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WONDER TALES OF THE FOREST 149
Then the brothers returned to the lodge and
told their father all that had happened.
"You did well/ he said. "I know all about
those female devils, who seek to destroy men.
Truly this was a she Mikumwess, a witch.
The younger brother could not forget his
companion of the woods, and he longed to see
her again. And one day, filled with this long
ing, he went by himself into the woods, and
there lie found her! And she was as kind to
him as before.
"Truly, it was not by my wish," he said,
my brother shot the arrow at you."
"that
"Truly, I know that,"
she answered; "and
that it was all the doing of your father. Yet
I do not blame him, for this is an affair of the
days of old. And even yet it is not at an end,
for the greatest is to come. But let the day
be only a day unto itself. The things of to
morrow are for io-morrow, and the things of
yesterday are departed!"
So they forgot their troubles, and played to
gether merrily like children all day long, in
the woods and in the open places, and told
stories of olden times until sunset. And as
the crow went to his tree, the young brave said :
"Now I must return to my people."
And she replied:
"Whenever you wish to see me, come to the
forest.
And remember what I have told you.