l come again very soon. Remain here for a while,"
said Big Turtle.

Again they departed. As they went, behold, a Big Wolf came.

"O war chief, again one has come," said they.

"I suspect what he will say, warriors. Wait for him. Stand in a row,"
said Big Turtle.

"Ho," he said, addressing Wolf, "Come, speak quickly, whatever may be
your business. When I walk on a journey, I am in a very great hurry."

"Yes, O war chief. It is so. It was told of you regularly, saying that
you walked on a journey; and as I desired to walk there, I have sought
you," said Wolf.

"Ho! Show me what you can do," said Big Turtle. "You may have been
thinking about it. I wish to see your ways."

Wolf decorated himself. He reddened his nose; he reddened all his
feet. He tied eagle feathers to his back.

"Well, do so. Do so. I wish to see your ways," said Big Turtle.

Wolf turned himself round and round. He went to the attack by the wood
on a small creek. He killed a deer. He brought it back, holding it
with his teeth.

"O war chief, I think I will do that, if anything vexes me," said
Wolf.

"You have disappointed me," said Big Turtle. "See these people with
whom I travel. There is none who is faint-hearted in the least
degree. Come, depart. Thus do I regularly send off the inferior ones.

"Warrior Gray Squirrel, go as a scout," said Big Turtle. Gray Squirrel
went as a scout. At length he was coming back, blowing a horn.

"Ho, war chief, he is coming back to you," they said. Big Turtle went
there. "Ho, warrior. Act very honestly. Tell me just how it is," said
Big Turtle.

"Yes, O war chief, it is just so. I have been there without their
finding me out at all," said he.

"Let us sit at the very boundary of their camp," said Big Turtle. He
spoke of going. "Warriors, I will look around to see how things are,
and how many persons there may be there," he said.

He came back. "Warriors, let us go in that direction. This far is a
good place for sitting," he said. So they moved forward. Then he said,
"O war chief Corn Crusher, go to the end lodge of the village before
us, and sit on the outside."

Corn Crusher did so. A woman came out of the lodge. When she saw him,
she said, "Oh! Heretofore have I desired mush. I have found for myself
an excellent corn crusher." But when she pounded on the corn with it,
she hurt her hand. Then she threw it out. "Bad Corn Crusher!" she
said.

He came back to Big Turtle, who was near. "He whom you ca