I know all about these female devils who seek to destroy
men. Verily this was a she Mikumwess." [Footnote: P. The Mikumwess is a
Robin Goodfellow, who plays pranks on people, or treats them kindly,
according to his caprice.]
But the younger could not forget her, and longed to see her again; so
one day he went into the woods, and there he indeed found her, and she
was as kind as before. Then he said, "Truly it was not by my goodwill
that my brother shot at you." And she answered, "Well do I know that,
and that it was all by your father; yet I blame him not, for this is an
affair of _N'karnayoo_, the days of old; and even yet it is not at
an end, and the greatest is to come. But let the day be only a day unto
itself; the things of to-morrow are for to-morrow, and those of
yesterday are departed." So they forgot their troubles, and played
together merrily all day long in the woods and in the open places, and
told stories of old times till sunset. And as, the _Kah-kah-goos_,
or Crow, went to his tree, the boy said, "I must return;" and she
replied, "Whenever you would see me, come to the woods. And remember
what I say. Do not marry any one else. For your father wishes you to do
so, and he will speak of it to you, and that soon. Yet it is for your
sake only that I say this." Then she told him word by word all that his
father had said; but he was not astonished, for now he knew that she
was not as other women; but he cared not.
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