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and set fire to the cabin his mother was in. It burned so fast that she 

 could not get out and she died. When her head cracked open it shook 

 the ground, and out of the ashes of his mother there rose up a screech 

 owl. His father got well, and they all went to live with the woman 

 and her daughter. The old man married the woman, and the boy the 

 daughter, and so they were happy at last. 



THE CHARMED SUIT. 



An old man brought up his son very quietly in a solitary place. As 

 he grew up, his father sent him daily into the woods and told him to 

 listen and come home and tell what he had heard. So the boy sat on 

 a log and waited to hear what might come. He heard a sound at last, 

 " Gh ECh," so he ran to tell the old man and then thought he would 

 wait till he heard it again. The Ch-K-Ch was repeated, and he ran to 

 his home and cried out, "I have heard it! I have heard it!" "Wait! 

 wait !" said the old man, " till I get my pipe," and when he had lifted 

 it he said, "Now, what did you hear?" "Oh," replied the lad, "I 

 heard Ch-R-Ch ; twice it was repeated." " That," said the father "is not 

 what I wanted you to hear ; that was only a snow-bird." 



So the boy went, morning after morning, and heard various sounds 

 from snow-birds, wolves, owls, &c., but still never what the old man 

 expected. One day whilst he was listening he heard quite a new sound 

 and as the sun began to rise, it was like a voice singing. "That is 

 strange " said he, " I never heard that before." The song was like this : 



Ha-htlm-weh 



Ha-hflm-weh 



Wa-he-dfun-na 

 Srft-gua, he. 



Ha hftm weh 



Ha hftm weh. 

 Which means : 



I belong to the wolf clan. 

 I belong to the wolf clan. 

 I am going to marry him, 

 I am going to marry him. 



It was a sweet woman's voice. So the boy listened and said to him- 

 self, " Surely this is the song." So he shouted for glee, and ran and 

 fell near the door, he was so excited. " Now," he cried, " I bring the 

 news"; but the father said, " Wait! wait! till I get my pipe." " Now," 

 said he, as he smoked, " tell me." So the boy began. "As I listened," 

 said he. " I heard a voice from the west, a woman's voice, so T turned 

 and listened to it singing": 



Ha-hftm- weh 



Wa-he-dftm-na 



Srd-gua-hi. 



