Where thou didst vent thy groans, As fast as mill-wheels strike." Similarly Miss Emerson, in her "Indian Myths" (1884, p.

134), quotes the story of "The Two Branches": "One day there was a great noise in a tree under which Manabozho was taking a nap.

It grew louder, and, at length exasperated, he leaped into the tree, caught the two branches whose war was the occasion of the din, and pulled them asunder.

But with a spring on either hand, the two branches caught and pinioned Manabozho between them.

Three days the god remained imprisoned, during which his outcries and lamentations were the subject of derision from every quarter--from the birds of the air, and from the animals of the woods and plains.