ewiss rode home. He assembled the
village, and told the young men to kill the bear, make a feast of it,
and hang the head outside the village, for he knew the bear spies would
soon see it, and carry the news to their chief.

Next morning Paup-Puk-Keewiss got all his young warriors ready for a
fight. After waiting one day, the bear war-party came in sight, making
a tremendous noise. The bear-chief advanced, and said that he did not
wish to shed the blood of the young warriors; but that if he,
Paup-Puk-Keewiss, consented, they two would have a race, and the winner
should kill the losing chief, and all his young men should be slaves to
the other. Paup-Puk-Keewiss agreed, and they ran before all the
warriors. He was victor, and came in first; but, not to terminate the
race too soon, he gave the bear-chief some specimens of his skill and
swiftness by forming eddies and whirlwinds with the sand, as he leaped
and turned about him. As the bear-chief came up, he drove an arrow
through him, and a great chief fell. Having done this, he told his
young men to take all those blackfish (meaning the bears), and tie them
at the door of each lodge, that they might remain in future to serve as
servants.

After seeing that all was quiet and prosperous in the village,
Paup-Puk-Keewiss felt his desire for adventure returning. He took a
kind leave of his friends and people, and started off again. After
wandering a long time, he came to the lodge of Manabozho, who was
absent. He thought he would play him a trick, and so turned everything
in the lodge upside down, and killed his chickens. Now Manabozho calls
all the fowls of the air his chickens; and among the number was a
raven, the meanest of birds, which Paup-Puk-Keewiss killed and hung up
by the neck to insult him. He then went on till he came to a very high
point of rocks running out into the lake, from the top of which he
could see the country back as far as the eye could reach. While sitting
there, Manabozho's mountain chickens flew round and past him in great
numbers. So, out of spite, he shot them in great numbers, for his
arrows were sure and the birds very plenty, and he amused himself by
throwing the birds down the rocky precipice. At length a wary bird
cried out, "Paup-Puk-Keewiss is killing us. Go and tell our father."
Away flew a delegation of them, and Manabozho soon made his appearance
on the plain below. Paup-Puk-Keewiss made his escape on the opposite
side. Manabozho cried