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 Manitoo, 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¬ swered. Suddenly, Noojekesigunodasit's head began to swim, and everything grew black about him.