***SHU-001***
          SH001                                                       SH00100010
     IN THE REMOTEST ANTIQUITY, THE COUNTRY WAS PEOPLED BY INDIANS,   SH00100020
BUT THEY WERE POOR, BECAUSE THE SALMON COULD NOT ASCEND THE FRASER    SH00100030
ON ACCOUNT OF A DAM, WHICH TWO OLD HAGS OR WITCHES HAD MADE WHERE     SH00100040
HELL-GATE CANON NOW IS.  SKIL-AP' TOLD THE PEOPLE THAT HE WOULD GO    SH00100050
DOWN THE RIVER AND BREAK THE DAM, SO THAT THE SALMON MIGHT COME UP.   SH00100060
HE INSTRUCTED THEM TO WATCH FOR A GREAT SMOKE WHICH HE WOULD MAKE     SH00100070
TO SHOW THEM WHEN HE HAD SET OUT ON HIS RETURN.  HE THEN              SH00100080
TRANSFORMED HIMSELF INTO A SMOOTH FLAT PIECE OF WOOD, WELL SHAPED,    SH00100090
AND FLOATED DOWN THE RIVER TILL HE LODGED AGAINST THE DAM AT          SH00100100
HELL-GATE CANON.  SOON THE WOMEN CAME TO THE DAM TO GET SALMON,       SH00100110
AND SEEING THE PIECE OF WOOD SAID, "WE WILL MAKE A PLATE OF THIS."    SH00100120
THEY TOOK THE WOOD AND THREE TIMES PUT SALMON UPON IT, BUT EACH       SH00100130
TIME THE FISH DISAPPEARED, FOR SKIL-AP' ATE IT.  THEY THEN BECAME     SH00100140
SUSPICIOUS AND THREW THE WOOD UPON THE FIRE, BUT NO SOONER HAD THEY   SH00100150
DONE SO THAN IT BEGAN TO CRY LIKE A CHILD, AND APPARENTLY TURNED      SH00100160
INTO A MAN CHILD, FOR THEY SNATCHED IT FROM THE FIRE, AND HAVING      SH00100170
WASHED AND DRESSED IT, PROCEEDED TO CARE FOR IT.  BY DEGREES THE      SH00100180
BOY GREW, AND THE WOMEN ALWAYS KEPT HIM TIED UP TO PREVENT HIM FROM   SH00100190
GETTING TO THE FIRE.  BUT WHEN THE WOMEN WENT AWAY SKIL-AP' USED      SH00100200
TO FEAST ON THEIR SALMON AND OTHER GOOD THINGS.  AT LENGTH, WHEN ON   SH00100210
ONE OCCASION THE WOMEN WERE ABSENT, HE PUT A HARD COVERING OF SOME    SH00100220
KIND ON HIS HEAD, SO AS TO RENDER HIMSELF INVULNERABLE, AND BEGAN     SH00100230
TO DIG AT AND BREAK DOWN THE DAM.  WHEN HIS OBJECT WAS ONLY PARTLY    SH00100240
ACCOMPLISHED, HOWEVER, THE WOMEN RETURNED AND ASSAILED HIM WITH       SH00100250
CLUBS, BUT WERE UNABLE TO HURT HIM.  THUS HE DESTROYED THE DAM, AND   SH00100260
WHEN HE HAD DONE SO THE SALMON BEGAN TO GO UP, TUMBLING ONE OVER      SH00100270
THE OTHER, IN GREAT NUMBERS.  THEN HE FOLLOWED THE BANK OF THE        SH00100280
RIVER, KEEPING ABREAST OF THE VANGUARD OF THE SALMON, AND MAKING A    SH00100290
GREAT SMOKE BY SETTING FIRE TO THE WOODS AS HE PROCEEDED, SO THAT     SH00100300
THE PEOPLE KNEW THAT HE WAS COMING.  JUST BELOW SAVONA (AT THE        SH00100310
OUTLET OF KAMLOOPS LAKE) HE STOPPED TO EAT, AND MADE THERE A DAM OR   SH00100320
WEIR TO CATCH SOME SALMON AT A PLACE WHERE SOME HIGH ROCKS MAY        SH00100330
STILL BE SEEN.                                                        SH00100340
     WHEN SKIL-AP' GOT AS FAR UP THE THOMPSON AS THE MOUTH OF THE     SH00100350
CLEARWATER, HE FOUND THE PEOPLE MAKING A SALMON-DAM, AND TOLD THEM    SH00100360
HE WOULD COMPLETE IT FOR THEM.  THERE TO THE PRESENT DAY ARE STEEP    SH00100370
ROCKS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE RIVER, AND ABOVE THEM IS A LARGE POOL     SH00100380
OR BASIN WHERE HE FISHED WITH HIS SCOOP-NET, AND WHICH IS A NOTED     SH00100390
SALMON FISHING PLACE YET.  ON THE ROCKS MAY BE SEEN THE PRINTS OF     SH00100400
HIS FEET WHERE HE STOOD TO FISH.                                      SH00100410
     THUS THE SALMON WERE ENABLED TO ASCEND INTO ALL THE RIVERS OF    SH00100420
THE SHUSWAP COUNTRY.                                                  SH00100430
***SHU-002***
          SH002                                                       SH00200010
     SKIL-AP', IT SEEMS (OF WHOSE ORIGIN I WAS UNABLE TO LEARN        SH00200020
ANYTHING DEFINITE,) HAD A BROTHER, THE FOX (HO-AL-UM), WHOM HE        SH00200030
KILLED IN ORDER TO POSSESS HIS WIFE.  HAVING DONE THIS HE TRAVELLED   SH00200040
OFF WITH THE WOMAN, SINGING "CHO-TO-SE, CHO-TO-SE, I HAVE KILLED MY   SH00200050
BROTHER, AND NOW I WILL KILL ALL THE PEOPLE I MEET."  SOON HE FOUND   SH00200060
SOME PEOPLE AND KILLED THEM, TAKING TWO MORE WOMEN.  WITH HIS THREE   SH00200070
WIVES HE STILL TRAVELLED ON AND ON, TILL AT LENGTH THE FEET OF THE    SH00200080
WOMEN BECAME SORE WITH WALKING.  THEN HE RESTED TWO DAYS, BUT HIS     SH00200090
TWO NEW WIVES WERE STILL UNABLE TO TRAVEL , SO HE KILLED THEM AND     SH00200100
WENT ON HIS WAY WITH THE WOMAN HE HAD TAKEN FROM HIS BROTHER; BUT     SH00200110
AT LAST EVEN SHE BECAME FOOTSORE, AND HE KILLED HER ALSO.  STILL      SH00200120
GOING ON, BUT NOW ALONE, HE CAME AT LENGTH TO A PLACE WHERE SOME      SH00200130
GRAVES WERE, AND SAYING TO HIMSELF, "I WILL TAKE ONE OF THESE         SH00200140
PEOPLE FOR A WIFE," HE UNCOVERED THE BODY OF A WOMAN AND LAY DOWN     SH00200150
BESIDE IT TO SLEEP.  WHEN HE AWOKE HE WENT OUT HUNTING AND KILLED A   SH00200160
FAWN, WHICH HE BROUGHT AND THREW DOWN, SAYING TO THE DEAD BODY,       SH00200170
"GET UP AND COOK, HERE IS MEAT;" BUT THERE WAS NO RESPONSE, AND       SH00200180
FINDING ALL HIS EFFORTS TO AWAKE THE DEAD USELESS, HE STRUCK THE      SH00200190
BODY, SPOKE CONTEMPTUOUSLY TO IT, AND WENT ON HIS WAY AGAIN, ALONE.   SH00200200
NEXT HE TOOK TO WIFE A SHORT-TAILED MOUSE, AND WITH HER LIVED SOME    SH00200210
TIME, TILL SHE BORE HIM A SON NAMED SKA-TLALEST.  BUT ONE DAY HE      SH00200220
FOUND HIS NEW WIFE SKINNING A DEER, AND COVERED WITH BLOOD IN         SH00200230
CONSEQUENCE.  THIS MADE HIM ANGRY, AND HE ABUSED HER AND SAID, "WHY   SH00200240
DO YOU NOT GO OUTSIDE," WHEN SHE RAN AWAY AND HE WAS UNABLE TO FIND   SH00200250
HER AGAIN.  IT WAS AFTER THIS EVENT, ACCORDING TO MY INFORMANT,       SH00200260
THAT HE SET OUT ON HIS EXPEDITION TO OPEN THE WAY FOR THE ASCENT OF   SH00200270
THE SALMON FROM THE SEA.                                              SH00200280
***SHU-003***
          SH003                                                       SH00300010
     THE END OF SKIL-AP' IS THUS RELATED.  WHEN AT ONE TIME HE WAS    SH00300020
TRAVELLING UP THE SOUTH BRANCH OF THE THOMPSON RIVER, ON THE NORTH    SH00300030
BANK, AND HAD ARRIVED AT A PLACE NOT FAR BELOW THE OUTLET OF LITTLE   SH00300040
SHUSWAP LAKE, HE MET A TERRIBLE BEING WHO ATE MEN AND APPEARED TO     SH00300050
BE NOTHING BUT SKIN AND BONE.  SKIL-AP''S SON WAS WITH HIM ON THIS    SH00300060
JOURNEY.  HE TOLD HIS SON TO SIT DOWN AND WAIT, AND ADVANCED ALONE    SH00300070
TOWARD THE CANNIBAL, WHO WAS PREPARING TO KILL HIM.  "WAIT A BIT,"    SH00300080
SAID SKIL-AP', "I ALSO AM AN EATER OF MEN LIKE YOURSELF."  THE        SH00300090
CANNIBAL DOUBTED THIS, BUT SKIL-AP' PROPOSED THAT IN ORDER TO         SH00300100
PROVE IT BOTH SHOULD VOMIT.  SO THEY SAT DOWN OPPOSITE EACH OTHER     SH00300110
AND SHUT THEIR EYES.  THE CANNIBAL VOMITED FIRST AND PRODUCED THE     SH00300120
HALF OF A MAN.  SKIL-AP' FOLLOWED, BUT SUCCEEDED ONLY IN PRODUCING    SH00300130
A MAT WHICH HE HAD SWALLOWED; BUT USING HIS MAGIC POWER HE QUICKLY    SH00300140
TRANSFORMED THIS INTO A PORTION OF A HUMAN BEING.  "NOW OPEN YOUR     SH00300150
EYES," HE CRIED, BUT JUST AT THIS MOMENT HE AND THE CANNIBAL AND      SH00300160
THE BOY, WHO WAS SITTING AT A LITTLE DISTANCE, WERE TURNED TO         SH00300170
STONE.  THUS ENDED THE CAREER OF SKIL-AP', AND THE STONES INTO        SH00300180
WHICH THE TRIO WERE CHANGED MAY STILL BE SEEN, TWO RESTING CLOSE      SH00300190
TOGETHER AND THE THIRD, REPRESENTING THE BOY, AT A LITTLE DISTANCE.   SH00300200
***SHU-004***
          SH004                                                       SH00400010
     SIN-KA-YAP (SKIL-AP') CAME TO THE WORLD OR GROUND OR  COUNTRY    SH00400020
BEFORE MAN.  HE WAS LIKE UNTO A MAN WITH WINGS, AND MADE MAN AND      SH00400030
EVERYTHING UPON THE EARTH.  AT ONE TIME HE SAW A TREE, AND IN THE     SH00400040
TREE WAS A NEST UPON WHICH WAS A BEAUTIFUL BIRD.  HE TOLD             SH00400050
N-KIK-SAM-TAM, HIS SON, TO CLIMB THE TREE AND OBTAIN THE BIRD FOR     SH00400060
HIM.  N-KIK-SAM-TAM HAD TWO WIVES, AND ONE THESE SIN-KA-YAP CAUSED    SH00400070
IT TO GROW HIGHER, AND THEREFORE N-KIK-SAM-TAM COULD NOT REACH THE    SH00400080
NEST, BUT BECAME TIRED AND WISHED TO RETURN TO THE GROUND.            SH00400090
SIN-KA-YAP, HOWEVER, ENCOURAGED HIS SON TO GO ON AND TOLD HIM HE      SH00400100
WOULD SOON GET TO THE BIRD, AND THE SON PERSEVERED, WHILE THE TREE    SH00400110
GREW TILL AT LENGTH IT REACHED THE SKY.  THERE N-KIK-SAM-TAM FOUND    SH00400120
HIMSELF IN A STRANGE COUNTRY, WHERE HE MET TWO OLD MEN WHOM HE HAD    SH00400130
KNOWN ON THE EARTH BEFORE THEY DIED.  HE ASKED THEM HOW HE COULD      SH00400140
GET BACK TO THE EARTH, AND THEY SAID THAT THEY WOULD MAKE A LONG      SH00400150
ROPE AND LOWER HIM DOWN.  THIS THEY DID, AND ALSO CONSTRUCTED A       SH00400160
BASKET, WHICH WAS FASTENED TO THE ROPE, HANGING BY FOUR CORNERS.      SH00400170
THEY THEN TOLD N-KIK-SAM-TAM THAT IN DESCENDING HE WOULD REACH        SH00400180
FOUR DIFFERENT REGIONS OR PLACES.  ONE, THEY SAID, WILL BE WET;       SH00400190
THAT IS NOT THE EARTH.  ONE WILL BE COLD; THAT IS NOT THE EARTH.      SH00400200
ONE WILL BE FOGGY; THAT IS NOT THE EARTH.  BUT WHEN YOU HEAR THE      SH00400210
CROWS CAWING YOU WILL BE NEAR THE EARTH.  YOU MUST THEN SWAY THE      SH00400220
BASKET, AND WE WILL LET YOU DOWN GENTLY.  N-KIK-SAM-TAM REACHED       SH00400230
THE EARTH THUS AT TL-KAM-CHEEN (LYTTON), AND THE STONE UPON WHICH     SH00400240
HE DESCENDED MAY STILL BE SEEN.  A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WERE        SH00400250
GOING FROM LYTTON TO BOTANIE AT THE TIME HE CAME DOWN.  HE JOINED     SH00400260
THE CROWD AND WENT WITH THEM, FOLLOWING ONE OF HIS WIVES WHO HAD      SH00400270
BEEN TRUE TO HIM WHILE THE OTHER HAD ABANDONED HIM FOR HIS FATHER.    SH00400280
WHEN THEY REACHED BOTANIE THE WOMAN TURNED ROUND AND RECOGNIZED       SH00400290
HIM, AND THE TWO AFTERWARDS LIVED TOGETHER.                           SH00400300
***SHU-005***
          SH005                                                       SH00500010
     KWIL-I-ELT' HAD NO RECOGNIZED FATHER NOR ANY OTHER RELATIVE      SH00500020
BUT HIS MOTHER, AND WAS THE OFFSPRING OF THE UNION OF THE WOMAN,      SH00500030
HIS MOTHER, WITH A ROOT WHICH IS EATEN BY THE INDIANS FOR FOOD AND    SH00500040
IS NAMED KO-KWE'-LA.  HIS NAME IS A SYNONYM OF THE ORDINARY NAME OF   SH00500050
THIS ROOT AND SIGNIFIES "THE STRAIGHT."  THE ROOT IN QUESTION GROWS   SH00500060
ON THE BORDERS OF RIVERS AND STREAMS.  WHEN THE SON KWIL-I-ELT'       SH00500070
GREW UP, HE BECAME A GREAT HUNTER AND KILLED MANY DEER FOR HIS        SH00500080
MOTHER, WHO LIVED AT KWI-KOOI', AT THE LOWER END OF ADAMS LAKE.  HE   SH00500090
OFTEN ASKED HIS MOTHER WHO HIS FATHER WAS, BUT SHE WAS ASHAMED OF     SH00500100
THE UNION WHICH HAD RESULTED IN HIS BIRTH, AND TOLD HIM HIS FATHER    SH00500110
WAS DEAD.  NOW IT HAPPENED THAT HE PASSED BY A ROOT OF THE            SH00500120
KO-KWE'-LA, AND IT MADE A PECULIAR SOUND.  THIS HE NOTICED THREE      SH00500130
TIMES, BUT COULD NOT SEE WHAT MADE THE SOUND; BUT A FOURTH TIME HE    SH00500140
SPIED THE ROOT, AND IT SAID "I AM YOUR FATHER."  THIS MADE HIM SO     SH00500150
MUCH ASHAMED THAT HE WENT BACK TO THE LODGE AND LAY DOWN THERE        SH00500160
THREE DAYS WITHOUT SPEAKING A WORD.  AFTER THIS HE ROSE UP AND WENT   SH00500170
OUT HUNTING, AND WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT IN A GOOD STORE OF MEAT, HE      SH00500180
BITTERLY REPROACHED HIS MOTHER, AND TOLD HER THAT HE WAS ABOUT TO     SH00500190
GO AWAY AND WOULD NEVER RETURN TO HER.  HIS MOTHER THEN TOLD HIM OF   SH00500200
ALL THE EVIL AND MALIGNANT MONSTERS WHICH AT THAT TIME LIVED IN THE   SH00500210
COUNTRY FURTHER DOWN THE RIVER, AND HE FORMED THE RESOLVE TO          SH00500220
EXTIRPATE THEM.                                                       SH00500230
***SHU-006***
          SH006                                                       SH00600010
     WHEN KWIL-I-ELT' LEFT HIS BIRTHPLACE IN THIS WISE, HE            SH00600020
TRAVELLED DOWN THE THOMPSON RIVER AND THEN UP THE FRASER, COMING AT   SH00600030
LAST TO THE PLACE WHERE HIS CAREER ENDED IN THE MANNER SUBSEQUENTLY   SH00600040
RELATED.  MOST OF HIS WONDERFUL DEEDS WERE PERFORMED ON THAT PART     SH00600050
OF THE THOMPSON BETWEEN THE LOWER END OF KAMLOOPS LAKE AND SPENCE'S   SH00600060
BRIDGE.  WHEN ON HIS WAY, NOT FAR BELOW KAMLOOPS LAKE, TWO BROTHERS   SH00600070
WHO WERE OF THE SAME OLD SUPERNATURAL CHARACTER AS HIMSELF, SPIED     SH00600080
HIM.  THESE WERE NAMED KLE-SA AND TOOK-IM-IN-ELST'.  THEY SAID,"WE    SH00600090
WILL HAVE SOME FUN WITH THIS TRAVELLER;" AND AS HE WAS PASSING        SH00600100
ALONG THE EDGE OF THE RIVER, BY WAY OF A JOKE, THEY KICKED DOWN A     SH00600110
HUGE PIECE OF THE HILLSIDE UPON HIM.  BUT WHEN THE GREAT DUST WHICH   SH00600120
AROSE CLEARED AWAY THERE WAS KWIL-I-ELT' UNHURT AND WALKING ALONG     SH00600130
QUITE UNCONCERNED.  FOUR TIMES THE BROTHERS REPEATED THIS TRICK,      SH00600140
BUT ALWAYS WITH THE SAME RESULT, AND THE LAST TIME KWIL-I-ELT'        SH00600150
SPOKE, SAYING, "WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO, YOU CANNOT INJURE ME."     SH00600160
THEN THE THREE HELD A CONFERENCE TOGETHER AND FORMED A PACT,          SH00600170
BECOMING AS BROTHERS AND BANDING TOGETHER FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING   SH00600180
THINGS RIGHT IN THE WORLD AND DESTROYING THE MONSTERS WHICH LIVED     SH00600190
IN IT.  IT APPEARS ALSO THAT KWIL-I-ELT' MET SKIL-AP' WHEN THE        SH00600200
LATTER WAS ON HIS WAY TO OPEN A PASSAGE FOR THE SALMON UP THE         SH00600210
FRASER, AND THAT KWIL-I-ELT' WITH HIS TWO FRIENDS AND SKIL-AP' HELD   SH00600220
A FEAST TOGETHER AND ARRANGED WHAT ROUTES THEY WOULD RESPECTIVELY     SH00600230
FOLLOW, AFTER WHICH KWIL-I-ELT', KLE-SA' AND TOOK-IM-IN-ELST'         SH00600240
PARTED FROM SKIL-AP', WHO NEVER MET THEM AGAIN.                       SH00600250
***SHU-007***
          SH007                                                       SH00700010
     A TRIAL OF STRENGTH WAS ARRANGED, KWI-I-ELT' PROPOSING THAT      SH00700020
EACH SHOULD PUSH HIS HEAD AGAINST A ROCK AND SEE WHICH COULD MAKE     SH00700030
THE DEEPEST IMPRESSION. KLE-SA' AND TOOK-IM-IN-ELST' TRIED FIRST,     SH00700040
AND EACH MANAGED TO MAKE A SHALLOW IMPRESSION, BUT KWIL-I-ELT'        SH00700050
FOLLOWED AND PRESSED HIS HEAD IN TO THE SHOULDERS.  THIS HAPPENED     SH00700060
AT A PLACE NEAR THE MOUTH OF HAT CREEK, AND THE NAME OF THIS STREAM   SH00700070
AS NOW GIVEN IS DERIVED FROM THIS STORY, AND FROM THE CIRCUMSTANCE    SH00700080
THAT THE IMPRESSIONS MADE IN THE ROCK AT THIS TIME ARE STILL SHOWN    SH00700090
BY THE INDIANS.                                                       SH00700100
***SHU-008***
          SH008                                                       SH00800010
     AT ANOTHER PLACE THERE WAS AN EAGLE MONSTER WHICH KILLED MEN.    SH00800020
KWIL-I-ELT' PROPOSED TO ATTACK IT.  HE HAD CONCEALED ABOUT HIM A      SH00800030
STONE WEAPON OF SOME KIND, AND UNKNOWN TO HIS TWO FRIENDS HAD         SH00800040
FILLED ONE SIDE OF HIS MOUTH WITH RED PAINT, WHICH HE HAD BROUGHT     SH00800050
WITH HIM OR OBTAINED FROM THE PAINT LOCALITY MENTIONED AS EXISTING    SH00800060
ON ADAMS LAKE.  THE OTHER SIDE OF HIS MOUTH WAS FILLED WITH WHITE     SH00800070
EARTH.  WHEN HE APPROACHED THE EAGLE, HIS FRIENDS WATCHING, IT        SH00800080
SWOOPED DOWN ON HIM, AND SEIZING HIM BY THE HEAD IN ITS CLAWS,        SH00800090
CARRIED HIM UP TO A HIGH ROCK, AGAINST WHICH IT ENDEAVOURED TO DASH   SH00800100
HIM.  KWIL-I-ELT', HOWEVER, WARDED OFF THE BLOW BY MEANS OF HIS       SH00800110
WEAPON, AND AT THE SAME TIME SPAT OUT THE RED PAINT ON THE ROCK.      SH00800120
HIS FRIENDS SAID, "HE IS DEAD, SEE HIS BLOOD."  THE EAGLE AGAIN       SH00800130
ATTEMPTED TO DASH HIM ON THE ROCK, WHEREUPON HE SPAT OUT THE WHITE    SH00800140
EARTH, AND HIS FRIENDS SAID, "SEE HIS BRAINS."  THEN THE EAGLE,       SH00800150
ALSO THINKING HIM TO BE DEAD, CARRIED HIM TO ITS NEST, WHERE TWO      SH00800160
EAGLETS WERE, BUT KWIL-I-ELT' STRUCK THE EAGLE WITH HIS WEAPON AND    SH00800170
KILLED IT, AND TOLD THE EAGLETS, WHICH COULD ALREADY FLY, THAT THEY   SH00800180
MUST TAKE HIM DOWN TO HIS FRIENDS, TO THE VERY PLACE WHERE HE HAD     SH00800190
LEFT THEM.  THIS THEY WERE OBLIGED TO DO, ONE SUPPORTING HIM UNDER    SH00800200
EACH ARM.  THEN HE PULLED OUT THEIR TAIL-FEATHERS, SAYING, "BE YOU    SH00800210
ONLY COMMON EAGLES, ABLE TO HARM NO MAN," AND LET THEM GO.  I DID     SH00800220
NOT ASCERTAIN TO WHAT PLACE THIS STORY IS AFFIXED.                    SH00800230
***SHU-009***
          SH009                                                       SH00900010
     AT THE OUTLET OF KAMLOOPS LAKE THERE WAS AN ELK MONSTER, WHICH   SH00900020
LIVED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER AND KILLED AND ATE MEN.              SH00900030
KWIL-I-ELT' MADE A RAFT, WHILE THE OTHERS LOOKED ON AS BEFORE.        SH00900040
THIS DONE HE EMBARKED AND FLOATED DOWN THE STREAM, WHEN, BEFORE       SH00900050
LONG, THE ELK SEIZED AND SWALLOWED HIM.  HIS FRIENDS AGAIN THOUGHT    SH00900060
THEY HAD SEEN THE LAST OF HIM, BUT KWIL-I-ELT' STABBED THE ELK IN     SH00900070
HEART WITH THE WEAPON HE CARRIED, AND THEN CUT HIS WAY OUT OF ITS     SH00900080
BELLY AND CAME TO SHORE, BRINGING THE ELK WITH HIM, AND INVITING      SH00900090
HIS FRIENDS TO EAT SOME OF THE MEAT.  AS TO THE ELK, HE REDUCED IT    SH00900100
TO ITS PRESENT POSITION, SAYING TO IT, "YOU WILL NO LONGER KILL       SH00900110
MEN, THEY WILL IN FUTURE ALWAYS KILL YOU."                            SH00900120
***SHU-010***
          SH010                                                       SH01000010
     NEXT THE TWO FRIENDS OF KWIL-I-ELT' TOLD HIM THAT THERE WERE     SH01000020
TWO BAD WOMEN OR WITCHES, WITH SUPERNATURAL POWERS, ON THE            SH01000030
THOMPSON, ABOUT FOUR MILES FURTHER DOWN THAT RIVER, WHO DANCED        SH01000040
THERE UPON A HIGH ROCK, AND THAT PEOPLE PASSING BY WHO STOPPED TO     SH01000050
LOOK AT THEM WERE TURNED TO STONE.  SO KWIL-I-ELT' WENT TO THE        SH01000060
PLACE, AND AFTER WATCHING THE WOMEN DANCE FOR SOME TIME, CHANGED      SH01000070
THEM INTO TWO ROCKS, WHICH ARE THERE TO THIS DAY.                     SH01000080
***SHU-011***
          SH011                                                       SH01100010
     THE BADGER WAS ALSO IN THIS EARLY TIME A FORMIDABLE MONSTER,     SH01100020
AND HAD ITS LODGE STORED WITH DEAD MEN, COLLECTED FOR FOOD.           SH01100030
KWIL-I-ELT' CAUGHT THE BADGER, AND STRIKING HIM ON THE HEAD SAID,     SH01100040
"HEREAFTER YOU WILL BE NOTHING BUT A COMMON BADGER, ABLE ONLY TO      SH01100050
FIGHT WITH DOGS WHEN THEY ATTACK YOU."  HE FURTHER BROUGHT TO LIFE    SH01100060
AGAIN ALL THE PEOPLE WHOM HE FOUND DEAD.                              SH01100070
***SHU-012***
          SH012                                                       SH01200010
     WHEN KWIL-I-ELT' AND HIS TWO FRIENDS HAD TRAVELLED SOME WAY UP   SH01200020
THE FRASER VALLEY, THOUGH I WAS UNABLE TO LEARN HOW FAR, THEY SAW     SH01200030
FOUR WOMEN DANCING TOGETHER ON A HIGH ROCK.  THESE WOMEN WERE ALSO    SH01200040
WITCHES, AND KWIL-I-ELT' PROPOSED TO DEAL WITH THEM AS HE HAD THE     SH01200050
OTHERS, BUT HIS COMPANIONS PERSUADED HIM TO WATCH THEM DANCING FOR    SH01200060
A TIME, AS THEY WERE VERY FINE-LOOKING WOMEN. KWIL-I-ELT' SAT DOWN    SH01200070
FOR THIS PURPOSE, BUT NO SOONER HAD HE DONE SO THAN HE WAS TURNED     SH01200080
TO STONE, FOR THE MAGIC POWER OF THE WOMEN WAS GREATER THAN HIS.      SH01200090
NEXT HIS TWO FRIENDS WERE LIKEWISE CHANGED TO STONE, AND THE THREE    SH01200100
ROCKS STAND AT THE PLACE YET.  SUCH WAS THE END OF KWIL-I-ELT' AND    SH01200110
HIS FRIENDS.                                                          SH01200120
***SHU-013***
          SH013                                                       SH01300010
     LONG AGO THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN WHO WAS CALLED, OR REPRESENTED   SH01300020
IN SOME WAY, A GRIZZLY BEAR, AND WHO HAD NEITHER HUSBAND NOR          SH01300030
CHILDREN AND WAS VERY LONELY.  FOR THE SAKE OF COMPANIONSHIP SHE      SH01300040
PROCURED SOME PITCH AND SHAPED FROM IT THE FIGURE OF A GIRL, WHICH    SH01300050
BECAME HER DAUGHTER.  SHE STRICTLY ENJOINED THE GIRL, HOWEVER, THAT   SH01300060
WHEN SHE WENT INTO THE WATER TO BATHE SHE MUST NOT THEREAFTER SIT     SH01300070
OR LIE IN THE SUN TO GET WARM.  THIS SPECIAL ORDER THE GIRL OBEYED    SH01300080
ON THREE OCCASIONS, BUT ON A FOURTH, OVERCOME WITH CURIOSITY AND      SH01300090
NOT UNDERSTANDING THE REASON OF THE INJUNCTION, SHE SAT DOWN ON A     SH01300100
STONE IN THE SUN, AND SO BEFORE LONG MELTED WITH THE HEAT AND         SH01300110
DISAPPEARED.  THEN THE OLD WOMAN MADE A GIRL OUT OF CLAY, AND THIS    SH01300120
TIME TOLD HER DAUGHTER THAT SHE MIGHT BATHE AND DRY HERSELF IN THE    SH01300130
SUN IF SHE PLEASED, BUT MUST ON NO ACCOUNT RUB HERSELF WHEN IN THE    SH01300140
WATER.  THREE  TIMES , AS BEFORE, THE GIRL OBEYED, BUT ON THE         SH01300150
FOURTH DISOBEYED AND RUBBED HERSELF AWAY IN THE WATER AND WAS LOST.   SH01300160
SO AGAIN THE OLD WOMAN WAS ALONE, BUT SHE BETHOUGHT HERSELF, AND      SH01300170
NEXT MADE A DAUGHTER OUT OF A PIECE OF WOOD, TELLING THIS ONE THAT    SH01300180
SHE MIGHT BATHE, SWIM, BASK IN THE SUN OR DO WHAT SHE PLEASED.        SH01300190
THREE TIMES THE GIRL BATHED WITHOUT INCIDENT, BUT ON THE FOURTH, AS   SH01300200
SHE SAT ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER WITH HER BACK PARTLY TURNED          SH01300210
TOWARD IT, DRYING HERSELF, SHE SAW A FINE LARGE TROUT JUMP, AND       SH01300220
EXCLAIMED, "I WOULD LIKE WELL TO HAVE THAT FISH FOR MY HUSBAND."      SH01300230
TWICE AGAIN THE TROUT JUMPED, AND SHE REPEATED HER WISH, BUT ON THE   SH01300240
FOURTH OCCASION SHE FELT SOMETHING TOUCH HER BACK, AND TURNING        SH01300250
ROUND SAW A FINE YOUNG MAN STANDING BESIDE HER, WHO SAID, "YOU        SH01300260
WISHED ME FOR A HUSBAND; NOW I AM COME TO TAKE YOU."  SHE READILY     SH01300270
CONSENTED TO GO WITH HIM, SO HE TOOK HER ON HIS BACK AND TOLD HER     SH01300280
NOT TO OPEN HER EYES TILL HE GAVE HER PERMISSION TO DO SO.  THEN HE   SH01300290
SPRANG INTO THE RIVER AND DIVED TOWARD THE BOTTOM, BUT HALF WAY       SH01300300
DOWN THE GIRL OPENED HER EYES, WHEN INSTANTLY SHE FOUND HERSELF ON    SH01300310
THE BANK AGAIN.  THIS OCCURRED THREE TIMES, BUT ON THE FOURTH TRIAL   SH01300320
SHE MANAGED TO KEEP HER EYES CLOSED TILL HER LOVER ORDERED HER TO     SH01300330
OPEN THEM.  THEN SHE FOUND HERSELF WITH HER LOVER IN A GOOD           SH01300340
COUNTRY, SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHICH SHE HAD LEFT, BUT NOT THE SAME.    SH01300350
     IN THIS COUNTRY THE TWO LIVED FOR SOME TIME, AND TWO CHILDREN    SH01300360
WERE BORN TO THEM, A BOY AND A GIRL.  THERE WERE OTHER PEOPLE IN      SH01300370
THIS UNDER-WATER COUNTRY, HOWEVER, AND WHEN THE CHILDREN BEGAN TO     SH01300380
GROW LARGE THEY WERE TAUNTED BY BEING TOLD THAT THEY HAD NO           SH01300390
GRANDMOTHER, AND CAME TO THEIR MOTHER TO ASK HER WHY THIS WAS.  SHE   SH01300400
TOLD THEM THAT THEY HAD A GRANDMOTHER, BUT THAT SHE LIVED IN THE      SH01300410
UPPER COUNTRY.  THEY MIGHT, IF THEY PLEASED, GO UP THERE, AND IF      SH01300420
THEY DID SO WOULD SEE AN OLD WOMAN DIGGING ROOTS ON THE HILLSIDE      SH01300430
WHO WAS THEIR GRANDMOTHER.  THEY WERE NOT TO SPEAK TO HER, BUT        SH01300440
MIGHT GO TO HER HOUSE AND TAKE THERE WHATEVER THEY COULD FIND TO      SH01300450
EAT.  THIS PLEASED THE CHILDREN, WHO ACCORDINGLY THRICE WENT UP TO    SH01300460
THE UPPER COUNTRY, AND EACH TIME HAVING NOTED THE OLD WOMAN TO BE     SH01300470
HARD AT WORK ON THE HILL, WENT TO HER HOUSE AND HELPED THEMSELVES     SH01300480
TO FOOD.  THE WOMAN, HOWEVER, WHEN SHE RETURNED FROM HER WORK,        SH01300490
FOUND THAT FOOD HAD BEEN TAKEN AND SAW THE FOOTPRINTS OF THE          SH01300500
CHILDREN, AND SAID TO HERSELF THAT NONE BUT HER DAUGHTER'S CHILDREN   SH01300510
WOULD VISIT HER HOUSE IN THAT WAY.  SO SHE PREPARED SOME POTENT       SH01300520
"MEDICINE," AND THEN GOING TO A STUMP ON THE HILLSIDE WHERE SHE WAS   SH01300530
ACCUSTOMED TO WORK, TOLD THE STUMP THAT WHEN THE CHILDREN APPEARED    SH01300540
IT MUST MOVE AND SEEM TO BE A WOMAN DIGGING.  THE WOMAN THEN          SH01300550
CONCEALED HERSELF IN THE HOUSE, AND WHEN THE CHILDREN CAME THE        SH01300560
STUMP ACTED AS SHE HAD BIDDEN.  THE CHILDREN SPIED ABOUT, AND THE     SH01300570
BOY WAS SATISFIED THAT HE SAW THE OLD WOMAN AT WORK ON THE HILL,      SH01300580
BUT THE GIRL WAS SUSPICIOUS, SO THE BOY WENT FIRST ALONE TO THE       SH01300590
HOUSE, BUT SOON HE PERSUADED HIS SISTER TO FOLLOW HIM.  AS SOON AS    SH01300600
BOTH WERE IN THE HOUSE THE WOMAN THREW THE MEDICINE UPON THE          SH01300610
CHILDREN.  IT FELL ALL OVER THE BOY, BUT ONLY A PART REACHED THE      SH01300620
GIRL, AND SO THE FORMER WAS CHANGED TO AN ORDINARY HUMAN BEING,       SH01300630
WHILE THE GIRL BECAME A LITTLE DOG.                                   SH01300640
     THE WOMAN KEPT THE BOY, WHOSE NAME WAS TA-KUTL'-PIE'-E-HAS'K,    SH01300650
AND THE DOG, AND TOOK CARE OF BOTH, BUT THE BOY DID NOT KNOW THAT     SH01300660
THE DOG WAS HIS SISTER, AND THE WOMEN NEVER TOLD HIM THIS, BUT BADE   SH01300670
HIM ON NO ACCOUNT TO BEAT OR ILL-USE IT.  THE BOY SOON BEGAN TO       SH01300680
SHOOT WITH A BOW AND ARROWS, AND ONE DAY WAS SHOOTING THE             SH01300690
RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS.  THREE TIMES HE KILLED ONE OF THESE BIRDS,    SH01300700
BUT EACH TIME THE DOG RAN ON BEFORE HIM AND ATE THE BIRD.  THEN HE    SH01300710
BECAME ANGRY, AND WHEN THE SAME THING HAPPENED A FOURTH TIME HE       SH01300720
STRUCK THE DOG, BEATING IT WITH AN ARROW.  THEN THE DOG SPOKE,        SH01300730
SAYING, "WHY DO YOU BEAT ME, YOUR OWN SISTER?" AND RAN FROM HIM.      SH01300740
THE BOY FOLLOWED, BUT BEFORE HE COULD CATCH THE DOG IT TURNED INTO    SH01300750
A CHICKADEE AND FLEW AWAY.  VERY SAD, THE BOY RETURNED TO HIS         SH01300760
GRANDMOTHER AND ASKED HER WHY SHE HAD NOT TOLD HIM THAT THE DOG WAS   SH01300770
REALLY HIS SISTER, BUT SHE SAID TO HIM, "IF I HAD TOLD YOU PERHAPS    SH01300780
YOU WOULD BE MORE SORROWFUL THAN YOU NOW ARE."  SHE THEN WENT ON TO   SH01300790
TELL THE BOY, THAT IF WHEN SHOOTING, HIS ARROW SHOULD HAPPEN TO       SH01300800
LODGE IN A TREE OR ANYWHERE ABOVE HIS REACH, HOWEVER LITTLE, HE       SH01300810
MUST NOT CLIMB UP TO GET IT.  SOON AFTERWARDS HE THREE TIMES LOST     SH01300820
ARROWS IN THIS WAY, BUT A FOURTH TIME HIS ARROW STUCK IN A TREE NOT   SH01300830
FAR UP, AND HE CLIMBED ON A BRANCH TO GET IT; BUT THE ARROW           SH01300840
CONTINUED TO MOVE FURTHER UP, AND HE HAD TO CLIMB AFTER IT, AND       SH01300850
THOUGH HE THOUGHT HE HAD NOT GONE VERY FAR, HE LOOKED DOWN AFTER A    SH01300860
TIME AND FOUND THAT HE COULD NOT EVEN SEE THE EARTH.  SO HE WENT ON   SH01300870
CLIMBING, THE ARROW STILL GOING BEFORE HIM, TILL AT LAST HE REACHED   SH01300880
ANOTHER COUNTRY ABOVE, WHICH WAS VERY PLEASANT AND IN WHICH MANY      SH01300890
PEOPLE WERE, AND THERE HE REMAINED.  NOW THE OLD STUMP FIRST          SH01300900
MENTIONED IS THE REMNANT OF THIS VERY TREE.                           SH01300910
***SHU-014***
          SH014                                                       SH01400010
     VARIOUS MATERIALS WERE EMPLOYED BY THE SHUSWAPS FOR THE          SH01400020
MANUFACTURE OF ARROWHEADS AND SPEAR-HEADS, INCLUDING JASPER, QUARTZ   SH01400030
AND CHERTY QUARTZITE, BUT THAT MOST COMMONLY USED WAS A SPECIES OF    SH01400040
IMPERFECTLY VITREOUS OBSIDIAN OR, STRICTLY SPEAKING, AN               SH01400050
AUGITEPORPHYRITE.  THIS IS PARTICULARLY ABUNDANT IN THE ARROW-STONE   SH01400060
HILLS AND ABOUT THE UPPER PART OF CACHE CREEK.  THE ORIGIN OF THIS    SH01400070
PRE-EMINENTLY IMPORTANT ARROW-STONE IS THUS EXPLAINED.  KWIL-I-ELT'   SH01400080
AND HIS FRIENDS, AT ONE TIME IN THE COURSE OF THEIR JOURNEY,          SH01400090
DECIDED TO GO IN QUEST OF ARROW-STONE, WHICH WAS THEN IN POSSESSION   SH01400100
OF TWO OLD WOMEN WHO LIVED SOMEWHERE NEAR CACHE CREEK.  HAVING        SH01400110
FOUND THE OLD WOMEN, THEY TOLD EACH THAT THE OTHER MISREPRESENTED     SH01400120
HER IN SOME WAY MALICIOUSLY, UNTIL BOTH BECAME ENRAGED AND BEGAN TO   SH01400130
FIGHT.  AS THEY FOUGHT THE ARROW-STONE FELL FROM THEIR CLOTHES OR     SH01400140
PERSONS IN GREAT QUANTITY.  FINALLY THEY TOLD THE WOMEN THAT THEY     SH01400150
HAD BEEN DECEIVING THEM FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAINING THE              SH01400160
ARROW-STONE.  THE WOMEN THEN ASKED THE ASSOCIATES WHY THEY HAD NOT    SH01400170
FRANKLY TOLD THEM WHAT THEY WANTED, AND SO SAYING PRODUCED BOXES      SH01400180
FULL OF FINE PIECES OF ARROW-STONE, AS WELL AS OF FINISHED            SH01400190
ARROWHEADS, AND PRESENTED THESE TO THEM.  THE ASSOCIATES THEN         SH01400200
SCATTERED THESE OVER THE COUNTRY, WHERE THE ARROW-STONE HAS EVER      SH01400210
SINCE BEEN ABUNDANT.                                                  SH01400220
***SHU-015***
          SH015                                                       SH01500010
     THERE IS A STORY ABOUT THE SUN OF WHICH I FAILED TO PROCURE      SH01500020
&ARTICULARS, BUT WHICH APPEARS TO HAVE SOME CONNECTION WITH THE       SH01500030
HISTORY OF SKIL-AP'.  IT IS SAID THAT THE COYOTE WAS AT ONE TIME      SH01500040
PLACED IN THE SKY FOR THE SUN OR IN CHARGE OF THE SUN, BUT THAT HE    SH01500050
CALLED OUT ALOUD WHENEVER HE SAW AN INDIAN STEALING OR                SH01500060
MISCONDUCTING HIMSELF BELOW.  THIS WAS SO INCONVENIENT THAT HE WAS    SH01500070
DPOSED IN SOME WAY.  SOME OTHER BEING WAS THEN PLACED IN CHARGE,      SH01500080
BUT WITH HIM THE SUN WAS MUCH TOO WARM.  LASTLY A THIRD CUSTODIAN     SH01500090
WAS APPOINTED, AND SINCE THEN ALL HAS GONE WELL.                      SH01500100
***SHU-016***
          SH016                                                       SH01600010
     ONCE A MOSQUITO, GORGED WITH BLOOD, FLEW FAR UP WHERE THE        SH01600020
THUNDER IS.  THE THUNDER ASKED THE MOSQUITO WHERE IT GOT THE BLOOD,   SH01600030
AND THE MOSQUITO FALSELY REPLIED THAT IT WAS SUCKED FROM THE BUDS     SH01600040
AT THE VERY TOP OF THE TREES BELOW.  HENCE THE REASON THAT THE        SH01600050
THUNDER (LIGHTNING) STRIKES THE TOPS OF THE TREES.                    SH01600060
***SHU-017***
SH00101  COYOTE AND HIS SON; OR, THE STORY OF KALLA'LLST.
     COyOTE LIVED WITH HIS SON (OR NEPHEW) THREE-STONES (KALLA'LLST),
WHO HAD TWO WIVES, ONE OF WHOM WAS OLD AND THE OTHER YOUNG.  COYOTE
DESIRED TO POSSESS HIS DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW, AND MADE UP HIS MIND
TO GET RID OF THEIR HUSBAND.  ONE NIGHT HE WAS HEARD LAUGHING
AS HE APPROACHED THE HOUSE; BUT WHEN HE CAME NEARER, HE BEGAN TO
CRY, AND UPON ENTERING WENT TO HIS PLACE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE
OF THE FIRE AND WIPED HIS EYES.  HE WAS ASKED WHY HE CRIED, AND
HE ANSWERED, "WHAT I SAW TO-DAY MAKES ME SAD.  I SAW AN EAGLE'S
NEST WITH THE EAGLETS NEARLY READY TO FLY.  I CONSIDERED HOW HIGHLY
OUR ANCESTORS VALUED EAGLE-FEATHERS, AND THOUGHT HOW WE HAD NONE.
I WISHED TO GET THEM, BUT KNEW I WAS TOO OLD AND STIFF TO CLIMB FOR
THE FEATHERS TO-MORROW.  PUT ON ALL YOUR BEST CLOTHES.  OUR
ANCESTORS ALWAYS DRESSED NICELY WHEN GOING AFTER EAGLES."
     NEXT MORNING COYOTE TOOK HIS SON TO A CLIFF SOME DISTANCE
AWAY, AND POINTED OUT TO HIM THE NEST.  THE CLIFF WAS VERY LOW, AND
EASY TO ASCEND, HAVING MANY JAGGED STEPS LEADING UP TO THE LEDGE
WHERE THE NEST WAS.  THEN HE TOLD HIS SON TO DIVEST HIMSELF OF
ALL HIS CLOTHES, AND LEAVE BEHIND, ADDING, "OUR ANCESTORS ALWAYS
DID SO.  THREE-STONES STRIPPED OFF HIS CLOTHES AND ASCENDED THE
CLIFF.  WHEN HE HAD BUT ONE MORE STEP TO TAKE TO REACH THE NEST,
HE BECAME AWARE THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG.  LOOKING BELOW, HE SAW
THAT THE CLIFF HAD GROWN TO SUCH A HEIGHT THEY HE WAS ALMOST
AFRAID TO LOOK DOWN, AND, INSTEAD OF HAVING ROUGH STEPS AS BEFORE,
IT WAS NOW SMOOTH.  LOOKING UP, HE SAW THAT THE CLIFF ABOVE
WAS OVERHANGING.  HE WAS AS IF IN A HOLE, AND COULD NEITHER
GET UP NOR DOWN.  COYOTE HAD CAUSED THE CLIFF TO GROW SO THAT HIS
SON COULD NOT RETURN.
     THEN COYOTE GATHERED UP HIS WRINKLED SKIN SO AS TO MAKE IT
LOOK SMOOTH, AND TIED IT IN SEVERAL PLACES ON HIS BACK.  HE DID THIS
TO MAKE HIMSELF LOOK YOUNG, AND TO RESEMBLE HIS SON.  THEN, PUTTING
ON THREE-STONES' CLOTHES HE WENT TO THE LODGE, SAYING TO HIMSELF,
"I WILL DECEIVE MY DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW."  WHEN HE NEARED THE CAMP,
HE CRIED, SAYING, "OH] MY FATHER CLIMBED AFTER THE EAGLE'S NEST,
AND WAS KILLED.  POOR FATHER]"  THE WOMEN THOUGHT HE WAS THEIR
HUSBAND, AND BEWAILED COYOTE'S DEATH.
     HE SLEPT WITH THEM THAT NIGHT, AND ON THE NEXT MORNING SAID,
"WE WILL MOVE.  FATHER'S GHOST MAY VISIT US, AND, BESIDES,
WE DO NOT WISH TO BE REMINDED OF HIM BY SEEING CONSTANTLY THE PLACE
WHERE HE HAS LIVED SO LONG."  THEY SHIFTED CAMP TO A PLACE TWO
DAYS' JOURNEY AWAY.
     MEANWHILE THREE-STONES SAT ON THE CLIFF AND LAMENTED HIS FATE.
TWO WOMEN, THE BUSH-TAILED RAT AND THE MOUSE, HEARD HIM, FOR THEY
WERE GATHERING INDIAN-HEMP BARK ON A HILLSIDE UNDERNEATH, AND THEY
RESOLVED TO HELP HIM.  THEY SAID, "OUR NEPHEW IS IN DIFFICULTY.
WE MUST TRY TO HELP HIM."  THE MOUSE SANG, AND THE CLIFF GREW
LOWER UNTIL IT WAS ONLY HALF THE HEIGHT.  THEN THE RAT SANG,
AND THE CLIFF ASSUMED ITS FORMER HEIGHT AND SHAPE.  THREE-STONES
DESCENDED AND THANKED THE WOMEN FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE.
    TURNING ASIDE A LITTLE DISTANCE, HE PULLED OUT FOUR PUBIC
HAIRS, AND THREW THEM ON THE GROUND.  FROM THESE THERE GREW
UP A DENSE THICKET OF TALL INDIAN-HEMP BUSHES, WHICH HE SHOWED TO
THE WOMEN, WHO WERE GLAD TO FIND A PLACE WHERE THEY COULD OBTAIN
SO MUCH GOOD BARK.  PROCEEDING TO HIS CAMP, HE FOUND IT DESERTED,
BUT HE FOLLOWED THE TRACKS OF THE PARTY UNTIL HE LOCATED THEM.
     IT WAS NIGHT, AND COYOTE WAS SLEEPING WITH BOTH THE WOMEN.
THREE-STONES ENTERED, LIGHTED THE FIRE, AND WAKED COYOTE, WHO
PRETENDED TO BE HALF ASLEEP.  THEN HE STRUCK THE WOMEN, SAYING,
"WHY DO YOU ROLL OVER SO NEAR TO ME?  YOUR HUSBAND HAS COME BACK.
THREE-STONES SAID TO HIM, "SAY NO MORE.  YOU NEED NOT TRY TO
DECEIVE ME.  HE THEN TOOK HIS CLOTHES AWAY FROM COYOTE, AND
DISCOVERED THE KNOTS IN WHICH THE LOOSE SKIN OF THE OLD MAN WAS
TIED UP.  HE UNTIED IT AND INFORMED COYOTE THAT HENCEFORTH THEY
WOULD LIVE APART.  TAKING THE YOUNGER WIFE FOR HIMSELF, HE GAVE
THE OLDER TO COYOTE AND LEFT HIM.
***SHU-018***
SH00102  FOX AND HARE; OR, THE LIBERATION OF THE CHINOOK WIND.
     FOX AND HARE WERE BROTHERS WHO LIVED TOGETHER WITH MANY
OTHER PEOPLE.  AT THAT TIME THE EARTH WAS VERY COLD, FOR THE
COLD PEOPLE OF THE NORTH RULED THE ELEMENTS, AND DELIGHTED IN
HAVING COLD WINDS BLOW OVER THE INDIAN COUNTRY ALL THE TIME.  THUS
PEOPLE SUFFERED MUCH, AND CONSTANTLY SHIVERED.
     ONE MORNING FOX SMOKED HIS PIPE, AND MUTTERED, "LAST NIGHT
I DREAMED, AND GAINED MUCH KNOWLEDGE.  THEN, WHEN HE HAD FINISHED
SMOKING, HE SAID TO THE PEOPLE, "THE PEOPLE OF THE COLD HAVE HAD
POWER OVER US FOR A LONG TIME.  CAN NONE OF YOU OBTAIN MILD
WEATHER?  DO YOU LIKE THE COLD?"  THEY ANSWERED, "NO]
WE HATE THE COLD, BUT WE KNOW NOT WHAT TO DO."  THEN FOX SAID
TO HARE, "COME WITH ME, AND WE WILL OBTAIN WARM WEATHER.  TAKING
THEIR BOWS AND ARROWS, THEY TRAVELLED SOUTH MANY DAYS, UNTIL THEY
REACHED THE MOUTHS OF THE LARGE RIVERS, WHERE THE PEOPLE WERE
DWELT WHO POSSESSED THE HEAT AND THE CHINOOK WIND.  THESE PEOPLE
WERE CALLED THE PEOPLE OF THE HEAT, (AND WERE ENEMIES OF THE COLD
PEOPLE.)  THEIR CHIEF WAS THE SUN, AND THEY LIVED IN WARM WEATHER,
SUNSHINE, AND MILD WINDS.  FOX AND HARE HAD ALREADY ARRANGED
WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO ACT, FOR THE FORMER KNEW EVERYTHING
THROUGH HIS DREAMS.  ENTERING THE HOUSE OF THE SUNSHINE, THEY SAW
A LARGE ROUND BAG HANGING ON A POST.  IT CONTAINED THE CHINOOK WIND.
FOX RAN AND STRUCK THE BAG WITH HIS FIST, TRYING TO BURST IT, AND
THE HEAT PEOPLE JUMPED UP TO STOP HIM; BUT HARE HELD HIS BOW AND
ARROW DRAWN ON THEM, AND THEY WERE AFRAID.  AGAIN FOX RAN AT THE
BAG AND STRUCK IT.  THE FOURTH TIME HE TRIED, THE BAG BURST, AND
THE CHINOOK WIND RUSHED OUT.  THEN FOX AND HARE RAN ALONG WITH THE
WIND, AND THE HEAT PEOPLE MADE THE WEATHER EXCEEDINGLY HOT SO AS TO
OVERCOME THEM.
     AT LAST THE HEAT BECAME SO INTENSE THAT THE COUNTRY TOOK FIRE,
AND THE HEAT PEOPLE MADE THE FIRE RUN AFTER THE WIND, THINKING IT
WOULD OVERTAKE FOX AND HARE, AND BURN THEM UP.  THEY DID NOT KNOW
THAT THE LATTER WERE THE FLEETEST AND SWIFTEST FOOTED OF ALL THE
MYTH PEOPLE.  THUS THE EARTH BURNED UP FOR A LONG DISTANCE NORTH
AND MANY TREES AND PEOPLE WERE DESTROYED.  HARE KEPT JUST FAR
ENOUGH AHEAD OF THE FIRE TO HAVE TIME TO SIT DOWN FREQUENTLY AND
SMOKE HIS PIPE.  HE WAS THE GREATEST SMOKER OF ALL THE MYTH PEOPLE.
FOX WAS ANNOYED AT HARE, FOR, WHEN HE TOLD HIM TO HURRY, HE WOULD
SIT DOWN AND SMOKE HIS PIPE.  FOX WENT ON ALONG, AND SOON LEFT
HARE AND THE FIRE FAR BEHIND.  HE ALSO OUTSTRIPPED THE WIND, AND,
REACHING THE PEOPLE, HE SAID, "I BRING THE WARM CHINOOK WIND.  YOU
WILL BE COLD NO LONGER."
     THEY COULD HARDLY BELIEVE HIM AT FIRST; BUT SOON THE CHINOOK
WIND COMMENCED TO BLOW, AND, THE SNOW AND ICE MELTING UNDER ITS
INFLUENCE, THE PEOPLE FELT THE COLD NO MORE.  THEN FOX SAID,
"HENCEFORTH THE CHINOOK WIND SHALL BE NO LONGER THE SOLE PROPERTY
OF THE HEAT PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH; AND WARM WINDS SHALL BLOW OVER
THE NORTH AND THE REST OF THE WORLD, MELTING THE SNOW, AND DRYING
THE EARTH.  ONLY OCCASIONALLY MAY THEY BE FOLLOWED BY FIRE.
(HENCEFORTH THE PEOPLE OF THE COLD SHALL NOT ALWAYS RULE THE WEATHER,
NOR PLAGUE THE INDIANS TOO MUCH WITH THEIR COLD WINDS.)
     MEANWHILE THE WIND HAD LEFT THE FIRE FAR BEHIND, AND, THERE
BEING NO WIND, THE FIRE NATURALLY DID NOT SPREAD, BUT DIED OUT.
     A LONG TIME AFTERWARD HARE ARRIVED HOME AND MET FOX.  THE
LATTER WAS SMOKING A FINE STONE PIPE CARVED AND INCISED WITH NUMEROUS
DESIGNS, WHILE HARE'S PIPE WAS MADE OF WOOD.
   FOX SAID TO HARE, "YOU AND I ARE GREAT SMOKERS OF ALL THE PEOPLE.
LET US RUN A RACE.  THE ONE WHO WINS SHALL GET THE OTHER ONE'S
PIPE, AND THE ONE WHO LOSES SHALL SMOKE NO MORE."  HARE AGREED;
AND FOX SAID, "WE WILL RACE ON FLAT OPEN GROUND.  BUT HARE
OBJECTED, SAYING, "I LIKE TO RACE WHERE THERE ARE FALLEN LOGS AND
MUCH BRUSH."  FOX ASSENTED, SO THEY COMMENCED TO RUN THROUGH A
BRUSHY PIECE OF COUNTRY FULL OF FALLEN LOGS.  FOX JUMPED OVER THE
LOGS, WHILE HARE ALWAYS RAN UNDERNEATH THEM, AND THEY KEPT EASILY
AHEAD.  THEN FOX GOT ANGRY, AND SEIZED HARE AS HE CAME OUT FROM
UNDERNEATH A LOG, AND TRANSFORMED HIM, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH YOU
SHALL BE ONLY AN ORDINARY HARE, AND, AS YOU LIKE TO RUN IN THE BRUSH,
YOU SHALL HENCEFORTH LIVE IN THAT KIND OF COUNTRY.  YOU SHALL
NO LONGER BE THE GREATEST SMOKER OF THE PEOPLE.  THEN FOX TOOK
HARE'S PIPE AND WENT HOME."
***SHU-019***
SH00103  COYOTE AND GRISLY BEAR MAKE THE SEASONS, AND NIGHT AND DAY.
     GRISLY BEAR MET COYOTE AND SAID, "I AM GREATEST IN MAGIC OF
ALL THE PEOPLE.  WHEN I WISH A THING TO BE, IT HAS TO BE SO.  NOW I
AM DISPLEASED WITH THE SHORT TIME THAT IT IS DARK.  I
THINK IT WILL BE BETTER IF IT IS DARK ALL THE TIME.  I INTEND TO
MAKE IT SO.  COYOTE ANSWERED, "NO.  THAT WOULD INCONVENIENCE THE
PEOPLE TOO MUCH."  GRISLY SAID, "WELL, I WILL HAVE IT MY
WAY."  AND COYOTE ANSWERED, "NO, YOU CAN'T."  SO THE FORMER DANCED AND
SANG, SAYING, "DARKNESS, DARKNESS, DARKNESS]  LET IT BE ALWAYS
DARK.  AND COYOTE ALSO DANCED AND SANG, SAYING, "LIGHT, LIGHT, LIGHT,
LIGHT]  MAY IT BE LIGHT]"
     THUS THEY DANCED AND SANG A VERY LONG TIME; AND SOMETIMES THE
BEAR GOT THE ASCENDANCY, AND DARKNESS WOULD PREVAIL;  AND, AGAIN,
COYOTE GOT THE ASCENDANCY, AND LIGHT WOULD PREVAIL.  THEY STRUGGLED
FOR A LONG TIME, AND NEITHER BEAT THE OTHER.
     AT LAST THE BEAR GOT TIRED, AND SAID, "LET THERE BE HALF
DARKNESS, AND HALF LIGHT."  COYOTE AGREED TO THIS, AND SAID,
"HENCEFORTH IT SHALL BE LIGHT FROM THE TIME THE SUN PREPARES TO
RISE UNTIL HE SETS: THE REST OF THE TIME SHALL BE NIGHT.  THUS
EVERY DAY THE SUN SHALL TRAVEL; AND WHEN HE LEAVES, THE NIGHT WILL
FOLLOW HIM UNTIL NEXT DAY HE RISES AGAIN."
     THEN GRISLY BEAR SAID, "I AM DISPLEASED WITH THE LENGTH OF THE
YEAR AND THE DURATION OF WINTER.  IT IS FAR TOO SHORT.  LET IT
BE THE SAME NUMBER OF MOONS THAT THERE ARE FEATHERS IN THE TALL
OF A BLUE GROUSE."  COYOTE COUNTED THEM, AND FOUND TWENTY-TWO.
THUS GRISLY BEAR WANTED EACH WINTER TO LAST TWENTY-TWO MOONS.
COYOTE SAID, "NO.  THE PEOPLE CANNOT ENDURE SUCH A LONG WINTER.
THEY WILL ALL DIE.  LET IT BE HALF THAT NUMBER.  GRISLY BEAR
OBJECTED: SO COYOTE SAID, "LET THERE BE THE SAME NUMBER OF MOONS
IN A YEAR AS THERE ARE FEATHERS IN THE TAIL OF THE RED-WINGED FLICKER."
GRISLY BEAR THOUGHT THERE WERE MANY FEATHERS IN THE FLICKER'S TAIL, SO
HE ASSENTED.  THEN COYOTE CONTINUED, "HALF OF THESE FEATHERS
SHALL REPRESENT THE NUMBER OF MOONS IT MAY SNOW; AND THE OTHER
HALF, THE NUMBER OF MOONS IT MAY NOT SNOW OR BE COLD."  GRISLY BEAR
ASSENTED, AS HE THOUGHT THE WINTER WOULD THUS BE ALMOST AS LONG
AS HE DESIRED.  HE GOT A FLICKER'S TAIL, AND WAS SURPRISED, WHEN
HE COUNTED THE FEATHERS, TO FIND ONLY TWELVE; BUT IT WAS THEN TOO
LATE TO MAKE ANY CHANGE.  COYOTE SAID, "HENCEFORTH THE YEAR SHALL
CONSIST OF SIX MOONS OF WARM WEATHER, AND SIX MOONS IN WHICH
IT MAY SNOW OR BE COLD."  THUS COYOTE SAVED THE PEOPLE FROM HAVING
TO LIVE IN DARKNESS AND COLD; AND HE DETERMINED THE SEASONS AND DAYS
AS THEY ARE NOW.
***SHU-020***
SH00104  COYOTE MAKES WOMEN MENSTRUATE.
     FORMERLY THE MEN MENSTRUATED, AND NOT THE WOMEN.  WHEN COYOTE
WAS WORKING IN THE WORLD, PUTTING THINGS TO RIGHTS, HE CONSIDERED
THIS MATTER, AND SAID TO HIMSELF, "IT IS NOT RIGHT THAT MEN SHOULD
MENSTRUATE.  IT IS VERY INCONVENIENT, FOR THEY DO ALL THE HUNTING
AND MOST OF THE TRAVELLING.  WOMEN STAY MORE AT HOME, AND THEREFORE
IT WILL BE BETTER IF THEY MENSTRUATE, AND NOT THE MEN.  WHEREUPON
HE TOOK SOME OF THE MENSTRUAL FLUID FROM MEN, AND THREW IT UPON
THE WOMEN, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH WOMEN SHALL MENSTRUATE, AND NOT MEN."
***SHU-021***
SH00105  COYOTE AND HIS HOSTS.
     COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING OVER THE EARTH.  HE FELT HUNGRY, HE SAW
A HOUSE, ENTERED, AND FOUND IT INHABITED BY AN OLD MAN CALLED
FAT-MAN (SHIA'UZKELESTI'MT).  THERE WAS NOTHING TO EAT IN THE HOUSE,
AND HE THOUGHT, "WHAT WILL THIS OLD MAN GIVE ME TO EAT?"  THE MAN
KNEW HIS THOUGHTS, AND, MAKING THE FIRE BLAZE BRIGHTLY, HE SAT
WITH HIS BARE BACK CLOSE IN FRONT OF IT.  HIS BACK BECAME SOFT
AND GREASY, AND HE ASKED COYOTE TO EAT.  "EAT WHAT?" SAID COYOTE.
AND THE MAN ANSWERED, "MY BACK, OF COURSE." COYOTE REFUSED AT
FIRST; BUT THE MAN INVITED HIM TO EAT HIS BACK.  COYOTE SAID TO
HIMSELF, "I WILL BITE HIS BACK RIGHT TO THE BONE, AND KILL
HIM."  GOING UP TO THE MAN, HE TOOK A BIG BITE; BUT THE PIECE CAME
AWAY IN HIS MOUTH, AND NO MARK WAS LEFT ON THE MAN'S BODY.  HE
FOUND THE FOOD WAS VERY GOOD.
     NOW HE THOUGHT HE COULD DO THE SAME THING: SO, MAKING A BIG
BLAZE, HE TURNED HIS BACK TO THE FIRE.  BUT HIS BACK BURNED; AND
THE SMELL OF BURNING HAIR MADE THE MAN ANGRY, WHO THREW HIM OUTSIDE,
SAYING, "YOU TRY TO IMITATE ME, BUT YOU CANNOT DO IT.  YOU FOOL]
DON'T YOU KNOW IT IS I ONLY WHO CAN DO THAT?"
     CONTINUING HIS JOURNEY, COYOTE CAME TO ANOTHER HOUSE, WHICH
HE ENTERED.  IT WAS INHABITED BY AN OLD MAN CALLED FISH-OIL-MAN
(STIAUZKA'INSTIMT).  FEELING HUNGRY, AND SEEING NOTHING IN THE SHAPE
OF FOOD, HE WONDERED WHAT THIS MAN COULD GIVE HIM TO EAT.  THE
MAN MADE THE FIRE BLAZE, AND PLACED A WOODEN DISH FOR CATCHING
DRIPPINGS IN FRONT OF IT.  HE HELD HIS HANDS OVER IT, WITH THE
FINGERS TURNED DOWN, AND THE GREASE DROPPED FROM HIS FINGER-ENDS.
WHEN THE DISH WAS FULL, HE PLACED IT BEFORE COYOTE, AND ASKED
HIM TO EAT.  COYOTE SAID, "I CAN'T EAT THAT."  AND THE MAN
ANSWERED, "TRY IT.  IT IS GOOD."  COYOTE THEN ATE SOME, AND,
LIKING IT, HE FINISHED THE CONTENTS OF THE DISH.
     COYOTE THOUGHT, "I WILL SHOW THIS FELLOW THAT I CAN DO THE
SAME THING."  SO, MAKING THE FIRE BLAZE, HE TOOK THE WOODEN DISH,
AND HELD HIS HANDS ABOVE IT, IN THE SAME THE MAN HAD DONE.  HIS
HANDS SHRIVELLED UP WITH THE HEAT, BUT NO GREASE DROPPED FROM
THEM.  THIS IS THE REASON WHY THE COYOTE HAS SHORT PAWS.  HE CRIED
WITH PAIN, AND THE MAN THREW HIM OUTSIDE, SAYING, "YOU FOOL]
THAT METHOD BELONGS TO ME ONLY."
     AGAIN COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING, AND, COMING TO THE HOUSE OF A
MAN CALLED BEAVER-MAN (SKALA'UZTIMT), HE ENTERED.  HE FELT HUNGRY,
BUT SAW NOTHING TO EAT.  HE WONDERED WHAT THE OLD MAN WOULD GIVE
HIM.  THE MAN TOOK A SAP-SCRAPER AND A BARK DISH, WENT OUTSIDE
TO AN ALDER-TREE, AND SCRAPED OFF THE CAMBIUM LAYER.  WHEN THE
DISH WAS FULL, HE BROUGHT IT IN AND GAVE IT TO COYOTE, WHO HAD
BEEN WATCHING HIM MEANWHILE.  COYOTE SAID, "I CANNOT EAT STICKS.
COYOTE ATE, AND FOUND IT VERY GOOD.
     NOW HE TRIED TO IMITATE BEAVER-MAN.  HE TOOK A SAP-SCRAPER AND
BARK DISH, WENT TO AN ALDER-TREE, AND SCRAPED OFF THE BARK, WHICH
HE OFFERED TO THE OLD MAN SAYING, "EAT SOME OF MY FOOD." THE MAN,
SEEING IT WAS ONLY BARK, THREW IT AWAY, AND SAID, "WHY DO YOU TRY
TO IMITATE THE METHODS WHICH YOU OUGHT TO KNOW BELONG TO ME ONLY?"
     COYOTE CONTINUED HIS JOURNEY, AND REACHED THE ABODE OF AN
OLD MAN CALLED KINGFISHER-MAN (TSALASTIMT), WHO LIVED IN AN
UNDERGROUND HOUSE NEAR THE WATER'S EDGE.  HE ENTERED THE HOUSE,
FEELING HUNGRY, AND LOOKED AROUND FOR FOOD, BUT COULD SEE NONE.
HE THOUGHT, "WHAT CAN THIS FELLOW GIVE ME TO EAT]"  THE MAN STRIPPED
THE BARK OFF A WILLOW-BUSH, AND MADE A STRING OF IT, WHICH HE
PUT AROUND HIS WAIST.  THEN HE ASCENDED TO THE TOP OF THE LADDER,
GAVE A CRY, AND DIVED DOWN INTO THE WATER THROUGH A HOLE BETWEEN
SOME DRIFTWOOD.  COYOTE WATCHED; BUT, AS HE DID NOT SEE HIM RE-APPEAR
HE THOUGHT HE MUST BE DEAD.  AT LAST, HOWEVER, THE CAME UP
BRINGING A STRING OF FISH, WHICH HE COOKED AND PLACED IN A DISH
IN FRONT OF COYOTE.  THE LATTER REFUSED TO EAT, SAYING THAT IT WAS
BAD FOOD.  HE WAS, HOWEVER, ASSURED THAT IT WAS GOOD, AND ATE
IT ALL.
     THEN COYOTE MADE A BARK STRING, WENT TO THE TOP OF THE LADDER,
AND CRIED LIKE A KINGFISHER.  THEN HE DIVED INTO THE HOLE.  BUT
HIS HEAD STUCK FAST, AND HE WOULD HAVE BEEN DROWNED HAD NOT THE
MAN PULLED HIM OUT, SAYING,
"YOU FOOL]  WHY TRY TO IMITATE THE METHOD THAT BELONGS TO ME ALONE?"
     COYOTE TRAVELLED ALONG, AND CAME TO AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE IN
WHICH PEOPLE WERE DANCING.  HE LOOKED IN, BUT SAW ONLY A ROW OF
DIFFERENT KINDS OF SNOWSHOES, WHICH WERE STANDING ON THEIR ENDS
ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.  AS SOON AS HE LEFT, THE DANCING COMMENCED
AGAIN; AND WHEN HE LOOKED IN, IT STOPPED.  THEN HE ENTERED AND SEIZED
ONE OF THE SNOWSHOES; AND THE OTHERS AT ONCE ATTACKED HIM, STRIKING
HIM ALL OVER THE BODY.  HE THREW DOWN THE SNOWSHOE HE HAD SEIZED,
AND RAN OUT.
     HE CONTINUED HIS JOURNEY, AND SOON HE CAME TO ANOTHER UNDERGROUND
HOUSE, WHICH WAS QUITE FULL OF SMALL CHILDREN.  HE SAID TO HIMSELF,
"I WILL PLAY A TRICK ON THEM," WENT IN, TOOK OFF HIS MOCCASINS, AND
SHOWED THE CHILDREN SOME CRACKS IN THE HEEL OF HIS FOOT.  HE SAID,
"MY SHOES ARE FULL OF HOLES, AND MY FEET HAVE BECOME VERY SORE."  THEN
ALL OF THE CHILDREN WENT OUT AND BROUGHT IN GUM, WHICH THEY GAVE TO
COYOTE.  THAT NIGHT, WHEN THEY WERE ALL ASLEEP, HE DAUBED THEIR EYES
WITH GUM, AND THEN LEFT THE HOUSE.
     THE MOTHERS OF THESE CHILDREN WERE BLUE (OR DUSKY) GROUSE,
WILLOW (OR FRANKLIN'S) GROUSE.  WHEN THE CHILDREN AWOKE IN THE
MORNING, THEY COULD NOT OPEN THEIR EYES, AND, WANDERING AROUND,
LOST ONE ANOTHER, AND COULD NOT FIND THEIR WAY BACK TO THE HOUSE.
THEIR MOTHERS ARRIVED, AND AFTER SOME DIFFICULTY FOUND THEM ALL,
AND CLEANED THEIR EYES.
     THE CHILDREN TOLD THEM THAT COYOTE HAD PLAYED THEM THIS TRICK;
THEREFORE THE GROUSE FOLLOWED HIS TRACKS UNTIL THEY CAUGHT SIGHT OF
HIM.  THE TRAIL FOLLOWED ALONG THE BRINK OF A PRECIPICE.  THEY PASSED
COYOTE UNOBSERVED AND HID THEMSELVES NEAR THE PRECIPICE, AT
CONSIDERABLE DISTANCES APART.  AS COYOTE CAME ALONG, HE SANG, "THEY
WILL NEVER FIND THEIR CHILDREN, I HAVE TRICKED THEM]"  WHILE HE
WAS THUS SINGING, FOOL-HEN AROSE SUDDENLY FROM COVER, AND STARTLED
HIM.  WHEN HE SAW WHO IT WAS, HE SAID, "OH, IT IS YOU]  I SUPPOSE
YOU ARE GOING HOME.  WELL, YOU WILL FIND YOUR CHILDREN ALL WELL,"
AND CONTINUED HIS JOURNEY, AND AGAIN COMMENCED TO SING, WHEN
YOU ARE GOING HOME.  WELL, YOU WILL FIND YOUR CHILDREN ALL WELL."
GOING ON, HE COMMENCED TO SING AGAIN, AND FORGOT ALL ABOUT MEETING
FOOL-HEN, WHEN SUDDENLY PRAIRIE-CHICKEN AROSE, AND STARTLED HIM AS
HE LEANED OVER BACKWARDS.  HE SAID TO PRAIRIE-CHICKEN, "YOU WILL FIND
YOUR CHILDREN ALL WELL, AND CONTINUED HIS JOURNEY, AND AGAIN
COMMENCED TO SING, WHEN WILLOW-GROUSE FLEW OUT, AND STARTLED HIM
SO THAT HE NEARLY FELL BACK OVER THE CLIFF.  HE RECOGNIZED THE GROUSE
AND SAID, "YOU ARE GOING HOME.  YOU WILL FIND YOUR CHILDREN ALL WELL."
HE KEPT ON HIS WAY AND SANG HIS SONG, WHEN SUDDENLY BLUE-GROUSE
AROSE IN FRONT OF HIM WITH A LOUD NOISE, AND STARTLED HIM SO MUCH
THAT HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL RIGHT OVER THE CLIFF INTO THE
RIVER BELOW.
     HERE HE WAS IN DANGER OF DROWNING, AND TRANSFORMED HIMSELF INTO
ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER; BUT, AS NONE OF THEM FLOATED SATISFACTORILY,
HE AT LAST CHANGED HIMSELF INTO A PIECE OF PLANK.  THUS HE DRIFTED
DOWN THE STREAM UNTIL HE CAME BEYOND THE LOWER THOMPSON REGION,
WHERE HE WAS STOPPED BY A WEIR BELONGING TO TWO SISTERS WHO INHABITED
THAT COUNTRY, AND WHO WERE NOTED FOR THEIR MAGIC.  ON THE NEXT
MORNING, WHEN THE WOMEN CAME TO THEIR WEIR TO CATCH SALMON, THEY
SAW THE PIECE OF PLANK, WHICH THEY PICKED UP, SAYING, "WE WILL TAKE
THIS PIECE OF WOOD HOME.  IT WILL MAKE A NICE DISH."  THEY MADE A
PLATE OF IT; BUT EACH TIME THEY ATE OFF IT, THE FOOD WOULD DIMINISH
SO QUICKLY THAT IT DISAPPEARED BEFORE THEY HAD TAKEN MANY MOUTHFULS.
AT LAST THEY BECAME ANGRY AND THREW IT INTO THE FIRE, SAYING,
"THERE IS TOO MUCH MAGIC ABOUT THAT DISH."
     COYOTE IMMEDIATELY TRANSFORMED HIMSELF INTO A LITTLE BABY BOY,
AND CRIED FROM THE CENTRE OF THE FIRE.  THE WOMEN SAID, "QUICK]  PULL
IT OUT]  WE WILL REAR IT AS OUR CHILD;" FOR THEY HAD NO HUSBANDS
OR CHILDREN.  THEY MADE A CARRIER FOR HIM, AND WHEN THEY WENT
TO BED THEY PLACED HIM BETWEEN THEM.  WHEN THEY WERE BOTH ASLEEP,
COYOtE AROSE AND HAD CONNECTION WITH THEM, RETURNING AGAIN TO
HIS CRADLE.  NEXT MORNING, WHEN THEY WENT TO WASH THEMSELVES,
ONE OF THEM SAID, "I FEEL QUEERLY.  MY ABDOMEN IS ALL WET."
AND THE OTHER REPLIED, "I ALSO FEEL STRANGE.  THERE IS BLOOD
BETWEEN MY LEGS."--"HOW CAN THIS BE," SAID THEY, "WHEN NO MEN
ARE AROUND?"
     SOON COYOTE OUTGREW HIS CARRIER, AND THE WOMEN ALTERNATED
IN CARRYING HIM ON THEIR BACKS WHEN THEY TRAVELLED ABOUT.  HE
ANNOYED THEM VERY MUCH HOWEVER, FOR HE WOULD CONSTANTLY SLIP DOWN
LOWER AND LOWER ON THEIR BACKS UNTIL HE MANAGED TO HAVE CONNECTION
WITH THEM.
     THUS THE WOMEN KEPT HIM FOR A TIME, UNTIL ONE MORNING HE
AROSE EARLY, AND, GOING TO THE WEIR, BROKE IT IN THE MIDDLE, AND
CROSSED TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE RIVER.  WHEN THE WOMEN AWOKE,
THEY SEARCHED FOR HIM, WENT TO THE WEIR, AND FOUND THAT IT
WAS BROKEN AND THE SALMON WERE PASSING THROUGH IN GREAT NUMBERS.
THEN THEY NOTICED COYOTE WALKING UP THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER; AND
HE CALLED TO THEM, "I AM GOING BACK TO MY COUNTRY.  IF YOUR CHILDREN
ARE MALES, REAR THEM; BUT IF THEY ARE FEMALES, STICK THEM ON THE
POINTS OF TREE-BRANCHES."  THE WOMEN SAID, "IT IS THE DOG OF A COYOTE
WHO HAS BEEN FOOLING US, AND PLAYING TRICKS ON US."  THEY WERE
UNABLE TO MEND THE BREAK IN THEIR WEIR, FOR COYOTE HAD BEATEN
THEM IN MAGIC.  THEY SAID, "COYOTE HAS STOLEN OUR SALMON, AND HAS
LEFT US PREGNANT."  COYOTE NOW CONDUCTED THE SALMON UP THE FRASER
RIVER TO ITS SOURCE, AND AFTERWARD UP THE THOMPSON RIVER.  THIS
IS THE REASON WHY THE FRASER RIVER IS A SUPERIOR SALMON STREAM
TO THE THOMPSON RIVER.  HE SAID, "HENCEFORTH EVERY YEAR, THIS SEASON,
SALMON SHALL RUN UP THE RIVERS, AND THE PEOPLE OF THE INTERIOR
SHALL FISH AND EAT THEM.  THEY SHALL NO LONGER BE KEPT AT THE MOUTH
OF THE RIVER, NOR SHALL THE PEOPLE THERE HAVE A MONOPOLY OF FISHING
AND EATING THEM.
     AS HE WENT ALONG, HE CLEARED THE WATERS OF THE RIVERS OF
OBSTRUCTIONS, AND ARRANGED THE BANKS SO THAT IT SHOULD BE EASY
FOR PEOPLE TO FISH FOR SALMON AS THEY ASCENDED.  THE PEOPLE WERE
GRATEFUL FOR THIS GREAT WORK OF COYOTE.
***SHU-022***
SH00106
(FRASER RIVER AND NORTH THOMPSON DIVISION.)
     COYOTE VISITED THE OLD GRISLY-BEAR-WOMAN, AND SAID TO HER,
"I WISH TO LIVE WITH YOU.  YOU ARE A NICE OLD WOMAN.  SHE
ASSENTED, AND HE TOOK UP HIS ABODE WITH HER.  HE HAD NOT BEEN THERE
LONG WHEN HE THOUGHT HE WOULD PLAY HER A TRICK.  SHE WAS IN
THE HABIT OF DEFECATING WHILE SITTING ON A POLE WHICH SHE HAD LAID
ACROSS A DEEP, NARROW GULCH.  ONE DAY WHILE SHE WAS IN THE HOUSE
COYOTE WENT TO THIS PLACE, AND, AFTER CUTTING THE STICK NEARLY
THROUGH IN THE MIDDLE, TOLD IT TO BREAK THE NEXT TIME GRISLY-BEAR-
WOMAN CAME TO USE IT.  SOON AFTER HE RETURNED, GRISLY-BEAR-WOMAN
WENT TO DEFECATE AND COYOTE WATCHED HER FROM THE TOP OF THE
UNDERGROUND HOUSE.
     GRISLY-BEAR-WOMAN HAD JUST FINISHED WHEN THE STICK BROKE, AND
SHE FELL TO THE BOTTOM, WHERE SHE WAS COVERED WITH DUNG, wHICH
STUCK TO HER FUR.  COYOTE WAS SO AMUSED THAT HE ROLLED OVER AND
OVER ON THE GROUND, LAUGHING.
     GRISLY-BEAR-WOMAN WIPED HERSELF AND WENT HOME.  AS SHE ENTERED
COYOTE WENT OUT, AND, COMING IN AGAIN, SNIFFED, AND SAID, "I SMELL
EXCREMENT."  SNIFFING AGAIN, HE HELD UP HIS OTHER FOOT AND LOOKED
AT IT ALSO.  GRISLY-BEAR-WOMAN FELT ASHAMED, AND, GOING OUTSIDE,
WIPED HERSELF AGAIN.  WHEN COYOTE HAD DONE THIS FOUR TIMES,
GRISLY-BEAR-WOMAN WENT TO THE WATER AND WASHED HERSELF.
     IT WAS NOW WINTER-TIME, AND COYOTE THOUGHT HE WOULD PLAY
ANOTHER TRICK ON GRISLY-BEAR-WOMAN.  TAKING SOME DEAD LEAVES, HE
THREW THEM INTO THE RIVER, AND THEY CHANGED INTO SALMON.  THEN
HE TOOK SOME DRY SERVICE-BERRIES FROM THE TREES AND THREW THEM
AT THE BUSHES, THUS MAKING THEM GREEN, AND LADEN WITH MANY FRESH
BERRIES.  HE WENT TO THE HOUSE, AND INFORMED GRISLY-BEAR-WOMAN THAT
MANY SALMON WERE RUNNING AND THE SERVICE-BERRIES WERE RIPE.  SHE
WOULD NOT BELIEVE HIM: THEREFORE HE TOOK HER ALONG AND HE SAID TO
HER, "THERE IS NO USE EATING OLD FOOD WHEN THERE IS PLENTY OF
NEW TO BE HAD.  LET US EAT ALL YOUR STORES OF PROVISIONS.  THERE
IS NO USE KEEPING THEM.  TO-MORROW I WILL HELP YOU PICK BERRIES, AND
AFTERWARD IT WILL HELP YOU CATCH SALMON.  AFTER YOU HAVE ENOUGH OF
BOTH, I WILL LEAVE YOU AND GO ON A JOURNEY."
     GRISLY-BEAR-WOMAN AGREED TO THIS, AND, BRINGING OUT HER
STORES OF DRIED SALMON AND DRIED BERRIES, SPREAD THEM IN FRONT OF HIM.
THEN COYOTE AND GRISLY-BEAR-WOMAN ATE ALL DAY AND FAR INTO THE
NIGHT, FINISHING ALL.
    THEN COYOTE SAID, "WE WILL SLEEP FOR A WHILE, AND EARLY IN
THE MORNING WE WILL START TO PICK BERRIES."  WHEN GRISLY-BEAR-WOMAN
HAD FALLEN ASLEEP, COYOTE PUT A ROTTEN LOG IN THE PLACE
WHERE HE USED TO SLEEP, AND COVERED IT OVER WITH HIS BLANKET.  THEN HE
LEFT THE HOUSE, AND CAUSED A COLD WIND TO BLOW, WHICH WITHERED
UP THE LEAVES AND BERRIES HE HAD MADE GROW, AND COVERED THE RIVER
WITH A THICK SHEET OF ICE.  AFTER THIS HE MADE A HEAVY SNOW
FALL, WHICH NEARLY CLOSED UP THE ENTRANCE OF THE UNDERGROUD
HOUSE.  WHEN GRISLY-BEAR-WOMAN AWOKE, SHE NOTICE THE SNOW, WENT
OUTSIDE, AND SAW EVERYTHING COVERED WITH ICE AND SNOW, AND NO SIGN
OF BERRIES OR SALMON.  THEN SHE RETURNED TO THE HOUSE, SAYING,
"COYOTE HAS FOOLED ME: I WILL KILL HIM."  SHE HASTENED TO COYOTE'S
BED, THINKING HE WAS STILL ASLEEP, SEIZED WHAT SHE PRESUMED TO
BE HER HUSBAND, AND COMMENCED TO TEAR IT, ONLY TO FIND THAT IT
WAS A PIECE OF ROTTEN WOOD.  BEING LEFT TOTALLY WITHOUT FOOD,
GRISLY-BEAR-WOMAN SOON STARVED TO DEATH.
***SHU-039***
SH00300  TLEE'SA AND HIS BROTHERS.
(FRASER RIVER AND NORTH THOMPSON DIVISIONS.)
     TLEE'SA WAS THE ELDEST OF FOUR BROTHERS WHO LIVED WITH THEIR
AUNT SOMEWHERE NEAR KAMLOOPS.  WITH THEM ALSO LIVED A SMALL BOY
CALLED KWELAA'LLST, WHO WAS A GRANDSON OF THEIR AUNT.  THE LATTER
WAS CALLED "MOTHER" BY THEM ALL, AND WAS A WOMAN OF PROFOUND WISDOM.
SHE OFTEN BEMOANED THE FACT THAT THERE WERE SO MANY EVIL BEINGS
AND CANNIBALS IN THE COUNTRY, THUS RENDERING IT HARD FOR THE INDIANS
TO LIVE, AND PREVENTING THEM FROM INCREASING.  MANY OF THE PRESENT-DAY
ANIMALS WERE AT THAT TIME HUMAN BEINGS WITH ANIMAL CHARACTERISTICS;
AND ALL OF THEM WERE CANNIBALS, WHO USED MANY DEVICES TO ENTRAP
AND SLAY THE UNWARY.  TLEE'SA PONDERED DEEPLY AND LONG OVER THE MATTER,
AT LAST DECIDED THAT HE WOULD TRY TO RID THE COUNTRY OF THESE EVIL
BEINGS.
     THEN HIS "MOTHER," IN HER WISDOM, LOOKED OVER THE WORLD, AND
TOLD HIM THE NAMES OF THE SEVERAL CANNIBALS, AND THE PLACES WHERE
THEY LIVED.  SHE ALSO TOLD HIM THE DIFFERENT METHODS THEY EMPLOYED
TO KILL PEOPLE, AND HOW HE MIGHT CONQUER THEM.  SHE ONLY FORGOT
TO TELL HIM ABOUT PUBESCENT-GIRL (THE CHIPMUNK).
     FINALLY TLEE'SA, WHO WAS GIFTED WITH GREAT MAGIC, STARTED OUT,
ASSISTED BY HIS THREE BROTHERS, TO VANQUISH THE CANNIBALS.  THEY
CARRIED NO WEAPONS WITH THEM.  TLEE'SA ALONE HAVING A DOUBLE-ENDED
ARROW-FLAKER OF DEER-ANTLER, WHICH COULD ALSO BE USED AS A DAGGER.
     FIRST OF ALL, THEY REPAIRED TO THE HOUSE OF THE FOUR GRISLY
BEAR SISTERS, WHO POSSESSED ARROW-STONE.  TLEE'SA ENTERED THE HOUSE
AND THE OTHERS WAITED FOR HIM OUTSIDE.  BY THE POWER OF HIS THOUGHTS
HE MADE THE WOMEN JEALOUS, AND EVILLY DISPOSED TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER.
THEN HE PROPOSED MARRIAGE TO THEM, AND, CALLING THEM ASIDE ONE AFTER
ANOTHER, HE TOLD EACH THAT THE OTHER WAS TALKING EVIL ABOUT HER.
FINALLY HE INDUCED THEM TO FIGHT AMONG THEMSELVES.  AS SOON AS
THEY BECAME ANGRY, THEIR HAIR FELL OUT, FOR IT CONSISTED OF
ARROW-KNIVES AND ARROW-POINTS LOOSELY SET IN THE SKIN.  WHEN GREAT
NUMBERS OF THESE HAD DROPPED, HE GATHERED THEM UP AND GAVE THEM TO
HIS BROTHERS TELLING THEM THAT HE HAD LIED TO THEM TO MAKE THEM
ANGRY, IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT OBTAIN ARROW-POINTS.  THEY ANSWERED,
"WHY DID YOU DO THAT?  IF YOU HAD ASKED, WE WOULD HAVE GIVEN YOU
PLENTY OF ARROW-STONE.  IT WAS NOT NECESSARY TO MAKE US ANGRY."
THEN THE BROTHERS THREW THE ARROW-HEADS ON THE GROUND, SAYING,
"HENCEFORTH ARROW-STONE AND ARROW-FLAKES SHALL BE SCATTERED OVER
THE WHOLE COUNTRY, AND PEOPLE WILL FIND THEM IN PLENTY, AND USE
THEM.  THEY SHALL NO LONGER BE IN THE POSSESSION OF A FEW."
     FROM THIS POINT THE BROTHERS JOURNEYED TOWARD THE PLACE WHERE
THE FOUR CANNIBAL GRISLY BEARS LIVED.  IN THE SAME PLACE LIVED
COYOTE AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE.  TLEE'SA TRANSFORMED HIMSELF
INTO A DOG, WITH SMALL ARROW-POINTS IN PLACE OF HAIR, SPEAR-POINTS
FOR TEETH, AND A VERY LARGE ARROW-STONE KNIFE FOR A TAIL.  THE
BROTHERS LED HIM AS THEY NEARED THE UNDERGROUND HOUSE OF THE
GRISLY BEARS.  COYOTE SAW THEM APPROACH, AND CALLED OUT, "THREE MEN
AND A DOG ARE COMING]  THAT IS MY DOG]"  WHEN THE BROTHERS REACHED
THE HOUSE, THEY SAW THAT HEAPS OF HUMAN BONES WERE PILED UP AROUND IT.
THEY WERE INVITED IN, TIED THEIR DOG TO THE TOP OF THE LADDER, AND
ENTERED.  THE PEOPLE ASKED THEM TO PLAY A GAME OF HIDE-AND-SEEK
OUTSIDE.  THE BARK OF A LARGE TREE WHICH STOOD CLOSE BY HAD BEEN
SCRAPED OFF ALL AROUND BY THE BEARS' CLAWS, AND THE BROTHERS WERE
TOLD THAT THEY WOULD PLAY AROUND THE TREE.  SOON THE BEARS CAUGHT THE BROTHERS
AND KILLED THEM. MEANWHILE COYOTE HAD EXAMINED THE DOG AND SPIT IN
ITS FACE.  ONCE, HOWEVER, HE GOT HIS FACE TOO NEAR, AND CUT HIS LIPS
ON THE DOG'S HAIR.  THEN HE SAID TO THE DOG, "YOU ARE INDEED
WONDERFUL."
     WHEN THE PEOPLE CAME BACK, HE TOLD THEM ABOUT IT; AND THEY
SAID, "LET US PLAY WITH THE DOG."  THEY THEN LET HIM LOOSE, AND HE
RAN TO AND FRO AMONG THE GRISLY BEAR PEOPLE, KILLING THEM WITH HIS
SHARP HAIR, TEETH, AND TAIL.  WHENEVER HIS TAIL SWUNG ROUND AND HIT
A MAN, IT CUT HIM IN TWO.
     WHEN HE HAD KILLED THEM ALL, HE CHANGED BACK TO HIS FORMER SELF,
WENT TO THE BODIES OF HIS BROTHERS, AND JUMPED OVER EACH OF THEM
THUS BRINGING THEM BACK TO LIFE.  THEN HE SAID, "HENCEFORTH THE GRISLY
BEAR SHALL BE A MERE ANIMAL, ABLE TO KILL PEOPLE ONLY AT TIMES
WHEN THEY ARE FOOLISH.  IT SHALL NO LONGER LIVE ON HUMAN FLESH,
BUT ON ROOTS AND BERRIES."
     CONTINUING THEIR JOURNEY, THE BROTHERS CAME TO LITTLE-TOBACCO-
PLACE (PESMA'MENEX), NEAR DEAD-MAN'S CREEK, WHERE THE POISONOUS
TOBACCO-TREE GREW.  IT WAS A LARGE, VERY LEAFY TREE, AND ALL
AROUND IT LAY THE BONES OF ITS VICTIMS; FOR ANY ONE WHO TOUCHED ITS
LEAVES, OR RESTED IN ITS SHADE, INVARIABLY DIED.
TLEE'SA SAID, "I WILL SMOKE TOBACCO."  HIS BROTHERS TRIED TO DISSUADE
HIM; BUT HE INSISTED, AND, GOING UP TO THE TREE, HE CUT IT DOWN WITH
HIS ARROW-FLAKER.  TAKING THE LEAVES, HE SMOKED THEM HIMSELF, AND
GAVE HIS BROTHERS THE STALKS TO SMOKE.  THEN HE SAID, "TOBACCO SHALL
NEVER AGAIN KILL PEOPLE.  IT WILL BE A GOOD PLANT, AND PEOPLE
SHALL GATHER AND SMOKE IT WITHOUT HARM."
     CONTINUING THEIR JOURNEY, THE BROTHERS CAME TO WHERE THE THOMPSON
RIVER FLOWS OUT OF KAMLOOPS LAKE.  AT THIS PLACE THE RIVER WAS
BLOCKED BY A HUGE ELK,
WHICH STOOD TAIL UP-STREAM.  EVERYTHING THAT FLOATED DOWN-STREAM
ENTERED THE MONSTER'S ANUS, AND PASSED OUT AT ITS MOUTH.  WHEN
A CANOE WITH PEOPLE TRIED TO PASS, THE FORMER ONLY PASSED THROUGH
THE ELK, WHICH DEVOURED THE CREW.  TLEE'SA SAID, "I WILL EAT ELK-
MEAT."  HIS BROTHERS ANSWERED THAT HE MUST NOT ATTACK THE MONSTER,
FOR HE WOULD CERTAINLY BE KILLED.  HE INSISTED, HOWEVER,
AND, LYING DOWN ON A BOARD, HE FLOATED DOWN, AND ENTERED THE ELK.
WHEN HIS BROTHERS SAW ONLY THE BOARD PASS OUT OF THE ELK'S
MOUTH, THEY SAID, "TLEE'SA IS CERTAINLY DEAD."  PRESENTLY, HOWEVER,
THEY SAW THE BEAST STAGGER, AND VERY SOON IT FELL DOWN ON THE BANK
DEAD.  THEY WERE CUTTING THE CARCASS TO FIND THE BODY OF THEIR
BROTHER, WHEN HE CALLED TO THEM FROM INSIDE, SAYING, "BE CAREFUL] YOU
MAY CUT ME."  HE HAD PLACED HIS FLAKER CROSSWAYS INSIDE OF THE ELK,
AND HAD THEN CUT OFF HIS HEART, THUS KILLING IT.  THEN TLEE'SA
SAID, "THE ELK SHALL NO LONGER HAVE SUPERNATURAL POWERS.
NEVER AGAIN SHALL IT EAT PEOPLE.  HENCE FORTH ELK SHALL BE HUNTED
AND KILLED BY THE PEOPLE WHO WILL EAT ITS FLESH, AND DRESS ITS SKIN."
     CONTINUING THEIR JOURNEY, THE BROTHERS REACHED A CLIFF CALLED
(OX)TSETA'KS, IN THE BONAPARTE VALLEY.  HERE DWELT A RAM OF THE
MOUNTAIN-SHEEP," WHICH KILLED EVERYBODY WHO PASSED THAT WAY BY
BLOWING ITS BREATH ON THEM.  TLEE'SA SAID, "I WILL EAT SHEEP-FLESH;"
AND AGAINST THE WISHES OF HIS BROTHERS, WHO FEARED HE WOULD BE
KILLED, HE WENT TOWARD THE RAM, WHICH BLEW ON HIM, BUT WITHOUT
EFFECT.  TLEE'SA RIPPED UP THE RAM WITH HIS ARROW-FLAKER AND
KILLED IT.  THEN HE TRANSFORMED IT INTO A PROPER MOUNTAIN-SHEEP,
SAYING, "HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE A COMMON SHEEP, UNABLE TO HARM THE
PEOPLE, WHO WILL HUNT YOU, AND MAKE USE OF YOUR FLESH AND HORNS."
     HERE TLEE'SA SAT DOWN AND MADE A SPOON OUT OF ONE OF THE
RAM'S HORNS, AND HIS BROTHERS JOINED HIM.  AS THEY WERE SITTING
THERE, A BOY PASSED BY, RUNNING ALONG ON THE FLAT GROUND UNDERNEATH
THEM.  HE WAS CARRYING A SMALL BUNDLE ON HIS BACK, AND HIS BOW
AND ARROW IN HIS HANDS.  IT WAS KWELAA'LLST, WHO HAD BEEN SENT OUT
IN HASTE TO OVERTAKE THE BROTHERS, AND TELL THEM OF THE MYSTERIOUS
POWER OF PUBESCENT-GIRL, AND HOW TO OVERCOME HER.  THE BROTHERS
DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM; AND, ALTHOUGH THEY CALLED TO HIM, HE DID
NOT HEAR.  THEN THEY MADE UP THEIR MINDS TO KILL HIM, AND KICKED
DOWN THE STONES FROM THE CLIFF ON TO THE FLAT BELOW, THE BOULDERS
FALLING ALL AROUND HIM.  WHEN THE DUST CLEARED AWAY, THEY SAW
HIM GOING ALONG SINGING, AS IF NOTHING HAD HAPPENED.  FOUR TIMES
THEY KICKED DOWN THE ROCKS, BUT WITH THE SAME RESULT.  THEN THEY
RAN AFTER HIM, AND, WHEN THEY HAD REACHED HIM, RECOGNIZED HIM.
     HE SAID TO THEM, "YOU HAD BETTER EAT OF MY FOOD.  YOU MUST
BE HUNGRY."  TAKING OFF HIS PACK, WHICH CONSISTED OF A ROUND BASKET-KETTLE
CALLED SELEKWA'N, AND SOME SKA'METE, HOG-FENNEL, AND OTHER
ROOTS, HE PUT THEM IN THE KETTLE AND BOILED THEM WITH HOT STONES.
WHEN COOKED, HE PLACED THE FOOD BEFORE THE BROTHERS.  TLEE'SA
REMARKED THAT THE KETTLE WAS TOO SMALL, AND DECLARED HE COULD EAT
THE CONTENTS AT ONE SPOONFUL.  HE HELPED HIMSELF FIRST, AND FILLED
HIS LARGE HORN SPOON, ALMOST EMPTYING THE KETTLE.  HE TURNED AWAY
TO SWALLOW IT; BUT WHEN HE TURNED BACK, THE KETTLE WAS JUST AS
FULL AS AT FIRST.  THUS THEY ALL ATE AND WERE SATISFIED.  WHEN THEY
HAD FINISHED, KWELAA'LLST LEFT THEM WITHOUT TELLING HIS ERRAND,
AND WENT HOME.
     FROM THERE THE BROTHERS FOLLOWED UP THE BONAPARTE UNTIL THEY
CAME TO A PLACE CALLED SKELAWA'ULUX, WHICH IS A DEEP HOLLOW SURROUNDED
BY CLIFFS.  HERE DWELT THE BEAVER AND ITS FRIENDS, WHICH WERE NOTED
FOR THEIR MAGIC.  THEY WERE NOT CANNIBALS; BUT AT THAT TIME
PEOPLE DID NOT KNOW HOW TO KILL THEM, AND THEY WERE CONSIDERED
TO BE POSSESSED OF MYSTERIOUS POWERS.  TLEE'SA SAID HE WOULD EAT
BEAVER FLESH.  HE MADE A BEAVER-SPEAR, AND TIED A STRIP OF WHITE
BARK AROUND EACH OF HIS WRISTS, THAT HIS BROTHERS MIGHT SEE HIM
MORE READILY IF HE WERE TAKEN UNDER WATER.  GOING UP TO THE
BEAVER, HE HARPOONED IT, AND WAS DRAGGED INTO THE CREEK.  HIS BROTHERS
WATCHED HIS MOVEMENTS UNDER WATER, BUT AT LAST LOST SIGHT OF HIM.
THEY SEARCHED FOR HIM IN ALL THE CREEKS, AND DUG TRENCHES IN MANY
PLACES, BUT WITHOUT RESULT.  AT LAST THEY DUG A VERY DEEP TRENCH
ALONG THE MAIN CREEK, AND FOUND HIM.  WHEN THEY DUG NEAR TO HIM,
HE SAID, "BE CAREFUL NOT TO HURT ME]  I AM HERE."  HE HAD BEEN
CARRIED INTO THE BEAVER'S HOUSE IN THE BANK, WHERE HE HAD
FINALLY KILLED THE BEAVER.  NOW THE BROTHERS KILLED MANY BEAVERS,
AND TOOK THEIR SKINS.  THEY ALSO ATE THE BIG BEAVER'S MEAT, AND SAID,
"HENCEFORTH BEAVER SHALL BE SPEARED BY PEOPLE, AND THEIR FLESH AND
SKINS MADE USE OF.  THEY SHALL NO LONGER POSSESS MYSTERIOUS POWERS."
     CONTINUING THEIR JOURNEY, THE BROTHERS CAME TO A PLACE NEAR
THE CREEK CALLED STONY-HOLLOW (NXA'NEXTEM), WHERE THE MARMOT HAD A
HOUSE IN THE ROCK.  TLEE'SA SAID, "I WILL EAT MARMOT-FLESH;" AND
HIS BROTHERS TOLD HIM HE WOULD CERTAINLY BE KILLED, FOR NO ONE
COULD ENTER THE MARMOT'S HOUSE WITHOUT THE TOP OF THE ENTRANCE
CRUSHING HIM DOWN.  ON HIS WAY TO THE HOUSE, TLEE'SA, SEEING TWO
OF THE MARMOT'S LITTLE ONES, KILLED THEM BOTH, AND STUCK THEM IN
HIS BELT.  WHEN HE ENTERED THE HOUSE, THE ROCKS SHUT ON HIM; BUT
HE PLACED HIS FLAKER VERTICALLY IN THE ENTRANCE, AND PASSED INSIDE
UNHARMED.  THEN HE TRANSFORMED THE ANIMAL INTO THE COMMON MARMOT
OF THE PRESENT DAY, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE THE COMMON
MARMOT, AND SHALL NEVER AGAIN BE ABLE TO KILL PEOPLE, WHO WILL USE
YOUR FLESH AND SKIN."
     FROM THIS PLACE THE BROTHERS TURNED BACK, DESCENDING THE BONAPARTE
UNTIL THEY ARRIVED AT THE MOUTH OF HAT CREEK WHICH THEY ASCENDED.
A LITTLE DISTANCE FROM THE MOUTH, THEY ARRIVED AT A PLACE CALLED
LITTLE-COMING-OUT-PLACE (PUPTPU'TLEMTEN), WHERE, ON ONE SIDE
OF THE TRAIL, THERE WAS A SMOOTH ROCK.  HERE TLEE'SA SAID,  "LET US
AMUSE OURSELVES BY SEEING WHO CAN STICK HIS HEAD FARTHEST INTO THE
ROCK."  THE THREE BROTHERS, ONE AFTER ANOTHER, PRESSED THEIR HEADS
AGAINST THE ROCK, BUT MADE ONLY SLIGHT IMPRESSIONS.  THEN TLEE'SA
PUSHED HIS HEAD AGAINST THE ROCK, AND IT WENT IN TO THE EARS AND
BRIDGE OF THE NOSE.  WHEN HE PULLED HIS HEAD OUT AGAIN, A RED MARK
WAS LEFT IN THE CAVITY.
     CONTINUING THEIR JOURNEY, THE BROTHERS CAME TO A PLACE AT THE
MARBLE CANYON CALLED BREAK-WIND-PLACE (NPE'ATKWATEN), WHERE THERE IS
A LAKE.  HERE LIVED THE SKUNK, WHICH KILLED PEOPLE.  TLEE'SA SAID,
""I WILL EAT SKUNK-FLESH;" AND THEREUPON HE TRANSFORMED THE SKUNK
TO THE PRESENT-DAY ANIMAL OF THAT NAME.  CUTTING OUT THE BAG CONTAINING
THE SCENT, HE EMPTIED IT INTO THE LAKE, THEREBY CHANGING THE COLOR
OF THE WATER.  THEN HE ORDAINED THAT NEVER AGAIN SHOULD THE SKUNK
BE ABLE TO KILL PEOPLE WITH ITS SECRETION.
     CLOSE BY HERE, IN A HIGH CLIFF, LIVED THE CANNIBAL EAGLE, WHICH
SWOOPED DOWN ON PEOPLE, AND, PICKING THEM UP, DASHED THEM AGAINST
THE ROCK, THE BASE OF WHICH WAS STREWN WITH HUMAN BONES.  TLEE'SA
SAID, "I WILL HAVE EAGLE-FEATHERS TO DECORATE MYSELF."  UNOBSERVED
BY HIS BROTHERS, HE PUT SOME WHITE PAINT IN ONE SIDE OF HIS MOUTH,
AND RED PAINT IN THE OTHER.  WHEN THE EAGLE SAW HIM APPROACH,
IT SWOOPED DOWN AND CLUTCHED HIM, AND FLEW WITH HIM HIGH UP ON THE
CLIFF, AGAINST WHICH IT DASHED HIM.  TLEE'SA WARDED OFF THE
BLOW WITH HIS FLAKER, AND LET THE RED PAINT FLOW OUT OF HIS MOUTH.
WHEN HIS BROTHERS SAW TLEE'SA DASHED AGAINST THE ROCK, THEY SAID,
"HE IS DEAD.  SEE  HIS BLOOD]"  AGAIN THE EAGLE DASHED HIM AGAINST
THE ROCK, AND LET THE WHITE PAINT FLOW OUT OF HIS MOUTH.  NOW HIS
BROTHERS SAID, "HE IS SURELY DEAD.  SEE HIS BRAINS]"  THE EAGLE,
THINKING HE WAS DEAD, PLACED HIM ON THE LEDGE WHERE ITS NEST WAS,
WHERE TLEE'SA KILLED IT WITH HIS FLAKER, AND PULLED OUT ITS
TAIL-FEATHERS.  THEN, TYING THE EAGLETS ONE TO EACH WRIST, HE
COMMANDED THEM TO FLY DOWN WITH HIM.  WHEN THEY ALIGHTED, HE PULLED
THE LARGE FEATHERS OUT OF THEIR WINGS AND TAILS, AND GAVE THEM TO
HIS BROTHERS.  HE TRANSFORMED THE CANNIBAL BIRDS INTO EAGLES, SAYING,
"HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE ORDINARY EAGLES WITHOUT THE POWER
OF KILLING PEOPLE.  YOUR FEATHERS SHALL ORNAMENT THE HEADS, CLOTHES,
AND WEAPONS OF MEN."
     CONTINUING THEIR JOURNEY, THE BROTHERS CAME TO A PLACE CALLED
HILLSIDE (KILA'UT) ON PAVILION CREEK, WHERE THE CANNIBAL HARE
LIVED.  THE HARE ALWAYS RECLINED ON ITS BACK, WITH ONE KNEE OVER
THE OTHER, AND ITS FOOT STICKING OUT CLOSE TO A STICK STUCK IN THE
GROUND, ON WHICH IT HAD A ROAST.  WHEN ANY ONE CAME ALONG AND ASKED
IT FOR FOOD, IT TOLD THEM TO HELP THEMSELVES.   AS SOON AS THEY
REACHED FORWARD TO TAKE THE ROAST, IT WOULD STRIKE THEM WITH
ITS FOOT, KILLING THEM.  TLEE'SA SAID, "I WILL EAT HARE-MEAT;" AND,
APPROACHING, HE ASKED FOR SOME ROAST.  THE HARE SAID, "TAKE IT," AND
KICKED HIM IN THE BREAST AS HE REACHED FOR IT.  THE BLOW HAD NO
EFFECT, HOWEVER, FOR TLEE'SA HAD PUT ON A BREASTPLATE OF MICA
BEFORE APPROACHING THE HARE.  THEN HE TOOK THE HARE BY THE FOOT,
AND THREW IT AWAY AMONG SOME BUSHES SAYING, "HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE
A HARMLESS, TIMID HARE; AND PEOPLE SHALL EAT YOUR FLESH, AND DRESS
IN YOUR SKIN.
    NEAR THIS PLACE, BUT ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF PAVILION CREEK, LIVED
WOMAN CALLED TSAKELSXENE'LXA, WHO KILLED MEN.  TLEE'SA SAID, "I WILL
HAVE CONNECTION WITH THE WOMAN."  HIS BROTHERS TRIED TO DISSUADE HIM,
SAYING HE WOULD CERTAINLY BE KILLED; BUT HE INSISTED.  IN FRONT OF
HER HOUSE WAS A BRIDGE FORMED BY THE LONG LEGS OF A BIRD CALLED
SOKWA'Z.  WHEN ANY ONE TRIED TO CROSS, HE ROLLED HIS LEGS OVER, AND
HURLED THEM INTO THE CREEK.  TLEE'SA CROSSED FIRST; AND WHEN HE
WAS ON THE MIDDLE OF THE BRIDGE, SOKWA'Z TURNED HIS LEGS OVER,
TRYING TO THROW HIM INTO THE CREEK.  TLEE'SA GOT ACROSS, AND,
GOING UP TO THE BIRD, HELD HIS FLAKER ABOVE ITS HEAD, SAYING, "IF
YOU MOVE YOUR LEGS WHEN THE OTHERS CROSS, I WILL KILL YOU."  THUS
THE BROTHERS CROSSED SAFELY, AND THEY TRANSFORMED THE CREATURE INTO
THE SOKWA'Z-BIRD WHICH WE SEE AT THE PRESENT DAY, SAYING,
"HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE A BIRD WITH LITTLE POWER, AND RARELY SEEN.
WHEN A PERSON SEES YOU, A RELATIVE WILL DIE."  NOW TLEE'SA WENT TO
THE HOUSE OF TSAKELSXENE'LXA; AND SHE AGREED WHEN HE SAID HE WOULD
HAVE CONNECTION WITH HER, FOR SHE HAD TEETH IN HER VAGINA, WHICH
SHE MADE CLOSE ON THE PENIS OF ANY MAN WHO TRIED TO HAVE CONNECTION
WITH HER, THUS KILLING HIM.  TLEE'SA PLACED HIS ARROW-FLAKER
ACROSS THE INSIDE OF HER VAGINA, AND HAD CONNECTION WITH HER.
ALL HIS BROTHERS HAD CONNECTION WITH HER AFTER HIM.  THEN HE
TRANSFORMED TSAKELSXENE'LXA, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE AN
ORDINARY WOMAN, AND HEREAFTER MEN WILL HAVE CONNECTION, AND WOMEN'S
VAGINAE WILL NOT BITE OR KILL THEM."
     THEN THE BROTHERS, FOLLOWING UP FRASER RIVER TOWARD HIGH BAR,
PASSED WEST OF PAVILION MOUNTAIN, OVER A HIGH BLUFF, ON THE FLAT TOP
OF WHICH THEY SAW A CHIPMUNK, WHO WAS ALSO A PUBESCENT GIRL.  SHE
WAS DANCING, AND THEY STOPPED TO LOOK AT HER.  THE BROTHERS TRIED
TO TRANSFORM HER, BUT COULD NOT MANAGE IT PROPERLY.  THEY WALKED
FORWARD, BUT FOUND THEIR FEET GETTING HEAVY.  AFTER A FEW MORE STEPS,
THEY BECAME TRANSFORMED, AND GRADUALLY TURNED TO STONE WHERE THEY STOOD.
THE CHIPMUNK GIRL BECAME CHANGED INTO STONE OF A RED COLOR, FOR SHE
WAS PAINTED RED AT THE TIME; AND THE STRIPES, LIKE THOSE ON A
CHIPMUNK, MAY STILL BE SEEN ON HER BACK.  THE PLACE WHERE SHE STANDS
IS CALLED LULI'T.  THE PLACE WHERE TLEE'SA AND HIS BROTHERS STAND
IS CALLED SLEMMI'X.  THE FORMER MAY BE SEEN A LITTLE DISTANCE TO THE
REAR OF HIS BROTHERS, FOR HE WAS BEHIND THEM WHEN THEY ALL BECAME
TRANSFORMED.
***SHU-040***
SH00400  STORY OF CAWA.
(FRASER RIVER AND NORTH THOMPSON DIVISIONS.)
     CAWA WAS A MAN WHO BELONGED TO CHURN CREEK, AND BECAME
POSSESSED OF MAGICAL POWERS.  HE WAS ALSO VERY WISE AND VERY GOOD.
HE SAW THAT THERE WERE MANY BAD AND FOOLISH PEOPLE ON EARTH, THEREFORE
HE MADE UP HIS MIND TO TRAVEL OVER THE WORLD AND TO ENLIGHTEN THEM.
HE SAID, "OTHER PEOPLE OUGHT TO DO THE SAME AS THE SHUSWAP DO.  I WILL
GO AND SHOW THEM WHAT IS RIGHT."
     AFTER TRAVELLING A LONG DISTANCE, HE CAME TO A LAKE WHERE
A PEOPLE LIVED WHO CAUGHT FROGS, AND WERE AFRAID TO EAT THEM, WHILE
THEY THOUGHT THAT THE FROGS WERE FISH.  THEY HAD DRIED FROGS
HANGING ALL AROUND THEIR HOUSES; AND THEY HAD SORES AROUND THEIR
MOUTHS AND FINGERS FROM EATING FROG-MEAT.  CAWA MADE A NET, AND CAUGHT
FOUR LARGE TROUT, WHICH HE PUT ON STICKS AND ROASTED BEFORE THE FIRE.
WHEN THEY WERE COOKED, HE ATE SOME, AND GAVE THE REST TO THE PEOPLE
TO EAT.  HE SAID TO THE PEOPLE, "THIS IS THE PROPER KIND FOOD, AND
IS THE REAL FISH.  YOU HAVE BEEN EATING FROGS, WHICH ARE BAD."
     WHEN THE PEOPLE FOUND THAT THE LAKE-TROUT WAS MUCH BETTER FOOD,
THEY WISHED TO KNOW HOW TO CATCH THEM.  THEN HE TAUGHT THEM ALL THE
METHODS OF CATCHING FISH, AND HOW TO MAKE NETS, SPEARS, AND WEIRS.
HE PERSUADED THEM TO THROW AWAY THEIR STORES OF DRIED FROGS, AND
THEN GAVE THE COMMAND, "HENCEFORTH THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY
SHALL EAT NO MORE FROGS.  THEY SHALL EAT FISH, AND CATCH THEM IN
THE SAME MANNER AS THE SHUSWAP DO."
     HE CONTINUED HIS JOURNEY, AND CAME TO A COUNTRY WHICH SEEMED
FULL OF GRAVEYARDS.  HERE, WHEN PEOPLE FELL ASLEEP, THEIR FRIENDS
BURIED THEM, THINKING THAT THEY WERE DEAD.  CAWA ENTERED A HOUSE,
WHERE HE DISCOVERED A MAN ASLEEP.  HIS FRIENDS WERE PREPARING TO
BURY HIM.  HE STOPPED THEM, AND TOLD THEM THAT THEY WERE DOING
WRONG, AS THEIR FRIEND WAS ONLY ASLEEP.  HE SAID, "WAIT UNTIL
TO-MORROW MORNING, AND YOU WILL SEE HIM COME TO LIFE AGAIN."
     THE PEOPLE OBEYED AND WAITED PATIENTLY.  SHORTLY AFTER DAYBREAK
THE MAN STRETCHED HIMSELF, YAWNED, AND AFTER A LITTLE WHILE AROSE,
APPARENTLY THE SAME AS WHEN HE LAY DOWN.  CAWA SAID, "TO-NIGHT ALL
THE PEOPLE WILL LIE DOWN AND SLEEP.  IN THE MORNING THEY WILL RISE
AGAIN."  THE PEOPLE TRIED IT, AND LEARNED THAT THE STRANGER SPOKE
THE TRUTH:  SO, AFTER THAT, THEY FELL ASLEEP EVERY NIGHT AND WOKE
UP EVERY MORNING.  THEN CAWA GAVE THE COMMAND, "HENCEFORTH PEOPLE
IN THIS COUNTRY SHALL SLEEP DURING THE NIGHT, AND AWAKE IN THE
MORNING, AS THE SHUSWAP DO.  THEY SHALL NEVER AGAIN BURY SLEEPING
PEOPLE."
    HE WENT ON, AND ARRIVED IN A COUNTRY WHERE THE PEOPLE CUT OPEN
PREGNANT WOMEN.  ON ENTERING A HOUSE, HE FOUND A MAN WHO WAS
SHARPENING A KNIFE WHICH HE WAS GOING TO USE PRESENTLY TO CUT OPEN
HIS WIFE.  CAWA TOLD HIM TO STOP, AND SAID HE WOULD SHOW THEM
THE PROPER WAY.  THEREUPON HE DELIVERED THE WOMAN AFTER THE MANNER
OF THE SHUSWAP, HEATED WATER, WASHED THE CHILD, CUT AND TIED THE
NAVEL-STRING.  AFTER SHOWING THE WOMAN HOW TO SUCKLE THE CHILD, HE
SAID, "HENCEFORTH IN THIS COUNTRY MEN SHALL NO LONGER CUT WOMEN
OPEN.  CHILDREN SHALL BE BORN IN A NATURAL AND PROPER MANNER."
THE PEOPLE NOW SAW THAT THERE WAS NO NEED OF CUTTING WOMEN OPEN WHEN
ABOUT TO GIVE BIRTH TO CHILDREN.
    THUS CAWA TRAVELLED ALL OVER THE WORLD, TEACHING PEOPLE AND
SHOWING THEM HOW TO DO THINGS PROPERLY.
     ON HIS WAY HOME, AFTER LEAVING THE CREE COUNTRY, HE CAME TO A
LAND INHABITED BY COYOTE PEOPLE.  HERE THE MEN HAD BRANCHES OF
TREES WITH KNOT-HOLES IN THEM FOR WIVES, AND THEREFORE THEY HAD
NO CHILDREN.  HE REPROVED THEM FOR THEIR WAY OF LIVING, LED A WOMAN
INTO A HOUSE WHERE THERE WAS A MAN, TOLD THEM TO LIVE TOGETHER,
AND SHOWED THEM HOW TO HAVE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE.  WHEN LEAVING,
HE SAID, "HENCEFORTH IN THIS COUNTRY, MEN WILL KNOW WOMEN, AND
NEVER AGAIN WILL MEN HAVE BRANCHES FOR THEIR WIVES."  AFTER THIS,
CAWA RETURNED TO CHURN CREEK, WHERE HE LIVED TO BE A VERY OLD MAN,
AND WAS MUCH RESPECTED.
***SHU-041***
SH00501  BRIEF STORIES OF TRANSFORMATIONS.
STORY OF THE MOON.
     THE MOON WAS A VERY HANDSOME MAN, WHO DURING THE WINTER
TRAVELLED CONSTANTLY, CAMPING EVERY NIGHT IN A DIFFERENT PLACE.
HE HAD A WIFE CALLED WA'LA, AND MANY CHILDREN.  WHEN TRAVELLING,
THE MOON ALWAYS WENT AHEAD, AND
PREPARED A HOUSE (THE HALO) FOR HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN TO CAMP IN.
WA'LA ALWAYS CARRIED HER LARGE BIRCH-BARK BUCKETS ON HER BACK,
AND HER SNOW-SHOVEL OF BIRCH-BARK IN HER HANDS.  SHE USED THE SHOVEL
FOR FILLING HER BUCKETS WITH SNOW TO MELT FOR WATER, FOR MELTED
SNOW WAS THE ONLY WATER THEY COULD GET IN THE WINTER-TIME.
     ONE MORNING WA'LA SAID TO HER HUSBAND, "WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO
PITCH OUR CAMP TO-NIGHT?  WHERE WILL YOU PREPARE A CAMP FOR YOUR
CHILDREN?"  SEVERAL TIMES SHE ASKED THIS QUESTION, BUT THE MOON
NEVER ANSWERED.  AT LAST HE SAID PETTISHLY, "CAMP ON MY FACE."  HIS
WIFE TOOK HIM AT HIS WORD, AND, JUMPING ON HIS FACE, STUCK THERE,
AND HE COULD NOT GET HER OFF.
     THUS THE MOON'S HANDSOME FACE BECAME DISFIGURED, AND, WHEN HE
WAS AFTERWARDS TRANSFORMED INTO THE PRESENT MOON, HE COULD NOT
SHINE VERY BRIGHTLY.  WA'LA MAY STILL BE SEEN ON THE MOON'S
FACE, HOLDING HER BIRCH-BARK BUCKETS AND HER SNOW-SHOVEL.
***SHU-042***
SH00502  STORY OF THE DEER.
     IN MYTHOLOGICAL TIMES THE DEER WAS AN ANIMAL, AND NEVER HAD
HUMAN FORM.  AT FIRST PEOPLE COULD NOT KILL IT, BECAUSE IT WAS
ABLE TO JUMP FROM ONE MOUNTAIN-TOP TO ANOTHER.  NEITHER BOW AND
ARROWS, NOR TRAPS AND SNARE, WERE OF ANY AVAIL.  THEN THEY ASKED
AN ADOLESCENT GIRL, WHO THREW HEr KILT AT IT.  SHE STRUCK IT ON
THE SIDE, AND THIS REDUCED ITS JUMPING-POWERS TO SOME EXTENT.  THEN
SHE THREW HER APRON, WHICH STRUCK IT BELOW OR BEHIND THE RIBS, AND
REDUCED ITS POWERS A LITTLE MORE.  AGAIN, SHE THREW HER BREECH-CLOUT AT
IT, AND THIS REDUCED ITS POWERS STILL MORE; BUT STILL IT COULD
JUMP OUT OF ARROW-SHOT AT ONE SPRING.  AT LAST SHE THREW HER
PAINT-BAG AT IT, WHICH STRUCK IT ON THE LEGS.  THEN IT COULD
JUMP ONLY JUST AS DEER DO NOW.
     AFTER THIS HAD BEEN DONE THE PEOPLE COULD HUNT SUCCESSFULLY,
AND KILLED DEER WITH BOW AND ARROWS.
     THIS IS THE REASON THAT THERE ARE MYSTERIOUS PARTS INSIDE
THE DEER NOW.  THE GIRL'S KILT MAY BE SEEN AS THE PLEURA AND
DIAPHRAGM.  HER PAINT-BAG IS NOW A MUSCLE ON THE LEGS; HER BREECHCLOUT
IS THE PERICARDIUM; AND HER APRON IS THE MEAT BELOW OR BEHIND
THE RIBS.
***SHU-043***
SH00503  STORY OF OWL AND CHIPMUNK.
     CHIPMUNK LIVED WITH HIS GRANDFATHER, OWL.  ONE DAY THEY WENT
OUT TOGETHER TO EAT AND GATHER BEARBERRIES.  WHILE THUS ENGAGED,
CHIPMUNK SUDDENLY SAID TO HIS GRANDFATHER, "YOUR SCROTUM HAS MANY
LINES, AND IS MUCH WRINKLED."  OWL LOOKED UP, SAYING, "WHAT IS THAT
YOU SAID?"  CHIPMUNK GAVE A LITTLE LAUGH, AND ANSWERED, "I SAID THESE
BEARBERRIES HAVE MANY LINES ON THEM, AND ARE MUCH WRINKLED."  OWL
TURNED AWAY, AND WAS PICKING BERRIES AGAIN WHEN CHIPMUNK SAID,
"HOW WRINKLED YOUR SCROTUM IS]"  OWL ASKED HIM SAVAGELY WHAT HE
SAID; AND CHIPMUNK ANSWERED, "THAT WAS A SLIP OF THE TONGUE.  I
MEANT TO SAY THAT THE BERRIES WERE MUCH WRINKLED."  THUS FOUR TIMES
CHIPMUNK SAID THE SAME THING.  THE LAST TIME OWL GOT ANGRY, AND
ATTACKED CHIPMUNK, WHO HAD JUST TIME TO GET INTO A HOLE AS OWL'S HAND
SCRATCHED HIS BACK, LEAVING DEEP MARKS ALONG BOTH SIDES OF HIS
BACKBONE.  THIS IS THE REASON THE CHIPMUNK AT THE PRESENT DAY HAS
STRIPES EXTENDING ALONG ITS BACK.  THESE ARE THE MARKS OF THE
OWL'S CLAWS WHERE IT SCRATCHED IT BEFORE THE CHIPMUNK MADE ITS
ESCAPE.
***SHU-044***
SH00504  THE LITTLE CHIEF HARE.
     THE ROCK-RABBIT (SKI'KEL), OR LITTLE CHIEF HARE, WAS ONE OF
THE MYTH PEOPLE NOTED FOR HIS INDUSTRY AND PRIDE.  ONE FALL NONE
OF THE PEOPLE HAD PUT UP ANY SUPPLIES FOR WINTER, WHILE HE HAD
LAID BY A GREAT STORE.  HE SAID TO THEM, "WHY DO YOU WASTE YOUR
TIME PLAYING GAMES AND AMUSING YOURSELVES?  WHY NOT WORK AND LAY
UP FOOD FOR THE WINTER?  SOON YOU WILL BE HUNGRY WHEN WINTER SETS
IN.  LOOK AT ME]  FALL IS NOT YET GONE, AND I HAVE GOT PLENTY TO
LAST ME UNTIL SPRING."  HE HAD WORKED SO HARD THAT ALL HIS ROBE
WAS TORN, ONLY A PIECE AROUND HIS BACKSIDE REMAINING.  HE WAS A

PERSON VERY FOND OF HEARING HIS OWN NAME, AND ANXIOUS THAT PEOPLE
SHOULD NOTICE HIM.  HE ALWAYS CALLED OUT, "SKI'KEL]" TO ATTRACT
PEOPLE'S ATTENTION AND TO PLEASE HIMSELF.  HE DOES THIS STILL AT
THE PRESENT DAY.
***SHU-045***
SH00505  BEAVER AND PORCUPINE.
     BEAVER AND PORCUPINE LIVED TOGETHER.  THEY USED TO EAT TOGETHER;
BUT BEAVER BECAME DISSATISFIED BECAUSE PORCUPINE ALWAYS ATE BEAVER'S
SHARE IN PREFERENCE TO HIS OWN.  BEAVER SAID, "HENCEFORTH WE SHALL
EAT APART.  SO AT MEAL-TIMES HE TOOK HIS OWN FOOD, AND SAT DOWN
SOME DISTANCE AWAY TO EAT IT, LEAVING PORCUPINE TO EAT BY HIMSELF.
PORCUPINE, HOWEVER, WOULD ALWAYS LEAVE HIS OWN FOOD, AND, GOING
TO BEAVER, WOULD EAT HIS.
     THEN BEAVER DETERMINED TO GET RID OF PORCUPINE.  HE SAID
TO HIM, "TO-MORROW WE WILL MOVE CAMP TO THE MOUNTAINS, WHERE THERE
IS AN ABUNDANCE OF FOOD."  THEY PACKED THEIR HOUSEHOLD GOODS, AND,
AFTER TRAVELLING SOME TIME, THEY REACHED THE MOUNTAINS, WHERE
THEY CAMPED.  THE FOLLOWING MORNING, BEAVER SAID TO HIS FRIEND, "YOU
WILL FIND MUCH FOOD TO EAT HERE.  I AM GOING HUNTING, BUT SHALL
RETURN VERY SOON."  WHEN HE HAD GONE SOME DISTANCE, HE STOPPED AND
TRANSFORMED PORCUPINE, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE A COMMON
PORCUPINE, AND SHALL ALWAYS INHABIT THE MOUNTAINS.  YOU SHALL NEVER
AGAIN LIVE WITH BEAVER, NOR STEAL HIS FOOD, NEITHER SHALL YOU EVER
LIVE IN A GOOD COUNTRY."  BEAVER CONTINUED HIS JOURNEY, AND TOOK
UP HIS ABODE IN A FLAT, SWAMPY COUNTRY WITH NUMEROUS LAKES, WHERE
HE LIVED ALONE.  THIS IS WHY BEAVERS PREFER THAT KIND OF COUNTRY
AT THE PRESENT DAY, AND ALSO WHY PORCUPINES INHABIT THE FORESTS
OF THE MOUNTAINS.
***SHU-046***
SH00506  STORY OF GRASSHOPPER.
     GRASSHOPPER LIVED WITH THE PEOPLE WHO WERE BUSY CATCHING AND
CURING SALMON.  THEY SAID TO HIM, "COME HELP US.  IT IS THE SALMON
SEASON.  WE MUST ALL WORK, THAT WE MAY HAVE A PLENTIFUL STORE OF
SALMON FOR THE WINTER."  GRASSHOPPER ANSWERED, "NO, I DO NOT LIKE
TO WORK.  I LIKE TO AMUSE MYSELF PLAYING, JUMPING, AND MAKING
A NOISE.  I DO NOT NEED SALMON.  I LIKE TO EAT GRASS, OF WHICH
THERE IS GREAT PLENTY ALL AROUND HERE."  SOON WINTER CAME, AND THE
GRASS WAS ALL COVERED DEEP WITH SNOW.  THEN GRASSHOPPER WAS COLD
AND HUNGRY.  FINDING NOTHING TO EAT, AND BEING IN A STARVING CONDITION,
HE BEGGED THE PEOPLE TO GIVE HIM SOME DRIED SALMON.  THIS THEY
REFUSED TO DO, TELLING HIM TO GO AND PLAY, AND EAT GRASS.  WHEN
HE WAS NEARLY DEAD, THEY TRANSFORMED HIM, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH YOU
SHALL BE THE GRASSHOPPER (TEKATA'KA), AND, AS YOU WERE
TOO LAZY AND THOUGHTLESS TO CATCH SALMON, YOU SHALL LIVE ON GRASS
AND SPEND YOUR TIME JUMPING AROUND AND MAKING MUCH NOISE."
***SHU-047***
SH00507  STORY OF THE ONE BOUND AND GRASSHOPPER.
     A MAN WHO WAS VERY QUARRELSOME, AND OF A VIOLENT TEMPER,
FREQUENTLY ANNOYED THE PEOPLE, WHO WERE IN THE HABIT OF BINDING
HIM HAND AND FOOT WHEN BE CAME TOO OBSTREPEROUS, AND PLACING HIM
OUTSIDE THE HOUSE.
     ONE DAY HE WAS THUS LYING BOUND WHEN GRASSHOPPER CAME ALONG,
AND, SEEING THAT HE WAS TIED, KICKED HIM.  HE KICKED HARD, AND
HIS LEG FELL OFF.  GETTING ANGRY, HE KICKED HIM AGAIN WITH HIS
OTHER FOOT, WHICH FELL OFF ALSO.  THEN GRASSHOPPER WENT TO THE CHIEF OF
THE PEOPLE AND MADE COMPLAINT AGAINST THE MAN, SAYING, "HE KNOCKED OFF MY
LEGS."  THE CHIEF WAS INCLINED TO BELIEVE THE GRASSHOPPER'S STORY, FOR
HE KNEW THE VIOLENT DISPOSITION OF THE MAN; SO HE GATHERED THE
PEOPLE TOGETHER TO MAKE INQUIRY, AND TOLD THEM TO BRING THE MAN
BEFORE HIM.  THE MAN, WHEN QUESTIONED, SAID, "GRASSHOPPER KICKED
ME TWICE, AND HIS LEGS FELL OFF.  I COULD NOT TOUCH HIM BECAUSE I
WAS BOUND HAND AND FOOT."  IT WAS PROVED BY THE PEOPLE THAT THE
ONE BOUND HAD TOLD THE TRUTH, AND THAT GRASSHOPPER HAD LIED: SO THEY
TRANSFORMED THE LATTER, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE A GRASSHOPPER,
AND SHALL KICK NO ONE.  YOUR LEGS SHALL BE LOOSELY FASTENED TO
YOUR BODY, AND SHALL COME OFF EASILY.  PEOPLE SHALL USE YOU FOR
BAIT TO CATCH FISH."
***SHU-048***
SH00508  STORY OF TSOWA'UNA.
     THE SALMON WERE ABOUT TO LEAVE THEIR COUNTRY ON THEIR ANNUAL
RUN TO THE INTERIOR, AND TSOWA'UNA BEGGED TO BE ALLOWED TO ACCOMPANY
THEM.  THEY SAID TO HIM, "NO, YOU CANNOT GO.  THE JOURNEY IS VERY
LONG AND HARD, AND THE DANGERS ARE GREAT.  YOU COULD NOT POSSIBLY
STAND THE HARD WORK."  TSOWA'UNA ANSWERED, "NEVER FEAR]  I AM QUITE
ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF MYSELF, AND, ALTHOUGH I AM SMALL, I CAN STAND
MUCH HARDSHIP.  I WISH TO SEE THE COUNTRY YOU VISIT EVERY YEAR, AND
TO GAZE AT THE LEAVES OF THE TREES AS I GO ALONG."  THE OTHER
SALMON THEN SAID, "WE WILL LET YOU GO WITH US THIS YEAR, AND
OCCASIONALLY IN OTHER YEARS, SO THAT YOU MAY AMUSE AND ENJOY
YOURSELF BY GAZING AT THE LEAVES OF THE TREES AND OTHER STRANGE
SCENERY ON OUR ROUTE."  FOR THIS REASON, AND SINCE THAT TIME, THE
TSOWA'UNA OCCASIONALLY RUN WITH THE BIG SALMON.
***SHU-049***
SH00509  STORY OF BIGHORN-SHEEP AND HIS WIVES.
    BIGHORN-RAM HAD TWO WIVES; BIGHORN-EWE AND MOUNTAIN-GOAT.
THE WIVES WERE VERY JEALOUS OF EACH OTHER, FOR EACH THOUGHT HER
HUSBAND PAID MORE ATTENTION TO THE OTHER, AND LOVED HER MORE.  AT
LAST THEIR JEALOUSY LED TO A QUARREL, AND THEY FOUGHT EACH OTHER.
THE EWE GOT THE BETTER OF THE GOAT.  THE RAM DID NOT INTERFERE, BUT
LET THEM FIGHT IT OUT.  THEN THE GOAT TOOK ALL HER GOODS AND BELONGINGS,
AND LEFT THE HOUSE, SAYING TO THE EWE, "I AM LEAVING.  YOU CAN HAVE
THE RAM.  HE HAS AN UGLY NOSE, BIG LUMPS BEHIND HIS EARS, AND A
LARGE OCCIPUT; IN FACT, HE IS AS UGLY AS YOURSELF.  I WILL SEEK
ANOTHER HUSBAND WHO IS BETTER-LOOKING."  THE GOAT WENT DOWN A
STEEP ROCK, WHERE SHE MADE HER HOME AND LIVED BY HERSELF.  AFTERWARD
SHE MARRIED THE HE-GOAT.
     BEFORE THAT TIME, SHEEP AND GOATS HAD ALWAYS LIVED TOGETHER
AND INTERMARRIED; BUT THENCEFORTH, ALTHOUGH OFTEN INHABITING THE
SAME TRACTS OF COUNTRY, THEY LIVED SEPARATELY, AND NEVER INTERMARRIED.
THE SHEEP AND GOAT FAMILIES HAD DIFFERENT HOUSES.
***SHU-050***
SH00510  THE WOMAN AND THE PELICANS.
    A SHUSWAP WOMAN SAW A LARGE FLOCK OF PELICANS FLYING OVERHEAD.
IT WAS SPRINGTIME, AND THEY WERE ON THEIR PASSAGE NORTH.  SHE SAID,
"I WISH I WERE ONE OF THOSE BIRDS, AND THAT I COULD FLY AS THEY DO]"
THEN SHE WHISTLED, AND CALLED TO THEM, "TAKE ME WITH YOU, PELICANS]"
WHEN THE BIRDS HEARD HER, THE WHOLE FLOCK CAME DOWN, AND, AS
THEY REACHED THE HEIGHT OF THE TREE-TOPS, THE WIND CAUSED BY THE
FLAPPING OF THEIr WINGS WAS SO STRONG THAT IT TOOK THE WOMAN OFF
HER FEET.
     FIRST SHE TRIED TO RESIST, AND CLUNG TO THE LOWER BRANCHES
OF THE TREES; BUT AS THE FLOCK GATHERED AROUND HER, SHE COULD HOLD
ON NO LONGER, AND WAS CARRIED AWAY BY THEM, ASCENDING AS WITH A
WHIRLWIND.  THENCEFORTH SHE STAYED WITH THE PELICANS, AND, MARRYING
ONE OF THEM, BECAME AS ONE OF THEMSELVES.  SHE NEVER LEARNED
TO FLY QUITE AS FAST AS HER FRIENDS, HOWEVER; AND SHE MAY BE SEEN
EVERY YEAR ON HER WAY NORTH, FLYING BEHIND THE OTHERS, ACCOMPANIED
BY HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN.  WHEN PEOPLE WHISTLE AT THEM AS THEY
FLY OVERHEAD, THE WHOLE FLOCK STOP AND CIRCLE AROUND, OR DROP
DOWN TO A LOWER LEVEL AND FLY ALONG IN THIS WAY FOR SOME DISTANCE.
***SHU-051***
SH00511  STORY OF THE WOMEN AND MUSKRAT.
     TWO WOMEN LIVED IN A LODGE CLOSE TO THE EDGE OF THE WATER.
ONE DAY MUSKRAT WAS STANDING IN THE WATER CLOSE BY WHEN HE HEARD
ONE WOMAN SAY TO THE OTHER, "HAND ME THAT FISH, SO THAT I MAY PUT
IT ON A STICK AND ROAST IT BEFORE THE FIRE."  THE WOMAN HANDED THE
CARCASS OF A MARMOT OVER TO HER FRIEND.  THEN MUSKRAT LAUGHED LOUDLY
AT THE WOMEN, AND CRIED OUT TO THEM, "THAT IS NOT A FISH: THAT IS A
RED MARMOT."  THIS MADE THE WOMEN VERY ANGRY, AND THEY CHASED MUSKRAT
AWAY.
***SHU-052***
SH00512  STORY OF PORCUPINE.
     A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE LIVED TOGETHER AT ONE PLACE.  THEIR
CHIEF WAS SWAN.  AT ANOTHER PLACE - DISTANT A LONG DAY'S JOURNEY, AND
BEYOND A HIGH RANGE OF MOUNTAINS - LIVED ANOTHER BAND OF PEOPLE, WHO
WERE SOMETIMES CALLED THE DEER PEOPLE.  THEY CONSISTED OF THE DEER,
CARIBOU, MOOSE, GOAT, SHEEP, AND OTHERS, AND THEIR CHIEF WAS THE
ELK.  THE TWO GROUPS OF PEOPLE HAD BEEN ENEMIES FOR A LONG TIME.
EACH TRIED TO INTERFERE WITH THE OTHER, AND TO MAKE THEIR MEANS
OF PROCURING A LIVING AS DIFFICULT AS POSSIBLE.  EACH PEOPLE HAD
A DIFFERENT KIND OF GOVERNMENT, AND LIVED AND WORKED DIFFERENTLY.
WHAT ONE DID WELL, THE OTHER DID BADLY.  THE BIRDS ACTED IN SOME
WAYS LIKE MAMMALS, AND THE MAMMALS LIKE BIRDS.  THE SWAN WISHED
TO REMEDY THE DEFECTS OF BOTH PARTIES, AND TO ENABLE THEM TO LIVE
WITHOUT MUTUAL INTERFERENCE.  HE BELIEVED THAT THEIR TROUBLES ALL
AROSE FROM IGNORANCE.
     ONE DAY IN THE WINTER-TIME, WHEN THE SNOW LAY VERY DEEP ON THE
MOUNTAINS, HE ASSEMBLED HIS PEOPLE, AND, AFTER EXPLAINING TO THEM
HIS PLANS, ASKED IF ANY ONE OF THEM WOULD CARRY HIS MESSAGE OF
INVITATION TO ELK.  WHOEVER WOULD UNDERTAKE THE JOURNEY WAS TO
RECEIVE A LARGE PRESENT OF DENTALIA.
     COYOTE VOLUNTEERED TO GO, AND PREPARED FOR THE JOURNEY BY
PUTTING ON HIS FINEST CLOTHES, EMBROIDERED MOCCASINS, AND ALL HIS
DENTALIA AND NECKLACES.  AT DUSK HE LEFT THE HOUSE, BUT, NOT CARING
TO FACE THE DEEP SNOW, HE RAN AROUND THE UNDERGROUND HOUSE ALL NIGHT,
ADMIRING HIMSELF, AND WAS STILL RUNNING IN THE MORNING, WHEN THE
PEOPLE AWOKE.  THE SWAN ASKED HIM WHY HE HAD NOT GONE; AND COYOTE
ANSWERED, "I WAS JUST PLAYING AND RUNNING AROUND FOR PRACTICE.
I WILL START TO-NIGHT."  WHEN EVENING CAME, THE PEOPLE SAW HIM
LEAVE, AND WATCHED HIM UNTIL HE WAS OUT OF SIGHT.  COYOTE
SOON FOUND THE SNOW TOO DEEP, RETURNED AFTER DARK, AND LAY DOWN
UNDERNEATH THE TOP OF THE LADDER, WHERE HE FELL ASLEEP.  WHEN THE
PEOPLE AWOKE IN THE MORNING, THEY FOUND HIM FAST ASLEEP, AND SWAN
ASKED HIM WHY HE HAD NOT GONE.  COYOTE ANSWERED, "OH] I WAS PLAYING,
BECAME TIRED, AND LAY DOWN TO SLEEP.  I WILL START TO-NIGHT."
     THEN SWAN ASKED THE PEOPLE WHICH ONE OF THEM WAS BEST ABLE
TO UNDERTAKE THE JOURNEY, AND THEY ALL AGREED THAT PORCUPINE
WAS THE FITTEST PERSON, FOR HE WAS ACCUSTOMED TO WALKING IN THE
HIGH MOUNTAINS WHERE THERE WAS MUCH DEEP SNOW.  PORCUPINE WAS THUS
SELECTED, AND AFTER SEWING HIS MOCCASINS ALL NIGHT, AND DRESSING
HIMSELF WARMLY, HE LEFT AT DAYBREAK.  WHEN COYOTE SAW HIM LEAVE,
HE LAUGHED, AND SAID, "WHEN EVEN I COULD NOT GO, HOW CAN SUCH A
POOR, SLOW, SHORT-LEGGED CREATURE BE ABLE TO TRAVEL THROUGH THE
DEEP SNOW?"  THAT NIGHT PORCUPINE REACHED ELK'S HOUSE IN AN
EXHAUSTED CONDITION, AND ALL COVERED WITH ICE AND SNOW.  AFTER
WARMING HIMSELF, HE DELIVERED HIS MESSAGE TO ELK, AND ASKED FOR SINEW
AND AWL WITH WHICH TO SEW HIS MOCCASINS.  AFTER HE HAD DONE SO, HE
LEFT FOR HOME, BEARING ELK'S REPLY, WHO PROMISED TO VISIT SWAN ON
THE FOLLOWING MORNING TOGETHER WITH ALL HIS PEOPLE.
     WHEN ELK AND HIS PEOPLE ARRIVED, SWAN FEASTED THEM; AND,
WHEN THE FEAST WAS OVER, HE AND ALL HIS PEOPLE KNELT DOWN BEFORE
ELK, AND SWAN RELATED TO HIM ALL HE KNEW OF THE AFFAIRS OF BOTH
PEOPLE, AND TOLD HIM IN WHAT WAY HE THOUGHT THEY DID WRONG.
THUS HE GAVE ELK ALL HIS KNOWLEDGE AND ALL HIS ADVICE.
     THEN ELK AND HIS PEOPLE ALL KNELT DOWN BEFORE SWAN, AND ELK
GAVE HIM ALL HIS IDEAS AND KNOWLEDGE.  THUS EACH PEOPLE GAINED
FULL KNOWLEDGE OF THE OTHER, AND TOGETHER BECAME ABLE TO DEVISE
MEANS FOR DOING WHAT WAS RIGHT.  AFTER THIS THEY LIVED MUCH EASIER
AND HAPPIER THAN BEFORE, AND THE METHODS OF ONE PARTY DID NOT COME
INTO CONFLICT WITH THOSE OF THE OTHER.
     THE LAWS MADE AT THE COUNCIL ARE THOSE WHICH GOVERN ANIMALS
AND BIRDS AT THE PRESENT DAY.  PORCUPINE GOT HIS RICH PRESENT OF
DENTALIA, AND WAS MUCH ENVIED BY COYOTE.
***SHU-053***
SH00600  STORY OF RED-NOSE AND THE WOODPECKERS, INCLUDING THE
         TALE OF BLUEJAY AND TELA'NA.
     IN ANCIENT TIMES RED WAS A COLOR POSSESSED BY AN OLD MAN
CALLED RED-NOSE (TCEKWA'KS), AND NO ONE ELSE IN THE WORLD
HAD ANYTHING OF A RED COLOR.  THE BIRDS WHICH AT THE PRESENT DAY
HAVE RED IN THEIR PLUMAGE HAD NO SUCH BRILLIANT FEATHERS AT THAT
TIME.  RED-NOSE LIVED BY FISHING, AND OWNED TWO VERY VALUABLE
THINGS WHICH THE PEOPLE ENVIED HIM GREATLY.  THESE WERE HIS MAGIC
TWO-PRONGED SPEAR-HEAD, WHICH NEVER MISSED FISH, AND HIS WONDERFUL
ROBE (OR CLOAK) OF FISH-SKIN, WHICH WAS FRINGED WITH RED FEATHERS
AND ORNAMENTED WITH ROSETTES OF RED DOWN ARRANGED OVER IT LIKE
STARS.  ALTHOUGH OFFERED MANY VALUABLE PRESENTS FOR HIS ROBE, HE
COULD NOT BE INDUCED TO PART WITH IT, BUT KEPT IT HANGING ABOVE
HIS BED, SELDOM uSING IT EXCEPT ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS.  RED-NOSE
HAD A WIFE WHO ALWAYS STAYED AT HOME, AND A GRANDSON WHO
ACCOMPANIED HIM WHENEVER HE WENT FISHING.  THE LAD ALWAYS SPEARED
THE FISH, AND HIS GRANDFATHER WOULD SIT BY AND TELL HIM THE PROPER
FISH TO SPEAR.
     NOW, THE RED-HEADED WOODPECKER (CEOPHLAEUS PILEATUS),
TCOKQA'IN, WAS A GREAT MAN AMONG THE PEOPLE IN THOSE DAYS, AND HE
GATHERED ALL THE YOUNG MEN TOGETHER, SAYING TO THEM, "WE WILL
MAKE WAR UPON RED-NOSE, AND OBTAIN HIS BEAUTIFUL ROBE."  THEY STARTED,
EACH CARRYING A SHARP KNIFE, AND SOON ARRIVED AT THE RIVER WHERE
RED-NOSE AND HIS GRANDSON WERE FISHING.  HERE WOODPECKER STATED
HIS PLANS, SAYING, "WE WILL TRANSFORM OURSELVES INTO FISHES,
AND WILL EACH IN TURN SWIM PAST THE PLACE WHERE THEY ARE FISHING.
THE FIRST ONE OF US WHOM THE LAD SPEARS SHALL STEAL THE SPEAR-HEAD."
FIRST THE SMALL RED-BIRD SWAM UP; AND THE LAD SPOKE TO HIS GRANDFATHER,
SAYING, "A STRANGE FISH IS SWIMMING TOWARD US.  SHALL I SPEAR IT?"
BUT THE OLD MAN ANSWERED, "NO, LET IT PASS.  IT IS TOO SMALL AND
TOO RED-COLORED TO BE GOOD."
     NOW, ALL THE BIRDS PASSED BY THEM IN FISH FORM, ONE AFTER
ANOTHER, AND LASTLY WOODPECKER HIMSELF.  WHEN HE APPEARED, RED-NOSE
TOLD THE LAD TO SPEAR HIM.  THE BOY HIT THE FISH AND THREW IT INTO
THE STONE CORRAL BUILT ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER TO HOLD FISH; BUT
WHILE HE WAS TURNING AROUND TO REACH FOR HIS FISH-CLUB, WOODPECKER
PULLED OUT HIS KNIFE, AND, AFTER SEVERING THE STRING WHICH HELD
THE SPEAR-HEAD TO THE HANDLE, HE JUMPED INTO THE RIVER WITH IT.
THE LAD CRIED, "SEE THE FISH GO OFF WITH THE SPEAR-HEAD]" AND WHEN
RED-NOSE SAW THAT HIS VALUABLE SPEAR-HEAD HAD BEEN LOST, HE FELT
SO SORROWFUL THAT HE WENT HOME AND LAY DOWN IN BED, COVERED HIMSELF
UP, AND WOULD NEITHER SPEAK NOR EAT.
     NOW ALL THE BIRDS SWAM DOWN-STREAM, WENT ASHORE, AND ASSUMED
THEIR NATURAL FORMS.  SOON WOODPECKER JOINED THEM, AND THEY DRESSED
HIS WOUNDS.  ON THE SECOND DAY THEY ALL WENT TO RED-NOSE'S HOUSE.
HIS WIFE SAID, "MANY MEN ARE COMING FROM THE SOUTH.  GET UP AND
MEET THEM."  BUT HE PAID NO ATTENTION, NOR WOULD HE MOVE.  SHORTLY
THE BIRDS ARRIVED; AND RED-NOSE'S WIFE GREETED THEM, AND ASKED
THEM WHITHER THEY WERE BOUND.  THEY SAID, "WE ARE JUST WANDERING
AROUND; BUT WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH RED-NOSE?  IS HE SICK?"  THE
WOMAN ANSWERED, "YES.  HE IS FULL OF SORROW, AND HAS NOT EATEN
FOR TWO DAYS.  A FISH TOOK AWAY HIS VALUABLE SPEAR-HEAD."  WOODPECKER
SAID, "MY YOUNG MEN, WHEN TRAVELLING UP THE RIVER, SAW A DEAD FISH
WITH A SPEAR-HEAD IN IT, AND TOOK IT AWAY.  I BELIEVE IT MAY BE
THE SAME."  WHEN WOODPECKER HEARD THIS, HE JUMPED UP, AND, LOOKING
AT THE SPEAR-HEAD, SAID, "YES, IT IS MINE. I THANK YOU."  WOODPECKER
SAID, "IT IS NOT MINE.  I CANNOT GIVE IT TO YOU.  IT BELONGS TO
MY YOUNG MEN, AND THEY WILL NOT RETURN SO VALUABLE A THING FOR
NOTHING."  RED-NOSE OFFERED A RICH PRESENT FOR IT, BUT THE BIRDS
WOULD NOT ACCEPT IT.  THEN HE PROPOSED ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER,
UNTIL HE HAD OFFERED EVERYTHING HE POSSESSED, EXCEPTING THE ROBE.
     WOODPECKER SAID, "MY YOUNG MEN HAVE TAKEN A FANCY TO YOUR ROBE,
AND UNLESS YOU GIVE IT TO THEM YOU CANNOT HAVE YOUR SPEAR-HEAD."
AT LAST RED-NOSE GAVE THEM THE ROBE, SAYING, "OF THE TWO THINGS,
MY SPEAR-HEAD IS MORE VALUABLE, FOR I LIVE BY IT."  THE BIRDS
DEPARTED; AND WHEN THEY HAD GONE SOME DISTANCE, WOODPECKER
CALLED A HALT, AND THEY ALL SAT DOWN.  HE SAID, "I WILL KEEP THE
ROBE AND ONE OF THE LARGEST RED-DOWN STARS ON IT.  YOU MAY TAKE
OFF THE OTHER SPOTS OF DOWN, AND ALL THE RED-FEATHER FRINGES, AND
DIVIDE THEM AMONG YOU."  WOODPECKER PUT ON THE DARK FISHER-ROBE,
AND STUCK THE RED DOWN ON HIS HEAD.  THAT IS THE REASON WHY THE
WOODPECKER HAS A DARK BODY AND A RED HEAD.  THE OTHER BIRDS PUT
MORE OR LESS OF THE RED FEATHERS AND DOWN ON THEIR HEADS, NECKS,
BREASTS, ARMS, AND OTHER PARTS OF THEIR BODIES, EACH ONE ACCORDING
TO FANCY.  THAT IS THE REASON WHY ALL THE BIRDS WHICH ACCOMPANIED
WOODPECKER HAVE NOW RED FEATHERS.  IF THEY HAD NOT MANAGED TO GET
THE ROBE, AND DECORATE THEMSELVES WITH THE FEATHERS FROM IT, THERE
WOULD BE NO RED-PLUMAGED BIRDS AT THE PRESENT DAY.
     THEN THE PARTY CONTINUED THEIR MARCH, AND REACHED A SMALL LAKE,
WHERE THEY FELL IN WITH BLUEJAY, WHO WAS ON A WAR-EXPEDITION.
BLUEJAY'S SCOUTS REPORTED TO HIM THAT PEOPLE WERE APPROACHING
WHO WERE DECORATED WITH RED, AND APPEARED LIKE TREES ON FIRE, OR
LIKE WALKING STARS.  THEIR BODIES WERE AS IF COVERED WITH FIERY
SPOTS.  BLUEJAY PREPARED FOR BATTLE, AND, FOLLOWED BY HIS MEN,
WENT OUT AND CHALLENGED THEM.  WOODPECKER SHOUTED, "WE ARE YOUR
FRIENDS]  I AM WOODPECKER."  BLUEJAY'S PARTY WERE SURPRISED WHEN
THEY LEARNED HOW THEIR FRIENDS HAD OBTAINED THE RED.
     THE TWO PARTIES TRAVELLED TOGETHER UNTIL THEY CAME TO A SPRING
ABOVE THE LAKE WHERE TELA'NA LIVED.  THE LATTER HAD GONE DOWN TO
THE EDGE OF THE LAKE, WHERE HE NOW LAY SLEEPING IN THE SUN, - A HUGE,
SHAPELESS MONSTER.  BLUEJAY SAID, "I WILL KILL HIM;" BUT THE OTHERS
SAID, "DO NOT ATTEMPT IT.  HE HAS GREAT POWERS."  NEVER HEEDING,
BLUEJAY STRIPPED THE WHITE INSIDE BARK OFF OF SOME WILLOW-TREES,
AND TIED A PIECE AROUND EACH OF HIS ANKLES AND WRISTS, THAT
HIS FRIENDS MIGHT BE BETTER ABLE TO SEE HIM WHEN UNDER WATER.
WALKING UP TO THE MONSTER, HE THRUST HIS SPEAR INTO HIM WITH ALL
HIS MIGHT.  TELA'NA AROSE, AND, ROLLING OVER, DRAGGED BLUEJAY, WHO
WAS STILL HOLDING ON TO HIS SPEAR, INTO THE WATER, WHERE BOTH
WENT DOWN TOGETHER.  THE WARRIORS WATCHED FOR A LONG TIME, AND AT
LAST SAW THE WHITE ANKLETS AND WRISTLETS OF BLUEJAY DISAPPEAR
UNDERNEATH A STEEP CLIFF WHICH OVERHUNG THE LAKE.  THIS WAS
KNOWN TO BE THE STRONGHOLD OF TELA'NA; AND TO IT HE REPAIRED WHEN
THE WEATHER GOT TOO HOT AND DRY, AND THE BOGS AND SPRINGS WHICH
WERE HIS USUAL HAUNTS DRIED UP.
     THE BIRDS WAITED A LONG TIME, BUT, SEEING NO SIGNS OF BLUEJAY,
THEY CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HE WAS A PRISONER IN TELA'NA'S
HOUSE.  THEY SAID, "WE WILL HELP HIM.  WE WILL TRY TO BREAK THE HOUSE."
ALL THE BIRDS WENT TO THE CLIFF, AND EACH IN TURN STRUCK THE
ROCK FOUR
TIMES WITH HIS BEAK.  THE FIRST ONES MADE NO IMPRESSION, BUT EVENTUALLY
SOME OF THEM MADE A SMALL DEPRESSION IN THE ROCK, WHICH THOSE
FOLLOWING GRADUALLY MADE DEEPER.  AT LAST THE WOODPECKERS' TURN CAME,
THE SMALLER OF WHOM ENLARGED THE HOLE CONSIDERABLY.  THEN SAP-SUCKER
(TCEKWO'KIEKS) MADE THE HOLE QUITE LARGE; AND RED-BREASTED WOODPECKER
(TCEKWA'KEN), FOLLOWING, MADE IT STILL LARGER.  FLICKER (TCEKTCEKWA'SP)
THEN STRUCK THE ROCK, BREAKING IT FURTHER.  WOODPECKER, THEN STEPPING
UP, SAID, "I AM WOODPECKER," AND, STRIKING THE ROCK, SPLIT IT BADLY.
WITH THE NEXT BLOW HE SPLIT IT STILL MORE; AND ON STRIKING THE FOURTH
TIME, THE CLIFF SPLIT IN TWO, LEAVING A LARGE, DEEP RENT.  LOOKING
DOWN THE HOLE, THE BIRDS SAW BLUEJAY LYING ON HIS BACK, SMOKING HIS
PIPE, AND BY HIS SIDE THE DEAD FORM OF TELA'NA WITH THE SPEAR IN
HIS BODY.  BLUEJAY PULLED OUT HIS SPEAR, AND HELD UP THE BUTT-END,
OF WHICH THE BIRDS TOOK HOLD AND THUS PULLED HIM OUT.  BOTH PARTIES
THEN JOURNEYED HOME WITHOUT FURTHER ADVENTURE.
***SHU-054***
SH00700  STORY OF BLUEJAY; OR, WAR BETWEEN THE BIRDS AND MAMMALS.
     THERE HAD BEEN CONTINUED WARS BETWEEN THE BIRDS AND MAMMALS.
THE LAST WAR-EXPEDITION HAD BEEN MADE BY THE MAMMALS, AND MANY
BIRDS HAD BEEN SLAIN.  NOW BLUEJAY, WHO WAS WAR CHIEF OF THE BIRDS,
PROPOSED THAT THEY SHOULD TAKE REVENGE. HIS CAPTAINS WERE WILLOW-GROUSE
CHICKADEE, AND SNOW-BIRD, - ALL GREAT WARRIORS, AND RELATIVES
OF HIS OWN.  AFTER HAVING ASSEMBLED ALL THE MEN, THEY PUT FEATHERS
ON THEIR HEADS AND DANCED THE WAR-DANCE.  THEY TRAVELLED THREE DAYS,
CHICKADEE CARRYING THE RATIONS, AND DISTRIBUTING THEM AMONG THE
WARRIORS EVERY NIGHT.  ON THE FOURTH DAY THEY CAME TO A LARGE LAKE
WITH A RIVER RUNNING INTO IT.  HERE THEY SAW A "WATER-MYSTERY"
OF GREAT SIZE LYING ON THE EDGE OF THE WATER, SUNNING ITSELF.
BLUEJAY TIED STRIPS OF THE WHITE INNER BARK OF THE WILLOW-TREE
AROUND HIS WRISTS AND ANKLES, AND ATTACKED THE MONSTER WITH HIS
SPEAR.  THEY FOUGHT, AND BLUEJAY WAS DRAGGED UNDER WATER, HIS
FOLLOWERS WATCHING THE WHITE STRIPS ON HIS WRISTS AND ANKLES UNTIL
THEY DISAPPEARED.  THEY WAITED A CONSIDERABLE TIME;  AND WHEN HE
DID NOT RE-APPEAR, THEY CONCLUDED THAT HE WAS DEAD.
     THEY LEFT, AND TRAVELLED UP THE RIVER.  SUDDENLY THEY HEARD
HIM SINGING A SONG OF VICTORY ON THE OPPOSITE BANK.  FOUR TIMES
THEY HEARD HIM SING, BUT COULD NOT LOCATE THE EXACT SPOT WHENCE
THE SOUND CAME.  AT LAST CHICKADEE SAW HIM, POINTED HIM OUT, AND
SAID, "DON'T YOU SEE HIM?"  THEY ALL LOOKED, AND SAW HIM STANDING
THERE, HOLDING THE MONSTER'S SCALP BY THE HAIR, AND SINGING.
WHEN THEY CROSSED THE RIVER AND JOINED HIM, HE PUT THE SCALP ON
HIS HEAD.  IT HAD VERY LONG HAIR DONE UP IN A TOP-KNOT.  FOR THIS
REASON THE BLUEJAY HAS A VERY LARGE CREST AT THE PRESENT DAY.
     THEY WENT ON, AND AFTER TWO DAYS REACHED THE VILLAGE OF THEIR
ENEMIES, WHOM THEY ATTACKED AND KILLED.  SINCE NO MORE TRACES OF
PEOPLE WERE FOUND IN THAT COUNTRY, THE BIRDS CONCLUDED THAT THEY
HAD EXTERMINATED THEIR ENEMIES, AND STARTED ON THEIR WAY HOME.
WHEN THEY REACHED A GREAT PLAIN WITH CLUMPS OF TREES HERE AND THERE,
CHICKADEE SAID HE SAW A GREAT CLOUD OF DUST.  AFTER HE HAD REPEATED
HIS REMARK FOUR TIMES, THE PEOPLE ALSO SAW THE CLOUD OF DUST.