them their names. The one on the left said hers was
Azhabee, which means, one who sits behind. The girl on the right said
hers was Negahnahbee, which means, one who sits before. When he spoke
to the girl on the left, the tree began to sink down. Then when he
spoke to the other sister, it began to shoot up into the air again.
When he noticed this, he continued talking to the girl on the left, and
the tree kept on sinking lower, until at last it was down as it had
been at first. Then the boy drew out his war-club.

"I am going to kill you," he said to the sisters, "for you have been so
cruel to all my relatives." Swinging his club, he brought it down on
their heads and killed them both. Then he jumped from the lodge to the
ground.

As he stood there, he remembered that these two sisters had a brother
and a father, who would be sure to kill him, when they found what he
had done. So he turned, and ran very quickly. He had not gone far,
when the father and brother returned. When they saw the dead girls,
they were very angry. The father told the brother to follow the boy.

"It must be that boy who killed them," he said, "for he is the only
stranger here. Follow him, and do not eat until you have killed him.
If you eat, your power is gone."

The brother started off, running even faster than the boy. When the
boy heard him coming, and knew that he would be caught, he climbed a
tree. Then he began to shoot magic arrows back at the brother. But
this did not seem to hurt him. So the boy got down from the tree, and
ran on again. Now he could tell that the brother was very close to
him. So he changed himself into a dead moose, and lay down on the
grass. He drew out the enchanted moccasins, and whispered to them,
"Travel on and on till you come to the end of the earth." Away they
went, because they were enchanted, leaving their marks behind them.

When the brother came up he saw only a dead moose, with footmarks
leading away from him. He followed on, until he came to the end of the
earth. Then he saw that he had been fooled, that he had been following
only a pair of moccasins. He was so very angry that he did not know
what to do. And he felt tired and hungry. He thought surely he must
eat now. Then he remembered his dead sisters, and said, "No, I shall
find that boy yet, and kill him." So he turned back till he came to
the spot where the dead moose had been. To his surprise it was gone,
and footsteps