ANIMAL STORIES 165' "Look out, you are burning me!" The old woman then became angry. She had been sound asleep. "I have not touched you!" she said. The Badger waited until the old women were asleep once more, and then he touched the foot of the other old woman with the hot coal. First she dreamed that she was walking on hot sand, and over roasting rocks in the summer time; and then she dreamed that the Mohawks were cooking her at a death fire. Then she awoke, and seeing where she was, she began to scold Mrs. Bear for burning her; and very soon they were having a merry time of it with their quar¬ relling. Now the Badger, seeing the old women scold¬ ing and fighting, began to laugh; and he thought it so funny that he laughed harder and harder, until at last, he split his sides open, and fell down dead then and there! In the morning, there lay the dead Badger before the door. The old women skinned him, and dressed him for their breakfast, and stretched his skin to dry on a bush outside. Then they hung the kettle; the water was soon boiling, and they dropped the Badger in. But as soon as the Badger began to scald, he came to life. In a moment more he was as alive as ever! With a great leap, he jumped out of the kettle; he rushed out of the lodge; he snatched