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Updated: June 3, 2025
He wakened early, and finding the chief's daughter looking forth at the door, he spoke to her, but she gave no answer. He touched her lightly. "What do you want?" she said, and turned her face away from him. "Tell me," said Maidwa, "what time the swan passed. I am following it; come out, and point the way." "Do you think you can overtake it?" she said. "Yes," he answered.
Maidwa led the other daughter to Jeekewis, and said, "My brother, here is one for you, and live happily." Jeekewis hung down his head as if he was ashamed, but he would every now and then steal a look at his wife and also at the other women. By and by he turned toward his wife and acted as if he had been married for years.
You will find the magic arrow at the lodge-door. You will live to a very old age, and die happily. You can go no further in these abodes of ours." Maidwa looked, as he thought, to the west, and saw a bright light as if the sun was shining in its splendor, but he saw no sun. "What light is that yonder?" he asked. The all-boned buffalo answered "It is the place where those who were good dwell."
I have to take counsel with the kettle, or I should be all alone, without a day's food, and with no one to advise me." All this time the Red Swan was carefully concealed in the lodge, behind a curtain, from which Maidwa heard now and then a rustling noise, that fluttered his spirits and set his heart to beating at a wonderful rate.
That was what I was wishing you to say. Will you then go and see if you can not recover my poor scalp?" "Yes," said Maidwa, "I will go; and the day after to-morrow, when you hear the ka-kak cries of the hawk, you will know that I am successful. You must prepare your head, and lean it out through the door, so that the moment I arrive I may place your scalp on." "Yes, yes," said the magician.
They embraced; and the young magician urged the stay of his deliverer for a few days, and they formed a strong attachment to each other. The magician, to the deep regret of Maidwa, never once alluded to the Red Swan in all their conferences. At last the day arrived when Maidwa prepared to return to his home.
When at last Maidwa was about to leave, he invited a number of the families of the chief to go with him and visit their hunting-grounds, where he promised them that they would find game in abundance. They consented, and in the morning a large company assembled and joined Maidwa; and the chief, with a party of warriors, escorted them a long distance.
After suitable refreshment for all, and while Maidwa smoked a pipe, the chief asked him to relate his adventures in the hearing of all the inmates of the lodge, and of the strangers who had gathered in at report of his singular fortunes. Maidwa gave them his whole story.
The chief bade him be quiet, and not to disturb or quarrel with one who was enjoying their hospitality. "No, no," he exclaimed, rushing forward as in act to strike. Maidwa sat unmoved, and paid no heed to his threats.
"And you also," he said to the Red Swan. The chief's daughter was engaged in coloring a girdle, and, as if indifferent to these visitors, she did not even raise her head. Presently the chief said, "Let some one bring in the bundle of our son-in-law." When the bundle was laid before him, Maidwa opened one of the bags which had been given to him.
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