Note 38 — Chapter II · MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE OF THE TIMAGAMI OJIBWA.

The next morning the Indians came to the lake and broke the Beaver’s houses, and the big Beaver told the young ones, “When you see a dog passing, whistle.” So the young Beavers went to different places under the ice and when they saw a dog passing, they whistled and all were thus caught and killed by the men. But the big Beaver didn’t whistle, and he escaped. The Indians said, “Where’s the big Beaver?” Then they went back and had a big feast on those they had caught. In those days people used to cut a flat bone from the hind foot of the beaver and throw it into the water, so that the dogs wouldn’t get it. These hunters, however, made a mistake and forgot to save that bone. They lost it.38