WONDER TALES OF THE FOREST 109

he challenged him to a diving match. Mimku- dawogoosk was quite willing, so off they started. Down they went into the water, and after a long time the Loon came up to the top, but he was dead, and was carried away down the river by the current. Those on the bank waited a long time, thinking that Mimkudawo- goosk must have been drowned too, but at last he rose to the surface and came out of the water. He rose into the air, shaking the water from his wings, and went flying over their heads, for he had changed himself into a sea- duck.

So in everything the young men tried, Mim- kudawogoosk always came off Victorious, to the delight of his wife and his father-in-law. But his wife’s sisters and all the young men tried as hard as they could to do him injury.

At last Mimkudawogoosk decided to stay no longer with them. So he took his Wife and his sister and his little son, Who had come to them, and the canoe and weapons which his father-in- laW had provided for him, and made his way back to his own lodge in the forest where the sister had spent so many lonely years.

And kespeadooksit—the story ends.