606 THE (EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
placed it beside that which Ictinike had (seemingly) killed, and which had been bung 
up. And as they sat in the lodge it was filled with a very red glare. When they had 
returned with the Orphan, he married the younger dauguter of the chief, making his 
abode in the chief’s lodge. The Orphan’s hair had not been combed for a long time, 
so it was tangled and matted. So Letinike’s wife said to her sister, “Sister, if he sits 
on the rug, he will make lice drop on it! Make him sit away from it! Is it possible 
that you do not loathe the sight of him?” The Orphan and his wife were displeased 
at this. When the wife wished to comb his hair, the Orphan was unwilling. 
At length, one day, when the sun was approaching oon (7%. e., about 10 a.m.), he 
and his wife left the village and went to the shore of a lake. As they sat there the 
Orphan said, “Lam going beneath this water, but do not return to your father’s lodge! 
Be sure to remain here, even though I am absent for some time. I will return. 
Examine my forehead.” Now, in the middle of his forehead was a depression. He 
had been a poor Orphan, and was brought up accordingly, so he had been hurt in some 
manner, causing a scar on his forehead. Then he started to wade into the Jake. He 
waded until only his head was above the surface, then he turned and called to his 
wife, “Remember what I told you. That is all!” Having said this, he plunged 
under the surface. His wife sat weeping, and after awhile she walked along the lake 
shore, weeping because he did not return. At last her eyelids became weary, and she 
went to sleep at the very plave where they had first reached the lake. When she was 
sleeping very soundly her husband returned. He took hold of her and roused her. 
“7 have returned. Arise!” On arising suddenly and looking behold, he was a very 
handsome man, and his hair was combed very uicely, so the woman hesitated, think- 
ing him a stranger, and she turned away from him. ‘Oh fie! you like to make sport 
of people! I married a very poor man, who plunged beneath this water, and I have 
been sitting weeping while awaiting his return,” said she. ‘* Why! I am he,” said her 
husband. Still the woman paid no attention to his words. ‘Why! see that place 
about which I said, ‘Examine it!’?” When the woman turned around and saw it she 
no longer hesitated, but embraced him suddenly and kissed him. Then the husland 
went to the shore, drew together a quantity of the green scum that collects on the 
surface of water, and made of it a robe and skirt for his wife. The Orphan had 
birds resembling short-eared owls over his moccasins and robe, and ke had some tied 
to his club. Whenever he laid down the elub the birds used to ery out. Late in the 
afternoon he and his wife departed for the village. When they arrived the people 
exclaimed, “ Why! The wife of the Orphan has returned with a very different man. 
I think that the Orphan has been killed. He went off in the morning. Why! this is 
a very handsome man.” When the Orphan reached the chief’s lodge all the birds 
made a great noise. Then said the wife of Ictinike, “Sister, let my sister’s husband 
sit on part of the rug.” ‘Why, elder sister! your sister’s husband might drop lice on 
your rug,” said the younger sister as she turned up ove end of the rug and threw it 
towards the elder sister. Whereupon Ictinike’s wife began to ery, and she cried inces- 
santly. At last her father said to Ictinike, “This world is very large, but you are 
known everywhere as one who possesses various kinds of knowledge. Use one of 
these and make my daughter stop crying.” 
3y and by Ietinike said to the Orphan, “ Younger brother, let us go to cut arrow- 
shafts. Let us make arrows for your wife’s brother.” But the Orphan did not 
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