WONDER TALES OF THE FOREST 61

many folds of dressed skins, lest you should hear the deadly war scream of the Chenoo.”

They did so, and yet with all that, the terrible scream of the Chenoo almost killed them. The second scream of the Chenoo harmed them less, and the third they scarcely heard at all. Then the giant chief, who knew by his magic all that was happening, came in, and told them to un- wrap themselves, and come out, for the Chenoo had been slain.

Soon the warriors returned, and told about their hard battle with the Chenoo.

The next day the giant chief said, “In three days we shall be attacked by a Kookwes; so make ready to do battle with him.”

On the morning of the third day, the four warriors again went out to meet the cannibal giant Kookwes. The little people stopped their ears, and wrapped themselves in dressed skins as they had done before. Again they heard a great shout; then a fainter one, and then a third still weaker. Then the warriors returned, cov- ered with blood, with their legs pierced with great trees, for the fight had been in a forest. It had been a terrible battle. The giants had been nearly overpowered. And as it was, the chief’s eldest son had been so sorely wounded that he fell dead before his father’s Wigwam.

When the old chief saw him fall, he went out and stood beside him.