the packing strap; we will go for
wood."

The old woman protested. "This one, my grandchild, I have raised with
difficulty," she said. He answered, "Old woman, what you are afraid of
are trifles," and went with the young man. "I am going to bring wood,"
he said. "If any wish to go, come along."

"The young man who came from somewhere says this," they said, so they
followed him.

They had now reached the wood. They found it tied up in bundles. He
ordered them to carry it home, but he stood still and said, "You who
killed every one who came to this wood, where have you gone?"

Then, suddenly, where he went was not made manifest. And lo! a tepee,
and in it some young men and young women; some were eating, and some
were waiting.

He said to them, "How came you here?"

They answered, "What do you mean? We came for wood and something
brought us here. Now you also are lost."

He looked behind him, and lo! there was a hole.

"What is this?" he asked.

"Stop!" they said. "That is the thing itself."

He drew out an arrow and shot it. Then suddenly it opened out and
behold! it was the ear of an owl in which they had been shut up. When
it was killed, it opened out. Then he said, "Young men and women, come
out," so they went home.

Again they offered him two wives. But he said, "My friend will marry
them. I am traveling."

Again he passed on. And he came to a dwelling place of people and
found them shooting the hoop. There stood a young man looking on. He
joined him as his friend. While they stood there together, he said:

"Friend, let us go to your home." So he went with him to his tepee.

The young man said, "Grandmother, I have brought my friend home with
me; get him something to eat."

She said, "Where shall I get it from, that you say that?"

"Grandmother, how is it that you say so?" asked the stranger.

She replied, "Waziya treats this people very badly. When they go out
to kill buffalo, he takes it all, and now they are starving to death."

Now Waziya was a giant who caused very cold weather and blizzards.

Then he said, "Grandmother, go to him and say, 'My grandchild has come
on a journey and has nothing to eat; so he has sent me to you.'"

So the old woman went and standing at a distance, cried, "Waziya, my
grandchild has come on a journey and has nothing to eat; so he has
sent me to you."

He replied, "Bad old woman, get you home; what do you mean by coming
here?"

The old woman came home cryin