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When he had with great difficulty got near the nest, Mishosha cried out, addressing himself to the tree, and without much regard to the wishes of Owasso: "Now stretch yourself up and be very tall." The tree, at this bidding, rose up so far that Owasso would have imperiled his neck by any attempt to get to the ground. "Listen, ye eagles!" continued Mishosha. "You have long expected a gift from me.
He thought he would ponder deeply how he could employ that to the best advantage; and it happened that while he was doing so, one evening, as Owasso and his wife were sitting on the banks of the lake, and the soft breeze swept over it, they heard a song, as if sung by some one at a great distance. The sound continued for some time, and then died away in perfect stillness.
All his tricks were played out there was not so much as half a one left to help him out of the sorry plight he was in. "I believe, my grandfather," added Owasso, "that this is the moon in which fire attracts, and I fear you must have set your foot and leg garments too near the fire, and they have been drawn in. Now let us go forth to the hunt."
As Owasso, with his convoy of birds, passed over, he let fall, directly in the face of the old magician, a capful of gulls' eggs, which broke and so besmeared his eyes that he could barely see. He jumped up and exclaimed: "It is always so with these thoughtless birds. They never consider where they drop their eggs."
Owasso was about to grasp the ball, when the old magician suddenly seized him and pushed him into the boat. "My grandfather," said Owasso, "pray take my little brother also. Alone I can not go with you; he will starve if I leave him."
"Oh, it is the voice of Sheem," cried Owasso. "It is the voice of my brother! If I could but only see him!" And he hung down his head in deep anguish. His wife witnessed his distress, and to comfort him she proposed that they should attempt to make their escape, and carry him succor on the morrow.
They started on the trip, and when, after traversing an immense waste of water, they had reached the island, Mishosha led him inland until they came to the foot of a tall pine-tree, upon which the nests were to be found. "Now, my son," said Mishosha, "climb up this tree and bring down the birds. I think you will get some fine ones up there." Owasso obeyed.
But no sooner was Owasso in the family than the old Manito wished him out of the way, and he went about in his own wicked fashion to compass it. One day he asked his son-in-law to go out a-fishing with him. They started without delay; for the magician had only to speak, and off went the canoe. They reached a solitary bay in an island, a very dark, lonely, and out-of-the-way place.
It was a high point from which they started, for the pine-tree had shot far, far up toward the clouds, and they could even descry the enchanted island where the old magician lived; though it was miles and miles away. For this point they steered their flight; and in a short time they landed Owasso at the door of the lodge.
Owasso himself reached home in safety, proof against all kinds of weather, and the magic canoe became the exclusive property of the young man and his wife. During all this part of Owasso's stay at the lodge of Mishosha, his sister, whom he had left on the main land with Sheem, their younger brother, had labored with good-will to supply the lodge.
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