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She took down her dead father's second bow and quiver full of arrows, and begged her old grandmother to accompany her to Lake Wanagiska, where she knew that moose had oftentimes been found. I forgot to tell you that her name was Manitoshaw. "This Manitoshaw and her old grandmother, Nawakewee, took each a pony and went far up into the woods on the side of the mountain.
Bring me leaves of the birch and cedar twigs; I will make medicine for moose, she added. "Manitoshaw obediently disappeared in the woods. It was a grove of birch and willow, with two good springs. Down below was a marshy place. Nawakewee had bidden the maiden look for nibbled birch and willow twigs, for the moose loves to eat them, and to have her arrow ready upon the bow-string.
The sun was already set, and she felt she must return to Nawakewee. "Just then Hinhankaga, the hooting owl, gave his doleful night call. The girl stopped and listened attentively. "'I thought it was a lover's call, she whispered to herself. A singular challenge pealed across the lake. She recognized the alarm call of the loon, and fancied that the bird might have caught a glimpse of her game.
Ugh, it is all in my eyes, the maiden repeated to herself. She hastened back to Nawakewee. The vision was so unexpected and so startling that she could not believe in its truth, and she said nothing to the old woman. "Breakfast eaten, Manitoshaw threw off her robe and appeared in her scantily cut gown of buckskin with long fringes, and moccasins and leggings trimmed with quills of the porcupine.
"Hush, my boy; never interrupt a storyteller." I took a stick and began to level off the ashes in front of me, and to draw a map of the lake, the outlet, the moose and Manitoshaw. Away off to one side was the solitary wigwam, Nawakewee and the ponies. "Manitoshaw's heart was beating so loud that she could not hear anything," resumed my uncle.
At last the maiden, too, lost herself in sleep. "Old Nawakewee awoke early. First of all she made a fire and burned cedar and birch so that the moose might not detect the human smell. Then she quickly prepared a meal of wild turnips and berries, and awoke the maiden, who was surprised to see that the sun was already up.
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