once a hunter was so quick of foot that when he shot his arrow at a beaver plunging into the lake from the shore, he would run down, catch the beaver by the tail before the arrow got to it, and hold it until the arrow struck. he was a fast runner indeed.
- related by aleck paul, second chief of timagami band, to frank speck, myths and folk-lore of the timiskaming algonquin and timagami ojibwa, gsc memoir 71, no. 9, anthropological series, 1915.
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