his drum. Since he was much in favour, many women would come and
listen to his songs; also, they would dance before him--to attract his
attention.

"Now it came to pass on a certain day that a young chief of another
tribe happened by chance upon that way. Hearing the drumming, he
resolved to find out what it was about. Deep into the heart of the
wood he followed the sound and came upon an open glade wherein were
many women dancing before a huge boulder. Wondering, with great
admiration, the young chief gazed upon their graceful movements and
comely figures, and determined to rush in and capture the most
beautiful of them. Turning thought into act, he bounded in among the
dancers, and, to his amazement, discovered the old chief, who, at sight
of him, dropped his drum, grasped his war club, and leaping down from
his rocky eminence, rushed upon the young interloper in a frenzy of
jealous fury. The women made no outcry; for, like the female moose or
caribou, they love the victor. So to the accompaniment of the men's
hard breathing and the clashing of their war clubs, they went
unconcernedly on with their love dance. In the end the young chief
slew the older one, and departed in triumph with the women. But, my
son, when the Master of Life learned what had happened, he was
exceeding wroth; insomuch that he turned the young chief and the women
into partridges. That is why the partridges dance the love dance even
to this day."


HUNTING WILD FOWL

Next morning, while Oo-koo-hoo was examining a muskrat lodge from his
canoe, he heard a sudden "honk, honk," and looking up he espied two