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And he went off to put murder and lies in the hearts of men. Manabozho set out to travel. He wished to outdo all others, and see new countries, but after walking over America, and encountering many adventures, he became satisfied as well as fatigued. He had heard of great feats in hunting, and felt a desire to try his power in that way.
Manabozho looked wistfully on to see them eat till they were fully satisfied, when they scampered off in high spirits. A heavy blast of wind opened the branches and released Manabozho, who found that the wolves had left nothing but the bare bones. He made for home, where, when he related his mishap, the old wolf, taking him by the fore-paw, condoled with him deeply on his ill-luck.
To begin at the beginning, Manabozho, while yet a youngster, was living with his grandmother, near the edge of a wide prairie.
The bear came up to Manabozho and hugged, and bit, and clawed him till he could hardly forbear screaming with the pain it caused him. The thought of his son and of the vengeance he wished to take on the spirits, however, restrained him, and the bear at last retreated to its fellows. "It is nothing," it said; "it is really a stump."
Ne-me-sho, Grasshopper has spoiled me. Will you not restore me to life?" "Yes," replied Manabozho. He re-established the rock in all its strength.
At a distance Pauppukkeewis saw a very high rock jutting out into a lake, and he ran for the foot of the precipice, which was abrupt and elevated. As he came near, the manito of the rock opened his door and told him to come in. No sooner was the door closed than Manabozho knocked at it. "Open," he cried in a loud voice. The manito was afraid of him, but said to his guest
At length a wary bird called out "Pauppukkeewis is killing us: go and tell our father." Away flew some of them, and Manabozho soon made his appearance on the plain below. Pauppukkeewis slipped down the other side of the mountain. Manabozho cried from the top "The earth is not so large but I can get up to you." Off Pauppukkeewis ran and Manabozho after him.
It seemed to say to him: "Great chief, why are you sorrowful? Am not I your friend your guardian spirit?" Manabozho immediately took up his rattle, and without rising from the ground where he was sitting, began to sing the chant which has at every close the refrain of, "Wha lay le aw."
"Strike you?" said Manabozho, with well-feigned surprise, "no; you must have been looking at me." "No," answered the wolf, "I say I have not." But Manabozho insisted, and as the old wolf was no great master of tricky argument, he was obliged to give it up. Shortly after this the old wolf suggested to Manabozho that he should go out and try his luck in hunting by himself.
But Manabozho was prepared with his oil, and rubbing his canoe freely from end to end, he slipped through with ease, and he was the first person who had ever succeeded in passing through the Pitch-water. "There is nothing like a little oil to help one through pitch-water," said Manabozho to himself. Now in view of land, he could see the lodge of the Shining Manito, high upon a distant hill.
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