in. The door was no sooner closed than Manabozho
knocked.

"Open it!" he cried, with a loud voice.

The manito was afraid of him, but he said to his guest--

"Since I have sheltered you, I would sooner die with you than open the
door.

"Open it!" Manabozho again cried.

The manito kept silent. Manabozho, however, made no attempt to open it
by force. He waited a few moments. "Very well," he said; "I give you
only till night to live." The manito trembled, for he knew he would be
shut up under the earth.

Night came. The clouds hung low and black, and every moment the forked
lightning would flash from them. The black clouds advanced slowly, and
threw their dark shadows afar, and behind there was heard the rumbling
noise of the coming thunder. As they came near to the precipice, the
thunders broke, the lightning flashed, the ground shook, and the solid
rocks split, tottered, and fell. And under their ruins where crushed
the mortal bodies of Paup-Puk-Keewiss and the manito.

It was only then that Paup-Puk-Keewiss found he was really dead. He had
been killed in different animal shapes; but now his body, in human
shape, was crushed. Manabozho came and took their Jee-bi-ug, or
spirits.

"You," said he to Paup-Puk-Keewiss, "shall not be again permitted to
live on the earth. I will give you the shape of the war-eagle, and you
will be the chief of all fowls, and your duty shall be to watch over
their destinies."

[31] This word appears to be derived from the same root as
_Paup-puk-ke-nay_, a grasshopper, the inflection iss making
it personal. The Indian idea is that of harum scarum. He is
regarded as a foil to Manabozho, with whom he is frequently
brought in contact in aboriginal story craft.

[32] This is an official who bears the pipe for the ruling chief,
and is an inferior dignity in councils.

[33] This is a studied perversion of the interjection _Ho_. In
another instance (vide Wassamo) it is rendered _Hoke_.

[34] We may mention, for the youth who may read these tales, that
beavers live by gnawing the bark of trees.

[35] Mats.

[36] A species of lightning.

OSSEO,

OR

THE SON OF THE EVENING STAR.

ALGONQUIN LEGEND.

There once lived an Indian in the north, who had ten daughters, all of
whom grew up to womanhood. They were noted for their beauty, but
especially Oweenee, the youngest, who was very independent in h