WONDER TALES OF THE FOREST 37 met another man. He was hopping along on one foot, with the other tied close up to his body. "Why is your leg tied in such a fashion?" asked the Megumoowesoo . "To keep from running too fast," he replied. "Why, if I were to untie my leg, I should go so fast that I should run around the whole world in just four minutes." "Let us see you run," the travellers said. So the Swift Runner untied his leg and was off like a flash. True enough, at the end of four minutes back he came from the other direction. The Swift Eunner then asked: "Where are all of you going1?" And when they told him he asked whether he might not go along with them. "Yes, we shall be glad to have you," the Megumoowesoo said. "You may be of great help to our young friend." So all four travel¬ led on together. When they had gone a little way further, they came upon a man, whose nostrils were closely covered. "What is the meaning of this?" the trav¬ ellers asked: "I am so powerful," he said, "that if my nostrils were not covered, I could not hold back the storm and the whirlwind." "Let us see your power," they said. The stranger uncovered his nostrils, and at once