kchak. "I should like to see your nest and
your young eaglets. Take me on your backs with you."

The eagles did not seem very eager to take him, but Wesakchak, without
waiting for any more words, jumped on their backs, and they began to
mount in the air. Up and up they went, until at last they were as high
as the clouds. Wesakchak now began to feel rather cold and asked them
to fly lower, but they gave him no answer. On and on they went, and
Wesakchak clung tightly to their backs, for he felt very dizzy, being
up so high in the air. At last he began to wonder where their nest
could be, for he could see no sign of rocks or cliffs of any kind.
After what seemed to be hours to him, the eagles began to descend, and
in a few minutes they alighted on the top of a very high crag.
Wesakchak slipped from their backs and looked around, him. Near him
was the nest of the eagles, and in it were the young, crying loudly for
food.

Below, Wesakchak could see the ground, which seemed miles away; above
him the clouds, which looked low and stormy. The eagles fed their
young, and after Wesakchak had waited awhile he said, "Now, my
brothers, please take me to my home."

"You are tired of our cliff?" asked the eagles. "Well, you must go
home yourself, for we are not going away for some hours."

"Oh, I cannot stay here that long," said Wesakchak. "Besides, I am
tired and very hungry, and there is nothing here but bare rock. You
must take me home."

The eagles did not dare to disobey Wesakchak, so they let him mount on
their backs. Then they began to fly slowly away. After a while it
seemed to him that they were going in the wrong direction. He could
see snow-capped mountains, and, as his lodge was built on the prairies,
he said:

"My brothers, you are not taking me to my lodge. You are going in the
wrong direction. Turn and fly the other way." But the eagles, instead
of answering, only flew more rapidly towards the mountains. Again
Wesakchak called to them and again they did not reply. He now saw that
they did not intend to take him home, and he began to wonder what he
could do.

In a few moments the eagles slowly circled around the top of a mountain
from whose summit a large piece of ice was just ready to slip. When
the eagles were directly above the ice, they suddenly turned with a
jerk and hurled Wesakchak from their backs. Down, down he fell,
alighting on the ice, which at once slipped from its place and beg