“Keep out on the plains,” they said. But it was too late to profit by this advice, for they had already got entangled in the thick woods. Paup-puk-keewiss soon scented the hunters, who were closely following his trail, for they had left all the others and were making after him in full cry. He jumped furiously, dashed through the underwood, and broke down whole groves of saplings in his flight. But this only made it the harder for him to get on, such a huge and lusty elk was he by his own request. Presently, as he dashed past an open space, he felt an arrow in his side. They could not well miss it, he presented so wide a mark to the shot. He bounded over trees under the smart, but the shafts clattered thicker and thicker at his ribs, and at last one entered his heart. He fell to the ground, and heard the whoop of triumph sounded by the hunters. On coming up, they looked on the carcass with astonishment, and with their hands up to their mouths, exclaimed: “_Ty-au! ty-au!_” There were about sixty in the party, who had come out on a special hunt, as one of their number had, the day before, observed his large tracks on the plains. When they had skinned him his flesh grew cold and his spirit took its flight from the dead body, and Paup-puk-keewiss found himself in human shape, with a bow and arrows. But his passion for adventure was not yet cooled; for, on coming to a large lake with a sandy beach, he saw a large flock of brant, and speaking to them in the brant language, he requested them to make a brant of him. “Yes,” they replied at once, for the brant is a bird of a very obliging disposition. “But I want to be very large,” he said. There was no end to the ambition of Paup-puk-keewiss. “Very well,” they answered; and he soon found himself a large brant, all the others standing gazing in astonishment at his great size. “You must fly as leader,” they said. “No,” answered Paup-puk-keewiss; “I will fly behind.” “Very well,” rejoined the brant. “One thing more we have to say to you Brother Paup-puk-keewiss” (for he had told them his name); “you must be careful, in flying, not to look down, for something may happen to you.”