right on her knee. She missed the mark in pushing, sending him
with force, and so she struck him on her knee.

"_Oh!_ A very bad pestle," she said. She threw him outside, sending
him homeward suddenly.

"You have been used to saying 'Pestle.' He is coming, having stabbed
one right at the lodge. He has killed one," said Pestle, returning. He
reached Big Turtle again. "O war chief, I have killed one."

"You make me thankful," said Big Turtle. "Ho! warrior Gray Squirrel,
make an attempt."

"O war chief, how can I do anything?" said Gray Squirrel. Now the
lodges were placed among the trees.

"You will pass along the trees above the smoke holes of the lodges. If
they find you, they will shoot at you. Do your best. Do your best to
evade the blows or arrows. If one goes aside, rush on him," said Big
Turtle.

At length a boy found Gray Squirrel. "This moving one is a gray
squirrel," he said. They went in a great uproar. They shot at him.
They even hit him with sticks. One boy stood aside. Gray Squirrel
attacked him and bit him. They said, "Wonderful! Heretofore the gray
squirrel has been very easy to approach, but we have failed. He has
bitten us; we have done nothing to him," they said.

"He whom you used to call 'Gray Squirrel' is coming back, having
killed one right among them," he called. He told it to Big Turtle.

"Ho! real warrior, act very honestly," said Big Turtle.

"O war chief, it is just so. I have killed one," said he.

"Ho! warrior, you make me thankful," said Big Turtle.

"Ho! warriors," said Big Turtle again. "I, even I, will make a trial.
I shall not come back for some time. Beware lest you go homeward.
Beware lest you leave me and go homeward."

He arrived there. Some ashes had been poured out. They were
extinguished. At length Big Turtle pushed his way through. He went
within. He sat within, with his eyes sticking out, looking around. A
woman approached when it was morning. She stood very close to where
Big Turtle sat.

"You will tread on my shield," he said. The woman looked around. "From
what place does he speak?" she thought; therefore she looked around.
Again he said to her, "You will tread on my shield. Stand further
away." And the woman found him.

"Oh!" she said.

"Stand still. I send you with a message," said Big Turtle. "Go home
and say, 'Big Turtle says he has come to war. He says he has come
desiring the chief's daughter, whose body has been placed on the bough
of a tree.'"