“Good morning, women who are dipping water,” said Kanag. “Tell Gawigawen that he must prepare, for I am coming to fight him.”
So all the women ran up to the town and told Gawigawen that a strange boy was at the spring and he had come to fight.
“Go and tell him,” said Gawigawen, “that if it is true that he is brave, he will come into the town, if he can.”
When Kanag reached the high bank outside the town, he jumped like a flitting bird up the bank into the town and went straight to the spirit house of Gawigawen. He noticed that the roofs of both the dwelling and the spirit houses were of hair, and that around the town were many heads,[40] and he pondered:
“This is why my father did not return. Gawigawen is a brave man, but I will kill him.”
As soon as Gawigawen saw him in the yard he said:
“How brave you are, little boy; why did you come here?”
“I came to get my father,” answered Kanag; “for you kept him when he came to get oranges for my mother. If you do not give him to me, I will kill you.”
Gawigawen laughed at this brave speech and said:
“Why, one of my fingers will fight you. You shall never go back to your town, but you shall stay here and be like your father.”