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By aid of the Good Thunder manidos, however, 

 Manabush was assembled in Hving form again, 

 and with a new supply of willow arrows set out 

 and killed all but two of the Moose people. "These 

 he captured, the hunter saying to them, ^Now, 

 you find yourselves in this cedar swamp, where 

 you must hereafter live and feed upon the mosimiu 

 (willows); this will be your food for all time.' 

 While saying this to the Moose he placed some 

 willow twigs to their mouths to let them know 

 how they tasted and what they thereafter would 

 have to subsist on. Then the hunter returned to 

 his wigwam, and his adopted people were thence- 

 forth left in peace."" 



In the same paper (page 214) Dr. Hoffman re- 

 lates the myth of the Catfish, and their attempt to 

 kill a moose. But the moose trampled to death all 

 the fish which did not seek safety in flight. "The 

 catfish still carry spears, but their heads have never 

 recovered from the flattening they received when 

 they were trampled by the moose into the mud." 



A myth of the Dog-Rib Indians relates how 

 Hottah, "the two-year-old moose, cleverest of all 

 the northern animals," aided in the creation of 



^ ' Page 196. The story of the Elk people and the Moose people, with 

 some variations, is told in Algonquin Indian Tales, by Egerton R. 

 Young, p. 245. 



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