WONDER TALES OP THE FOREST 79 after it. He reached the spot where the ar¬ row fell almost as soon as it touched the ground. Then he shot it straight in front of him again,—running as he did so. This time he reached the place where it was about to fall just in time to catch it. The next time he found that he could go faster than the arrow. All day long he travelled in this way, and by night time he had gone a long way. When the brothers reached home that night Noojekesigunodasit was not waiting outside the wigwam as usual, and the eldest brother said angrily: "Where is the child? Where is Noojeke¬ sigunodasit?" "Oh," replied his mother, "little Noojekesi¬ gunodasit could not bear your cruelty any longer, and so he has gone away. He will never come back again." "Ah, then!" said the cruel brother, "I will pursue him; I will bring him back again." In the morning, early, the cruel brother started in pursuit of Noojekesigunodasit. He travelled one hundred days upon his trail, and then be found the marks of a fire,—the first fire that Noojekesigunodasit had made, and by that he knew that he had only covered the dis¬ tance that his brother had gone on the first day. And so he gave up the pursuit and returned to the wigwam.