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Pauaunibe called out agaiu. " Wo have no poles," said they ; " we are going to make 

 some poles. Wait for us." After a little while longer he called out a third time. 

 They replied thus : " We are coining for you. Wait for us." Then the boat started — 

 a big boat, all full of foxes. So Pauaunibe, having iirst seized hold of a good blud- 

 geon, feigned dead. Then the foxes arrived and spoke thus: "Panaumbe, you are 

 to be pitied. Were you frozen to death, or were you starved to death ? " With 

 these words all the foxes came up close to him aud wept. Thereupon Panaumbe 

 brandished his bludgeon, struck all the foxes and killed them. Only one fox did he 

 let go, after breaking one of its legs. As for the rest, having killed them all, he car- 

 ried them homo to his house and grew very rich [by selling their flesh and skins]. 



Then Peuaumbe came down to him and spoke thus : " Whereas you and I were both 

 equally poor, how did you kill such a. number of foxes and thereby become rich ?" 

 Panaumbe replied, "If you will come aud dine with me, I will instruct you." But 

 Penaumbe at once said, " I have heard all about it before," and went out. Descend- 

 ing to the bank of the river, he called, crying out as Panaumbe had done. The 

 reply was: "We will make a boat at once. Wait for us." 



After a little while he called out again. " We are going to make the poles. Wait for 

 us," said they. After a little longer they started a whole boat full of foxes. 



So Penaumbe first feigned dead. Then the foxes arrived and said: "Penaumbe 

 here is to be pitied. Did he die of cold, or did he die from want of food," with which 

 words they all came close to Penaumbe and wept. But one fox among them — a fox 

 who limped — spoke thus: " I remember something which once happened. Weep at a 

 greater distance." So all the foxes sat and wept further and further away. 



Penaumbe was unable to kill any of those foxes, and as he brandished his bludgeon 

 they all ran away. Not one did he catch, and he himself died a lamentable death. 



THE HARE GOD. 



By Professor CitAmijkrlain. 



Suddenly there was a large house on top of a hill, wherein were six persous beau- 

 tifully arrayed, but constantly quarreling. Whence they came was not known. 

 Thereupon Okiknrumi came aud said : " Oh, you bad hares. You wicked hares. 

 Who should not know your origin ? The children in the sky were pelting each other 

 with snowballs, aud the snowballs fell into this world of men. As it would have 

 been a pity to waste heaven's snow, the snowballs were turned into hares, and those 

 hares are you. You who live in this world of mine, this world of human beiugs, must 

 be quiet. What is it that you are brawling about? ' With these words Okiknrumi 

 seized a firebrand and beat each of the six with it in turn. Thereupon all the hares 

 ran away. This is the origin of the hare god, and for this reason the body of the 

 hare is white, because made of snow, while its ears, which are the part which was 

 charred by the tire, are black. 



THE WICKED WIZARD PUNISHED. 



By Professor Chamberlain. 



One day a wizard told a man whom he knew that if any one were to go up a cer- 

 tain mountain peak and jump off to the belt of clouds below, he would be able to ride 

 about on them as on a horse and see the whole world. Believing this, the man did as 

 directed, and in A'ery truth was enabled to ride about on the clouds. He visited the 

 whole world in this fashion, and brought back with him a map which he had drawn 

 of the whole world, both of men and gods. On arriving back at the mountain-peak 

 in Aino land, he stepped off the cloud on to the laud, and, descending to the valley, 

 told the wizard how successful and delightful the journey had been, and thanked 

 him for the opportunity he had giveu him of thus seeing so many strange sights. 



