t, and you must be
careful not to pass out of the house, for there is no knowing but he is
always narrowly watching. If you go out, at all, let it be on the roof,
and even there keep a sharp lookout, lest he sweep by and catch you
with his long horns." With this advice he left his lodge. But he had
scarcely got seated in his canoe, on his favorite fishing-ground, when
his ear caught opprobrious strains from his enemy. He listened again,
and the sound was now clearer than before--

"Aggodagauda--one legged man,
Man with his leg tied up;
What is he but a rapakena,[92]
Hipped, and legged?"

He immediately paddled his canoe ashore, and took his way home--hopping
a hundred rods at a leap. But when he reached his house his daughter
was gone. She had gone out on the top of the house, and sat combing her
long and beautiful hair, on the eaves of the lodge, when the buffalo
king, coming suddenly by, caught her glossy hair, and winding it about
his horns, tossed her on to his shoulders, swept off in an opposite
direction to his village. He was followed by his whole troop, who made
the plains shake under their tread. They soon reached, and dashed
across a river, and pursued their course to the chief's village, where
she was received by all with great attention. His other wives did all
they could to put the lodge in order, and the buffalo king himself was
unremitting in his kindness and attention. He took down from the walls
his pibbegwun, and began to play the softest strains, to please her
ear. Ever and anon, as the chorus paused, could be heard the words--

"Ne ne mo sha makow,
Aghi saw ge naun.
My sweetheart--my bosom is true,
You only--it is you that I love."

They brought her cold water, in bark dishes from the spring. They set
before her the choicest food. The king handed her nuts from the
pecan-tree, then he went out hunting to get her the finest meats and
water fowl. But she remained pensive, and sat fasting in her lodge day
after day, and gave him no hopes of forgiveness for his treachery.

In the mean time, Aggodagauda came home, and finding his daughter had
been stolen, determined to get her back. For this purpose he
immediately set out. He could easily track the king, until he came to
the banks of the river, and saw that he had plunged in and swam over.
But there had been a frosty night or two since, and the water was
covered with thin ice, so that he could not walk on it. He dete