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The boys , however , were not much frightened , and they eagerly set off on their journey . `` They were especially warned by their anxious mother not to go to the east , as there was a narrow lake there to which many of these evil creatures came for water , especially a great monster wolf that had devoured many people . Yet they immediately started off in that direction , for , like some other boys , they did not obey even their mother . It was noon before they reached the lake . At first , as they examined it , everything seemed very quiet and still . '' ` Mother must have been mistaken , ' said Sesigizit ; ` I do not see any living thing here . ' `` But as they wandered farther along the shore , suddenly Ooseemeeid cried out : '' ' O see that great wolf on the other side ! '