of her lover the king.  He, on the contrary, did everything he could think of to please her and win her affections.  He told the others in his lodge to give her everything she wanted, and to be careful not to displease her.  They set before her the choicest food.  They gave her the seat of honor in the lodge.  The king himself went out hunting to obtain the most dainty bits of meat.  And not content with these proofs of his attachment he fasted himself, and would often take his flute and sit near the lodge indulging his mind in repeating a few pensive notes: 

     My sweetheart,
     My sweetheart,
       Ah me! 
     When I think of you,
     When I think of you,
       Ah me! 
     How I love you,
     How I love you,
       Ah me! 
     Do not hate me,
     Do not hate me,
       Ah me!

In the meantime Aggodagauda had returned from his hunt, and finding his daughter gone, determined to recover her.  During her flight her long hair had caught on the branches and broken them, and it was by following these broken twigs that he tracked her.  When he came to the king’s lodge it was evening.  He cautiously peeped in and saw his daughter sitting disconsolately.  She caught his eye, and, in order to meet him, said to the king, “Give me a dipper, I will go and get you a drink of water.”  Delighted with this token of submission, the king allowed her to go to the river.  There she met her father and escaped with him.

THE HAUNTED GROVE

Leelinau was the favorite daughter of an Odjibwa hunter, living on the shore of Lake Superior.  From her earliest youth she was observed to be pensive and timid, and to spend much of her time in solitude and fasting.  Whenever she could leave her father’s lodge she would fly to the remote haunts and recesses of the woods, or sit upon some high promontory of rock overhanging the lake.  But her favorite place was a forest of pines known as the Sacred Grove.  It was supposed to be inhabited by a class of fairies who love romantic scenes.  This spot Leelinau visited often, gathering on the way strange flowers or plants to bring home.  It was there that she fasted, supplicated, and strolled.

The effect of these visits was to make the girl melancholy and dissatisfied with the realities of life.  She did not care to play with the other young people.  Nor did she favor the plan of her parents to marry her to a man much her senior in years, but a reputed chief.  No attention was paid to her disinclination, and the man was informed that his offer had been favorably received.  The day for the marriage was fixed and the guests invited.