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200 "Manibojou Fishing"

  Once there lived two families in an unknown part of the world one was the family of "Manibojou" the other was the family of "Ma Ji ki ims."  they were very poor in worldly goods living entirely on a shrub caled "Aginig".  One day as "Ma Ji ki. ims" was on his daily Journey digging. Aginig in winter he observed a very beautiful arrow fall very near him with the ear of a bear and also of Moose fastened on the head of it.   The arrow was very beautiful and majikims was afraid to take it. but a voice called to him from above saying majikimis take the arrow and contents then go across the lake on yonder [?] and light a fire and he did so then took off his foot wear to to dry the muccesins when the voice said your foot wear is very light and cold take these said the voice. and the fat sides of a bear and of a moose. these are my foot wraps said the voice.  MaJikiims took up the [?] and ate them all.  the voice told him to go. to the creek a short distance away and catch some small fish.  He would see them and put them in the Bare reed [?] sack that he would find there and go home..  And said the voice as soon as you leave the point you will hear threatening voices but I bid you not to look back. you must not go straight homeward but must take a by way and when you turn to your hut you will see a hollow on your right where you must cast your sack of fish be sure and not look back.  In the morning you can come and get your fish in the hollow.  He did as he was told. and as soon as he left the point he heard many voices calling to him. and some saying.  Ho!  Ho! that is MaJikimis kill him catch him take his fish away from im. and all sorts of threats. and the harder he ran. the closer the voices were cumming. he could not see who it was. for he was forbidden to look back.  When he reached the turning point and the hollow cast his load and ran home.   The next morning when "Majikimis" went where he cast his fish the night before he found to his surprise hundreds of different kinds of fish there which he took home to his wigwam and family.   About this time. [?]