When the brother returned and heard what had happened he would not taste food for several days.  Sometimes he would fall to weeping for a long time, and appear almost beside himself.  At last he said he would go in search of her.  His brother, finding that he could not dissuade him, cautioned him against the dangers of the road; he must pass by the large grape-vine and the frog’s eggs that he would come across.  But the young husband heeded not his advice.  He started out on his journey and when he found the grapes and the frog’s eggs he ate them.

At length he came to the tribe into which his wife had been stolen.  Throngs of men and women, gaily dressed, came out to meet him.  As he had eaten of the grapes and frog’s eggs—­snares laid for him—­he was soon overcome by their flatteries and pleasures, and he was not long afterward seen beating corn with their women (the strongest proof of effeminacy), although his wife, for whom he had mourned so much, was in that Indian metropolis.

Meanwhile Bokwewa waited patiently for his brother, but when he did not return he set out in search of him.  He avoided the allurements along the road and when he came among the luxurious people of the South he wept on seeing his brother beating corn with the women.  He waited till the stolen wife came down to the river to draw water for her new husband, the Manito.  He changed himself into a hair-snake, was scooped up in her bucket, and drunk by the Manito, who soon after was dead.  Then the humpback resumed his human shape and tried to reclaim his brother; but the brother was so taken up with the pleasures and dissipations into which he had fallen that he refused to give them up.  Finding he was past reclaiming, Bokwewa left him and disappeared forever.

THE BUFFALO KING

Aggodagauda was an Indian who lived in the forest.  Though he had accidentally lost the use of one of his two legs he was a famous hunter.  But he had a great enemy in the king of buffaloes, who frequently passed over the plain with the force of a tempest.  The chief object of the wily buffalo was to carry off Aggodagauda’s daughter, who was very beautiful.  To prevent this Aggodagauda had built a log cabin, and it was only on the roof of this that he permitted his daughter to take the open air and disport herself.  Now her hair was so long that when she untied it the raven locks hung down to the ground.

One day, when her father was off on a hunt, she went out on top of the house and sat combing her long and beautiful hair, on the eaves of the lodge, when the buffalo king, coming suddenly by, caught her glossy hair, and winding it about his horns, tossed her onto his shoulders and carried her to his village.  Here he paid every attention to gain her affections, but all to no purpose, for she sat pensively and disconsolate in the lodge among the other females, and scarcely ever spoke, and took no part in the domestic cares