8M1I11) THE HUNTER AND HIS FAITHLESS WIFE. 91 



Oue night the little boy told his father all about his mother going 

 away every day. He felt very badly when he heard it, and at once re- 

 solved to follow her the next day and find where she went. The next 

 moruiug early he left the cabin and went off. The woman soon sent the 

 boy for some water, and, after she had dressed, started with her ax and 

 the long strap which was used in drawing wood. She passed her hus- 

 band on her way but did not see him, but he tracked her very closely. 

 Soon she came to a large black-ash tree, which was hollow, and upon 

 whif.h she pounded with her ax. A very nice-looking man came out of 

 the tree to meet her. He wore a turban filled with bright feathers. 

 He went up to her and kissed her, and seemed very much delighted 

 to see her. Her husband was watching them all the time, and when 

 the man kissed her he drew his bow and arrow and shot at the man, 

 and the arrow went between him and the woman. She was very angry, 

 and took a club and beat her husband till he could not see. Then she 

 went home, i)ut the boy and girl out in the cold and suow, and then set 

 fire to the cabin and burned it down and went off". 



Soon the father came and found the children. He felt very badly 

 when he saw them, but he told the boy he must mind the dog, for he 

 must go after their mother. The dog fixed the boy and girl in a house 

 in the suow, and the next day they started on a long walk. While the 

 boy was traveling along with his little sister on his back she saw a flock 

 of large white turkeys, and she wanted one. The boy put her down and 

 ran iu the bushes to find one for the little girl, but while he was after 

 it a bear came and carried off the little girl, and the dog followed after 

 the bear. The boy felt very bad. He cried and cried, and wished that 

 he might die. He tried to hang himself, but the strap broke. Then he 

 jumped down a steep place onto a lot of stones, but still he was unhurt. 

 He traveled on and soon came to a lake. He plunged into the water, 

 but it was very shallow. He walked a little way, when he saw a great 

 fish coming towards him with its great mouth wide open, ^"ow, not far 

 from this lake lived a woman and her daughter. They had fences of 

 osier fixed in the lake to catch fish. In the morning the girl went out 

 to see if there were any fish caught, and she saw a very large one. 

 They killed and dressed it, and when they cut it up there they found 

 the boy alive. They were very glad to find the boy, and soon he told 

 them all about himself and family. 



Some time after this they heard that the boy's mother was going to 

 be married to another man. The woman told the boy she thought he 

 had better go and kill the man and his mother. So they fixed him up 

 and he went and found them. There was a number of cabins and 

 between two of them was a long stick put up, and on it was an eagle, 

 and the one that shot the eagle was to marry the woman. She was very 

 nicel v dressed and sat on a raised platform. He saw his father near her, 

 looking very sick and sad. The boy went around among the wigwams, 

 and iu one he found his sister hanging to a crane in a chimney and near 

 ber the dog. He got his father, sister, and dog away, and then went back 



