WONDER TALES OF THE FOREST 81

man called out. “Take this box; it will help you in time of need.”

So Noojekesigunodasit took the box and put it into his beaded pouch, which hung from his waist; and each started out upon his way.

After a while, Noojekesigunodasit began to think about the box, and he wondered what might be in it. He stopped, and took the box out of his pouch. It was a little round box, With strange pictures marked upon the cover, and all around the side. Noojekesigunodasit carefully opened it,—and there, dancing away as fast as he could, was a little mite of a man

doll!

“Well! What is it? What is wanted?” the doll asked, as he abruptly stopped dancing, and looked up at the boy.

Then Noojekesigunodasit realised that he had been given a M am‘too, a magical being. He knew that this little doll was a god from the spirit world, and that he Would do everything he was told to do. So Noojekesigunodasit said to him:

“I wish to be taken to the country from which the old man came.”

“Well, I will do that for you,” the doll an— swercd.

Suddenly, Noojekesigunodasit’s head began to swim, and everything grew black about him.