Note 31 — FICTION (continued 2)

The next morning they heard the whooping of some one in pursuit. The younger brother said, “My brother has come to life again and is following; he will destroy us if he can overtake us.” Thereupon he turned the woman into a half-decayed stump and, taking off his moccasins and telling them to run on ahead,31 he secreted himself a short distance away. “Go quickly through swamps and thicket and over mountains and ravines, and come to me by a round-about way at noon tomorrow,” he said to the moccasins.