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and I saw a flock of wild geese rising from the shore, and I shot them, every one. And they are outside your door. And much good may they do you!”

The sorcerer was taken off his guard. 'All of his comrades had been killed but the 01d grandmother !

“Ah! Our dogs must fight this out,” he said. He called his dogs from another room,— great, fierce beasts possessed of magical power. They went out in front of the Wigwam, and Pulowech took from his bosom the little squirrel and stroked it, and placed it upon the ground,—and it was instantly transformed into a huge beast. It sprang at the two dogs and fought them furiously.

When the sorcerer saw that his two dogs were no match for Pulowech’s dog, he cried, “Oh, call off your dog. Those dogs belong to my grandmother, and she prizes them.”

But Pulowech did not notice what the sor- cerer was saying, and soon the two beasts lay dead upon the ground.

Now the sorcerer had one other hope of de- stroying Pulowech, and that was—in the Cav- em of Darkness.

“Let us go in the canoe,” he said.

So the two set off in the canoe. The river was broad and smooth at first; but soon it grew narrow, until, without warning, it fell into the