THE FOREST MAIDEN IT was in the olden time, and two brothers went hunting in the autumn, far up a river, in the deep forest. And they built a wigwam there, and remained all winter. In the early spring their snow shoes and their moccasins were worn and torn, and one night they wished that a woman were there to mend them. The younger brave returned to the lodge the next day before his brother, as usual, to pre¬ pare the evening meal—when, what was his astonishment to find that some one had been there before him! Their garments were mended; the lodge was clean; there was a bright fire; and the kettle was boiling. He said nothing about these wonderful things to his brother that night. The next night he came back at the same time, and he found that some one had been there again; and that all was ready for the evening meal. Again he said nothing; but in the morning, when he started out to hunt, he went but a little way, and watched the door from a hiding-place. 14S