He looked at me before he dived, and as we looked in each other's eyes I knew he was a Manito; but he is evil, and my father said, 'When an evil Manito comes to trouble you, you must kill him.' "One day, when I swam after a dead duck, he took me by the toe, but I reached shallow water and escaped him; and once I drove my fish-spear in his back, but it was not strong enough to hold him.

Once he caught Skookum's tail, but the hair came out; the dog has not since swum across the pond.
"Twice I have seen him like today and might have killed him with the gun, but I want to meet him fighting.

Many a time I have sat on the bank and sung to him the 'Coward's Song,' and dared him to come and fight in the shallow water where we are equals.

He hears me.

He does not come.
"I know he made me sick last winter; even now he is making trouble with his evil magic.