After wandering a long time he came to the lodge of Manabozho, who was absent. He thought he must play him a trick; and so he turned everything in the lodge upside down and killed his birds, of which there was an extraordinary attendance. For Manabozho is master of the fowls of the air, and this was the appointed morning for them to call and pay their court to him. Among the number was a raven, accounted the meanest of birds, which Grasshopper killed and hung up by the neck, as an insult.
He then went on till he came to a very high point of rocks running ont into the lake, from the top of which he could see the country, back as far as the eye could reach. While sitting there, Manabozho's mountain chickens flew around and past him in great numbers. Out of mere spite to their master, Grassh
