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��they are found. Extremely lonely it is here, for now I shall soon come back, and we shall begin to move there." Then Long-Hair left. He was told by his grandmother, "Now you walk southward, because there you will find good people." After seven days he came to a village, and again he entered the first wigwam. The people rejoiced, and there he was their guest. He was told, "We rejoice very much that you have come, for here is a very good village. There is much game. This is a good place to live in, only that some beasts are dangerous. Now, if you stay here, you can subdue these bad beasts by magic." Then said Long-Hair, "I am glad to see you ; and proba- bly we shall move here, and we shall stay with you, I and my grandmother." The next morning he left. He put on his belt; he spoke to it; he said, "We must come this evening to our camp." Woodchuck rejoiced, and they got ready and started off. The people re- joiced when they arrived at the village.

Then he went into the woods, searching for beasts. At last he found them, and then he called them by hallooing to them. First he sought out which one was willing to stay with the people. After the beasts had assembled, then he said, "Now, who is willing to stay with our descendants?" And some were very angry, and went off shaking themselves, say- ing, "Not I will stay, because they are too poor." At last suddenly one said, "I will stay with our descendants, I am willing now, I will share their poverty with them." It was the dog that spoke. Then Long-Hair said, "I thank you very much, for you also can help them, our descendants. Henceforth those who went off shaking themselves, they shall also hold you in fear. All of the other different kinds shall hold you in fear." And then he called the other beasts, and he said, "Now, this dog, him you shall fear. The squirrel is the most evil one, but I can fix him so that he will not again be dangerous." And he called him, and said, "You, squirrel, powerful one, I indeed can make you become

��small; so small may you become, that you indeed will fear the crow." And he stroked his hair, and the squirrel began to grow small. Now he is only as large as the squirrel.

��4. LONG-HAIR'S GRANDMOTHER DIES, AND

HE FALLS IN LOVE, ONLY TO BE KILLED

BY A JEALOUS SORCERESS

nuna'di'elin ama'stahan awa'Va'

Then he went hunting, he got a supply of beasts.

na'gasi-'bi amr'tawan mr'tcawci'gan And then he gave away the food

awa-'s-wi'ye na'ga wuli-'dahaso'lduwak animal meat and they rejoiced

a'lnpbak edu'dji wala'm'tak' w pi-'li- the people, so kind he was the strange

a'lnpbe umi'tso'ldi'na ba'magana

man, they feasted they danced.

namoni'mkwe's'u uda"kwama < lsin na'ste Then Woodchuck became sick, soon

ume"tci-ne ga'motc Kwun-a'was

she died. Very Long-Hair

usigi'dahasu ode'ldamanal o"kamas-al felt lonesome, he missed his grandmother,

taba'was geso'gani seska'demu ndo'kHat seven days he wept, then he woke up;

agwHa'wamba'man p'he'namu e'lpkwa"- he went to look for a woman to cook for*

lagotcil nr'swa' o-'li'na'wan be'ssgo him, two looked good to him, one

sa77gama"skwe"s-is kada'k ktaha'n'doskwe' a chief's daughter, the other a great sorceress.

ni-la"skwe a'was-a-'gi tcuwe'lmagu'l

The latter beyond measure wanted him.

na'kskwe Kwun-a'was abe-'mebman Young girl Long-Hair he preferred,

sa'Tjgamaskwe'Vi'sal e'dudji naktaha'n-- the chief's daughter; so then the*

doskwe ali-'daha'mat ndahaba'skwe sorceress thought, "Impossible that one

Kwun'a'was ama's'ana'wi'al ni-'lil

Long-Hair will get her the one

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