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 tribe. But here was just a tiny fellow. It would be no trouble to get him to obey!

So without any ado, the warrior said, "Ho, baby, come here to me!"

The baby looked at him, but did not move. He repeated his command. The baby stopped sucking his maple sugar long enough to say "Goo, goo," but he did not move.

Then the warrior said, "I will show him that I am to be feared, and then he will obey me." So he began a war dance, and uttered fierce war cries, and Wasis opened his mouth and sent forth such piercing yells and shrieks, that the warrior stopped in amazement. And when he had stopped the baby began sucking his maple sugar again.

"Ho, baby, come here to me!" he repeated once more, but at that the baby again opened his mouth and cried so lustily that the great warrior covered his ears and ran from the lodge. "It is worse than the war cries of the Frost Giants!" he exclaimed.

"Did he obey you?" asked the grandmother.

"No," said the warrior. "He is a little fellow, but he is mightier than I."

"Yes," answered the grandmother, "Wasis,