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handed them to the Bear-Man. The Bear-Man put the things on. The 
leggings he put on and the owls upon it would not hoot. Then he put 
the robe on, but when he put on the cap the woodpeckers commenced to 
peck his head. He did not mind their pecking at his head for some time. 
When he put the quiver on his back he noticed that the arrows and the 
bow were snakes, and the snakes did not like it because the Bear-Man had 
them. Bear-Man went through the village with the boy’s clothing on. 
Every time he took a step he would hoot like an owl, for the owls had 
stopped hooting for him. He was seen through the village and the peo- 
ple took word to the chief that Woodpecker-Boy was now in the village. 
The chief sent for him and when Woodpecker-Boy came he placed him 
in the lodge upon a cushion. He told his girls to sit with him. The 
youngest of the girls would not go. The two older ones went and sat by 
the supposed Woodpecker-Boy. 
Several days afterwards this supposed Woodpecker-Boy tried to make 
it appear that he could do the same things as the other boy had done. 
He would disappear in the night and return in the morning. He would 
tell the chief to surround the place, and when the people would surround 
it there would be no game and nothing could be found. ) 
About the fifth day the boy in the hole had begun to get hoarse from 
crying and yelling. Hewas also very thin and very weak, for he had had 
nothing to eat during all this time. 
On the west side of the village lived an old woman with her grand- 
child. The grandchild went towards the lake shooting birds. He heard 
some one crying. He went to the hole and there the boy was standing. 
Woodpecker-Boy told the other boy to take him out. The boy ran to 
the lodge and said: ‘‘Grandmother, there is a poor boy in a hole. He 
is nearly starved to death. Let us go and take him out. He shall be 
my nephew. He shall call me uncle.’”’ The boy and the old woman 
went to the hole and there they found the boy. The woman pulled the 
boy out from the hole and took him home. She went through the vil- 
lage begging here and there for corn. Some people gave her a handful 
and others did not give her any. She went home and made mush for 
the boy. 
Every day the woman and the boy would go through the village beg- 
ging for some corn. After a while the boy became strong. Then he said: 
‘Uncle, tell your grandmother to go and cut an ash tree and four dog- 
wood sticks and bring them to me.” The old woman went into the 
timber and brought back the ash stick and the four dogwood sticks. The 
boy then began to make a bow and four arrows. When he made the 
four arrows he said: ‘‘I am strong now, uncle, so let us go into the timber.”’ 
They went into the timber, but they didnot see any game. When they 
