rations for extracting it,
but only made ready to finish his victim; and giving the dart a sudden
thrust, he put a period to the prince's life. He performed this act
with the power of a giant, bursting the old woman's skin, and at the
same moment rushing through the door, the serpents following him,
hissing and crying out, "Perfidy! murder! vengeance! it is Manabozho."
He immediately transformed himself into a wolf, and ran over the plain
with all his speed, aided by his father the West Wind. When he got to
the mountains he saw a badger. "Brother," said he, "make a hole quick,
for the serpents are after me." The badger obeyed. They both went in,
and the badger threw all the earth backward, so that it filled up the
way behind.

The serpents came to the badger's wauzh,[26] and decided to watch. "We
will starve him out," said they; so they continued watching. Manabozho
told the badger to make an opening on the other side of the mountain,
from which he could go out and hunt, and bring meat in. Thus they lived
some time. One day the badger came in his way and displeased him. He
immediately put him to death, and threw out his carcass, saying, "I
don't like you to be getting in my way so often."

After living in this confinement for some time alone, he decided to go
out. He immediately did so; and after making the circuit of the
mountain, came to the corpse of the prince, who had been deserted by
the serpents to pursue his destroyer. He went to work and skinned him.
He then drew on his skin, in which there were great virtues, took up
his war-club, and set out for the place where he first went in the
ground. He found the serpents still watching. When they saw the form of
their dead prince advancing towards them, fear and dread took hold of
them. Some fled. Those who remained Manabozho killed. Those who fled
went towards the South.

Having accomplished the victory over the reptiles, Manabozho returned
to his former place of dwelling, and married the arrow-maker's
daughter.

After Manabozho had killed the Prince of Serpents, he was living in a
state of great want, completely deserted by his powers, as a deity, and
not able to procure the ordinary means of subsistence. He was at this
time living with his wife and children, in a remote part of the
country, where he could get no game. He was miserably poor. It was
winter, and he had not the common Indian comforts.

He said to his wife, one day, "I will go out a walking, and se