they all went to 

 bed, the mau on one side and the woman and her baby on the other. 

 They placed some of the bread between them, and in the middle of the 

 night they heard a noise, and the dead man was sitting up and eating. 

 The hunter sprang up. " We are all dead folks," cried he, " if we re- 

 main here" ; so he made a pretense, and whispered to the squaw, " You 

 must go for -water. I will mind the child." As soon as she was gone, 

 he pinched the baby till it cried. " Oh," said he, " I must follow the 

 mother or the child will die ; she is too long fetching the water." He 

 hastened aud soon caught up with the woman, but behind him came 

 the dead man, holding a lighted torch. To save themselves they put 

 the child down on the ground, and the hunter seized his wife's hand 

 and hurried her on f;ister and faster, but the sound of steps behind 

 them was plainer aud plainer. So the man let his wife go, and fled on 

 by himself as hard as he could. Soon he came to a hollow log, into 



