WONDER TALES OP THE FOREST 107 hand at hunting. And when you return suc¬ cessful there will be a great feast in honour of the marriage." So Mimkudawogoosk took his wife and set out in his father-in-law's canoe. He pushed up the river to the hunting ground, as he was told. They landed and made a hut, and then Mim¬ kudawogoosk went to work in good earnest. Now Mimkudawogoosk, as we know, was a mighty hunter, and it was not many days before he had a great amount of venison and fur, and was ready to start homeward. This was just what the young men of the village were waiting for, for they had laid a plot to kill him on his way. A band of those who were clever at mag¬ ical arts followed him until they came to the place where he had built his hut. Then they did not know what to do next; they feared to at¬ tack him openly, and in magic they suspected that he must be more than a match for them. So the cleverest of them all transformed him¬ self into a mouse, and hid in the blanket of Mim¬ kudawogoosk's bed, thinking that when the Moosewood Man fell asleep, he could give him a fatal blow. But Mimkudawogoosk knew all the time what was going on, and when the mouse crept into the blanket he was quietly waiting for him. As soon as the mouse touched him, Mimkudawo¬ goosk caught him under his knee and began to