THE MOOSE IN INDIAN MYTH 



253 



membered his partner's words, *Do not forget me; 

 always think of me,' and held firm. On his 

 return to the woods he found a second son. 



"Thus he succeeded in getting more game than 

 ever, but, on going home to his village, he forgot 

 his woodland mate, and, yielding to the solicita- 

 tions of the chief, married his daughter. 



"In the fall he took his wife, his father-in-law, 

 and his own father to the woods with him, where 

 this time they found not only the two boys, but a 

 little girl. The new wife gazed angrily at the 

 mother and children, saying, 'You should have 

 told me you had another wife.' 'I have not,* 

 answered the man. At these words the mother 

 of the children rose up, saying, 'I will leave my 

 children with you; but you must treat them well/ 

 and she vanished. 



"The boys and men went hunting every day, 

 and the little girl was left with her stepmother, 

 who beat her and made a drudge of her. She 

 bore it patiently as long as she could, but at last 

 complained to her brothers, and the brothers and 

 sister resolved to run away. When they fled^ 

 any one who looked from the hut would only have 

 seen three young moose bounding over the snow. 



"When the father came home, he asked for the 

 children. His wife said they had just stepped out; 



