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Then, when he ran off, as soon as he was round a bend, the other fled. 
Again, when he had gone a long ways, there lay only the other's moccasins. 
“Dear me! This is the way Flute-Bearer always gets me angry! 
You shall not deceive me this time ! Wherever I see you, I will strike you 
down! I will kill you! You made me furious with shame, when you threw 
my sisters down to me in unseemly wise!” he cried to him. 
When he came there on the run, where was that woman ! Plainly, the 
other had fled. 
“Hoho! This is the way Flute-Bearer always gets me angry! This 
time you shall not escape me! Now I have done enough running, and 
letting you fool me to the uttermost rage, thinking you a woman!” 
Presently, as he ran on and on, again he was close upon his heels. 
“Now!” he said, taking up some sticks and laying them in the shape 
of a wooden house; “Now, let there be an old wooden house!” he said. 
Then he took two saplings and breathed upon each. 
“Now, you, you are to be women, half-breed women! And I shall be 
an old man, a half-breed! I shall be very old!” he said. 
Truly, he turned into an old man. They were inside the house. 
Presently Wisahketchahk came running over the hill. He saw a little 
wooden house. 
“Ha, I shall club you all the more surely! This is but your disguise, 
Flute-Bearer!” he called to him. 
When he came a-running, out from the house came the young women. 
“You have angered me by putting me to shame! Now I shall kill 
you at once, Flute-Bearer!” he said to them. 
“Gracious, and so this one, too, will pay no heed to us! ‘If anyone 
comes to where we are, do you marry him,’ our father told us, for he is so 
very old, he cannot care for us, though he is with us. One man who ran 
by here said, ‘Wisahketchahk is too hot on my trail; he wants to kill me.' 
So do you at least hear us with pity. If you like, the two of us will marry 
you!” they told him. 
“Really, I do fancy taking half-breed women for wives! And I am 
very tired. Suppose I do stop here till tomorrow. Tomorrow I shall go 
kill him. When I have killed him, then I shall come here and provide for 
you,” he told them. 
“But do come in!” they said to him. 
When he went in, who was that? An old man was sitting there. 
“Dear me, your father is really to be pitied!” 
“Yes, indeed.” 
“I shall take care of you both for him, in whatever way your father 
desires,” he told them. *■♦*******♦♦♦ 
Thus spoke Flute-Bearer to a raven: “Perch here on the poplar! 
‘Get up, Wisahketchahk!’ do you say to him; ‘Don’t forget you were 
giving chase!’ do you say to him; ‘ “But now he has got me angry, chasing 
me!” he says to you,’ do you say to him: ‘ “Wherever he overtakes me, 
there I shall kill him!” he says to you,’ do you say to him.” 
With that he made off. 
“Let this little wooden house disappear!” he said, and off he went. 
Presently there the raven gave its call. It awakened Wisahketchahk. 
When he opened his eyes, what was this? He had been sleeping out of 
doors! At either side of him lay a stick of wood; it was these he had 
taken for women. 
