TRADITIONS OF THE THOMPSON RIVER INDIANS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.
COLLECTED BY JAMES TEIT.
***THO-001***
THE MYTHOLOGICAL AGE.
*NKAMTCINEMUX AND CAWAXAMUX.*
AT ONE TIME, VERY LONG AGO, THE EARTH WAS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IT
IS AT PRESENT.  THERE WERE NO TREES, AND MANY KINDS OF BUSHES AND
PLANTS WERE WANTING; NEITHER WAS THERE ANY SALMON OR OTHER FISH, NOR
ANY BERRIES.  THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED DURING THIS AGE WERE CALLED
SPETAKL.  THEY WERE MOSTLY ANIMALS, WHO, NEVERTHELESS, HAD HUMAN FORM.
THEY WERE GIFTED IN MAGIC; AND THEIR CHILDREN USED TO REACH
MATURITY IN A FEW MONTHS.  THERE WERE AMONG THEM MANY CANNIBALS, AND
MANY MYSTERIOUS PERSONS.
AFTER A TIME CERTAIN MEN SUCCESSIVELY APPEARED ON THE EARTH,
TRAVELLING HERE AND THERE, WORKING WONDERS, CHANGING AND MODIFYING
THE EXISTING ORDER OF THINGS.  GRADUALLY MANY OF THE SPETAKL WHO WERE
BAD WERE SHORN OF THEIR POWERS, DRIVEN OUT OF THE COUNTRY, OR WERE
TRANSFORMED INTO BIRDS, FISHES, ANIMALS, AND TREES.  THE GREATEST OF
THESE TRANSFORMERS WAS THE OLD COYOTE WHO, IT IS SAID, WAS SENT BY THE
OLD MAN TO PUT THE WORLD IN ORDER, SO THAT THE PEOPLE MIGHT LIVE MORE
EASILY AND HAPPILY.  AT THE SAME TIME THREE BROTHERS CALLED QOAQLQAL
TRAVELLED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, WORKING MIRACLES.  AT THAT PERIOD
THERE LIVED STILL ANOTHER TRANSFORMER.  HIS NAME WAS KOKWELA.  THE
BROTHERS WERE FINALLY TRANSFORMED INTO STONE, WHILE THE OLD COYOTE,
AFTER HAVING FINISHED HIS WORK, DISAPPEARED.  THEN THE OLD MAN
TRAVELLED OVER THE COUNTRY.  HE SAW THAT THERE WERE STILL MANY BAD
PEOPLE ON THE EARTH; THEREFORE HE GATHERED ALL THE PEOPLE TOGETHER,
AND BEGAN TO SEPARATE THE GOOD FROM THE BAD.  HAVING DONE THIS, HE
TRANSFORMED ALL THE EVIL ONES INTO BIRDS AND ANIMALS, CURSING THEM
AND ASSIGNING THEM TO THE DIFFERENT SPHERES WHICH THEY WERE HENCEFORTH
TO OCCUPY, WHILE THE GOOD PEOPLE HE LED FORTH OVER THE COUNTRY,
SETTLING THEM IN DIFFERENT PLACES.
THUS ENDED THE AGE OF THE SPETAKL, AND SINCE THEN THE EARTH AND ITS
INHABITANTS HAVE BEEN MUCH THE SAME AS THEY ARE AT PRESENT.  ALL THE
ANIMALS, BIRDS, AND FISHES WERE ORIGINALLY PEOPLE, WHILST THE
INDIANS OF THE PRESENT DAY ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF THE GOOD PEOPLE WHO
WERE LEFT ON THE EARTH BY THE OLD MAN.
THESE EVENTS ARE TOLD AT LENGTH IN THE LEGENDS OF THE COYOTE,
QOAQLQAL, KOKWELA, AND THE OLD MAN.
***THO-002***
I.  THE COYOTE
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
A LONG TIME AGO THE COUNTRY ALONG THE THOMPSON RIVER EAST OF LYTTON
WAS INHABITED BY THE COYOTE PEOPLE.  THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY TO THE
EAST AND SOUTH WAS ALSO OCCUPIED BY THEM; BUT THEY WERE PROBABLY MORE
NUMEROUS AROUND SPENCES BRIDGE, NKAMTCIN, AND THE IMMEDIATE
NEIGHBORHOOD THAN ANY OTHER PLACE.  THE CHIEF OF THESE PEOPLE WAS THE
OLD COYOTE.  HE WAS GREAT IN MAGIC.  NO PERSON COULD VANQUISH HIM OR
KILL HIM; AND IT IS SAID THAT HE COULD NEVER DIE.  ALTHOUGH
MAGICALLY SO POWERFUL, YET HE WAS OFTEN MADE A DUPE OF BY OTHER
PEOPLE.  HE WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO DO THINGS BEYOND HIS POWER, AND TO
IMITATE OTHERS, AND GENERALLY FAILED IN SUCH ATTEMPTS.  ALTHOUGH HE
SOMETIMES PROVED HIMSELF TO BE VERY SIMPLE, AND EASILY TAKEN IN, YET,
ON THE WHOLE, HE WAS WISE, CRAFTY, CUNNING, SELFISH, AND DECEITFUL.
HE TRAVELLED AROUND THE COUNTRY A GREAT DEAL FROM PLACE TO PLACE.  HE
HAD MANY WIVES, MOST OF WHOM HE OBTAINED BY TRICKERY, OR IN SOME
UNUSUAL MANNER.  HE USED TO DRESS IN ALKALI GRASS.
***THO-003***
I.  THE COYOTE AND THE FLOOD.
*NKAMTCINEMUX AND NLAKAPAMUX'OE.*
THERE WAS ONCE A GREAT FLOOD WHICH COVERED THE WHOLE COUNTRY
EXCEPTING THE TOPS OF SOME OF THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS.  IT WAS PROBABLY
CAUSED BY THE QOAQLQAL, WHO HAD GREAT POWER OVER WATER.  ALL THE
PEOPLE WERE DROWNED EXCEPT THE COYOTE, WHO TURNED HIMSELF INTO A
PIECE OF WOOD; AND THREE MEN, WHO WENT INTO A CANOE, AND REACHED THE
NZUKESKI MOUNTAINS, BUT WHO, WITH THEIR CANOE, WERE AFTERWARDS
TRANSFORMED INTO STONE, AND MAY BE SEEN SITTING THERE AT THE PRESENT
DAY.  WHEN THE WATERS SUBSIDED, THE COYOTE, IN THE SHAPE OF A PIECE OF
WOOD, WAS LEFT HIGH AND DRY.  HE THEN RESUMED HIS NATURAL FORM, AND
LOOKED AROUND.  HE FOUND THAT HE WAS IN THE THOMPSON RIVER COUNTRY.
HE TOOK TREES FOR WIVES, AND THE INDIANS ARE SAID TO BE HIS
DESCENDANTS.  BEFORE THE FLOOD THERE WERE NO LAKES OR STREAMS IN THE
MOUNTAINS, AND CONSEQUENTLY NO FISH.  WHEN THE WATER RECEDED IT LEFT
LAKES IN THE HOLLOWS OF THE MOUNTAINS, AND STREAMS BEGAN TO RUN FROM
THEM.  THAT IS THE REASON THAT WE NOW FIND LAKES IN THE MOUNTAINS,
AND FISH IN THEM.
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2.  NLIKSENTEM.
*NLAKAPAMUXOE AND NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THE COYOTE WAS ALONE, WITHOUT WIFE OR CHILDREN, AND GREATLY DESIRED
TO HAVE A SON; THEREFORE HE TOOK A LUMP OF CLAY AND TRANSFORMED IT
INTO A BOY, WHOM HE COMMANDED TO TRAIN HIMSELF, AND TO WHOM HE GAVE
STRICT INJUNCTIONS NOT TO WASH HIMSELF WHILE TRAINING.  BUT THE SUN
WAS HOT, AND ERE LONG THE LAD WISHED TO BATHE.  NO SOONER HAD HE
ENTERED THE WATER THAN HE BEGAN TO MELT AWAY, UNTIL NO TRACE OF HIM
WAS LEFT.  THE COYOTE SOON BEGAN TO SEARCH FOR HIS LOST SON.  HE
CAME TO THE PLACE WHERE THE LAD HAD BEEN DISSOLVED IN THE WATER.  HE
WAS SORROWFUL, AND SAID TO HIMSELF, "MY SON WAS DISOBEDIENT, AND MY
WORK WAS POOR."
HE THEN TOOK GUM OFF THE TREES, AND MADE FROM IT A BOY, WHOM HE TOLD
TO TRAIN, TO STAY IN SHADY PLACES, AND TO BATHE OFTEN; BUT BEFORE
LONG THE LAD GREW TIRED OF BATHING, AND OF STAYING ALL THE TIME IN THE
SHADE, AND LONGED TO BASK IN THE SUN.  HE SAW A LARGE FLAT ROCK
FACING THE SUN, AND WENT THERE TO SUN HIMSELF AND TO SLEEP; BUT HE
HAD NOT BEEN THERE LONG BEFORE HE MELTED AWAY, AND THERE WAS NOTHING
LEFT BUT A PATCH OF PITCH ON THE SURFACE OF THE ROCK.  THE COYOTE
FOUND HIM, AND, BEING SORROWFUL, SAID TO HIMSELF, "MY SON WAS
DISOBEDIENT, AND MY WORK WAS POOR."
HE THEN TOOK A PIECE OF WHITE STONE AND THREW IT AGAINST THE ROCKS
SEVERAL TIMES, BUT THE STONE DID NOT BREAK; THEREFORE HE WAS WELL
PLEASED, AND TRANSFORMED IT INTO A BOY.  HE TOLD THE LAD TO TRAIN,
TO WASH OFTEN, AND ALSO TO SUN HIMSELF OFTEN.  THE BOY WHILE
TRAINING DID AS COMMANDED, BUT NEITHER THE WATER NOR THE SUN HAD ANY
EFFECT ON HIM; THEREFORE THE COYOTE WAS WELL PLEASED WITH THE SON
HE HAD CREATED.  THE BOY GREW RAPIDLY, AND ERE LONG BECAME A MAN.
THE LOON AND THE MALLARD DUCK SAW THAT THE COYOTE'S SON WAS GOODLY,
AND WELL-SKILLED IN ALL ARTS, THEREFORE THEY BETROTHED THEIR INFANT
DAUGHTERS TO HIM.  THESE GIRLS, ONE OF WHOM WAS DARK-SKINNED AND
THE OTHER FAIR, VERY SOON MATURED INTO GOOD-LOOKING, INDUSTRIOUS
WOMEN, AND IN DUE COURSE OF TIME BECAME THE YOUNG MAN'S WIVES.  SOON
THE COYOTE BECAME JEALOUS OF HIS SON'S PRETTY WIVES, AND COVETED
THEM FOR HIMSELF, AND DEVISED A PLAN WHEREBY HE MIGHT POSSESS THEM.
EAGLE PLUMES WERE THEN SCARCE, AND CONSEQUENTLY HIGHLY VALUED; SO HE
DEFECATED ON THE GROUND, AND TURNED HIS EXCREMENTS INTO AN EAGLE'S
NEST WITH EAGLETS IN IT.  HE THEN MADE A TREE GROW UNDERNEATH IT, SO
THAT THE NEST WAS LIFTED UP, AND PLACED ON THE TOP OF THE TREE, THE
TRUNK OF WHICH WAS STRAIGHT AND SMOOTH, WITHOUT BRANCHES, EXCEPTING
THE BUSHY TOP.  HE THEN CALLED HIS SON, AND SAID TO HIM, "I WILL
SHOW YOU WHERE YOU CAN GET EAGLE'S FEATHERS.  COME WITH ME."  THE
COYOTE TOOK HIM TO THE TREE, AND, POINTING OUT TO HIM THE EAGLE'S NEST
ON THE TOP, SAID, "CLIMB FOR IT.  I WILL HELP YOU."  THE YOUNG MAN
DIVESTED HIMSELF OF ALL HIS CLOTHING, AND BEGAN TO CLIMB.  WHILE HE
WAS CLIMBING UP, THE COYOTE CAUSED THE TREE TO GROW, SO THAT AFTER A
WHILE NLIKSENTEM (FOR SUCH WAS HIS NAME) SAID, "I CANNOT REACH IT.  IT
IS HIGHER THAN I THOUGHT.  I WILL DESCEND AGAIN."  BUT THE COYOTE
ENCOURAGED HIM, SAYING, "YOU WILL SOON REACH IT.  WITH MY HELP YOU
ARE SURE TO DO SO.  KEEP ON CLIMBING]"  SO THE YOUNG MAN RENEWED HIS
EFFORTS.  AFTER CLIMBING A LONG TIME, HE SAW THAT HE WAS NOT MUCH
NEARER THE TOP THAN BEFORE.  WHEN HE FOUND HIMSELF AT A GREAT DISTANCE
FROM THE EARTH, HE BECAME AFRAID TO DESCEND, AND CONCLUDED THAT IT WAS
BEST TO CONTINUE HIS ASCENT.  AT LAST THE TREE TOUCHED THE SKY, AND
CEASED TO GROW.  NLIKSENTEM, WHO HAD KEPT ON CLIMBING, NOW GAINED THE
TOP, AND PUT FORTH HIS HAND TO SEIZE THE EAGLE'S NEST; BUT WHEN HE
TOUCHED IT, IT TURNED INTO EXCREMENT.  HE THEN PERCEIVED THAT HE
HAD BEEN DECEIVED BY HIS FATHER, AND CURSED HIM FOR A DOG.  HE NOTICED
MOREOVER, THAT HE WAS NOW IN A NEW WORLD -- "THE UPPER WORLD," OR
"SKY COUNTRY."
HE DID NOT KNOW WHERE TO GO, AND STARTED TO WALK AT RANDOM.  THE
COUNTRY SEEMED TO BE A VAST PLAIN (IN REALITY IT WAS A PLATEAU),
REACHING AS FAR AS HE COULD SEE, NOR WERE THERE TREES IN SIGHT.  THERE
WAS A STEADY COLD WIND BLOWING, AND, BEING NAKED, HE FELT THE COLD
KEENLY, THEREFORE HE CONTINUED TO WALK AT A BRISK PACE.  HE SAW
PLANTS WHICH RESEMBLED WILD POTATOES OF A LARGE SIZE, AND, BEING
HUNGRY, HE STOOPED AND PULLED ONE OUT OF THE GROUND.  HE SAW WITH
SURPRISE THAT THE WIND FROM THE WORLD BELOW RUSHED THROUGH THE
HOLE MADE BY PULLING OUT THE ROOT.  HE THEN KNEW THAT THESE PLANTS
WERE THE STARS.  THUS HE TRAVELLED, HUNGRY, AND TIRED, AND NAKED,
EXPOSED TO THE KEEN WIND, WHICH BLEW STEADILY OVER THE PLATEAU.
PRESENTLY HE SAW AN UNDERGROUND LODGE IN THE DISTANCE, WHICH HE
EVENTUALLY REACHED, AND ENTERED.  INSIDE EVERYTHING LOOKED COMFORTABLE
AND SNUG.  HE SAW NO PEOPLE, BUT INSTEAD, A ROW OF BASKETS ALL
AROUND THE HOUSE.  HE THOUGHT, "I WILL TAKE ONE OF THESE BASKETS.  IT
WILL DO FOR HOLDING WATER IN MY SWEAT-HOUSE."  SO HE TOOK ONE, AND
IMMEDIATELY THE WHOLE ROW JUMPED UP AND ATTACKED HIM, BUMPING HIM ON
THE HEAD, FACE, AND ALL OVER THE BODY, SO THAT HE WAS NEARLY STUNNED.
HE THEN CRIED OUT, "STOP, STOP]  DO NOT STRIKE ME]  I WILL PUT BACK
YOUR FRIEND."  AS SOON AS HE SET DOWN THE BASKET, ALL WAS QUIET, AND
THE BASKETS RESUMED THEIR PLACES.  HE THEN WENT OUT OF THE HOUSE, AND
ON DEPARTING, CURSED THE BASKETS FOR TREATING HIM THUS, SAYING, "YOU
WILL BE SERVANTS TO PEOPLE FOREVER."  HE THEN TRAVELLED ON AS BEFORE,
NOT KNOWING IN WHICH DIRECTION HE WAS GOING.  BEFORE LONG HE SAW
ANOTHER UNDERGROUND LODGE.  HE REACHED IT AND ENTERED.  EVERYTHING
LOOKED COMFORTABLE WITHIN.  ALL AROUND THE HOUSE WERE SPREAD FINE
CLEAN MATS OF EXQUISITE FINISH.  HE SAID TO HIMSELF, "I WILL HAVE
ONE OF THESE.  IT WILL DO FOR COVERING THE DOOR OF MY SWEAT-HOUSE,
AND IN THE MEAN TIME I WILL PUT IT ROUND MY SHOULDERS AS A CLOAK TO
PROTECT ME FROM THE COLD."  BUT NO SOONER DID HE LIFT ONE OF THE MATS,
THAN ALL THE OTHERS ATTACKED HIM, FLAPPING, AND STRIKING HIM ON THE
HEAD.  HE CRIED, "STOP, STOP]  I WILL PUT BACK YOUR FRIEND."  HE
LAID DOWN THE MAT, AND ALL BECAME QUIET AS BEFORE, EVERY MAT GOING
INTO ITS PLACE.  HE WENT OUT AND CURSED THE MATS, AND THE RUSHES
THEY WERE MADE OF, SAYING, "YOU WILL ALWAYS BE SLAVES OF MEN, AND YOU
WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HELP YOURSELVES."  HE THEN CONTINUED TO WANDER
ON AIMLESSLY, UNTIL HE REACHED ANOTHER UNDERGROUND LODGE, WHICH HE
ENTERED.  EVERYTHING LOOKED NICE WITHIN, AND AROUND IN A CIRCLE STOOD
MANY AWLS ON END.  HE SAID TO HIMSELF, "I MUST HAVE ONE OF THOSE NICE
AWLS TO SEW MY SHOES WITH."  HE TOOK UP ONE; BUT THE OTHERS ATTACKED
HIM, PIERCING HIM ALL OVER THE BODY.  HE CRIED OUT, "STOP]  I WILL PUT
BACK YOUR FRIEND."  HE PUT DOWN THE AWL, AND THE REST AT ONCE BECAME
QUIET, AND RESUMED THEIR PLACES.  HE WENT OUT AND CURSED THE AWLS,
SAYING, "YOU WILL FOREVER BE SLAVES OF MEN."  SIMILAR SCENES WERE
ENACTED WHEN HE ENTERED TWO OTHER UNDERGROUND LODGES WHICH CONTAINED
RESPECTIVELY COMBS AND BIRCH-BARK VESSELS.  ONCE MORE HE TRAVELLED
ON, THINKING, "THIS IS CERTAINLY A STRANGE LAND.  I WONDER IF ALL THE
INHABITANTS ARE LIKE THOSE I HAVE VISITED]"
AFTER A WHILE HE CAME TO THE EDGE OF THE PLATEAU, AND BEGAN TO
DESCEND THE INCLINE, WHICH WAS DOTTED HERE AND THERE WITH TREES,
THE FIRST HE HAD SEEN IN THE COUNTRY.  HERE HE SPIED A CAMP, AND
TWO OLD WOMEN SITTING ONE ON EACH SIDE OF THE FIRE.  HE WAS GLAD,
BECAUSE THEY WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE HE HAD SEEN.  HE DREW NEARER,
AND DISCOVERED THAT THEY WERE BOTH BLIND.  THEY WERE EATING ROTTEN
WOOD, AND WERE PASSING IT TO EACH OTHER ACROSS THE FIRE.  ONE OF THE
WOMEN WAS HANDING SOME OVER TO HER FRIEND, WHEN NLIKSENTEM TOOK
IT.  THE WOMAN ASKED THE OTHER ONE IF SHE HAD GOT IT, AND THE OTHER
ANSWERED, "NO."  THEY THEN BEGAN TO QUARREL, BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT
ONE WAS DECEIVING THE OTHER.  FINALLY ONE SAID, "SOME STRANGER
MUST BE HERE."  THE OTHER REPLIED, "YES, IT IS A MAN."  THE FIRST
THEN SAID, "YES, I SMELL SOMETHING BAD."  NLIKSENTEM THEREFORE FELT
INSULTED, SO HE TOOK HOLD OF ONE WOMAN AND THREW HER AMONGST SOME
SPRUCE AND BLACK-PINE TREES, AT THE SAME TIME CHANGING HER INTO A
FOOL HEN (OR "FRANKLIN'S GROUSE"), AND CURSING HER, SAYING, "YOU
SHALL BE A FOOL HEN, AND SHALL BE SO FOOLISH THAT WOMEN AND CHILDREN
WILL CATCH YOU WITH A STICK AND A TWINE NOOSE ON THE END."  THE
OTHER WOMAN HE THREW AMONGST SOME ROTTEN LOGS IN THE MIDDLE OF
WILLOW AND ALDER TREES, AND CURSED HER, SAYING, "YOU SHALL BE A RUFFED
GROUSE."
HE THEN RESUMED HIS JOURNEY, AND AFTER TRAVELLING A WHILE SAW AN
UNDERGROUND LODGE.  HE ENTERED, AND FOUND THEREIN TWO PEOPLE, -- THE
SPIDER AND HIS WIFE.  THEY WELCOMED HIM, AND ASKED ALL ABOUT HIS
AFFAIRS.  BY THIS TIME HE WAS BLUE WITH COLD, AND ALMOST FAMISHED
THEY GAVE HIM CLOTHING AND FOOD, AND MADE HIM COMFORTABLE.  THEY
SAID TO HIM, "WE ARE YOUR GRANDPARENT," AND FORTHWITH TREATED
HIM KINDLY, GIVING HIM DEER'S FAT AND OTHER DAINTIES.  THESE TWO
PEOPLE SPENT MOST OF THEIR TIME MAKING TWINE OUT OF BARK; BUT HE
NOTICED THAT WHAT THEY HAD BEEN USING WAS SHORT AND OF POOR QUALITY.
THEY TOLD HIM THAT BARK WAS SCARCE IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD, AND THAT
THEY HAD SNARED VERY FEW DEER LATELY.  NLIKSENTEM MADE A SWEAT-HOUSE
NEAR A CREEK CLOSE BY, AND PURIFIED HIMSELF FOR SEVERAL DAYS; THEN HE
WENT OUT HUNTING AND KILLED MANY DEER.  HE FILLED THE SPIDER'S HOUSE
WITH SKINS AND FAT.  ONE DAY, WHEN SWEAT-BATHING, HE PULLED FOUR
HAIRS OUT OF HIS PUBES, AND THREW THEM ON THE GROUND.  IMMEDIATELY
THERE GREW UP A DENSE THICKET OF SPATSAN.  HE SAID TO HIS
GRANDPARENTS,  "YOUR BARK IS SCARCE AND OF POOR QUALITY.  GO
TOWARDS MY SWEAT-HOUSE AND YOU WILL FIND PLENTY OF GOOD BARK.  IT IS
A WONDER YOU DID NOT SEE IT BEFORE."  THEY WENT THERE, AND CAME
BACK LOADED WITH BARK OF THE FINEST QUALITY, AND THANKED
NLIKSENTEM JOYFULLY.
THE COYOTE, AFTER HIS SON HAD DISAPPEARED FROM SIGHT, TOOK HIS
CLOTHES AND ORNAMENTS, PUT THEM ON, AND WENT HOME.  HE SAID TO
NLIKSENTEM'S WIVES, "YOUR FATHER-IN-LAW WILL NOT BE BACK FOR A
WHILE.  SAVE SOME FOOD FOR HIM FROM OUR MEAL.  MEANWHILE I WILL GO
AND FETCH SOME FIR-WOOD FOR YOUR FIRE, AS IT IS LOW."  AS SOON AS HE
HAD LEFT, THE DARK-COMPLEXIONED WOMAN SAID, "THAT IS THE COYOTE,
AND NOT OUR HUSBAND;" BUT THE OTHER DID NOT BELIEVE HER.  ON
RETURNING FROM HIS ERRAND, THE COYOTE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF AN OPPORTUNITY
TO EXAMINE THE WOMEN, IN ORDER TO DETERMINE WHICH WOULD PLEASE HIM
BEST.  HE WAS NOT FAVORABLY IMPRESSED WITH THE DARK-SKINNED ONE,
BUT TOOK A FANCY TO HER FAIRER SISTER, WHO, SUSPECTING NOTHING,
STAYED IN THE LODGE AS HIS WIFE.  BUT THE OTHER WOMAN LEFT THEM,
AND STAYED ALONE, CHIEFLY SUPPORTED BY THE CHARITY OF THE PEOPLE, AND
BEFORE LONG GAVE BIRTH TO A CHILD; FOR SHE WAS WITH CHILD WHEN
NLIKSENTEM WENT TO THE UPPER WORLD.  SHE HAD CUT HER HAIR, AND STILL
MOURNED FOR HER HUSBAND.  THE EARLY SUMMER CAME; AND ALL THE PEOPLE
WERE JOURNEYING TOWARD BETANI, TO HUNT DEER AND TO DIG ROOTS.
IN THE MEAN TIME NLIKSENTEM HAD GROWN TIRED OF THE UPPER WORLD.
HE SAID TO THE SPIDER, "I AM HOMESICK, AND WISH TO SEE AGAIN MY
COUNTRY AND MY WIVES.  CAN YOU HELP ME?"  THE SPIDER SAID, "I WILL
LET YOU DOWN IN A BASKET.  YOU WILL MEET WITH FOUR OBSTACLES ON YOUR
WAY DOWN.  WHEN YOU ALIGHT ON THESE, TURN YOURSELF OVER, AND THE
BASKET WILL CONTINUE ITS COURSE.  THE FIRST OBSTACLE WILL BE THE
CLOUDS, THE SECOND THE MIST, THE THIRD THE TREE-TOPS, AND THE FOURTH
THE GRASS-TOPS.  YOU MUST NOT OPEN YOUR EYES ON YOUR WAY DOWN, ELSE
THE BASKET WILL COME UP AGAIN.  WHEN YOU REACH THE EARTH, YOU WILL
HEAR THE CROWS CRY; THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE IN YOUR OWN
COUNTRY, AND YOU MAY THEN OPEN YOUR EYES AND COME OUT OF THE BASKET."
NLIKSENTEM PROMISED TO DO AS TOLD.  THE SPIDER TIED HIS BARK ROPE
TO THE BASKET, NLIKSENTEM ENTERED IT, AND THE SPIDER LOWERED HIM
DOWN.  HE FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN HIM, AND DID NOT OPEN HIS
EYES UNTIL HE HEARD THE CROWS CRY.  HE THEN STEPPED OUT, GAVE THE ROPE
A FEW TUGS, AND THE SPIDER HAULED UP THE BASKET.  NLIKSENTEM FOUND
HIMSELF ON THE TOP OF A LARGE FLAT STONE NEAR WHAT IS NOW THE TOWN OF
LYTTON.
HERE HE SOON DISCOVERED THAT ALL THE PEOPLE HAD GONE TO BETANI,
THEREFORE HE SET OUT FOR THE SAME PLACE; BUT HE COULD NOT FIND A
CANOE BY WHICH TO CROSS THE THOMPSON, THEREFORE HE MADE ONE OUT
OF HORSE-TAIL, AND, AFTER GETTING OUT OF THE CANOE ON THE OPPOSITE
BANK, IT SANK.  EVER SINCE THAT TIME THIS PLANT IS GROWING IN THE
RIVER AT THE PLACE WHERE HE CROSSED IT.  HE THEN TOOK THE TRAIL
FOR BETANI.  BEFORE HE HAD GONE VERY FAR, HE OVERTOOK THE ANT, THE
BEETLE (KIMKAMUT), THE CATERPILLAR (SOPSOPALILATZA), AND OTHER SLOW
TRAVELLING PEOPLE.  ADDRESSING HIMSELF TO THE ANT, HE SAID, "WHY DO
YOU HAVE YOUR SASH SO TIGHT?  YOU WILL SOON BE CUT IN TWO."  THE
PEOPLE, RECOGNIZING HIM, TOLD HIM ALL THE NEWS ABOUT HIS WIVES AND
THE COYOTE'S DOINGS. THEY SAID, "MOST OF THE PEOPLE WILL CAMP AT
THIS END OF THE LAKE TO-NIGHT.  YOUR WIFE AND CHILD ARE BEHIND THE
OTHERS.  YOU WILL SOON OVERTAKE THEM."  HE TOLD THEM NOT TO TELL
ANY OF THE OTHER PEOPLE THAT THEY HAD SEEN HIM.  HE HASTENED ON,
AND SOON CAME IN SIGHT OF HIS WIFE, WHO WAS CARRYING HER CHILD ALONG
A GRASSY HILLSIDE ABOUT HALF WAY TO THE LAKE.  THE CHILD SAID TO ITS
MOTHER, "THERE IS FATHER]  FATHER IS COMING]"  BUT ITS MOTHER, WHO WAS
SINGING A DIRGE, REBUKED IT, SAYING, "YOU NEVER SAW YOUR FATHER.
HOW CAN YOU KNOW HIM?  BESIDES, YOUR FATHER DIED LONG AGO."  BUT THE
CHILD PERSISTED.  AT LAST THE WOMAN LOOKED AROUND, AND WITH JOY
RECOGNIZED HER HUSBAND.  THE LATTER TOLD HER TO CAMP BELOW, AND A
LITTLE DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE OTHER PEOPLE, WHICH SHE DID.  THERE
HER HUSBAND CAME HOME TO HER AT NIGHTS, AND WENT HUNTING DURING
THE DAYTIME; AND THUS HE DROVE ALL THE DEER FROM THEIR USUAL HAUNTS,
AND GATHERED THEM TOGETHER IN ONE SECLUDED AND DISTANT SPOT, KILLING
AS MANY AS HE REQUIRED.  HE TOOK HOME THE VENISON IN HIS GLOVE EVERY
NIGHT.  ON ARRIVING, HE WOULD SHAKE HIS GLOVE.  THE MEAT FELL OUT AND
RESUMED ITS NATURAL PROPORTIONS.  THE COYOTE AND THE OTHER PEOPLE WENT
OUT HUNTING, BUT COULD NOT FIND ANY DEER, AND FINALLY WERE REDUCED
ALMOST TO STARVATION, HAVING LITTLE ELSE BUT ROOTS TO LIVE ON.
THE RAVEN NOTICED THAT NLIKSENTEM'S WIFE DID NOT WAIL, AND SING HER
MOURNING SONGS, AS WAS HER WONT, SO HE THOUGHT HE WOULD PAY HER A
VISIT AND FIND OUT THE REASON.  ON ARRIVING OUTSIDE THE LODGE, HE
LISTENED, AND HEARD A MAN'S VOICE.  THEN HE ENTERED, AND FOUND HER
AND HER CHILD EATING DEER FAT.  THE RAVEN WAS VERY HUNGRY, AND SHE
GAVE HIM SOME OF THE FAT TO EAT, AND TOLD HIM THAT HER HUSBAND HAD
COME BACK, AND THAT SHE WOULD GIVE HIM DEER MEAT EVERY EVENING
AFTER DARK IF HE WOULD NOT TELL ANYBODY THAT NLIKSENTEM HAD RETURNED.
HE PROMISED; WHEN HE RETURNED TO HIS LODGE, HE CARRIED SOME OF THE
FAT TO FEED HIS CHILDREN, HIDING IT AMONGST COOKED MOSS.  WHEN THE
CHILDREN SAW IT, THEY QUARELLED OVER IT, AND WOKE UP THE PEOPLE IN THE
NEIGHBORING LODGE, WHO ASKED WHY HIS CHILDREN WERE WRANGLING.  THE
RAVEN SAID, "THEY ARE HUNGRY, AND WRANGLE OVER THE MOSS."  THE
SAME THING HAPPENED SEVERAL NIGHTS IN SUCCESSION; AND AT LAST THE
SUSPICIONS OF THE PEOPLE WERE AROUSED.  THEY SAID, "THEY WOULD NOT
QUARREL OVER MOSS.  CERTAINLY THEY MUST HAVE SOMETHING BETTER TO EAT."
ONE OF THEM WATCHED THE NEXT NIGHT; AND WHEN THE YOUNG RAVENS BEGAN
QUARRELLING, HE RUSHED IN AND SEIZED ONE BY THE THROAT BEFORE HE
HAD TIME TO SWALLOW THE FOOD.  THE PRESSURE CAUSED THE CHILD TO
DISGORGE THE FOOD, WHICH THE MAN TOOK POSSESSION OF, AND KEPT UNTIL
MORNING.  HE THEN SAW THAT IT WAS DEER FAT, AND SHOWED IT TO THE
PEOPLE, WHO FORTHWITH HELD A COUNCIL, AND ASKED THE RAVEN TO EXPLAIN
WHERE HE GOT IT, AS IT WAS WELL KNOWN THAT HE HAD NOT KILLED ANY
DEER, SINCE EVEN THE WOLF, THE LYNX, AND ALL THE BEST HUNTERS IN CAMP
HAD BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL.  THEY ALSO THREATENED TO KILL HIM IF HE DID
NOT TELL.  THEN HE TOLD THEM THAT HE OBTAINED IT FROM NLIKSENTEM,
WHO HAD RETURNED, AND WHOSE LODGE WAS FULL OF DEER FAT AND MEAT.
THE PEOPLE, THEREFORE, IN A BODY WENT TO NLIKSENTEM'S LODGE, AND
CONGRATULATED HIM ON HIS RETURN.  THEY ALSO TOLD HIS OTHER WIFE TO
RETURN TO HIM, BUT HE WOULD NOT HAVE HER AT FIRST.  HE FEASTED ALL
THE PEOPLE, SO THAT THEIR HUNGER WAS SATISFIED.
BUT THE COYOTE WAS ASHAMED, AND DID NOT GO NEAR HIS SON.  NLIKSENTEM
THEN WENT HUNTING, KILLED A DEER, AND TOOK OUT THE ENTRAILS, WHICH
HE MADE INTO A FINE-LOOKING AND HIGHLY ORNAMENTED PACKING-LINE,
IN WHICH HE TIED THE MEAT UP, AND HUNG IT IN A TREE.  HE NEXT
WENT AND VISITED HIS FATHER, SAYING, "I HAVE A DEER HANGING IN A TREE
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CREEK.  YOU MAY HAVE IT IF YOU CARRY IT
HOME.  THE IS A PACKING-LINE ON IT."  THE COYOTE WAS GLAD, AND
WENT TO FETCH IT.  HE CARRIED IT HOME, AND REACHED THE CROSSING OF
THE CREEK, WHICH WAS MADE BY MEANS OF A LOG.  WHEN HE WAS ON THE
LOG, THE PACKING-LINE BROKE; THE PACK FELL INTO THE CREEK OVER THE ONE
SIDE OF THE LOG, AND THE COYOTE OVER THE OTHER.  AS THE WATER WAS
FLOWING SWIFTLY IN THE CREEK AT THE TIME, THE COYOTE WAS CARRIED
DOWN THE STREAM, AND WAS EVENTUALLY SWEPT INTO THE THOMPSON RIVER,
WHERE HE WAS IN DANGER OF BEING DROWNED; THEREFORE HE TURNED HIMSELF
INTO A SMALL PIECE OF BOARD, AND FLOATED DOWN THE STREAM TO ITS
JUNCTION WITH FRASER RIVER AT LYTTON, WHENCE HE WAS CARRIED DOWN
THE FRASER TO THE UNKNOWN REGIONS BELOW.
THUS HE FLOATED WITH THE CURRENT UNTIL HE WAS STOPPED BY A FISH-DAM
NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER, WHICH WAS OWNED BY TWO OLD WOMEN.
ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING THE WOMEN CAME DOWN TO THEIR DAM, AND
SAW THE PIECE OF WOOD.  ONE OF THEM SAID, "THAT IS A NICE PIECE OF
WOOD.  IT WILL MAKE A FINE DISH.  I WILL TAKE IT HOME."  THEY TOOK
THE BOARD HOME TO THEIR HOUSE, AND MADE IT INTO A DISH; BUT WHEN
THEY ATE OF IT, THE FISH DISAPPEARED SO QUICKLY THAT THE WOMEN COULD
NOT GET ENOUGH FOR THEMSELVES TO MAKE A FAIR MEAL, ALTHOUGH THEY
PUT ONE FISH AFTER ANOTHER ON THE DISH; SO AT LAST ONE OF THEM GOT
ANGRY, AND THREW THE DISH INTO THE FIRE.  IMMEDIATELY THERE ISSUED
FROM THE FIRE THE CRY OF AN INFANT.  THE ONE WOMAN SAID TO THE OTHER,
"PULL IT OUT QUICK]  IT IS A CHILD]  I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE IT TO REAR
AS MY OWN."  ACCORDINGLY THEY PULLED THE CHILD OUT.  IT WAS A BOY,
WHO GREW UP VERY RAPIDLY.  BUT HE WAS VERY DISOBEDIENT AND HARD TO
REAR.  THEY TOOK HIM WITH THEM IN THEIR WANDERINGS, AND SOMETIMES
THEY LEFT HIM AT HOME.  NOW THESE WOMEN KEPT IN THEIR HOUSE FOUR
WOODEN BOXES, AND THEY FORBADE THE BOY TO TAKE THE LIDS OFF THESE
BOXES.  THE CHIEF FOOD OF THE WOMEN WAS SALMON, -- A NEW FISH TO
THE COYOTE, AS THERE WERE NONE OF THEM IN HIS COUNTRY, AND, MOREOVER,
HIS PEOPLE DID NOT KNOW OF THEM.  BELOW THE DAM MENTIONED
THE RIVER WAS FULL OF SALMON; BUT OF COURSE ABOVE THERE WERE NONE.
ONE DAY THE WOMEN WERE AWAY.  THEN THE COYOTE MADE UP HIS MIND
TO BREAK THE DAM, AND LET THE SALMON ASCEND THE RIVER.  ACCORDINGLY
HE RUSHED DOWN AND BROKE THE DAM, THEN WENT TO THE HOUSE AND
OPENED THE FOUR BOXES.  FROM ONE ISSUED SMOKE; FROM ANOTHER,
WASPS; FROM THE OTHER TWO, SALMON-FLIES AND BEETLES.  HE THEN RAN
ALONG THE BANK OF THE RIVER AHEAD OF THE SALMON, WHILE THE SMOKE,
THE WASPS, AND THE FLIES ALSO FOLLOWED UP THE SALMON.  THE PEOPLE
SAW THE GREAT SMOKE, AND WONDERED WHAT IT WAS.  SOME OF THE
SALMON WENT UP THE THOMPSON, BUT THE MAJORITY TURNED NORTHWARD,
GOING UP THE FRASER RIVER.
THE COYOTE WENT AHEAD OF THEM, AND WHEN ABREAST OF NTAXASEP,
HE SAT DOWN AND HAD A REST, AND SAW DIRECTLY OPPOSITE HIM ON THE
OTHER SIDE FOUR YOUNG WOMEN BATHING IN THE RIVER.  HE CALLED TO
THEM AND ASKED THEM IF THEY WISHED ANY BACKBONE OF THE HUMPBACK
SALMON.  THE YOUNGEST ONE ANSWERED, "YES;" BUT THE OTHERS
REPROVED HER, SAYING, "YOU OUGHT NOT TO HAVE ANSWERED HIM."  THE
COYOTE CALLED TO THEM TO STAND SIDE BY SIDE, AS HE WOULD THROW SOME
OVER.  THE WOMEN PLACED THEMSELVES IN A ROW.  THEN THE COYOTE
THREW SICKNESS INTO THE YOUNGEST ONE.  SHE WAS HARDLY ABLE TO WALK
OUT OF THE WATER.  THE OTHER WOMEN HELPED HER TO REACH HER LODGE.
THE GIRL'S RELATIONS CALLED SEVERAL SHAMANS TO TREAT HER, BUT THEY
WERE UNABLE TO CURE HER.
THE COYOTE WENT OVER TO COLUMBIA RIVER, AND BROUGHT THE SALMON UP
THAT RIVER AND ITS PRINCIPAL TRIBUTARIES.  AFTER TAKING THEM UP TO
NEAR THE HEADWATERS OF THE OKANAGON RIVER, HE RETURNED, AND BEGAN
TO CONDUCT THEM UP THE SIMILKAMEEN RIVER.  HE HAD NOT PROCEEDED
FAR UP THIS RIVER WHEN, NEAR THE OPPOSITE BANK, HE SAW SOME GIRLS
BATHING.  HE CALLED OVER TO THEM ASKING THEM IF THEY WANTED ANY
BACKBONE OF THE HUMPBACK SALMON, TO WHICH QUESTION THEY ANSWERED
IN THE NEGATIVE, AT THE SAME TIME ADDING THAT THEY WOULD NOT MIND
HAVING A CERTAIN PART OF THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP, WHEREUPON THE COYOTE
SAID TO HIMSELF, "THESE PEOPLE DO NOT WISH FOR ANY SALMON, AND I
SHALL NOT LET THEM HAVE ANY."  THEREFORE HE MADE A GREAT BARRIER OF
ROCK (FALLS) IN THE RIVER, SO THAT THE SALMON COULD NOT GET AROUND IT,
AND AT THE SAME TIME HE CAUSED MOUNTAIN SHEEP TO APPEAR IN GREAT
NUMBERS IN THE SIMILKAMEEN COUNTRY.  THAT IS THE REASON THAT
MOUNTAIN SHEEP ARE (OR WERE UNTIL LATELY) VERY PLENTIFUL IN THAT
COUNTRY, WHILST THERE ARE NO SALMON, AND THE PEOPLE HAVE TO TRAVEL
TO THOMPSON, OKANAGON, OR COLUMBIA RIVERS, TO OBTAIN THEIR SUPPLIES
OF THAT FISH.  FORMERLY THEY GENERALLY WENT TO THOMPSON RIVER,
BECAUSE THERE THEY GOT BETTER FISH.  AFTER HAVING INTRODUCED SALMON
INTO ALL THE RIVERS, THE COYOTE TRAVELLED UP THE SIMILKAMEEN, DOWN THE
NICOLA AND THOMPSON RIVERS, AND FINALLY HE REACHED LYTTON.
HE WAS DRESSED LIKE A SHAMAN.  WHEN HE PASSED THE VILLAGE IN WHICH
THE GIRL WAS LIVING WHOM HE HAD MADE SICK, HE WAS SEEN BY THE
PEOPLE, WHO, HOWEVER, DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM.  THEY SAID, "IF YOU
ARE A SHAMAN, WE SHOULD LIKE YOU TO CURE OUR DAUGHTER."  HE REPLIED,
"I AM NOT A GREAT SHAMAN, BUT I WILL DO MY BEST.  YOU MUST BUILD A
SWEAT-HOUSE FOR ME, AS I CURE ALL MY PATIENTS IN A SWEAT-HOUSE."
THEN THEY MADE A SWEAT-HOUSE FOR HIM, HEATED THE STONE, PUT WATER
IN IT, AND COVERED IT WITH SKINS.  THEN THEY CARRIED THE GIRL INSIDE.
THE COYOTE FOLLOWED HER, PULLED OUT THE SICKNESS, AND THUS CURED HER.
WHILE ON COLUMBIA RIVER, HE THREW HIS DAUGHTER INTO THE RIVER.
SHE WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A ROCK, WITH HER LIMBS EXTENDED JUST IN THE
MANNER IN WHICH SHE FELL.
AMONGST THE MANY WONDERFUL FEATS WHICH HE PERFORMED WERE THE
TURNING OF ALKALI GRASS INTO DENTALIA; WILD CHERRIES INTO SLAQ; FISH
SKINS INTO SALMON; AND TWIGS INTO BERRY BUSHES LADEN WITH FRUIT.
ONCE HE THREW SOME HUMPBACK SKINS INTO THE RIVER, AND THEY BECAME
SALMON.  HE THEN CAUGHT A NUMBER OF THEM, AND CARRIED THEM TO THE
GRIZZLY BEAR'S HOUSE, ALONG WITH SOME BRANCHES OF BERRY BUSHES LOADED
WITH FRUIT, WHICH HE HAD CHANGED FROM WILLOW WITHES.  ON ARRIVING,
HE LET THEM ALL HANG DOWN INSIDE THE ENTRANCE TO THE GRIZZLY'S
UNDERGROUND LODGE, SO THAT THEY MADE A TEMPTING DISPLAY.  THEN HE
DESCENDED INSIDE TO THE GRIZZLY, AND SAID TO HER, "LET US HAVE A FEAST
WE WILL EAT YOUR FOOD FIRST, AND MINE AFTERWARDS.  YOU NEED NOT BE
AFRAID.  YOU SEE WHAT AN ABUNDANCE OF FINE FOOD I HAVE BROUGHT FOR
US TO EAT."  SO THE GRIZZLY BROUGHT OUT HER STORE OF ROOTS AND
BERRIES, AND BEFORE NIGHT THEY ATE ALL HER FOOD. THEN THE COYOTE SAID,
"WE WILL EAT MY FOOD TO-MORROW."  BUT DURING THE NIGHT HE SNEAKED
AWAY; AND WHEN THE GRIZZLY AWOKE IN THE MORNING THERE WAS NOTHING
HANGING FROM THE ENTRANCE OF THE HOUSE, EXCEPT SOME DRIED-UP
HUMPBACK SKINS AND A FEW WITHERED WILLOW BRANCHES, FOR THE COYOTE HAD
CHANGED THESE THINGS BACK INTO WHAT THEY WERE ORIGINALLY.
***THO-005***
3.  THE COYOTE AND THE FOX.
*CAWAXAMUX.*
THE COYOTE FOUND A DEER'S CARCASS, AND, AFTER EATING ALL THE MEAT
THAT WAS ON IT, HE GATHERED THE LARGE BONES TOGETHER, AND BURIED
THEM FOR FUTURE USE.  SOME TIME AFTERWARDS HE CAME BACK TO HIS
CACHE, AND, AFTER LIGHTING A LARGE FIRE, DUG UP A QUANTITY OF THE
BONES, AND, AFTER HAVING BROKEN THEM UP INTO SMALL PIECES, PUT THEM
INTO A KETTLE TO BOIL, INTENDING TO EXTRACT THE MARROW.  HE WAS THUS
ENGAGED WHEN THE FOX CAME ALONG, AND ADDRESSED HIM, SAYING, "I
WONDER AT YOU, MY FRIEND, WORKING IN THIS WAY.  YOU ARE A CHIEF,
AND YET YOU BUSY YOURSELF WITH WOMAN'S WORK.  LET ME DO YOUR
WORK FOR YOU."  THE COYOTE, WHO WAS FLATTERED BY THESE WORDS,
CONSENTED TO THE FOX'S PROPOSITION, AND, GOING A LITTLE DISTANCE AWAY
FROM THE FIRE, LAY DOWN ON HIS BACK, WITH KNEES DRAWN UP, PUTTING
ON THE AIR OF ONE WHO WAS TOO DIGNIFIED TO NOTICE HIS IMMEDIATE
SURROUNDINGS.  THE FOX BOILED THE BONES.  THEN HE SKIMMED OFF THE
FAT, PUT IT IN A DISH, AND SET IT BY TO COOL, SAYING TO THE COYOTE, "I
HAVE NEARLY FINISHED MY WORK, AND AS SOON AS THE FAT STIFFENS, WE
SHALL EAT."  THE COYOTE, WHO NOW HAD HIS VANITY AROUSED, NEVER
EVEN DEIGNED TO NOTICE THE FOX NOR HIS REMARKS.  AS SOON AS THE
GREASE WAS STIFF, THE FOX TOOK IT UP AND RAN AWAY WITH IT.  THE
COYOTE CHASED HIM, BUT COULD NOT OVERTAKE HIM:  THEREFORE HE
RETURNED TO THE SAME PLACE, AND COMMENCED TO COOK MORE BONES.  SOON
THE FOX RETURNED, AND ADDRESSED THE COYOTE WITH FLATTERING REMARKS,
SO THAT HE ALLOWED THE FOX TO DO AS BEFORE.  THE FOX REPEATED THIS
FOUR TIMES, UNTIL HE HAD FINISHED ALL THE MARROW.  THE COYOTE'S
VANITY CAUSED HIM TO BE THE FOX'S DUPE.
***THO-006***
4.  CUKATANA; OR, THE COYOTE'S DOG.
*NKAMTCINEMUX AND CAWAXAMUX.*
ONE DAY THE COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING AROUND THE COUNTRY, WHEN SUDDENLY
AT NO GREAT DISTANCE HE HEARD A JINGLING NOISE.  HE LOOKED IN
THE DIRECTION WHENCE THE SOUND CAME AND SAW A MAN APPROACHING,
LEADING A DOG.  THIS MAN CARRIED A LARGE STAFF IN HIS HAND, AND THE
DOG WHICH HE LED WAS OF IMMENSE SIZE AND FEROCIOUS ASPECT.  THE
COYOTE THEREUPON DEFECATED.  HE TURNED AROUND AND ASKED HIS
EXCREMENTS THE NAME OF THE MAN WHO WAS ADVANCING TOWARDS THEM.
THE EXCREMENTS SAID, "HE IS A CANNIBAL;" WHEREUPON THE COYOTE SAID,
"VERY WELL]  GET INSIDE AGAIN.  YOUR SKIN MAY BECOME COLD."  THE
EXCREMENTS OBEYED.  AS THE MAN APPROACHED NEARER, HE HEARD HIM CRY
CONTINUALLY IN A GRUFF VOICE, AS  HE TURNED HIS HEAD FROM SIDE TO
SIDE:  "I EAT PEOPLE, I EAT PEOPLE]"  HE ALSO NOTICED THAT THE
MAN WORE NECKLACES OF HUMAN FINGER AND TOE NAILS, AND THAT HIS DOG
WORE A COLLAR OF THE SAME MATERIAL, WHICH, LIKE THE NECKLACES, MADE
A JINGLING NOISE.  THE COYOTE THEREUPON DEFECATED AGAIN, AND
TRANSFORMED HIS EXCREMENTS INTO A LARGE DOG, WHICH HAD ARROW-HEADS ALL
OVER HIS BODY INSTEAD OF HAIR.  THEN, TYING A STRING AROUND THE
DOG'S NECK, HE ADVANCED TO MEET THE CANNIBAL, CRYING AS HE WENT.
"I EAT PEOPLE]"  AND IMITATING THE CANNIBAL'S ACTIONS IN EVERY WAY,
WHILST THE ARROW-HEADS ON HIS DOG RATTLED AS THEY WENT ALONG.  WHEN
THEY MET, THE COYOTE CHALLENGED THE CANNIBAL, SAYING, "WHO ARE
YOU, THAT SAY YOU EAT PEOPLE?"  THE CANNIBAL, WHO HITHERTO HAD
PRETENDED NOT TO HAVE SEEN THE COYOTE, NOW LOOKED UP, SAYING, "WHO
ARE YOU THAT SAY THAT I DO NOT EAT PEOPLE?  I EAT PEOPLE AND ANIMALS."
THE COYOTE ANSWERED, "I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU.  I ALONE EAT PEOPLE."
BUT THE CANNIBAL REITERATED HIS FORMER STATEMENT, WHEREUPON
THE COYOTE SAID, "WE WILL SOON SEE WHO OF US EATS PEOPLE.  LET US
VOMIT."  TO THIS PROPOSITION THE CANNIBAL AGREED.  THEN THE COYOTE
SAID, "LET US SHUT OUR EYES UNTIL WE FINISH VOMITING, WHEN WE WILL
OPEN THEM TO SEE THE RESULTS."  THE CANNIBAL SHUT HIS EYES, AND
BEGAN VOMITING LARGE PIECE OF HUMAN FLESH AND VENISON.  THE COYOTE
ALSO VOMITED, BUT ONLY PRODUCED A LOT OF SWAMP GRASS, AND OTHER
MATERIAL OF THAT DESCRIPTION.  PRETENDING STILL TO BE VOMITING,
THE COYOTE REACHED OVER AND TOOK THE CANNIBAL'S VOMIT, AND PLACED
IT IN FRONT OF HIMSELF, WHILST HE PLACED HIS OWN IN FRONT OF THE
CANNIBAL.  THEN THE COYOTE SAID, "LET US OPEN OUR EYES."  THE CANNIBAL
WAS ASTONISHED WHEN HE SAW THAT BEFORE HIM THERE WAS NOTHING BUT
SWAMP GRASS, WHILST HIS ANTAGONIST HAD EVIDENTLY VOMITED LARGE
QUANTITIES OF HUMAN FLESH.  THE COYOTE THEN CRIED, "I KNEW THAT
YOU LIED.  I ALONE EAT PEOPLE.  YOU EAT NOTHING BUT SWAMP GRASS
AND HERBS."  THIS FILLED THE CANNIBAL WITH CHAGRIN, AND HE ANSWERED
NEVER A WORD.
THE COYOTE THEN PROPOSED THAT THE TWO DOGS SHOULD FIGHT FOR THE
MASTERY.  TO THIS THE CANNIBAL ANSWERED, "IT IS NO USE FOR YOUR DOG
TO FIGHT WITH MINE, BECAUSE MINE WILL TEAR HIM TO PIECES."  THE
COYOTE ANSWERED, "OH, NO]  MY DOG CAN EASILY BEAT YOURS.  COME,
CUKATANA, LET US SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO]"  THEY SET THEIR DOGS AT
EACH OTHER, AND FORTHWITH ENSUED A FIERCE FIGHT.  WHENEVER CUKATANA'S
TAIL CAME IN CONTACT WITH TREES OR BUSHES, THEY WERE IMMEDIATELY CUT
IN TWO, AND FELL.  THE CANNIBAL'S DOG ONLY HURT HIMSELF WHEN HE
BIT CUKATANA, ON ACCOUNT OF THE ARROW-HEADS WHICH COVERED HIS BODY,
AND BEFORE LONG HE WAS CUT IN PIECES.  AFTER THE FIGHT THE CANNIBAL
SAID, "I SHOULD LIKE TO GET YOUR DOG.  HE IS A WONDERFUL BEAST."  TO
WHICH THE COYOTE ANSWERED, "IF YOU WILL GIVE ME YOUR STAFF,
I WILL LET YOU HAVE MY DOG."  NOW, THE CANNIBAL'S STAFF WAS FRAUGHT
WITH MAGIC, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THIS MADE THE COYOTE ANXIOUS TO OBTAIN
IT.  THE CANNIBAL AGREED TO THE PROPOSAL.  "NOW," SAID THE COYOTE,
"YOU WILL HAVE TO TELL ME HOW TO USE IT."  THE CANNIBAL SAID, "ALL
YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO CRY 'PUMM]' AT THE SAME TIME STRIKING THE END OF
IT HEAVILY ON THE GROUND, WHEN IMMEDIATELY A DEER'S CARCASS WILL LIE
BEFORE YOU; BUT DO NOT STRIKE IT MORE THAN ONCE, OR IT WILL NOT WORK."
THEN THEY SEPARATED; AND NO SOONER WAS THE CANNIBAL OUT OF SIGHT THAN
THE COYOTE TRIED THE STAFF, FINDING THAT IT DID EXACTLY AS ITS FORMER
OWNER HAD SAID; THEREFORE HE WAS WELL PLEASED, AND TRAVELLED ON HIS
WAY.  WHENEVER HE FELT HUNGRY, HE STRUCK THE STAFF ON THE GROUND,
THEREBY CAUSING A DEER TO APPEAR, OF WHICH HE WOULD EAT UNTIL
SATISFIED.  MEANWHILE THE CANNIBAL WENT ON HIS WAY, MUCH PLEASED WITH
THE DOG, WHICH HE LED BY HIS SIDE.  AT NIGHTFALL HE CAMPED NEAR A
CLUMP OF TREES, AND TIED HIS VALUABLE DOG UP TO ONE OF THEM.  IN THE
MORNING WHEN HE AWOKE, HE FOUND NOTHING BUT SOME COYOTE EXCREMENT IN
THE PLACE WHERE THE DOG HAD BEEN.
NOT LONG AFTERWARDS THE COYOTE SAID TO HIMSELF, "WHY SHOULD I
BE RESTRICTED TO ONLY STRIKING THE STAFF ONCE ON THE GROUND?  ONE
DEER AT A TIME DOES NOT SATISFY ME.  I WILL HAVE QUANTITIES OF DEER."
WHEREUPON HE BEGAN STRIKING THE STAFF REPEATEDLY ON THE GROUND,
AND EACH TIME HE DID SO A DEER'S CARCASS FELL THERE.  HE KEPT ON
STRIKING FASTER AND FASTER; AND AS FAST AS HE STRUCK THE DEER DROPPED
DOWN; AND IN A SHORT TIME THEY WERE PILED AROUND HIM IN GREAT
HEAPS, SO THAT HE WAS NEARLY SMOTHERED; BUT HIS GREED WAS INSATIABLE,
AND AS LONG AS HE COULD MOVE HIS ARM HE CONTINUED TO STRIKE, SAYING,
"I WILL HAVE QUANTITIES OF DEER.  NOTHING LESS THAN QUANTITIES
WILL SATISFY ME."  AT LAST THE FALLING DEER COVERED HIM UP ENTIRELY,
AND HE WAS NO LONGER ABLE TO MOVE HIS ARM OR STAFF.  THEN SUDDENLY
ALL THE DEER CAME TO LIFE, AND BEGAN TO JUMP ON HIM AND KICK HIM,
SO THAT HE WAS SOON KNOCKED SENSELESS.  WHEN HE GAINED CONSCIOUSNESS,
HE GROANED WITH PAIN, FOR ALL HIS BONES WERE SORE WITH BRUISES.
HE LOOKED AROUND, AND NEITHER DEER NOR STAFF WAS TO BE SEEN.  THEN
HE FELT QUITE CRESTFALLEN; HE MADE OFF HOME AS QUICKLY AS HIS BRUISED
BODY WOULD ALLOW HIM.
***THO-007***
5.  THE BALL.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THERE WAS FORMERLY A BALL USED AT LYTTON IN PLAYING BALL-PLAY.
THIS BALL WAS OF THE ORDINARY SIZE AND SHAPE USED FOR THIS GAME, BUT
WAS VERY SMOOTH AND SHINY, AND SPARKLED LIKE FIRE OR GOLD.  THE
YOUNG MEN AT LYTTON USED TO BE VERY FOND OF PLAYING WITH THE BALL
TO SHOW OFF THEIR PROWESS, AND TO LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT THEY
POSSESSED SUCH A RARE AND VALUABLE BALL.  AT THIS TIME THERE WERE TWO
UNDERGROUND LODGES CLOSE TOGETHER IN A CERTAIN PART OF UPPER
NICOLA.  ONE OF THESE WAS OCCUPIED BY THE COYOTE, AND THE OTHER
BY THE ANTELOPE.  THE COYOTE HAD FOUR SONS CALLED TSAMUXEI.
THE ANTELOPE ALSO BOASTED OF FOUR SONS.  THE COYOTE AND ANTELOPE
KNEW OF THIS BALL AT LYTTON, AND WISHED TO GET IT, AND THEY
AGREED TO SEND THEIR SONS THERE FOR IT, BUT THEY QUARRELLED AS TO
WHOSE BOYS SHOULD TAKE POSSESSION OF THE BALL FIRST.  THE COYOTE
SAID HIS SONS WERE THE MOST GIFTED WITH MAGIC; WHILE THE ANTELOPE
SAID, "YOU OUGHT TO KNOW THAT MY CHILDREN CANNOT BE KILLED OR
BEATEN."  HOWEVER, THE ANTELOPE AT LENGTH GAVE IN, AND THE TSAMUXEI
WERE DESIGNATED TO PLAY THE LEADING PART.  THE EIGHT YOUNG
MEN STARTED OUT.  ON REACHING THOMPSON RIVER THE ANTELOPE'S
FOUR SONS WERE STATIONED AT INTERVALS ALONG THE BANK FROM SPENCES
BRIDGE TO THOMPSON CREEK.  THREE OF THE COYOTE'S SONS WERE
STATIONED AT DIFFERENT SPOTS BETWEEN THERE AND LYTTON, WHILE THE
ELDEST SON WENT TO OBTAIN THE BALL.  WHEN IN SIGHT OF LKAMTCIN
(LYTTON), HE NOTICED A GREAT COMPANY OF YOUNG MEN PLAYING WITH
THE VERY BALL WHICH HE WISHED TO OBTAIN.  HE THEREFORE TURNED HIMSELF
INTO A STONE ON THE GROUND WHERE THEY WERE PLAYING, AND ABOUT
HALF WAY BETWEEN THE MIDDLE OF THE SPACE AND ONE OF THE GOALS.
SOME OF THE PLAYERS WERE SUSPICIOUS, AND SAID, "THAT STONE WAS NOT
THERE BEFORE;" BUT THE OTHERS SAID IT WAS, AND THEY CONTINUED THE
GAME.  THE BALL AT LAST CAME NEAR THIS STONE, AND AT ONCE IT WAS
SEIZED BY THE COYOTE'S SON AND CARRIED OFF. THE ALARM WAS GIVEN,
AND SOON A GREAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE JOINED IN THE CHASE.  THE YOUTH
HAD JUST REACHED HIS BROTHER AND THROWN THE BALL TO HIM, WHEN HE
WAS OVERTAKEN AND KILLED, AND HIS BODY BROKEN IN TWO.  THE SECOND
BOY THEN RAN WITH, AND SUCCEEDED IN GIVING IT TO THE THIRD BROTHER.
BEING OUT OF BREATH, HE WAS ALSO OVERTAKEN AND KILLED.  THE THIRD
THEN RAN WITH IT, AND SUCCEEDED IN THROWING IT TO THE FOURTH BROTHER,
WHEN HE LIKEWISE WAS OVERTAKEN AND SLAIN.  THE FOURTH COYOTE
BROTHER RAN WITH IT, AND REACHED THE ANTELOPE'S SON, WHO WAS
STATIONED NEAR THE MOUTH OF THOMPSON CREEK, AND THREW THE BALL TO
HIM JUST IN TIME, FOR HE WAS HERE OVERTAKEN AND KILLED, LIKE HIS
BROTHERS.  THE ANTELOPE'S SON THEN RAN WITH THE BALL.  HIS
PURSUERS COULD NOT OVERTAKE HIM, AND BEING VERY TIRED WITH THE LONG
RUN, AND PERHAPS AFRAID TO VENTURE FARTHER, THEY TURNED BACK FROM A
LITTLE ABOVE THOMPSON, AND WENT HOME.  THE NEXT MORNING THE
ANTELOPE SAID, "FOUR MEN ARE COMING IN THE DISTANCE, CARRYING A
BALL LIKE FIRE.  THE COYOTE CAME OUT AND LOOKED.  THE ANTELOPE
SAID, "THESE ARE MY SONS.  YOURS ARE PROBABLY SLAIN.  YOU SEE
WHAT COMES OF PUTTING YOUR SONS BEFORE MINE."
THE COYOTE RAN INTO THE LODGE, AND IN HIS GRIEF THREW HIMSELF INTO
THE FIRE; BUT THE ANTELOPE PULLED HIM OUT, TELLING HIM HE WAS FOOLISH
TO ACT SO.  ON THE ARRIVAL OF THE FOUR YOUNG MEN, WHO TOLD THE WHOLE
STORY, THE COYOTE AGAIN THREW HIMSELF INTO THE FIRE, AND WAS ONCE
MORE RESCUED, THE ACT BEING ACCOMPANIED BY THE REMARK, "WHY DO
YOU TRY TO KILL YOURSELF?  WILL YOU NOT LIVE TO HAVE REVENGE?"
THAT NIGHT THE COYOTE ASKED FOR THE BALL, THAT HE MIGHT REST HIS
HEAD ON IT WHEN HE SLEPT.  THEY GAVE IT TO HIM, AND HE SLEPT FOUR
NIGHTS WITH THE BALL UNDER HIS HEAD, EACH NIGHT UNDER A DIFFERENT
BEAM OF THE UNDERGROUND LODGE.  ON THE FIFTH NIGHT HE WENT TO
SLEEP UNDER THE FOOT OF THE LADDER, AND WHEN THE ANTELOPE AND HIS
SONS AWOKE IN THE MORNING, THE COYOTE WAS GONE WITH THE BALL.
THEY LOOKED OUT, AND HE WAS JUST DISAPPEARING ON THE HORIZON, ONLY
THE GLITTER OF THE BALL BEING VISIBLE.  THEY THEN GAVE CHASE, AND
DREW UP TO THE COYOTE NEAR THE MOUTH OF NICOLA RIVER; BUT THE
COYOTE CAUSED A THICK FOG TO COME BETWEEN THEM AND HIM, SO THAT
THEY COULD NOT SEE.  WHEN THE FOG CLEARED AWAY, THE COYOTE WAS A
LONG WAY AHEAD, SO THE PURSUERS TURNED BACK.
THE COYOTE WENT DOWN THOMPSON RIVER, AND WHEN HE ARRIVED
NEAR LYTTON THREW THE BALL TO THE GROUND AND BROKE IT.  HE THEN
FOUND THAT THE BRIGHT PART OF THE BALL WAS A HARD SHELL WHICH NOTHING
COULD PIERCE, AND THAT THE INSIDE WAS FILLED WITH EXCREMENT.  HE
TURNED HIMSELF INTO AN ELK, AND PUT THE OUTER CRUST OF THE BALL AROUND
HIS BODY.  HE RUBBED THE CONTENTS OVER THE SHELL, SO THAT IT WAS NOT
RECOGNIZABLE.  NOW THIS SHELL WAS LIKE AN ARMOR, FOR NO ARROW COULD
PIERCE IT; BUT, BEING HARDLY LARGE ENOUGH TO COVER ALL HIS BODY, THERE
WAS A SMALL HOLE LEFT UNDERNEATH HIS THROAT.  IN THIS FORM THE COYOTE
APPEARED ON THE HILLSIDE ABOVE LYTTON.  THE PEOPLE SAW HIM, AND
RAN OUT TO SHOOT "THE ELK," BUT THEIR ARROWS HAD NO EFFECT ON HIM.
HE CHARGED THEM, PRODDING THEM WITH HIS ANTLERS, AND TRAMPLING
THEM UNDER FOOT.  THUS HE CAREERED THROUGH THE PLACE, KILLING GREAT
NUMBERS.  JUST THEN THE MEADOW LARK, WHO WAS A GREAT TELL-TALE,
APPEARED, AND CRIED OUT, "THERE IS JUST A LITTLE HOLE AT HIS THROAT]"
ONE OF THE PEOPLE THEN SENT AN ARROW INTO HIS THROAT, AND, THE ELK
FALLING DOWN DEAD, THEY AT ONCE COMMENCED TO BUTCHER IT.  ON DOING
SO, THEY FOUND THE CARCASS COMPOSED OF EXCREMENT AND THE BROKEN
PIECES OF THEIR BALL.  "THIS IS THE WORK OF THE COYOTE," SAID ONE
"FOR HE ALONE COULD DO SUCH THINGS."  JUST THEN THE COYOTE LAUGHED
AT THEM FROM THE HILLSIDE ABOVE, AND WALKED SLOWLY AWAY.  HE WENT
BACK AGAIN TO NICOLA, HAVING HAD HIS REVENGE.
***THO-008***
6.  THE COYOTE'S DAUGHTERS AND THEIR DOGS.
*NKAMTCINEMUX AND CAWAXAMUX.*
THE COYOTE SENT HIS TWO DAUGHTERS TO MARRY TWO HUNTERS WHO
LIVED IN A DISTANT COUNTRY, AND ON THEIR DEPARTURE HE GAVE THEM A
COUPLE OF DOGS TO ACT AS THEIR COMPANIONS AND GUARDIANS.  THESE
DOGS WERE FIERCE AND STRONG, FOR THEY WERE THE GRIZZLY BEAR AND THE
RATTLESNAKE.  WHEN THE GIRLS APPROACHED THE LODGE OF THE INTENDED
HUSBANDS, THEY NOTICED THAT THEIR DOGS SHOWED SIGNS OF EAGERNESS
FOR BLOOD.  IN ORDER TO PREVENT THEIR ATTACKING THE MEN, THE WOMEN
CHEWED SOME RED OCHRE, AND SPAT IT ON THE NOSES OF THE DOGS.  THEN
THEY RUBBED IT OVER THEIR FACES, ESPECIALLY AROUND THEIR MOUTHS.  THE
DOGS BECAME QUITE QUIET AFTER THIS TREATMENT.  THEY ENTERED THE
LODGE, AND, AFTER INTRODUCING THEMSELVES TO THE HUNTERS, SETTLED DOWN
AS THEIR WIVES.
AFTER A TIME A SON WAS BORN TO ONE OF THEM.  WHILE YET AN INFANT,
HE BEGAN TO CRY CONTINUALLY FOR HIS GRANDMOTHER.  THEREUPON THE
FATHER SAID, "HAS THE CHILD A GRANDMOTHER?"  AND HIS WIFE
ANSWERED, "YES, HE HAS."  THE HUNTERS SAID, "YOU HAD BETTER TAKE
HIM TO SEE HIS GRANDMOTHER, FOR HE WILL NOT BE QUIET UNTIL HE DOES
SEE HER, AND WHEN YOU RETURN YOU MAY BRING HER WITH YOU TO VISIT
US.  ON YOUR WAY BACK, YOU WILL COME TO A PARTING OF THE TRAIL.  ONE
OF THE TRAILS THAT YOU WILL SEE IS ROUGH AND NARROW, WHILE THE OTHER
IS WIDE AND SMOOTH;  THE FORMER IS COVERED WITH RED OCHRE, WHILE THE
LATTER IS COVERED WITH BIRDS' DOWN.  TAKE THE RED TRAIL, WHICH IS THE
RIGHT ONE, AND AVOID THE OTHER, AS IT WILL LEAD YOU OVER A WIDE
PRAIRIE, DEVOID OF TREES, TO A LAND WHERE LIVE DEAD PEOPLE, MONSTERS,
AND MYSTERIOUS PEOPLE.  WE WILL KEEP YOUR DOGS HERE WITH US, AND IF
YOU SHOULD HAPPEN TO BE IN DANGER, AND CRY FOR HELP, THE DOGS WILL
WARN US, AND WE WILL AT ONCE LET THEM LOOSE TO GO TO YOUR AID."
THE WOMEN STARTED ON THEIR JOURNEY, ONE OF THEM CARRYING THE
BOY.  WHEN THEY CAME TO THE TWO TRAILS, THEY DISPUTED WHICH WAS
THE RIGHT ONE, AND AT LAST STARTED OFF ON THE WRONG TRAIL.  AFTER
TRAVELLING A CONSIDERABLE DISTANCE, THEY CAME TO A LARGE UNDERGROUND
LODGE, WHICH THEY ENTERED, FINDING AN ELDERLY WOMAN SITTING INSIDE.
THE WOMAN ADDRESSED THEM, SAYING, "OH] WHY DID YOU VENTURE
HERE?  MY HUSBAND WILL BE HOME SOON, AND WILL EAT YOU."  AT THIS
THEY BECAME SOMEWHAT AFRAID, BUT SAID THEY WOULD REST A LITTLE WHILE
BEFORE LEAVING.  VERY SOON AFTERWARDS THE CANNIBAL APPEARED, AND
WAS QUITE DELIGHTED AT SEEING IN THEM THE PROSPECT OF A GOOD MEAL.
HE WAS GOING TO KILL THE WOMEN; BUT THE BOY CRIED, "KILL ME FIRST,
AND PUT ME IN THE BOTTOM OF THE KETTLE."  HE KILLED HIM, AND,
DOUBLING HIM UP, PUT HIM IN THE BOTTOM OF THE KETTLE.  THEN HE
KILLED THE TWO WOMEN, BENDING THEM ALSO, AND PUTTING THEM IN THE
KETTLE.  HE THEN PUT THE KETTLE ON THE FIRE TO BOIL, AND SAT BY,
WAITING FOR HIS MEAL TO COOK.  IN THE MEAN TIME THE BOY MADE A HOLE IN
THE BOTTOM OF THE KETTLE, AND URINATED THROUGH IT ON TO THE FIRE
UNDERNEATH, SO THAT THE BOTTOM OF THE KETTLE REMAINED COOL, AND THE
CONTENTS NEVER BOILED.  AFTER THE CANNIBAL THOUGHT HIS MEAL WAS READY,
HE TOLD HIS WIFE TO TAKE IT OFF THE FIRE.  BUT HIS WIFE SAID, "YOU DO
NOT NEED TO EAT IT TO-NIGHT.  KEEP IT FOR BREAKFAST TO-MORROW."  THE
CANNIBAL TOOK THE KETTLE OFF THE FIRE, AND HUNG IT UP ON THE WALL.
AFTER HE AND HIS WIFE HAD RETIRED, THE TWO WOMEN AND THE BOY (WHO
HAD COME TO LIFE AGAIN) FOUND THAT THEY COULD NOT GET OUT OF THE
KETTLE; THEREFORE THE BOY URINATED THROUGH THE SIDE OF IT, THEREBY
MAKING A HOLE, THROUGH WHICH THEY PASSED, RIGHT THROUGH TO THE OUTSIDE
OF THE HOUSE.  THEN THEY HASTENED AS FAST AS POSSIBLE BACK OVER THE
TRAIL THEY HAD COME.  IN THE MORNING THE CANNIBAL TOOK DOWN THE
KETTLE, INTENDING TO EAT THE CONTENTS, BUT FOUND IT EMPTY.  HE WENT
UP TO THE TOP OF THE LADDER, AND LOOKED ABOUT.  HE SAW AWAY IN THE
DISTANCE -- ALTHOUGH THEY WERE OUT OF SIGHT OF ORDINARY MORTALS -- THE
FUGITIVES CROSSING THE PRAIRIE.  HE GAVE CHASE AT ONCE, AND BEFORE
VERY LONG OVERTOOK THEM.  THE WOMEN, WHEN THEY SAW THAT THEY
WERE NEARLY OVERTAKEN, BECAME MUCH ALARMED, AS THERE WAS NO PLACE
TO HIDE; THEREFORE ONE OF THEM PULLED OUT FROM HER PUBES FOUR HAIRS
AND THREW THEM ON THE GROUND.  IMMEDIATELY THEREFROM GREW FOUR
TALL TREES CLOSE TOGETHER, ONE OF WHICH THEY CLIMBED.
WHEN THE CANNIBAL ARRIVED, HE BEGAN AT ONCE TO CHOP DOWN THE
TREE.  WHEN IT TOTTERED, THE WOMEN JUMPED INTO THE NEXT TREE.
THE CANNIBAL ALSO CHOPPED DOWN THIS ONE, AND THEN THE THIRD ONE,
SO THAT THE FUGITIVES TOOK REFUGE IN THE FOURTH AND LAST ONE.  AS
HE COMMENCED TO CHOP AT THIS ONE, THE WOMEN CRIED FOR HELP.  AT
THE SAME TIME THE DOGS IN THE HUNTER'S LODGE BECAME RESTLESS; THE
GRIZZLY BEAR GROWLED AND PAWED THE GROUND, AND THE RATTLESNAKE
SHOOK ITS RATTLES.  THE HUNTERS THEN KNEW THAT THEIR WIVES WERE IN
DANGER, AND LET THE DOGS LOOSE.  THEY RAN WITH GREAT LEAPS, AND WERE
SOON OUT OF SIGHT.  MEANWHILE, IN ORDER TO GAIN TIME, THE BOY HAD
URINATED DOWN THE HEART OF THE TREE, CAUSING THE WOOD TO BECOME
SOFT AND ELASTIC, SO THAT THE CANNIBAL MADE BUT SLOW PROGRESS IN
CUTTING IT WITH HIS CHISEL.  THE GRIZZLY BEAR AND THE RATTLESNAKE
ARRIVED WHEN THE TREE WAS TOTTERING.  THEY ATTACKED HIM FIERCELY,
AND SOON TORE HIM TO PIECES, AND KILLED HIM.  THE WOMEN THEN WENT,
WITH THEIR CHILD AND THEIR DOGS, BACK TO THEIR FATHER'S HOUSE WITHOUT
FURTHER ADVENTURE.  AFTER HAVING ONCE KILLED A HUMAN BEING, THE
GRIZZLY BEAR AND THE RATTLESNAKE ACQUIRED THE HABIT OF DOING SO.
FOR THIS REASON THEY SOMETIMES KILL PEOPLE AT THE PRESENT DAY.  IF
THEY HAD NOT KILLED THE CANNIBAL, THEY WOULD NOT NOW KILL ANY ONE.
***THO-009***
7.  STORY OF THE SISTERS WHO MARRIED THE COYOTE AND THE LYNX (ALSO
CONTAINING THE STORIES OF THE LYNX AND THE COYOTE'S SONS).
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THERE LIVED FORMERLY A CERTAIN MAIDEN, WHO WAS VERY GOOD-LOOKING.
ALTHOUGH SHE HAD MANY OFFERS OF MARRIAGE, SHE DID NOT CONSENT
TO ACCEPT ANY OF HER SUITORS.  MANY A MAN TRIED TO OVERCOME
HER RESOLUTIONS, UNKNOWN TO HER PARENTS; BUT IN SPITE OF THEIR
REQUESTS, SHE REFUSED THEM ALL, AND SO REMAINED A VIRGIN.  AT LAST SHE
BECAME ANNOYED BY THE IMPORTUNITIES OF HER NUMEROUS SUITORS, AND
LEFT HER FATHER'S HOUSE, TAKING HER YOUNGER SISTER WITH HER.  SHE
INTENDED TO VISIT THEIR GRANDMOTHER, THE FEMALE MOUNTAIN SHEEP.  AFTER
TRAVELLING SEVERAL DAYS, THEY CAME IN SIGHT OF AN UNDERGROUND LODGE.
THIS WAS THE HOME OF THE COYOTE, AND HE WAS BUSY INSIDE, BEATING
(OR SOFTENING) BUCKSKIN.  HE KNEW OF THEIR DEPARTURE FROM THEIR
FATHER'S HOUSE, AND WISHED TO MAKE THEM HIS WIVES.  WHEN THEY
APPROACHED HIS ABODE, HE MADE COLD WEATHER.  THEN THE YOUNGER
SISTER SAID, "LET US ENTER THAT HOUSE AND WARM OURSELVES."  AFTER
SOME PERSUASION, THE ELDER CONSENTED.  ON ENTERING, THEY WERE
KINDLY TREATED BY THE COYOTE, WHO BUILT A LARGE FIRE FOR THEM.  THEN
HE TOOK SOME FOOD AND PUT IT BEFORE THEM, SAYING, "EAT SOME FAT.
YOU MUST BE HUNGRY."  THE ELDER SISTER WAS SUSPICIOUS, AND THREW
SOME OF IT IN THE FIRE; AND WHEN SHE SAW THAT IT DID NOT BURN, BUT
ONLY CRACKLED AND SMOKED, SHE TOLD HER SISTER NOT TO EAT OF IT.  BUT
THE LATTER DISOBEYED, AND AS A RESULT BECAME AT ONCE PREGNANT.  THE
SISTERS THEN CONTINUED THEIR JOURNEY.  WHEN THEY WERE OUT OF SIGHT,
THE  COYOTE TOOK HIS UNDERGROUND LODGE ON HIS BACK, RAN AHEAD TO A
PLACE WHICH THE GIRLS HAD TO PASS, AND BEGAN TO DRESS BUCKSKIN AS
BEFORE.  AGAIN THE WOMEN WERE FORCED TO COME INSIDE, OWING TO THE
COLD WEATHER, WHEN THEY WERE TREATED IN THE SAME MANNER AS BEFORE.
THIS WAS DONE FOUR TIMES BY THE COYOTE.  THE LAST TIME THE YOUNGER
SISTER WAS TAKEN IN TRAVAIL, AND THE ELDER SISTER LEFT HER IN THE
COYOTE'S HOUSE.  ON LEAVING, THE COYOTE SAID TO HER, "YOUR SISTER IS
MY WIFE.  IF SHE HAS A FEMALE CHILD, I WILL KILL IT; BUT IF A MALE, IT
WILL BE WELL."
THE ELDER GIRL WENT ON.  HER GRANDMOTHER KNEW OF HER COMING,
AND SENT OUT THE HARE TO MEET HER WITH SOME FOOD, AFTER TELLING HIM
TO AWAIT HER ARRIVAL IN A PATCH OF BRUSH AND TIMBER THROUGH WHICH
THE TRAIL LED.  THE HARE, INSTEAD OF DOING AS ORDERED, CREPT UNDER A
FALLEN LOG IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRAIL.  THE WOMAN CAME ALONG AND
STEPPED OVER THE FALLEN LOG.  THE HARE THEN RAN OUT, CRYING, "HOW
UGLY YOU ARE]"  AT THIS THE WOMAN GOT ANGRY, AND THREW HER
ROOT DIGGER AT THE HARE, MAKING A HOLE THROUGH HIS NOSE,  THIS IS THE
REASON THAT THE HARE HAS SUCH A PECULIAR NOSE AND NOSTRILS AT THE
PRESENT DAY.  SHE THEN WENT ON, COMING PRESENTLY TO A VERY WIDE
PRAIRIE, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF WHICH, AMONG HILLS, WAS HER
GRANDMOTHER'S DWELLING.  WHEN SHE CAME IN SIGHT, ALTHOUGH FAR OFF, HER
GRANDMOTHER SAID TO ALL THE YOUNG MEN, "RUN OUT AND MEET YOUR
SISTER.  WHOEVER REACHES HER FIRST SHALL BE HER HUSBAND."  THEN THE
GRIZZLY BEAR, THE ANTELOPE, THE COYOTE, THE WOLF, THE LYNX, THE
EAGLE, THE HAWK, THE WOODPECKER, THE HUMMINGBIRD, AND MANY
OTHERS, RAN OUT TO MEET THE GIRL; BUT THE HUMMINGBIRD TOOK THE
LEAD AND KEPT AHEAD OF THE OTHERS.  HER GRANDMOTHER THEN RAN OUT,
PASSED THE OTHERS, TOOK HER GRANDDAUGHTER BACK TO THE HOUSE AND
HID HER.  THEN SHE WATCHED CAREFULLY OVER THE GIRL, NOT ALLOWING ANY
MEN TO ENTER THE HOUSE.  WHEN SHE SLEPT, THE GIRL SLEPT BESIDE HER.
NOW THE LYNX, WHO WAS A VERY HANDSOME YOUNG MAN WITH BEAUTIFUL
FEATURES, WAS DISPLEASED AT THESE PROCEEDINGS.  HE MADE A HOLE
IN THE ROOF OF THE UNDERGROUND LODGE, EXACTLY ABOVE THE GIRL'S BED,
AND SPAT DOWN ON HER, HIS SPITTLE FALLING ON HER NAVEL, AND THUS
MAKING HER PREGNANT.  WHEN SHE TOLD HER GRANDMOTHER THAT SHE WAS
WITH CHILD, THE LATTER BECAME ANGRY, SAYING THAT SOME MAN MUST HAVE
BEEN WITH HER, AND ASKED HER WHO THE FATHER OF HER CHILD WAS.  SHE
ANSWERED, "I HAVE NEVER KNOWN A MAN, AND I DO NOT KNOW HOW I
CAME TO BE AS I AM."  BUT HER GRANDPARENTS AND THE OTHER PEOPLE
WOULD NOT BELIEVE HER.  THE GIRL AT LENGTH GAVE BIRTH TO A BOY, WHO
GREW UP TO BE A HANDSOME LAD; STILL NO ONE KNEW HIS FATHER.  WHEN
HE WAS OLD ENOUGH TO HANDLE A BOW AND ARROW, THE GIRL'S GRANDPARENTS
CALLED ALL THE PEOPLE TOGETHER, AND ADDRESSED THEM, SAYING, "THE
TIME HAS NOW COME WHEN WE SHALL KNOW THE FATHER OF OUR GRANDDAUGHTER'S
CHILD.  EACH OF YOU BRING YOUR BOW AND ARROWS, AND HAND
THEM TO THE BOY.  HE WHOSE BOW AND ARROWS PLEASES THE LAD, AND
SUITS HIS HAND BEST, IS HIS FATHER."
THE COYOTE, THE MAGPIE, AND THE RAVEN EACH CLAIMED THE LAD; BUT
THE OLD PEOPLE SAID THAT THEY LIED, AND WOULD NOT RECOGNIZE EITHER OF
THEM AS SUCH.  THE LYNX, WHO WAS AFRAID, SAT LEANING AGAINST THE
LADDER OF THE UNDERGROUND LODGE AND NEVER SAID A WORD.  ALL THE
PEOPLE IN TURN HANDED THEIR BOWS AND ARROWS TO THE LAD; BUT AS HE
TRIED EACH OF THEM HE THREW THEM AWAY.  THE COYOTE CAME AT LAST
WITH A FINELY-MADE BOW AND ARROWS.  THE ARROW SHAFTS WERE CARVED
AND PAINTED RED, AND THE BOW COVERED WITH SNAKE'S SKIN, AND FINELY
ORNAMENTED WITH COLORED FEATHERS.  BUT THEY DID NOT SUIT, AND WERE
THROWN AWAY LIKE THE OTHERS.  THEN IT WAS NOTICED THAT THE LYNX
HAD NOT COME FORWARD.  THEY DISCOVERED HIM, AND ORDERED HIM TO
PRESENT HIS BOW AND ARROWS TO THE BOY.  HE HANDED HIM A ROUGHLY-MADE
BOW AND ARROWS MADE OF FIR BRANCHES.  ON TAKING HOLD OF THEM
THE LAD WAS HIGHLY PLEASED, AND FIRED MANY ARROWS.  THEN HE TURNED
TO THE LYNX.  HE SAID, "YOU ARE MY FATHER;" TO WHICH THEY ALL
AGREED.
THE COYOTE AND ALL THE OTHER MEN WERE CHAGRINED, AND FELT ANGRY
BECAUSE THEY HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO PROVE THEMSELVES THE FATHER OF THE
BOY.  THE COYOTE KICKED THE LYNX IN THE FACE, AND ALL THE OTHERS
ALSO KICKED HIM.  THEY ALL LEFT THE HOUSE IN DISGUST; AND AS THEY RAN
ONE AFTER ANOTHER UP THE LADDER, EACH ONE PUT HIS FOOT ON THE LYNX'S
HEAD.  THE COYOTE WAS LAST, AND OUT OF SPITE GAVE THE HEAD OF THE
LYNX SUCH A HARD PRESS WITH HIS FOOT THAT HE CAUSED IT TO ASSUME THE
SHAPE THAT WE KNOW TO-DAY.  THE WOMAN'S GRANDPARENTS WERE ALSO
ANGRY AT THE RESULT, AND LEFT THE HOUSE, DESERTING HER AND THE BOY.
AFTER THEY HAD ALL GONE, THE WOMAN TOOK PITY ON THE LYNX, WHO
WAS NEARLY DEAD, AND BOUND UP HIS WOUNDS, PUTTING MEDICINE ON HIS
FACE, SO THAT HE RECOVERED.  FROM THAT TIME HE BECAME A COMMON
LYNX, AND HIS BEAUTY WAS SPOILED.  HIS FACE HAD GROWN UGLY, DISTORTED,
AND CONTRACTED, AS WE SEE IT NOW.  SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO DESERTED
THEM HAD PITIED THEM, AND LEFT A FEW DRY FISH IN THEIR CELLARS.
IN AFTER YEARS THE BOY GREW UP TO BE A FINE MAN AND A MIGHTY
HUNTER, AND REPAID THE PEOPLE THEIR KINDNESS BY FILLING THEIR CELLARS
WITH DEER FAT.  HIS FATHER THE LYNX WAS ALSO KNOWN BEFORE THAT
TIME AS AN EXPERT AND SUCCESSFUL HUNTER.
THE SISTER WHO STAYED WITH THE COYOTE BORE FOUR SONS TO HIM.
THESE GREW UP, AND WERE CALLED COLLECTIVELY TSAMUXEI.  ONLY THE
YOUNGEST ONE WAS GIFTED IN MAGIC, LIKE HIS FATHER.  HE WAS SOMETIMES
CALLED SESIUSXIN, AND CREATED FIRE IN DIFFERENT PLACES BY
KICKING STUMPS.  WHENEVER THE PEOPLE WERE TRAVELLING AND WERE
COLD, HE WOULD KICK A STUMP, AND IMMEDIATELY A FIRE BLAZED UP, AND
THE PEOPLE WARMED THEMSELVES.  AT THAT TIME THERE WERE A LARGE
NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO DWELT IN AN UNDERGROUND LODGE IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD OF A CERTAIN LARGE RIVER.  ONE OF THESE WAS A CANNIBAL.
HE HAD A FRIEND NAMED KUALUM, WHO WAS GIFTED WITH MAGIC, AND ABLE
TO DO ALMOST ANYTHING.  THE CANNIBAL HAD A DAUGHTER, BUT NOBODY
DARED TO TAKE HER IN MARRIAGE FOR FEAR OF HER FATHER.  THE COYOTE'S
ELDEST SON HEARD OF THIS GIRL, AND WANTED TO MARRY HER.  HE CAME TO
A ROCK NEAR THE RIVER, AND CALLED "TWIA."  THE CANNIBAL CAME
DOWN ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE AND LAUNCHED HIS CANOE.  WHEN HE
CAME NEAR THE ROCK, HE SAID TO THE COYOTE'S SON, "JUMP INTO THE
CANOE, AND I WILL TAKE YOU ACROSS."  THE LATTER ATTEMPTED TO DO SO,
BUT FELL INTO THE RIVER AND WAS DROWNED.  THE OTHER TWO SONS OF THE
COYOTE AFTERWARDS WENT IN SUCCESSION TO GET THE GIRL; BUT THE SAME
FATE BEFELL THEM.  THE YOUNGEST SON THEN SAID, "IT IS MY TURN TO
GO," AND ASKED HIS FATHER TO ACCOMPANY HIM.  HIS FATHER SAID, "WE
WILL GO AND HAVE REVENGE."  THEY THEREFORE WENT TO THE ROCK AT THE
RIVER AND CALLED.  THE CANNIBAL CAME AGAIN WITH HIS CANOE; BUT,
MUCH TO HIS SURPRISE AND CHAGRIN, BOTH MEN JUMPED INTO THE MIDDLE
OF THE CANOE.  THEN HE TOOK THEM ACROSS, AND THEY WENT UP TO THE
VILLAGE.  WHEN THEY HAD ENTERED THE CANNIBAL'S HOUSE, THE LATTER PUT
ON AN IMMENSE FIRE IN ORDER TO OVERCOME THEM BY HEAT.  BUT THE
COYOTE AND HIS SON PUT LUMPS OF ICE ON THEIR FOREHEADS, AND SAT THERE
WITHOUT BEING HURT.  THE CANNIBAL GAVE HIS DAUGHTER TO THE COYOTE'S
SON, BUT SWORE IN SECRET TO KILL HIM.  IN THE COURSE OF THE EVENING,
THE CANNIBAL SAID TO THE OLD MAN KUALUM, "TAKE MY SON-IN-LAW OUT
FOR A HUNT TO-MORROW."  THE COYOTE SAID TO HIS SON, "THEY WANT TO
KILL YOU.  GO AND ASK THE ADVICE OF YOUR FRIEND THE OLD WOMAN,
SHORTTAILED MOUSE, WHO LIVES IN THE MOUNTAINS.  SHE IS FULL OF WISDOM.
THE LAD OBEYED, AND THE OLD WOMAN TOLD HIM HOW TO ACT.  SHE SAID,
"THEY WILL TRY TO BURN YOU TO-MORROW.  BUT I KNOW HOW TO AVOID THE
FIRE.  STEP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRAIL, AND IT WILL NOT HURT YOU.  I
DID SO WHEN THE COUNTRY WAS ALL BURNT, AND I WAS THE ONLY ONE LEFT."
THE NEXT DAY WHEN THEY WERE HUNTING, KUALUM SENT FIRE TO THE PLACE
WHERE THE LAD WAS HUNTING, IN ORDER TO BURN HIM; BUT THE LATTER DID
AS DIRECTED.  HE STEPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRAIL AND REMAINED
UNHARMED.  FOR THIS REASON, UP TO THE PRESENT DAY, FIRE ALWAYS STOPS
AT A TRAIL.  KUALUM WENT HOME DISCOMFITED, WHILE THE LAD GATHERED
THE DEER IN A GULCH, SHOT THEM, PUT THEM IN HIS GLOVE, AND WENT TO
THE VILLAGE, WHERE HE SHOOK THE GLOVE, LETTING ENOUGH DEER FALL OUT
TO FILL A WHOLE LODGE.
THE CANNIBAL THEN SAID TO KUALUM:  "TAKE MY SON-IN-LAW TO GATHER
FIREWOOD TO-MORROW."  ONCE MORE THE LAD WENT TO SEE THE
SHORTTAILED MOUSE AND SHE TOLD HIM WHAT TO DO.  ON THE MORROW THEY
CAME TO A DRY TREE.  THE LAD SPLIT IT.  KUALUM, BY HIS MAGIC, CAUSED
THE TREE TO SURROUND THE LAD, AND THEN TO CLOSE AND PRESS HIM TO
DEATH.  THE MAN WATCHED UNTIL HE SAW WHAT HE TOUGHT TO BE THE
BLOOD AND BRAINS OF THE LAD OOZE OUT THROUGH THE SPLIT IN THE TREE,
AND WENT HOME WELL PLEASED.  BUT IN REALITY THE BLOOD WAS RED PAINT,
AND THE BRAINS WHITE PAINT, WHICH THE LAD HAD EJECTED FROM THE
SEPARATE CORNERS OF HIS MOUTH THROUGH THE CRACKS OF THE TREE.  THE
BOY THEN TOOK AN ARROW-HEAD SUCH AS THE THUNDER USES WHEN SHOOTING,
AND STRUCK THE TREE AS LIGHTNING WOULD, THEREBY SPLITTING IT,
AND RELEASING HIMSELF.  HE THEN GATHERED UP SOME DRY WOOD AND
CARRIED IT TO THE VILLAGE.  HE THREW IT INTO THE CANNIBAL'S
UNDERGROUND LODGE, ALMOST FILLING IT.
THE CANNIBAL THEN SAID TO KUALUM, "TAKE MY SON-IN-LAW TO SPEAR
SALMON TO-MORROW."  THEY WENT TO THE RIVER.  THE LAD WAS ABOUT
TO SPEAR A SALMON, BUT THE MAN SAID, "THAT IS NOT A SALMON.  DON'T
SPEAR IT]"  IN A LITTLE WHILE A FISH CAME ALONG WITH A MAN'S HEAD AND
HAIR, AND KUALUM SAID, "SPEAR THAT.  IT IS A SALMON."  THE LAD
DID SO, AND WAS CARRIED, SPEAR AND ALL, INTO THE WATER, WHERE HE
DISAPPEARED.  NOW KUALUM WENT HOME SATISFIED THAT THE LAD WAS DEAD.
BUT SHORTLY AFTERWARDS HE REAPPEARED, CARRYING THE MONSTER, AND
THREW IT, MUCH TO THE TERROR OF THE OTHERS, INTO THE UNDERGROUND
LODGE.
NEXT MORNING THE COYOTE AND THE CANNIBAL HAD A TRIAL OF THEIR
RESPECTIVE POWERS.  THEY HAD FOUR TRIALS, -- ONE OF FIRE, ONE OF WATER
ONE OF WIND, AND ONE OF ICE AND COLD.  THE COYOTE SANG, AND THE FIRE
LEAPED UP SO THAT IT CAUGHT THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE; BUT THE CANNIBAL
LAY DOWN ON HIS BACK, AND THE FIRE WENT OUT.  THE CANNIBAL ALSO
TRIED FIRE, BUT THE COYOTE PUT IT OUT.  THE COYOTE THEN CHANGED HIS
SONG, AND TRIED WATER; BUT THEIR POWERS OVER THE WATER WERE ALSO
EQUAL.  THEN THEY TRIED WIND, BUT WITH THE SAME RESULT.  AT LAST THE
COYOTE CHANGED HIS SONG AND BROUGHT COLD AND ICE.  THE CANNIBAL
AND DUALUM COULD NOT MEET THIS.  THEY, THEIR DAUGHTER, AND ALL THE
PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE, WERE FROZEN TO DEATH; MOREOVER, ALL THE HOUSES
AND THE VILLAGE SITE BECAME COVERED WITH ICE.  THE COYOTE AND HIS
SON THEN DEPARTED FOR HOME, HAVING THUS TAKEN THEIR REVENGE.
***THO-010***
8.  THE COYOTE AND HIS GUESTS.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THE BLACK BEAR INVITED THE COYOTE TO HER UNDERGROUND LODGE.
HE WENT THE NEXT MORNING, AND ON ARRIVING WAS KINDLY TREATED BY
THE BEAR.  SHE GAVE HIM BERRIES AND OTHER FOOD TO EAT, WHICH WAS
VERY ACCEPTABLE TO HIM, AS HE WAS ALMOST FAMISHING.  BEFORE LONG
THE BLACK BEAR PUT MORE WOOD ON THE FIRE, AND PLACED A DISH DOWN
BY THE SIDE OF THE FIRE.  THEN SHE HELD HER HANDS, FINGERS TURNED
DOWNWARD, IN FRONT OF THE BLAZE.  BEFORE LONG MELTED FAT COMMENCED
TO DRIP FROM HER FINGER-TIPS INTO THE DISH BELOW, WHICH IN A SHORT
TIME BECAME QUITE FULL.  SHE TOOK THE DISH AND PLACED IT IN FRONT OF
THE COYOTE, ASKING HIM TO PARTAKE OF THE FAT, WHICH HE DID, EATING AS
MUCH AS HE WAS ABLE.  AFTER FINISHING HIS REPAST, THE COYOTE SAID
THAT HE WOULD NOW GO HOME.  AT THE SAME TIME HE INVITED THE BLACK
BEAR TO HIS HOUSE ON THE MORROW, WHEN HE SAID HE WOULD RETURN HER
DISH, WHICH IN THE MEAN TIME HE WOULD BORROW SO AS TO TAKE HOME
THE REST OF THE FAT FOR HIS WIFE.  IN DUE COURSE THE BLACK BEAR
ARRIVED AT THE COYOTE'S HOUSE, WHERE SHE WAS TREATED TO SOME OFFAL
WHICH THE COYOTE HAD FOUND, BUT WHICH HE TOLD HER WAS FRESH, AS HE
HAD BEEN OUT HUNTING AND HAD JUST BROUGHT IT IN.  AFTER A WHILE THE
COYOTE TOLD HIS WIFE TO STIR THE FIRE, BECAUSE HE WANTED TO GET SOME
FAT TO GIVE TO HIS GUEST.  HE THEN SET THE DISH DOWN CLOSE TO THE FIRE
AND HOLDING UP HIS PAWS IN FRONT OF THE BLAZE, EXACTLY AS THE BLACK
BEAR HAD DONE, HE AWAITED RESULTS.  AS THERE WAS NO SIGN OF ANY FAT
COMING, HE PLACED HIS PAWS STILL NEARER TO THE FLAME, AND HELD THEM
THERE UNTIL THEY COMMENCED TO SHRIVEL AND CURL UP WITH THE HEAT,
AND STILL THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF ANY GREASE DRIPPING DOWN.  HIS
PAWS HAD NOW ALMOST SHRUNK UP INTO A BALL.  HE WAS UNABLE TO
ENDURE THE PAIN ANY LONGER, WITHDREW HIS HANDS FROM THE FIRE, AND
RAN AROUND THE HOUSE, HOWLING WITH PAIN.  THE BLACK BEAR THEN SAID
TO HIM, "WHAT A FOOL YOU ARE]  POOR FELLOW]  WATCH ME HOW I
DO IT."  SHE THEN HELD UP HER PAWS IN FRONT OF THE FIRE, AS SHE HAD
DONE ON THE PREVIOUS DAY, AND BEFORE LONG THE DISH WAS FULL OF GREASE.
SHE THEN MADE THE COYOTE A PRESENT OF THE GREASE, AND TOLD HIM
NEVER TO TRY AND DO WHAT WAS BEYOND HIS POWER.
SOME TIME AFTERWARDS THE COYOTE FELT HUNGRY AND THOUGHT HE WOULD
PAY A VISIT TO TSALA'S, WHO LIVED IN AN UNDERGROUND LODGE SOME LITTLE
DISTANCE AWAY.  UPON ENTERING, TSALA'S TREATED HIM KINDLY, TELLING
HIM THAT HE WOULD GO AND GET SOME FRESH FISH FOR HIM TO EAT.  HE
WENT OUTSIDE, TOOK A WITHE FROM SOME NEIGHBORING BUSHES, AND WENT
DOWN TO THE RIVER, WHERE HE MADE A SMALL HOLE IN THE ICE, AND
COMMENCED TO DIVE FOR FISH.  THE COYOTE, MEANWHILE, WATCHED ALL HIS
MOVEMENTS FROM THE TOP OF THE LADDER.  BEFORE LONG, TSALA'S HAD
CAUGHT A GOODLY NUMBER OF FISH, WHICH HE STRUNG ON THE WITHE, AND,
RETURNING HOME, COOKED SOME OF THEM FOR THE COYOTE, WHO SOON ATE
HIS FILL.  ON LEAVING, THE COYOTE INVITED TSALA'S TO VISIT HIM AT HIS
HOUSE ON THE MORROW.  ACCORDINGLY, THE NEXT DAY, TSALA'S REPAIRED
TO THE COYOTE'S HOUSE, WHERE HE WAS OFFERED OLD MEAT; BUT, UNLIKE
THE BLACK BEAR, HE WAS NOT FOND OF SUCH FOOD.  THEREFORE THE COYOTE
PROPOSED TO GO AND GET SOME FRESH FISH FOR HIM.  THE COYOTE LEFT THE
HOUSE, TOOK A WITHE, AND AFTER MAKING A HOLE IN THE ICE PUT HIS HEAD
DOWN THE HOLE IN ORDER TO LOOK FOR THE FISH BEFORE DIVING.  BUT IN
TRYING TO GET HIS HEAD OUT AGAIN HE FOUND THAT HE COULD NOT.
WONDERING AT HIS LONG ABSENCE, TSALA'S WENT TO LOOK FOR HIS FRIEND,
AND FOUND HIM WITH HIS HEAD STUCK DOWN IN THE ICE-HOLE.  HE PULLED HIM
OUT, MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE, AND, ADDRESSING HIM, SAID, "POOR FELLOW]
WHY SHOULD YOU MAKE YOURSELF WORSE OFF THAN YOU ALREADY ARE?
YOU ARE VERY FOOLISH TO TRY TO DO THINGS THAT ARE BEYOND YOUR POWERS.
NOW LOOK AT ME]"  TSALA'S THEN PUT HIS HEAD DOWN IN THE HOLE AND
SOON COMMENCED TO TOSS PLENTY OF FISH OUT ON THE ICE.  HE MADE
A PRESENT OF THEM TO THE COYOTE, AND WENT HOME, LEAVING THE COYOTE
IN ANYTHING BUT A PLEASANT MOOD.
SOME TIME AFTERWARDS THE COYOTE WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO WATCH
THE MAGPIE AND LEARN HIS METHODS OF HUNTING.  THE LATTER HAD SET A
NET-SNARE CLOSE BY HIS UNDERGROUND LODGE.  HE WENT UP THE MOUNTAINS,
SINGLED OUT A LARGE BUCK DEER, WHICH HE TEASED, AND CALLED
NAMES, SUCH AS "BIG POSTERIOR," "HAIRY POSTERIOR," "SHORT-TAIL."
THE BUCK AT LAST GREW ANGRY AND CHARGED THE MAGPIE, WHO RAN
AWAY.  HE JUST KEPT A LITTLE AHEAD OF THE BUCK, SO AS TO ENCOURAGE
HIM, AND LED HIM RIGHT INTO THE SNARE, IN WHICH HIS ANTLERS STUCK
FAST, WHILST THE MAGPIE JUMPED OVER IT, AND, TURNING ROUND, STABBED
THE ENTANGLED BUCK TO DEATH.  THE COYOTE MADE UP HIS MIND THAT HE
WOULD DO AS THE MAGPIE HAD DONE.  SO HE PLACED A NET-SNARE CLOSE
BY HIS HOUSE, AND, GOING UP THE MOUNTAINS, SOON FELL IN WITH A BUCK
DEER, WHOM HE COMMENCED TO BELITTLE AND SLANDER, CALLING HIM ALL
KINDS OF NASTY NAMES, JUST AS THE MAGPIE HAD DONE.  THE BUCK GREW
ANGRY, CHARGED THE COYOTE, WHO MADE FOR HOME, WHERE HIS SNARE
WAS, WITH THE BUCK CLOSE AFTER HIM.  ON REACHING THE NET, THE COYOTE
TRIED TO JUMP OVER IT, BUT FAILED TO DO SO.  HE FELL INTO THE NET
AND BECAME ENTANGLED IN IT.  THE THE BUCK BEGAN TO PROD HIM
WITH HIS ANTLERS, AND WOULD HAVE KILLED HIM IF THE PEOPLE HAD NOT
RUN OUT AND PREVENTED IT BY KILLING THE BUCK.
***THO-011***
II.  QOAQLQAL.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THE QOAQLQAL WERE THREE BROTHERS WHO CAME UP FROM THE
COUNTRY OF THE S'ATCINKO AT THE MOUTH OF THE FRASER RIVER (PROBABLY
THEY CAME FROM EVEN A GREATER DISTANCE, BUT THEY ARE KNOWN
AT ALL EVENTS TO HAVE FOLLOWED UP FRASER RIVER FROM ITS MOUTH), AND
ENTERED THE NLAKAPAMUX COUNTRY FROM BELOW.  THE YOUNGEST
BROTHER WAS THE MOST GIFTED IN MAGIC.  HE WAS STOUT, AND SHORT OF
STATURE.  THEY DID MANY WONDERFUL THINGS ALONG FRASER RIVER AND
THROUGHOUT THE UTAMQT COUNTRY, CHANGING PEOPLE INTO FISHES AND
ALSO INTO STONES.  THEY ALSO LEFT THEIR FOOTPRINTS AND OTHER SIGNS IN
MANY PLACES WHERE THEY TRAVELLED, AND IT IS SAID CREATED ALL THE
WATER-SPRINGS OVER THE COUNTRY.  A SHORT DISTANCE BELOW LYTTON
THEY MET KOKWELA, WHOM THEY TRIED TO OVERCOME WITH THEIR
MAGIC, THINKING THAT THEY COULD EASILY GET THE BEST OF HIM, AND HAVE
SOME FUN AT HIS EXPENSE; BUT HE DEFEATED THEM IN EVERYTHING.
AFTER THIS MEETING THEY FOLLOWED UP THE THOMPSON RIVER, WHERE
THEY FOUND THE COUNTRY INHABITED BY THE COYOTE PEOPLE.  THEN THEY
CAME TO A PLACE NAMED ZIXAZIX.  THERE THEY MET TCUI'SQALEMUX,
A MAN GIFTED WITH MAGIC, WHO LIVED WITH HIS WIFE IN AN UNDERGROUND
LODGE.  HE LIVED BY EATING PEOPLE AND BY FISHING.  WHEN
THEY SAW TCUI'SQALEMUX SPEARING SALMON FROM THE BANK OF THE
RIVER, THE YOUNGEST BROTHER SAID, "I WILL TURN MYSELF INTO A SALMON,
AND CARRY AWAY HIS SPEAR-HEAD."  HE JUMPED INTO THE WATER, AND
CAME UP IN THE SHAPE OF A LARGE SALMON CLOSE TO WHERE THE MAN WAS
STANDING.  HE SPEARED HIM, AND THE SALMON ESCAPED WITH THE SPEARHEAD.
TCUI'SQALEMUX WAS VERY SORRY, BECAUSE IT WAS HIS ONLY
SPEAR-HEAD.  HE WENT HOME, AND LAY DOWN WITHOUT SAYING A WORD.
THE THREE BROTHERS THEN WENT TO HIS HOUSE.  TCUI'SQALEMUX'S WIFE,
UPON SEEING THEM, SAID, "DO NOT COME HERE]  MY HUSBAND EATS MEN."
BUT THEY PAID NO HEED, AND WENT CLOSER.  ONE OF THEM SHOWED HER
THE SPEAR-HEAD, AND SAID, "WE FOUND THIS."  THE WOMAN SAID,
"THAT IS MY HUSBAND'S SPEAR-HEAD.  HE WILL BE GLAD TO GET IT."  THEY
DELIVERED IT TO HIM AND SAT DOWN.  TCUI'SQALEMUX TOLD HIS WIFE TO
COOK A MEAL FOR THEM IN THER BASKET.  SHE DID SO, AND WHEN
READY SET BEFORE THEM A VERY SMALL BASKET FULL OF FOOD, GIVING THEM
VERY LARGE SPOONS MADE OF MOUNTAIN STAG'S HORN TO SUP WITH.  THEY
SAID TO HER, "WHY DO YOU GIVE US SUCH A SMALL AMOUNT?  WE CAN
TAKE THAT AT ONE SPOONFUL."  BUT HER HUSBAND SAID THEY COULD NOT
FINISH IT.  THEY LAUGHED AT THEM, AND COMMENCED TO SUP, BUT WERE
SOON SATISFIED, AND THE FOOD WAS APPARENTLY UNDIMINISHED.
TCUI'SQALEMUX THEN SAT DOWN, AND TOOK IT ALL IN ONE SPOONFUL.  THEY
WERE ANGRY AT THIS, AND WENT AWAY.  SHORTLY AFTER THIS TCUI'SQALEMUX
WENT TO THE BANK OF THE RIVER TO SPEAR FISH.  WHEN THEY SAW HIM,
THEY KICKED DOWN A MOUNTAIN ON HIM, CAUSING THE PRESENT MUD-SLIDE
OR SLIPPING MOUNTAIN AT THIS PLACE; BUT WHEN THE DUST CLEARED AWAY,
HE WAS STILL STANDING THERE.  THIS THEY DID FOUR TIMES WITH LIKE
RESULT.  THEN THEY TOOK REVENGE BY TURNING INTO STONE HIS HOUSE
AND BASKET, WHICH ARE TO BE SEEN THERE AT THE PRESENT DAY.
THE QUOQLQAL TRAVELLED ON, AND A LITTLE ABOVE ZIXAZIX THEY SAW A
COYOTE FAMILY CARRYING DRIED FISH TO PUT INTO THEIR CELLAR.  THESE
THEY TURNED INTO STONE.  MOREOVER, THE PILE OF DRIED SALMON, THE
CHILDREN STANDING AROUND IT, AND THE CELLAR CLOSE BY, MAY ALL BE SEEN
THERE AT THE PRESENT DAY.
NOW THEY REACHED A SMALL ISLAND IN THOMPSON RIVER, SITUATED
IMMEDIATELY UNDERNEATH CANEXANENEMAX MOUNTAIN, CAMPED
THERE FOR THE NIGHT, AND LIGHTED A FIRE.  HERE AN ALTERCATION ENSUED
BETWEEN THEM, THE TWO ELDER MEN MAKING FUN OF THE YOUNGEST, AND
MAKING LIGHT OF HIS POWERS OF MAGIC.  WHEN HE WAS ASLEEP, THEY
TOOK HIS BEAVER-SKIN HEADBAND, AND THREW IT INTO THE FIRE WITH THE
INTENTION OF BURNING IT.  BUT THE FIRE DID NOT TOUCH IT.  WHEN THE
YOUNGEST BROTHER AWOKE IN THE MORNING, HE FOUND HIS HEADBAND IN
THE FIRE, AND ACCORDINGLY WAS VERY WROTH WITH HIS BROTHERS.  HE TOLD
THEM THAT HE WOULD NOW SHOW THEM THE EXTENT OF HIS POWERS BY
DROWNING THEM.  THEN HE PULLED THE HEADBAND OUT OF THE FIRE, AND
IMMEDIATELY THE WATER IN THE RIVER BEGAN TO RISE, CAUSING THE OTHER
TWO BROTHERS TO FLEE FOR REFUGE TO THE MOUNTAIN CANEXANENEMAX,
WHICH THEY BEGAN TO CLIMB, TRYING TO ESCAPE THE FAST RISING WATER.
THEY REACHED THE TOP, LOOKED ABOUT, AND SAW THAT THE WATER, STILL
RAPIDLY RISING, WAS SURROUNDING THE MOUNTAIN.  NOW IT HAD ALMOST
REACHED THEM, WHILST AWAY BELOW THEY COULD SEE THEIR YOUNGER
BROTHER SITTING BY THE CAMP-FIRE, THE WATERS STANDING BACK FROM HIM
ON EVERY SIDE, AND THE SMOKE ASCENDING FROM THE FIRE, AND EMERGING
FROM THE TOP OF THE OPENING, AS IF IT WERE COMING OUT OF A DEEP HOLE.
SOON THE WATER OVERFLOWED THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN, AND THE TWO
MEN TOOK REFUGE IN A TALL POPLAR-TREE WHICH GREW CLOSE BY.  THEY
BEGAN TO CRY ON THEIR YOUNGER BROTHER TO HAVE MERCY ON THEM,
TELLING HIM THAT THEY WERE NOW WELL AWARE OF HIS SUPERIORITY IN
MAGIC.  THE YOUNG MAN THEN PUT HIS BEAVER-SKIN HEADBAND ON HIS
HEAD, AND IMMEDIATELY THE WATER BEGAN TO RECEDE, SO THAT IT SOON
RECOVERED ITS NORMAL LEVEL.  AFTER THIS THE THREE WERE GOOD FRIENDS,
AND WENT ON THEIR WAY AS BEFORE.  THEY CONTINUED THEIR JOURNEY,
AND ON THE NEXT MORNING, THEY SAW A COYOTE WHO WAS SWEAT-BATHING.
THEY TURNED HIS SWEAT-HOUSE INTO STONE.  A LITTLE FARTHER ON, THEY
MET A COYOTE AND HIS WIFE, COOKING FOOD IN THEIR BASKET OR KETTLE.
THEY TURNED INTO STONE THE BASKET, AND THE STONES USED FOR HEATING
THE WATER, AND ALSO TRIED TO METAMORPHOSE THE COYOTE AND HIS WIFE,
BUT WERE NOT ABLE TO DO SO, OWING TO THE TOO POWERFUL MAGIC OF
THESE PEOPLE.  EVENTUALLY THEY WERE COMPELLED TO TAKE FLIGHT.  THEY
MANAGED, HOWEVER, TO TURN PARTS OF THE BODY OF BOTH THE COYOTE
AND HIS WIFE INTO STONE, WHICH MAY BE SEEN AT THE PRESENT DAY,
WITH THE BASKET AT A LITTLE DISTANCE.  THEY TOOK REVENGE ON THE
COYOTE FOR MAKING THEM FLEE BY BREAKING DOWN HIS WEIR, WHICH
EXTENDED ACROSS THE RIVER AT TSALEQAMUX, A LITTLE DISTANCE UPSTREAM.
THE REMAINS OF THE WEIR IS WHAT FORMS THE BAR ACROSS THE
RIVER AND THE RAPID AT THAT PLACE AT THE PRESENT DAY.
ONCE WHEN THE COYOTE WAS AWAY FROM HOME, THE QOAQLQAL
PASSED BY HIS HOUSE, AND, FINDING HIS WIFE THERE ALONE, THEY THREW
HER INTO THE FIRE OF THE LODGE, WHERE SHE WAS CONSUMED.  WHEN THE
COYOTE CAME HOME AGAIN, HE MISSED HER, AND LOOKED FOR HER.  HE
WAS UNABLE TO FIND HER, AND SAID, "WHERE ARE YOU, WIFE?"  AND SHE
ANSWERED FROM THE CENTRE OF THE FIRE, "TAKE ME AWAY FROM HERE.
I AM ALMOST FINISHED."  THEN THE COYOTE KNEW WHAT HAD BEFALLEN
HIS WIFE.  HE BECAME VERY ANGRY AND SAID, "I WILL NOT HELP YOU]"
AFTERWARDS HE WAS VERY SORRY BECAUSE HE HAD NO WIFE, FOR HE FELT
VERY LONELY.  THEREFORE THE QOAQLQAL TRANSFORMED THE BIRCH AND
THE ALDER TREES INTO WOMEN, AND SENT THEM TO THE COYOTE TO BECOME
HIS WIVES.
IT IS NOT KNOWN HOW FAR THE QOAQLQAL WENT, OR THE EXACT ROUTE
THEY PURSUED THROUGH THE COUNTRY; BUT IT IS KNOWN THAT THEY
PENETRATED A LONG DISTANCE INTO THE THOMPSON COUNTRY, AND ALSO
TRAVELLED THROUGH THE BUONAPARTE, SIMILKAMEEN, AND NICOLA VALLEYS.  IN
THE UPPER PART OF NICOLA THEY TURNED THE COYOTE'S UNDERGROUND LODGE
INTO STONE, AND ALSO A PARTY OF MEN WHO WERE GOING OUT HUNTING.
THESE MAY STILL BE SEEN STANDING IN INDIAN FILE IN THE SAME POSITION
AS WHEN TRANSFORMED.  IT IS SAID THAT THEY TURNED AN ELK WHICH
WAS LYING DOWN, AND A PACK OF FIR BRANCHES, INTO STONE ON THE
UPPER SIMILKAMEEN RIVER, AND ALSO SOME CHILDREN WHO WERE TOBOGGANING
DOWN A MOUNTAIN SIDE.  WHEN THEY HAD TRAVELLED OVER MOST
OF THE COUNTRY TO THE SOUTH, THEY RETURNED, AND WENT UP THE
BUONAPARTE RIVER AND HAT CREEK, INTENDING TO REACH FRASER RIVER.
NOT FAR FROM THE MOUTH OF HAT CREEK THEY HAD A TRIAL OF STRENGTH.
THERE WAS A VERY LARGE ROCK ON THE GROUND AT THAT PLACE, WHICH IN A
MANNER BARRED THEIR PROGRESS.  THEY PROPOSED TO LIFT IT ON THEIR
HEADS, AND PLACE IT SOME DISTANCE TO THE SIDE.  THE TWO ELDER
BROTHERS TRIED IT, BUT FAILED.  THE YOUNGEST ONE THEN LIFTED IT, BUT
IN DOING SO THE STONE SLIPPED DOWN OVER THE UPPER PART OF HIS HEAD.
AFTER PUTTING THE STONE WHERE HE WANTED IT, HE WITHDREW, LEAVING A
LARGE IMPRESSION OF HIS HEAD AND OF THE BRIDGE OF HIS NOSE, WHICH
MAY BE SEEN AT THE PRESENT DAY.  SHORTLY AFTERWARDS THEY CAME TO
THE LAKE CALLED TCEXPA'TKWETN, CLOSE TO THE SHORES OF WHICH WERE
SITUATED THE HOUSES OF THE EAGLE AND THE SKUNK, WHO LIVED BY KILLING
AND DEVOURING PEOPLE.  THE BONES OF THEIR VICTIMS WERE IN LARGE
HEAPS CLOSE TO THEIR HOUSES, AND THE ROCKS IN MANY PLACES WERE
COLORED WITH THE BLOOD OF THOSE WHOM THEY HAD SLAUGHTERED.  THE LAKE
ITSELF WAS OF FOUR COLORS, WHITE, RED, GREEN, AND BLUE.  THESE WERE
CAUSED BY THE DISCHARGE OF THE SKUNK'S OBNOXIOUS FLUID ACROSS THE
LAKE WHEN KILLING HIS VICTIMS.  THESE CANNIBALS THE BROTHERS
METAMORPHOSED INTO THE COMMON EAGLE AND THE SKUNK.
THEY CONTINUED THEIR JOURNEY TOWARDS FRASER RIVER; BUT WHEN
GOING OVER A MOUNTAIN ABOVE S'AWA'ILOX, AND ABOUT TO CROSS A
LARGE OPEN PRAIRIE, THEY SAW A YOUNG GIRL, WHO HAD RETIRED FROM THE
VILLAGE TO UNDERGO THE CUSTOMARY TRAINING.  SHE APPROACHED THEM
DANCING AND SINGING.  THEY STOPPED TO WATCH HER, AND FORTHWITH
BY THE MAGIC INFLUENCE OF THE GIRL THEY WERE ALL TRANSFORMED INTO
STONE.  THEY MAY BE SEEN STANDING THERE AT THE PRESENT DAY.
***THO-012***
III.  STORY OF KOKWE'LA; OR, KOKWE'LA'S SKUZAS.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
A MAIDEN WHO LIVED IN THE SHUSWAP COUNTRY REFUSED ALL OFFERS OF
MARRIAGE, TELLING HER NUMEROUS SUITORS THAT NONE OF THEM WERE GOOD
ENOUGH FOR HER.  THUS SHE REMAINED UNMARRIED, WHILST ALL THE
YOUNG GIRLS OF HER OWN AGE SOON FOUND HUSBANDS.  AFTERWARDS, WHEN SHE
BECAME ANXIOUS TO GET MARRIED, NO ONE WOULD HAVE HER, THE YOUNG
MEN TREATING HER IN THE SAME WAY THAT SHE HAD TREATED THEM.
THEREFORE SHE MARRIED THE ROOT KOKWELA, AND SOON AFTERWARDS
WAS DELIVERED OF A SON.  THE BOY, WHO DID NOT KNOW WHO HIS FATHER
WAS, SOON GREW UP, AND USED TO PLAY WITH THE OTHER BOYS OF THE
PLACE.  ONE DAY HE TREATED SOME OF HIS PLAYMATES ROUGHLY, AND IN
CONSEQUENCE THEY GREW ANGRY WITH HIM, CALLING HIM NAMES, AND
STYLING HIM "BASTARD," SAYING THAT HE WAS THE OFFSPRING OF THE
KOKWELA.  THE BOY FELT ASHAMED AT THIS TREATMENT.  HE WENT HOME
AND TOLD HIS MOTHER ALL ABOUT IT.  HE ASKED HER IF IT WERE TRUE
THAT HE WAS THE SON OF THE KOKWELA.  SHE ANSWERED HIM, SAYING,
"YES, THE KOKWELA WAS YOUR FATHER."  ON THIS HE BECAME VERY MUCH
ASHAMED, AND IMMEDIATELY RETIRED TO THE MOUNTAINS.  HE BEGAN TO
TRAIN, AND TRIED TO ACQUIRE MAGICAL POWERS.  HE STAYED FOR A LONG
TIME, AND EVENTUALLY DEVELOPED INTO A MAN GIFTED IN THE HIGHEST
DEGREE WITH MAGICAL POWERS.  ON HIS RETURN, HE BEGAN TO TRAVEL OVER
THE COUNTRY, TRANSFORMING BAD PEOPLE, AND OTHERS WHO OFFENDED HIM,
AND CURTAILING THE POWERS OF THOSE WHO DID INJURY TO THEIR NEIGHBORS.
DEPARTING FROM THE SHUSWAP COUNTRY EAST OF KAMLOOPS, HE FOLLOWED
DOWN THOMPSON RIVER TO ITS MOUTH AT LYTTON, WHERE, A SHORT
DISTANCE BELOW THAT POINT, AT A PLACE CALLED KAPOZTCUT, HE MET THE
QOAQLQAL, WHO WERE ON THEIR WAY UP THE RIVER.  WHEN THEY MET
THEY TRIED THEIR MAGICAL POWERS ON ONE ANOTHER, AND HAD MANY TRIALS
OF STRENGTH AND "MYSTERY," TO SEE WHO WAS THE STRONGEST. KOKWELA
EASILY VANQUISHED THEM, BUT THEY COULD NOT DEFEAT HIM AT ANY TRIAL.
THEY CAMPED THERE TOGETHER ONE NIGHT, AND THE PLACE WHERE THEY LAY
MAY STILL BE RECOGNIZED BY THE MARKS MADE BY THEIR BODIES.  ON THE
MORROW THEY SEPARATED, THE QOAQLQAL GOING UP THOMPSON RIVER,
WHILST KOKWELA CONTINUED HIS TRAVELS DOWN FRASER RIVER.  UPON
REACHING NLAQLAQETEN, HE TURNED AROUND AND CAME BACK AGAIN UP
THE FRASER, WHICH RIVER, IT IS SAID, HE FOLLOWED TO ITS HEADWATERS,
COMING BACK AGAIN EITHER BY WAY OF NORTH THOMPSON RIVER OR
COLUMBIA RIVER.  NOBODY KNOWS WHAT BECAME OF HIM.  THE KOKWELA
ROOT GREW UP WHEREVER HE WENT.  HE DID NOT TRAVEL THROUGH THE
UTAMQT COUNTRY, THEREFORE THE KOKWELA ROOT DOES NOT GROW THERE.
***THO-013***
IV.  STORY OF THE BUSH-TAILED RAT.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THE BUSH-TAILED RAT WAS A MAN WHO LIVED IN A CAVE IN THE ROCKS.
HE WAS ALWAYS ABUNDANTLY SUPPLIED WITH PROVISIONS.  THE DOOR OF
HIS HOUSE USED TO OPEN AND SHUT AT HIS COMMAND, WITHOUT HIS HAVING
TO TOUCH IT; FOR HE MERELY USED TO SAY, "WIKAIUTCILX]" AND
IMMEDIATELY THE DOOR SWUNG OPEN, AND "MISAIUTCILX]" AND IT SHUT AT
ONCE.  MANY PEOPLE USED TO VISIT HIM, AND THESE WERE ALWAYS FAIRLY
WELL RECEIVED; BUT OCCASIONALLY HE ACTED STINGILY, AND DID NOT OFFER
THEM ANY FOOD.  AT SUCH TIMES HE USED TO SAY, "THE TIMES ARE
HARD.  I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GATHER ANY FOOD LATELY.  I AM SORRY
THAT I CANNOT OFFER YOU ANYTHING TO EAT."  NOT FAR FROM THE BUSH
TAILED RAT'S HOUSE THERE DWELT A LARGE NUMBER OF INDIANS IN
UNDERGROUND LODGES; AND AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED, THESE PEOPLE HAD MANY
CELLARS OR CACHES IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THEIR DWELLINGS, IN WHICH THEY
KEPT THEIR DRIED FISH AND OTHER PROVISIONS.
ONE DAY A MAN FROM THE VILLAGE WENT TO PAY A VISIT TO THE BUSH
TAILED RAT, FOR HE SUSPECTED THAT THE LATTER HAD STOLEN SOME OF THE
PROVISIONS OUT OF HIS CELLAR.  THE RAT SAW HIM COMING, AND WHEN THE
MAN APPROACHED THE DOOR, HE TOLD IT TO OPEN, AND ORDERED IT TO SHUT
AGAIN AS SOON AS THE VISITOR HAD ENTERED.  AFTER HAVING PLACED SOME
FOOD BEFORE THE MAN, THE LATTER ADDRESSED THE RAT, SAYING, "WHAT A
LARGE QUANTITY OF PROVISIONS YOU HAVE]  HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO
ACCUMULATE SO MUCH?  WE NEVER SEE YOU OR YOUR WIFE GATHERING
FRUIT, DIGGING ROOTS, HUNTING, OR TRAPPING."  THE RAT ANSWERED, "MY
FRIEND, THE STORE OF PROVISIONS I HAVE IS SMALL, AND AS I AM NOT ABLE
TO DO MUCH WORK, WHAT LITTLE FOOD I HAVE TO EAT IS KINDLY GIVEN TO ME
BY MY YOUNGER BROTHER THE LONG-TAILED MOUSE, WHO IS THUS THE MEANS
OF KEEPING ME ALIVE."  THE MAN ANSWERED, "THAT IS STRANGE]  WE
ALL KNOW YOUR YOUNGER BROTHER IS SMALL AND WEAK:  SO IT DOES NOT SEEM
LIKELY THAT HE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GATHER SUCH LARGE STORES OF
PROVISIONS AS WE SEE IN YOUR HOUSE."  THE RAT THEN REITERATED HIS
FORMER STATEMENT.  BEFORE LONG THE MAN SAID, "WELL, MY FRIEND, I WILL
NOW GO HOME."  THE RAT COMMANDED THE DOOR TO OPEN, AND THE MAN
WENT OUT.  AS SOON AS HE DEPARTED, THE DOOR SHUT AGAIN.  ON REACHING
HIS LODGE THE MAN SAID TO HIS WIFE, "I THINK THE BUSH-TAILED RAT
STEALS FOOD FROM OUR CELLARS.  KEEP A WATCH TO-NIGHT AND SEE IF HE
COMES."  THE WOMAN WENT AND OPENED THE DOOR OF THEIR CELLAR,
AND LEAVING IT OPEN, WENT INSIDE AND HID IN A CORNER.  SHORTLY
AFTER DARK THE BUSH-TAILED RAT ARRIVED, AND, ENTERING THE CELLAR,
BEGAN TO HELP HIMSELF TO THE PROVISIONS, WHICH HE GATHERED IN A PILE
OUTSIDE THE DOOR.  HE THEN WENT HOME AND TOLD HIS WIFE THAT HE
FOUND THE DOOR OF ONE OF THE CELLARS OPEN, AND HAD TAKEN OUT SO
MUCH PROVISIONS THAT IT WOULD NEED THEIR COMBINED STRENGTH TO CARRY
THEM HOME.  CONSEQUENTLY HIS WIFE ACCOMPANIED HIM TO THE PLACE
AND HELPED HIM TO CARRY HOME HIS STOLEN GOODS.  AFTER THEIR DEPARTURE,
THE WOMAN WENT IN AND TOLD HER HUSBAND, WHO IN HIS TURN INFORMED ALL
THE PEOPLE.
THE NEXT DAY ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE REPAIRED IN A BODY TO THE
HOUSE OF THE BUSH-TAILED RAT, WHO, SEEING THEM COMING ORDERED
THE DOOR TO STAND OPEN.  AFTER THEY HAD ALL ARRIVED AND ENTERED, THE
RAT ORDERED THE DOOR TO SHUT.  THE LEADER OF THE PARTY THEN
DEMANDED OF THE RAT TO EXPLAIN WHERE HE OBTAINED HIS ABUNDANT
SUPPLY OF PROVISIONS, AND THE RAT ANSWERED, "I HAVE NO PROVISIONS,
AND AM SORRY I CANNOT OFFER YOU ANYTHING TO EAT.  IF IT WERE NOT
FOR MY YOUNGER BROTHER THE LONG-TAILED MOUSE, WHO GIVES ME FOOD,
I SHOULD BE REDUCED TO STARVATION."  THE MAN ANSWERED, "WHY DO
YOU LIE THUS?"  HE GREW ANGRY AND ATTACKED THE RAT WITH A SPEAR.
TO AVOID THE MAN'S SAVAGE THRUSTS, THE RAT RAN UP AND DOWN THE
WALLS OF THE HOUSE, AND ALONG THE ROOF, WHILST HIS WIFE HID IN A
CORNER.  BEING SORELY WOUNDED, AND HARD PRESSED BY THE PEOPLE, THE
RAT CALLED TO THE DOOR TO OPEN.  HE JUMPED OUTSIDE AND ORDERED
THE DOOR TO CLOSE AGAIN.  THUS THE PEOPLE WERE ALL IMPRISONED IN THE
CAVE.  THE RAT CAUSED THE ROOF AND THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE TO FALL
IN, AND THUS ALL THE PEOPLE WERE KILLED.  THE BUSH-TAILED RAT THEN
LEFT THAT PART OF THE COUNTRY, AND TOOK UP HIS ABODE IN ANOTHER PLACE,
WHERE HE LIVED IN A CAVE IN THE ROCKS, AND KILLED ALL THE PEOPLE WHO
WENT TO VISIT HIM.  HE MADE THE DOOR OF HIS HOUSE CLOSE ON THEM,
THEREBY CRUSHING THEM TO DEATH.  EVENTUALLY A MAN WENT TO THE
RAT'S HOUSE, AND PLACED A SPEAR-HEAD HORIZONTALLY ACROSS THE
ENTRANCE.  THE RAT CALLED TO THE DOOR TO SHUT; BUT IT COULD NOT
DO SO, OWING TO THIS OBSTRUCTION.  THE MAN THEN CHANGED THE BUSH-
TAILED RAT INTO THE ANIMAL KNOWN BY THAT NAME AT THE PRESENT DAY,
AND CURSED HIM, SAYING, "YOU WILL NOW BE AN ORDINARY BUSH-TAILED
RAT, AND YOU WILL BE DEPENDENT FOR YOUR LIVELIHOOD ON THE REFUSE
THAT YOU MAY STEAL FROM PEOPLE'S CELLARS.  YOUR HOUSE HEREAFTER WILL
BE ONLY AN ORDINARY HOLE BETWEEN ROCKS, AND THE ENTRANCE WILL NO
LONGER OPEN OR SHUT AT YOUR COMMAND.  YOU WILL ALSO BE GLAD TO
TAKE REFUGE IN THE DESERTED HABITATIONS OF PEOPLE."
***THO-014***
V.  THE OLD MAN.
*CAWAXAMUX AND NKAMTCINEMUX*
I.  THE OLD MAN AND THE COYOTE.
HAVING FINISHED HIS WORK ON EARTH, AND HAVING PUT ALL THINGS TO
RIGHTS, THE TIME CAME THAT COYOTE SHOULD MEET THE OLD MAN.
HE WAS TRAVELLING EASTWARD THROUGH THE COUNTRY SOMEWHERE TO THE
SOUTHEAST OF THE COLUMBIA, WHEN HE MET THE OLD MAN, BUT DID NOT
KNOW THAT HE WAS THE "GREAT CHIEF" OR "MYSTERY," BECAUSE HE DID
NOT APPEAR TO BE DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER OLD MAN.  THE COYOTE
THOUGHT, "THIS OLD MAN DOES NOT KNOW WHO I AM.  I WILL ASTONISH
HIM.  HE KNOWS NOTHING OF MY GREAT POWERS, AND OF THE WONDERS I
HAVE PERFORMED."  AFTER SALUTING EACH OTHER, THE OLD MAN DERIDED
THE COYOTE AS A PERSON POSSESSED OF SMALL POWERS; CONSEQUENTLY THE
LATTER FELT ANNOYED, AND BEGAN TO BOAST OF THE MANY WONDERS HE HAD
PERFORMED.  THE OLD MAN THEN SAID, "IF YOU HAVE PERFORMED ALL
THOSE FEATS, YOU MUST INDEED BE THE COYOTE, OF WHOM ALL THE PEOPLE
SPEAK, FOR HE ALONE CAN DO SUCH THINGS."  THE COYOTE SAID, "YES,
I AM HE.  WHY DO YOU DOUBT MY POWERS?"  WHEREUPON THE OLD
MAN ANSWERED, "IF YOU ARE HE, AND SO POWERFUL AS YOU SAY, REMOVE
THAT RIVER, AND MAKE IT RUN YONDER."  THIS THE COYOTE DID.  THEN
THE OLD MAN SAID, "BRING IT BACK;" AND THE COYOTE DID SO.  THE
OLD MAN THEN SAID, "PLACE THAT HIGH MOUNTAIN ON THE PLAIN."  THE
COYOTE DID SO, AND THE OLD MAN THEN SAID, "REPLACE IT WHERE IT
WAS;" BUT THIS THE COYOTE COULD NOT DO, BECAUSE THE OLD MAN,
BEING THE GREATER IN MAGIC OF THE TWO, WILLED OTHERWISE.  THE OLD
MAN THEN ASKED THE COYOTE WHY HE COULD NOT REPLACE IT, AND THE
LATTER ANSWERED, "I DON'T KNOW.  I SUPPOSE BECAUSE YOU ARE GREATER
THAN I IN MAGIC, AND THEREFORE MAKE MY EFFORTS FRUITLESS."  THE
OLD MAN THEN MADE THE MOUNTAIN GO BACK TO ITS PLACE.  THEN, TO
TEST THE OLD MAN'S POWER, THE COYOTE SAID, "REMOVE THAT RIVER."
THE OLD MAN DID SO.  THE COYOTE THEN TOLD HIM TO REMOVE A
MOUNTAIN, AND HE DID SO, RETURNING EACH OF THEM TO ITS ORIGINAL
POSITION.  THE COYOTE THEN SAID, "YOU MUST BE THE OLD MAN, OR
THE GREAT CHIEF.  I WAS LOOKING FOR YOU."  THE OLD MAN ANSWERED:
"I AM THE GREAT CHIEF.  NOW YOU HAVE BEEN A LONG TIME ON EARTH;
AND SINCE THE WORLD, MOSTLY THROUGH YOUR INSTRUMENTALITY, HAS BEEN
PUT TO RIGHTS, YOU HAVE NOTHING MORE TO DO.  SOON I AM GOING TO
LEAVE THE EARTH.  YOU WILL NOT RETURN AGAIN UNTIL I MYSELF DO SO.
YOU SHALL THEN ACCOMPANY ME, AND WE WILL CHANGE THINGS IN THE
WORLD, AND BRING BACK THE DEAD TO THE LAND OF THE LIVING."  THE
OLD MAN THEN MADE A LARGE HOUSE OUT OF ICE IN A FAR-AWAY PART OF
THE WORLD, AND PUT THE COYOTE THEREIN TO AWAIT HIS COMING.  HE
PLACED INSIDE THE HOUSE A LARGE LOG, WHICH SHOULD BURN FOREVER, AND
BE A FIRE FOR THE COYOTE.  NO ONE KNOWS WHERE THE COYOTE'S HOUSE
IS.  HE WILL COME AGAIN AT SOME FUTURE TIME, AND WILL BRING BACK
THE INDIAN DEAD FROM THE LAND OF SHADES.
***THO-015***
2  THE OLD MAN AND THE LAD.
*CAWAXAMUX.*
SHORTLY AFTER THE OLD MAN'S MEETING WITH THE COYOTE, HE ENCOUNTERED
A LAD WHO WAS GIFTED IN MAGIC.  WHEN THEY MET, EACH TESTED
THE OTHER'S MAGICAL POWERS.  EVENTUALLY THE OLD MAN POINTED OUT
TO THE LAD A HOUSE IN THE DISTANCE, SAYING, "THAT IS MY HOUSE.  I
WANT YOU TO GO TO IT, AND TAKE POSSESSION OF IT, BUT YOU MUST GO IN
SEVEN STEPS."  THE LAD MADE THREE ATTEMPTS TO GET THERE, AND FAILED;
BUT ON THE FOURTH ATTEMPT HE ACCOMPLISHED THE FEAT, AND REACHED THE
HOUSE, WHICH HE ENTERED, FINDING PLENTY OF FOOD AND EVERYTHING HE
COULD DESIRE.  HE SAW THE OLD MAN COMING TOWARDS THE HOUSE, AND
THOUGHT, "I WILL COOK A MEAL FOR THE OLD MAN."  THE LAD DID NOT
KNOW WHO THE LATTER WAS.  BEFORE LONG THE OLD MAN ARRIVED, AND
PARTOOK OF THE MEAL THAT THE LAD HAD COOKED, SAYING IN THE MEAN
TIME, "I INTEND TO GO ON A LONG JOURNEY, AND WISH YOU TO KEEP
POSSESSION, AND STAY IN MY HOUSE UNTIL I COME BACK."  AFTER EATING
THEY WALKED ABROAD UNTIL THEY REACHED A SMALL AND VERY DEEP LAKE.
HERE THE OLD MAN SAID TO THE LAD, "WE WILL TRY OUR POWERS BY
SEEING WHO CAN STAY THE LONGEST AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE."
ACCORDINGLY  HE DIVED, AND IMMEDIATELY THE LAKE BECAME VIOLENTLY
AGITATED, AND ROSE IN SUCH GREAT AND HIGH WAVES, THAT THE TROUGHS OF
THE BILGES REACHED THE BOTTOM OF THE DEEP LAKE.  THE OLD MAN THEN
ROSE ON THE TOP OF ONE OF THESE WAVES WHICH REACHED TO THE SKY, AND
ENTERED THE UPPER WORLD.  THE LAD WAS SURPRISED AT THE AGITATED
STATE OF THE LAKE, AND IMMEDIATELY WENT ASHORE.  THEN THE WATERS
BECAME CALM AGAIN.  HE THOUGHT, "THE OLD MAN MUST HAVE BEEN
DROWNED IN THE LAKE, AND HENCE ITS GREAT WAVES."  SO HE WAS SORROWFUL
AT THE SUPPOSED DEATH OF HIS FRIEND, AND WENT AWAY, NO ONE KNOWS
WHERE.  THE OLD MAN WILL COME BACK SOME DAY WITH THE COYOTE,
AND WILL THEN HELP THE INDIANS.  HE WILL APPEAR AMONGST CLOUDS OF
TOBACCO SMOKE.
***THO-016***
3  STORY OF THE SWAN.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
LONG AGO THE SWAN WAS A GREAT CHIEF.  HE WAS A GOOD MAN, AND
USED TO BE A CHIEF AT THE DANCES.  HE WAS WONT TO SIT BY WHILE THE
PEOPLE DANCED, EXHORTING AND ENCOURAGING THEM, AND ALSO PRAYED,
AND MADE SPEECHES.  WHEN THE OLD MAN TURNED THE BAD PEOPLE
INTO ANIMALS AND BIRDS, AND LED THE GOOD PEOPLE AWAY, SETTLING THEM
OVER THE COUNTRY, THE SWAN ACCOMPANIED HIM.  AFTER THE OLD MAN
HAD FINISHED HIS WORK, THE SWAN WENT HOME WITH HIM, THUS BEING
THE ONLY MAN THAT EVER REACHED OR ENTERED INTO THE OLD MAN'S
ABODE.  HERE HE STAYED FOR A LONG TIME, BUT AT LAST GOT TIRED, AND
WISHED TO GO BACK AGAIN TO HIS OWN COUNTRY.  THE OLD MAN INVITED
HIM TO STAY THERE ALWAYS, BUT HE ANSWERED THAT HE HAD LEFT HIS CHILD
IN HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND WISHED VERY MUCH TO GO BACK AND SEE IT.
THEREFORE THE OLD MAN ALLOWED HIM TO DEPART; BUT BEFORE LEAVING
HE TURNED HIS SKIN PURE WHITE AS A MARK OF HIS FAVOR, AND TO
LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT THE SWAN WAS NO ORDINARY PERSON, BUT WAS A
MAN WHO HAD FOUND FAVOR IN HIS EYES.  THAT IS THE REASON THAT THE
SWAN IS ALL WHITE AT THE PRESENT DAY.  HE RETURNED TO HIS COUNTRY,
WHERE HE FOUND THE CHILD, AND NEVER WENT BACK TO THE OLD MAN'S
ABODE.
***THO-017***
         3A. THE ORIGIN OF THE SWAN.
WHILST SEPARATING THE GOOD PEOPLE FROM THE EVIL, THE OLD MAN HAD DIFFICULTY
IN DECIDING THE CASE OF ONE MAN, WHETHER HE WAS GOOD OR BAD, BUT AT
LAST CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HE WOULD PUT HIM AMONGST THOSE
WHO WERE TO REMAIN PEOPLE, AND WHOM HE WAS LEADING FORTH.  NOW,
THIS MAN'S WIFE HAD ALREADY BEEN TURNED INTO A BIRD, AND HE WAS LOATH
TO LEAVE HER.  THEREFORE HE LOOKED BACK AND SAID, "MAY NOT MY
WIFE COME WITH ME?" WHEREUPON THE OLD MAN GOT ANGRY, BECAUSE
HE HAD ISSUED STRICT INJUNCTIONS TO THE PEOPLE WHO REMAINED NOT TO
LOOK BACK TOWARDS THE SCENE OF THE TRANSFORMATION, UNDER THE
PENALTY OF HIS DISPLEASURE.  THEREFORE HE CHANGED THIS MAN INTO A
SWAN, AND, TAKING HIM BY THE LEGS, HE THREW HIM FAR AWAY OUT UPON
A LAKE.
***THO-018***
VI.  THE ORIGIN OF THE DEER.
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WERE NO TREES, AND MANY KINDS OF BUSHES
AND PLANTS WERE WANTING; NEITHER WAS THERE ANY SALMON OR OTHER FISH,
NOR ANY BERRIES.  THE ONLY ANIMALS ON THE EARTH AT THAT TIME WERE
DEER, WHICH WERE PLENTIFUL, BUT THE PEOPLE COULD NOT KILL THEM
BECAUSE THEY WERE SO FLEET OF FOOT AND JUMPED SO FAR.  THEY SPRANG
FROM ONE MOUNTAIN-TOP TO ANOTHER IN A SINGLE BOUND.  AT LAST,
HOWEVER, A WOMAN MANAGED TO CURTAIL THEIR POWERS BY MEANS OF THROWING
HER BREECH-CLOUT ON ONE OF THEM.  AFTER THIS THEY BECAME ORDINARY
DEER, AND COULD JUMP ONLY A MODERATE DISTANCE AS THEY DO NOW; SO
THE PEOPLE WERE ENABLED TO KILL THEM, AND THEY THUS COMMENCED TO
FORM AN IMPORTANT PART OF THEIR FOOD SUPPLY.
***THO-019***
VII.  THE TALE OF THE BAD BOY; OR, THE SUN AND THE LAD.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THERE WAS ONCE A BOY WHO LIVED WITH HIS PARENTS NEAR LYTTON.
HE WAS A VERY BAD BOY, CONSTANTLY GETTING INTO MISCHIEF AND DOING
WHAT HE WAS FORBIDDEN.  HE WAS ALSO VERY LAZY, QUARRELSOME, AND
DISOBEDIENT.  HIS PARENTS COULD DO NOTHING WITH HIM; THEREFORE
THEY RESOLVED TO DESERT HIM FOR A WHILE, THINKING THAT IF HE WERE
THROWN ON HIS OWN RESOURCES IT MIGHT DO HIM GOOD.  IT WAS IN THE
SPRINGTIME, AND HIS PARENTS WERE STILL LIVING IN AN UNDERGROUND LODGE.
THEIR NEIGHBORS, WHO WERE OCCUPYING FOUR OR FIVE OTHER HOUSES CLOSE
BY, AGREED TO LEAVE AT THE SAME TIME, AND TO REMOVE, BAG AND
BAGGAGE, INTO THE MOUNTAINS, WHERE THEY INTENDED TO STAY A WHILE
HUNTING DEER. ONE MORNING THE BOY WENT AWAY FOR A RAMBLE.  THEN
THE PEOPLE ALL PACKED UP AND WENT AWAY.  WHEN HE CAME HOME, HE
FOUND THE PLACE DESERTED, AND COMMENCED LOOKING AT THE TRACKS TO
FIND OUT WHICH WAY THE HAD GONE.  HE FOLLOWED THEM FOR SOME
DISTANCE, BUT EVENTUALLY LOST THEM.  THEN HE HEARD THE SOUND OF
WHISTLING, WHICH HE THOUGHT CAME FROM SOME OF THE PEOPLE.  HE
WENT IN THE DIRECTION OF THE SOUND, BUT THE NEXT TIME IT CAME FROM
ANOTHER QUARTER.  THUS IT CAME FROM EVERY DIRECTION, SOMETIMES
SOUNDING AS IF CLOSE TO HIM, AND SOMETIMES FAR AWAY.  AT LAST THE
BOY GREW WEARY OF FOLLOWING THE SOUND, AND, AS HE COULD NOT SEE ANY
ONE, HE RETRACED HIS STEPS.  ON ARRIVING AT THE VILLAGE, HE FELT
HUNGRY, AND SEARCHED THROUGH ALL THE EMPTY HOUSES FOR SOMETHING TO EAT
BUT COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING EXCEPTING IN THE HOUSES OF THE RAVEN AND
THE CROW, WHERE HE DISCOVERED A FEW STRINGS OF DRIED FISH.  THESE HE
TOOK TO HIS OWN HOUSE AND BEGAN TO EAT THEM.  WHILE EATING, HE SAW
MOVE A BASKET, WHICH WAS TURNED UPSIDE-DOWN.  IT WAS HALF HIDDEN
IN ONE CORNER.  HE WENT UP TO IT AND KICKED IT OVER, WHEN TO HIS
SURPRISE HE FOUND UNDERNEATH HIS OLD GRANDMOTHER.  SHE WAS UNABLE
TO TRAVEL, AND HAD BEEN LEFT BEHIND.  BEING VERY ANGRY, HE KICKED
AND STRUCK THE OLD WOMAN, WHO SAID TO HIM, "DO NOT TREAT ME SO,
MY CHILD.  I MAY BE OF SERVICE TO YOU." SHE HAD A PIECE OF CEDAR
BARK, WHICH SHE HAD LIGHTED AT THE FIRE BEFORE IT HAD GONE OUT.  SHE
TOLD THE BOY TO GATHER FIREWOOD, WHICH HE DID, AND SOON THEY HAD A
GOOD FIRE.  THE OLD WOMAN THEN SHOWED THE BOY HOW TO MAKE A
SMALL BOW AND ARROWS.  AFTER HE HAD FINISHED MAKING THESE, SHE
TOLD HIM TO SHOOT MICE, WHICH WERE PLENTIFUL.  THUS FOR A TIME THEY
LIVED ON MICE, WHILE THE OLD WOMAN MADE THE SKINS INTO A LARGE
BLANKET.  THE BOY THEN BEGAN TO SHOOT LARGER GAME IN THE SHAPE OF
BLUE JAYS AND MAGPIES, THE SKINS OF WHICH THE OLD WOMAN ALSO MADE
INTO TWO BLANKETS, ALSO THE SKINS OF ANOTHER VARIETY OF BIRDS, OF
WHICH THE BOY SHOT MANY.  ONE DAY HE HAD HIS FOUR BLANKETS SPREAD
OUTSIDE ON THE GROUND, WHEN THE SUN, WHO WAS ON HIS DAILY ROUND,
SAW THEM.  ADMIRING THEM GREATLY, HE CAME TO SEE WHOM THEY
BELONGED TO.  (AT THAT TIME THE SUN, WHEN TRAVELLING, ALWAYS WENT
NAKED, FOR HE ONLY USED ROBES WHEN HE SLEPT IN HIS HOUSE AT NIGHT.)
FINDING THE OWNER, HE OFFERED TO PURCHASE THEM.  THE BOY SOLD
THEM, RECEIVING IN RETURN MANY FINE PRESENTS.  THE SUN WRAPPED
THEM AROUND HIS BODY, AND SOON DISAPPEARED OUT OF SIGHT; BUT THE
COLORS OF THE FOUR BLANKETS MAY STILL BE SEEN IN THE SUN AT THE
PRESENT DAY, ESPECIALLY THE BLUE TINT OF THE BLUE JAY BLANKET.  AFTER
THIS THE BOY BECAME A MIGHTY HUNTER.  HE FILLED THE CELLARS OF THE
CROW AND THE RAVEN WITH DEER FAT, BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN KIND TO HIM BY
LEAVING A FEW FISH-SKINS.  THE CELLARS OF THE OTHER PEOPLE HE FILLED
ONLY PARTLY.  THUS BEING THROWN ON HIS OWN RESOURCES MADE A
MAN OF HIM.
***THO-020***
VIII.  THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO TRAVELLED TO THE SUN.
*NKAMTCINEMUX AND NLAKAPAMUXOE.*
THE LAND AT ONE TIME WAS TROUBLED BY THE SUN, WHO KILLED MANY
PEOPLE.  AT THAT TIME THE COUNTRY WAS HOTTER THAN IT IS NOW, FOR
THE SUN LIVED NEAR THE EARTH; BUT AFTERWARDS HE MOVED FARTHER AWAY,
AND LATER ON FARTHER STILL.  HE WAS A MAN AND A CANNIBAL, KILLING
PEOPLE ON HIS TRAVELS EVERY DAY.  HE ALWAYS TRAVELLED FROM EAST TO
WEST, EVERY NIGHT RETURNING TIRED TO HIS HOUSE.  HE HUNG UP THE
PEOPLE WHOM HE HAD KILLED DURING HIS DAY'S TRAVEL WHEN HE REACHED
HOME, TAKING DOWN THE BODIES OF THOSE WHOM HE HAD HUNG UP THE
NIGHT BEFORE AND EATING THEM.  HE HAD A SON WHO ALWAYS STAYED
AT HOME, AND WAS CLAD IN FINE GARMENTS OF MANY COLORS.
NOW THERE WAS AN INDIAN BELONGING TO LYTTON WHO WAS AN
UNLUCKY GAMBLER AND HAD LOST HIS ALL.  HE WAS SORROWFUL BECAUSE OF HIS
BAD LUCK, SO HE WENT TO A LONELY PART OF THE MOUNTAINS TO
SWEATBATHE AND TO CONVERSE WITH HIS PROTECTING SPIRIT.  THEN HE DREAMT
THAT GOOD LUCK WAS IN STORE FOR HIM IF HE WOULD TRAVEL.  THEREFORE
HE TRAVELLED, AND AFTER MANY DAYS CAME TO A CLIFF OVERLOOKING A GREAT
LAKE.  HE SAW A GREAT CLOUD, WHICH SEEMED TO SPAN THE LAKE.  ITS
END TOUCHED THE SHORE, AND WAS MOVING UP AND DOWN LIKE FOG.  WHEN
THE CLOUD ROSE TOWARDS HIM, HE JUMPED ON IT AND WALKED ACROSS.  AT
LAST HE REACHED A PLEASANT COUNTRY, AND, ON STRIKING A TRAIL, IN A
SHORT TIME CAME TO A HOUSE.  HERE HE FOUND THE SUN'S SON, WHO TREATED
HIM KINDLY, AND SET BEFORE HIM THE BEST OF FOOD.  AFTER TELLING HIM
WHENCE HE HAD COME, THE SUN'S SON SAID, "I AM GLAD THAT YOU CAME,
BECAUSE I AM VERY LONELY, AND I SHOULD WILLINGLY HAVE YOU TO STAY, BUT
MY FATHER IS THE SUN.  HE IS A CANNIBAL, AND WILL EAT YOU IF HE FINDS
YOU."  THE INDIAN SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO STAY TWO DAYS IF POSSIBLE.
THE SUN'S SON HID HIM UNDER A HEAP OF ROBES, LEAVING ONLY BREATHING
ROOM FOR HIS FACE, AND THEN HE HIMSELF LAY DOWN WITH HIS HEAD RESTING
ON THE HEAP OF ROBES.  WHEN HIS FATHER ARRIVED IN THE EVENING,
HE WAS CARRYING A MAN ON HIS BACK.  AS HE CAME NEAR THE HOUSE, HE
SAID, "MUM, MUM, MUM]  THERE MUST BE A MAN HERE."  BUT HIS
SON ASSURED HIM TO THE CONTRARY, AND MADE FUN OF HIM, SAYING, "HOW
COULD A MAN COME HERE?"  THE SUN ENTERED, HUNG UP HIS VICTIM'S
BODY, AND, TAKING DOWN THE BODY OF A MAN HE HAD KILLED THE DAY
BEFORE, BEGAN TO EAT HIS SUPPER.  AFTER SUPPER THE SUN, WHO
APPARENTLY FELT VERY TIRED, IMMEDIATELY WENT TO SLEEP.  NEXT MORNING
HE WENT ON HIS DAILY TRAVELS AS USUAL.  THE INDIAN THEN TOLD THE
SUN'S SON THAT HE WOULD GO HOME, AS HE DID NOT CARE TO STAY ANOTHER
NIGHT.  HIS FRIEND GAVE HIM A BUNDLE, TELLING HIM TO PUT IT ON HIS
BACK, AND NOT TO LOOK AT IT UNTIL HE REACHED HOME; AND IF HIS PACKING
LINE SHOULD STRETCH, AND THE BUNDLE SHOULD SLIP DOWN HIS BACK, HE
SHOULD NOT TRY TO ARRANGE IT, BUT LEAVE IT AS IT WAS UNTIL HE REACHED
HOME.  THE INDIAN LEFT, GOING BACK THE SAME WAY HE HAD COME.  ON
ARRIVING NEAR LYTTON, HE SAT DOWN, TOOK OFF HIS PACK, AND PROCEEDED
TO OPEN THE BUNDLE.  ON DOING SO, THE BUNDLE INCREASED SUDDENLY, SO
THAT THE WHOLE HILLSIDE WAS COVERED WITH THE FINEST GARMENTS OF ALL
DESCRIPTIONS.  HE THEN PROCEEDED TO LYTTON, WHERE HE SENT OUT THE
PEOPLE TO CARRY IN THE GOODS, WHICH FILLED SEVERAL UNDERGROUND LODGES.
AFTER THIS HE BECAME A GREAT MAN, AND THE PEOPLE WANTED TO GIVE HIM
THEIR DAUGHTERS IN MARRIAGE, BUT HE REFUSED THEM ALL.  FINALLY
THE LOON AND THE GOOSE CAME TO HIM, AND MADE HIM A PRESENT OF
THEIR RESPECTIVE DAUGHTERS, TELLING HIM THAT IT WAS NOT WELL THAT HE
SHOULD HAVE NO WIVES.  AFTER A WHILE HE TOLD HIS WIVES THAT HE
INTENDED TO TRAVEL, AND WISHED THEM TO ACCOMPANY HIM.  HE TOOK THE
SAME ROUTE AS BEFORE, AND ARRIVED AT THE SUN'S HOUSE WITH THE TWO
WOMEN.  HERE HE WAS RECEIVED KINDLY AS BEFORE.  HE GAVE ONE OF
THE WOMEN TO THE SUN'S SON TO BE HIS WIFE, AND TOLD HIM TO TELL HIS
FATHER WHEN HE CAME HOME THAT THE OTHER ONE WAS FOR HIM.  THE
SUN CAME HOME IN THE EVENING AS USUAL, CARRYING A DEAD MAN ON HIS
BACK.  HIS SON WENT OUT AND TALKED TO HIM, TELLING HIM OF THE FINE
PRESENTS THE MAN FROM EARTH HAD BROUGHT TO THEM.  THE SUN WAS
WELL PLEASED, AND, ON TAKING HIS WIFE, TOLD THE INDIAN THAT HE WOULD
NEVER TROUBLE THE PEOPLE ANY MORE BY KILLING THEM, EXCEPT ON RARE
OCCASIONS.  THAT IS THE REASON THE SUN DOES NOT KILL PEOPLE NOW, AS
HE FORMERLY DID.
***THO-021***
IX.  THE SUN AND HIS DAUGHTER.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
FORMERLY THE SUN WAS A GREAT CHIEF, WHO LIVED AT LKAMTCIN
(LYTTON), AND WHO WAS POSSESSED OF MUCH POWER AND RICHES.  HE
HAD A YOUNG DAUGHTER WHO WAS NOTED FOR HER WONDERFUL BEAUTY.
NONE OF THE YOUNG MEN OF THE PLACE PRESUMED TO ASK HER IN
MARRIAGE, BECAUSE THEY KNEW THAT HER FATHER CONSIDERED THEM TO BE
ALL UNWORTHY OF SUCH A FAIR PRIZE AS HIS DAUGHTER.
AT THIS TIME THERE LIVED A MAN IN A DISTANT COUNTRY TO THE EAST WHO
HAD BECOME POWERFUL IN MAGIC, AS WELL AS DISTINGUISHED FOR BRAVERY.
THIS MAN LEARNED THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF HIS PROTECTING SPIRIT THAT
THERE WAS A BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN WHO LIVED AT LKAMTCIN,- THE DAUGHTER
OF THE SUN,- SO HE DETERMINED THAT SHE SHOULD BECOME HIS WIFE.
ACCORDINGLY HE SET OUT ON HIS JOURNEY, AND ON REACHING LKAMTCIN
ASKED THE PEOPLE WHERE THE SUN'S HOUSE WAS, AND THEY POINTED IT
OUT TO HIM.  ON ARRIVING AT THE HOUSE, HE STATED THE OBJECT OF HIS
VISIT, BUT WAS AT FIRST RECEIVED VERY RUDELY.  AFTERWARDS, HOWEVER, HE
FOUND FAVOR WITH THE SUN, AND THUS, AFTER GIVING PRESENTS, OBTAINED
HIS DAUGHTER TO BE HIS WIFE.  AFTER STAYING WITH HIS FATHER-IN-LAW FOR
SOME TIME, HE TOOK HIS BRIDE AWAY WITH HIM, TO RETURN TO HIS HOME
IN THE EAST.  BEFORE THEY LEFT, THE SUN TOLD HIS DAUGHTER SOON TO
COME BACK AND VISIT HIM, BUT SHE DID NOT RETURN FOR SEVERAL YEARS;
THEREFORE THE SUN WAS VERY MUCH DISPLEASED AT HIS DAUGHTER'S
NEGLECT.  AFTER REACHING HER HUSBAND'S COUNTRY, THE SUN'S DAUGHTER
LIVED HAPPILY FOR A TIME, TWO CHILDREN BEING THE FRUITS OF THEIR
MARRIAGE.  SHORTLY AFTER THE SECOND CHILD HAD BEEN BORN, HER HUSBAND
DESERTED HER, SAYING THAT SHE WAS TOO HOT, AND THAT HE WOULD DIE IF HE
LIVED WITH HER MUCH LONGER.  THEREFORE SHE TOOK HER CHILDREN, AND
RETURNED TO HER OWN COUNTRY.  HER FATHER SAW HER COMING, AND SAID
TO HIMSELF: "SHE DISOBEYED MY COMMANDS.  WHY SHOULD I RECEIVE
HER NOW, WHEN SHE WOULD NOT COME BEFORE?  SHE SHALL NEVER FIND ME,
NOR ENTER MY HOUSE."  THEREFORE WHEN SHE WAS NEARING LKAMTCIN,
HE TURNED HER INTO THE PRESENT SUN WHICH WE NOW SEE.  THIS IS THE
REASON THAT THE SUN TRAVELS EACH DAY FROM EAST TO WEST, IN SEARCH OF
HER FATHER.  HER CHILDREN ARE OCCASIONALLY SEEN AS SUN-DOGS.
***THO-022***
X.  THE HOT AND THE COLD WINDS.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
FORMERLY THE COUNTRY WAS TROUBLED WITH SUCCESSIONS OF HOT AND
COLD WINDS, WHICH ANNOYED THE INDIANS VERY MUCH.  THE COLD WINDS
WERE BLOWING WHEN THE WIND-MAKING PEOPLE OF THE NORTH WERE WALKING
ABOUT, WHILST THE HOT WINDS WERE IN LIKE MANNER CAUSED BY THE
WIND-MAKERS OF THE SOUTH.  THE PEOPLE USED TO CONTEND WITH ONE
ANOTHER BY SENDING OUT THE COLD AND HOT WINDS, TO SEE WHICH WOULD
GET THE MASTERY.  THE INDIANS, WHOSE COUNTRY LAY BETWEEN, SUFFERED
MUCH DISCOMFORT FROM THESE WARS OF THE WIND PEOPLE.  THEREFORE
THEY SENT DEPUTATIONS TO EACH OF THEM, ASKING THEM TO DISCONTINUE
THEIR STRIFE.  THIS THEY AGREED TO DO.  A MARRIAGE WAS ARRANGED TO
TAKE PLACE BETWEEN THE CONTENDING PARTIES, UPON THE CONSUMMATION
OF WHICH BOTH PARTIES WERE TO CEASE HOSTILITIES.  SHORTLY AFTER THIS,
THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH SENT THEIR DAUGHTER TO MARRY THE SON OF THE
NORTH.  AFTER ENDURING MANY GREAT HARDSHIPS ON HER TRAVEL NORTHWARD,
SHE REACHED HER DESTINATION, WHERE SHE WAS KINDLY RECEIVED
BY THE PEOPLE, BUT IT TOOK HER A LONG TIME TO GET USED TO HER STRANGE
SURROUNDINGS AND THE CONSTANT COLD WEATHER.  THE OFFSPRING OF THE
MARRIAGE BETWEEN THESE PEOPLE WAS ONE CHILD.  AFTER STAYING A WHILE
IN THE NORTH WITH HER HUSBAND'S PEOPLE, THE WOMAN TOOK HER CHILD
ON A VISIT TO HER FRIENDS IN THE SOUTH.  AFTER SPENDING SOME TIME
THERE, SHE STARTED BACK ON HER RETURN TRIP, ACCOMPANIED BY HER ELDER
BROTHER.  THEY EMBARKED IN A BARK CANOE FOR THE COUNTRY OF THE
COLD.  HER BROTHER PADDLED.  AFTER GOING A LONG DISTANCE, AND WHILE
CROSSING A GREAT LAKE, THE COLD BECAME SO INTENSE THAT HER BROTHER
COULD NOT ENDURE IT ANY LONGER.  HE TOOK THE CHILD FROM HIS SISTER
AND THREW IT INTO THE WATER.  IMMEDIATELY THE AIR TURNED WARM, AND
THE CHILD FLOATED ON THE WATER AS A LUMP OF ICE.  THIS IS THE REASON
THAT ICE NOW FLOATS ON THE RIVERS AND SOME OF THE LAKES AFTER A MILD
WIND.  THUS THE PEOPLE WERE NO LONGER TROUBLED BY THE HOT AND COLD
WINDS.  SINCE THEN THE WINDS HAVE NEITHER BEEN SO HOT NOR SO COLD
AS FORMERLY, AND THEY NOW BLOW ONLY ONCE IN A WHILE.
***THO-023***
XI.  THE MOSQUITO AND THE THUNDER.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
ONCE THE MOSQUITO PAID A VISIT TO THE THUNDER.  THE LATTER, SEEING
THAT THE MOSQUITO WAS GORGED WITH BLOOD, ASKED HIM WHERE HE
OBTAINED IT, AND TOLD HIM THAT HE HAD BEEN WISHING TO GET SOME FOR A
LONG TIME, BUT DID NOT KNOW WHERE TO OBTAIN IT. THE MOSQUITO
ANSWERED, "I GOT THE BLOOD FROM SOMEWHERE."  THE THUNDER WAS
ANNOYED AT THIS EVASIVE ANSWER, AND SAID, "WHY DO YOU ANSWER ME
THUS?  DON'T YOU KNOW THAT I CAN SHOOT YOU AND KILL YOU?"  THE
MOSQUITO, BEING AFRAID, THEN SAID, "I SUCK IT FROM THE TREE-TOPS."
BY THIS LIE THE MOSQUITO SAVED THE PEOPLE, AND THAT IS THE REASON THAT
THE THUNDER STRIKES THE TREE-TOPS AT THE PRESENT DAY.  IF THE
MOSQUITO HAD TOLD THE TRUTH, THEN THE THUNDER WOULD NOW SHOOT PEOPLE
AND ANIMALS INSTEAD OF TREES.
***THO-024***
XII.  THE BEAVER AND THE EAGLE; OR, THE ORIGIN OF FIRE.
*NLAKAPAMUXOE AND NKAMTCINEMUX.*
IN THE BEGINNING THE PEOPLE WERE WITHOUT FIRE.  THE BEAVER AND
THE EAGLE SAID THEY WOULD FIND OUT WHERE FIRE COULD BE OBTAINED, AND
ACCORDINGLY THEY SENT OUT THE SWALLOW, WHO FLEW OVER THE COUNTRY
ON A SEARCH.  AT LAST HE CAME BACK WITH THE INTELLIGENCE THAT HE
HAD DISCOVERED FIRE IN POSSESSION OF A FAMILY AT LKAMTCIN (LYTTON).
THE BEAVER AND THE EAGLE THEN SAID, "WE WILL GO AND OBTAIN IT;"
AND THEY LAID THEIR PLANS ACCORDINGLY.  THE EAGLE SOARED AWAY
THROUGH THE AIR, AND AT LAST DISCOVERED THE SHELL OF A FRESH-WATER
CLAM, WHICH HE TOOK POSSESSION OF.  THE BEAVER APPEARED AT THE
PLACE WHERE THE PEOPLE DREW WATER OUT OF THE CREEK.  THEY LIVED IN
AN UNDERGROUND LODGE.  SOME YOUNG GIRLS, GOING DOWN TO THE CREEK
FOR WATER IN THE MORNING, CAME BACK RUNNING, WITH THE INTELLIGENCE
THAT THERE WAS A BEAVER AT THE WATERING-PLACE.  SOME YOUNG MEN
RAN OUT WITH BOWS AND ARROWS, SHOT HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM UP TO THE
HOUSE.  THEY BEGAN TO SKIN HIM.  IN THE MEAN WHILE THE BEAVER
THOUGHT, "OH, MY ELDER BROTHER]  HE IS LONG IN COMING.  I AM
NEARLY DONE FOR."  JUST THEN THE EAGLE PERCHED DOWN ON THE TOP OF
THE LADDER, AND AT ONCE ATTRACTED THE PEOPLE'S ATTENTION, SO THAT THEY
FORGOT ALL ABOUT THE BEAVER IN THEIR ANXIETY TO SHOOT THE EAGLE,
WHICH THEY COULD NOT KILL, ALTHOUGH THEY FIRED ARROWS AT HIM.
MEANWHILE THE BEAVER CAUSED THE HOUSE TO BE FLOODED WITH WATER.  IN
THE CONFUSION THE EAGLE DROPPED THE CLAM-SHELL DOWN INTO THE FIRE.
THE BEAVER IMMEDIATELY FILLED IT WITH FIRE, PUT IT UNDER HIS ARMPIT,
AND MADE OFF IN THE WATER.  HE SPREAD IT OVER THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
AFTER THAT THE INDIANS COULD MAKE FIRE OUT OF TREES.
***THO-025***
XIIB.  ORIGIN OF FIRE (ANOTHER VERSION).
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
A LONG TIME AGO THE PEOPLE AT THE HEADWATERS OF FRASER RIVER HAD
NO FIRE.  ONLY THE PEOPLE AT LYTTON HAD FIRE, WHICH THEY HAD
OBTAINED FROM THE COYOTE OR FROM THE SUN.  THE PEOPLE AT THE
HEADWATERS OF FRASER RIVER DESIRED TO OBTAIN FIRE, AND SENT TWO MEN
WHO WERE TO TRY TO GET IT.  THEY WENT TO TSOTCOWAUX CREEK, WHERE
THEY REMAINED FOR FOUR MONTHS, SWEAT-BATHING AND STRENGTHENING
THEIR MAGIC POWERS, UNTIL IN THEIR VISIONS THEY SAW THE EDGES OF THE
WORLD, AND KNEW EVERYTHING.  THEN THE ONE BROTHER, TO SHOW HIS
POWER, ASKED THE OTHER TO CUT HIM UP, AND TO LAY THE BODY ON THE
DOOR OF THE SWEAT-HOUSE.  HE TOLD HIM THAT ALL THE BIRDS WOULD COME
TO EAT HIS FLESH.  THEN HE INSTRUCTED HIM TO ALLOW THEM TO EAT HIS
WHOLE BODY EXCEPT THE HEART.  WHEN THE EAGLE CAME, THE BROTHER
WAS TO CATCH HIM BY THE TAIL, FOR HE WAS HIS PROTECTING SPIRIT.  AFTER
ALL THE BIRDS HAD ARRIVED ONE AFTER ANOTHER, THE EAGLE CAME.  THE
BROTHER CAUGHT HIM BY THE TAIL, AND SECURED HIM.  THE
DISEMBOWELLED MAN THEN CAME TO LIFE AGAIN.  NEXT DAY THE SAME WAS DONE
WITH THE OTHER BROTHER,- ALL THE ANIMALS WERE TO COME AND EAT HIS
FLESH, AND WHEN THE BEAVER CAME, THE BROTHER WAS TO CATCH HIM BY
THE TAIL, FOR HE WAS HIS PROTECTING SPIRIT.  THUS THE BEAVER WAS
SECURED, AND THE DISEMBOWELLED MAN AROSE.  THEN THEY SAID, "WE
WILL GO AND OBTAIN FIRE FROM LYTTON," AND LAID THEIR PLANS
ACCORDINGLY; THE ONE CHANGING HIMSELF INTO AN EAGLE, WHILST THE OTHER
TURNED INTO A BEAVER.  THE REST IS THE SAME AS THE PRECEDING
VERSION.
***THO-026***
XIII.  STORY OF FIRE AND WATER.
*NKAMTCINEMUX AND CAWAXAMUX.*
A HAXA AND HIS BOY LIVED IN A DISTANT COUNTRY.  HE HAD TWO
WOODEN BOXES IN HIS HOUSE, ONE OF WHICH CONTAINED FIRE, THE OTHER
WATER.  AT THAT TIME THERE WAS NO FIRE AND NO WATER IN THE OUTSIDE
WORLD.  WHENEVER THE MAN OPENED THE LID OF THE FIRE-BOX,
IMMEDIATELY THE HOUSE BECAME VERY HOT; AND WHEN HE WANDERED AWAY FROM
THE HOUSE, HE USED TO TELL THE BOY NEVER TO OPEN THE LIDS OF THE
BOXES; BECAUSE IF HE OPENED THE ONE, THE HOUSE WOULD TAKE FIRE AND HE
WOULD BE BURNED; IF HE OPENED THE OTHER, HE WOULD BE DROWNED,
BECAUSE THE HOUSE WOULD BE FLOODED.  ONE DAY WHEN HE WAS AWAY, THE
ELK CAME ALONG AND ENTERED THE HOUSE, AND, SEEING THE TWO BOXES
THERE, ASKED THE BOY WHAT THEY CONTAINED, WHO TOLD HIM FIRE AND
WATER.  WHEREUPON THE ELK, WHO CURIOSITY WAS AROUSED, OPENED
THE TWO BOXES.  WHEN IT SAW THE FIRE AND THE WATER, IT BECAME AFRAID
AND RAN AWAY.  THE HOUSE WAS BURNED, AND THE FIRE SPREAD OVER THE
COUNTRY, BURNING THE GRASS AND TREES.  AFTER THIS, FIRE COULD BE
OBTAINED FROM EVERY KIND OF WOOD ALL OVER THE WORLD.  THE WATER
ALSO RAN OUT AND DROWNED THE FIRE WHEREVER IT WENT, AND SPREAD ALL
OVER THE WORLD, FORMING LAKES AND RIVERS.
***THO-027***
XIV.  THE SKUNK AND HIS YOUNGER BROTHERS.
*NLAKAPAMUXOE AND NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THE SKUNK HAD FOUR BROTHERS, WHO WERE ALL MARRIED.  HE COVETED
HIS BROTHERS' WIVES, AND DEVISED A PLAN WHEREBY TO HAVE THEM FOR
HIMSELF.  HE SAID TO HIS BROTHERS, "THE TREES ARE OUR ENEMIES.
THEY DO US HARM, AND WILL YET DO US MORE HARM.  THE YELLOW PINE,
THE FIR, THE BALSAM POPLAR, THE ASPEN POPLAR, AND ALL THE OTHER TREES,
ARE OUR ENEMIES.  I PROPOSE THAT WE GO TO WAR AGAINST THEM."  THE
BROTHERS AGREED TO THIS.  THEY TOOK THE WAR-PATH AND TRAVELLED
TOGETHER.  AFTER A FEW DAYS' JOURNEY, THEY CAMPED ONE NIGHT NEAR A
VALLEY THROUGH WHICH FLOWED A RIVER.  THE VALLEY AND THE RIVER WERE
SIMILAR TO THE THOMPSON RIVER VALLEY.  THE SKUNK SAID, "WE WILL
STAY HERE TO-NIGHT.  THE ENEMIES ARE CLOSE AT HAND.  I WILL GO OUT
TO SCOUT, AND ENDEAVOR IF POSSIBLE TO ASCERTAIN THEIR PLACE, AND
DISCOVER THEIR MOST VULNERABLE POINT OF ATTACK."  HE STOLE AWAY IN THE
DARK, AND WENT DOWN TO THE RIVER.  HERE HE SAW MANY HUMPBACK
SALMON, FISHED FOR THEM, AND CAUGHT MANY.  HE TOOK OFF THEIR HEADS,
AND THREW THEIR BODIES BACK INTO THE RIVER.  HE SAID TO THE HEADS,
"WHOOP AND SING]"  AND THE HEADS WHOOPED AND SANG.  HE WENT
BACK TO HIS BROTHERS AND SAID TO THEM, "DID YOU HEAR THE NOISE OF
THE PEOPLE?  THEY ARE AWARE OF US, AND ARE ON THE ALERT.  THEY ARE
MANY, AND IT WOULD BE USELESS FOR US TO ATTACK THEM.  WE WILL SLEEP
HERE TO-NIGHT, AND WITH DAYLIGHT WE WILL RETURN HOME."  HIS BROTHERS
BELIEVED HIM.  HE CONTINUED, "YOU MAY SLEEP, AND I WILL WATCH."
THEN THEY ALL WENT TO SLEEP, EXCEPT THE SKUNK, WHO THEN TOOK HIS
FOUR LITTLE BAGS OF FLUID ODOR, WHICH HE HAD KEPT TIED UP, AND EMPTIED
ONE OVER THE FACE OF EACH OF HIS BROTHERS, SO THAT THEY IMMEDIATELY
FELL IN A DEAD SWOON.
THE SKUNK LEFT THEM THERE, WENT HOME AND TOLD THE PEOPLE THAT
HIS BROTHERS HAD BEEN KILLED.  THEN HE CLAIMED ALL HIS BROTHERS'
WIVES, AND THEY WENT TO HIM.  HE TOOK THEM EACH ONE, AND POINTED
OUT WITH HIS FINGER ON THEIR BODIES WHERE THEIR HUSBANDS HAD BEEN
WOUNDED.  THEN THEY WENT OVER TO HIS PART OF THE HOUSE AND SAT
DOWN.  HE WENT AND SAT BETWEEN THEM, HAVING TWO OF THEM ON EACH
SIDE.  JUST THEN THE PEOPLE SAID, "SOME MEN ARE COMING RAPIDLY ALONG
THE HILLSIDE.  THEY ARE THE SKUNK'S BROTHERS."  THEY ARRIVED, AND
ENTERED ANOTHER HOUSE, AND CALLED FOR THEIR WIVES.  BUT THEIR WIVES
WOULD NOT GO, BECAUSE, THEY SAID, "THE SKUNK HAS SHAMED US.  WE MUST
NOW REMAIN HIS WIVES."  THE BROTHERS THEN CAME IN AND ATTACKED
THE SKUNK.  THEY BEAT AND WOUNDED HIM AND LEFT HIM FOR DEAD;
BUT AFTERWARDS HE REVIVED AND CRAWLED AWAY.  AFTER A FEW DAYS HE
FELT WELL AGAIN, AND VISITED HIS BROTHERS.  HE SAID TO THEM, "YOU
CANNOT KILL ME BY ORDINARY MEANS.  THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN DO SO IS
BY TYING ME, PUTTING ME IN A BASKET, AND SETTING ME ADRIFT ON THE
RIVER."  THE BROTHERS CONSULTED, SAYING, "THE SKUNK HAS INSULTED
US GREATLY.  LET US DO WITH HIM AS HE DIRECTS."  THEY THEN TOOK THE
SKUNK, TIED HIM, AND PUT HIM IN A BASKET, CLOSED THE LID ON HIM,
AND SET HIM ADRIFT ON THE RIVER.  HE FLOATED DOWN THE FIRVER, AND WAS
NEVER HEARD OF AGAIN.
***THO-028***
XIV.  THE SKUNK AND HIS YOUNGER BROTHERS.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THE SKUNK HAD THREE YOUNGER BROTHERS, WHO WERE ALL MARRIED,
AND WHO LIVED WITH SEVERAL OTHER FAMILIES, FORMING THEREBY A BAND OR
COMMUNITY.  THEY LIVED IN THE NKAMTCINEMUX COUNTRY.
THE SKUNK SAID TO HIS BROTHERS, "LET US GO ON THE WAR-PATH AGAINST
THE NORTHERN SHUSWAPS (SLEMXOEMUX); WE SHALL GAIN RENOWN,
AND BRING BACK BOOTY AND SLAVES."  THEY CONSENTED, AND FORTHWITH
PREPARED FOR WAR.  THEIR WAR-PAINT CONSISTED OF WHITE LINES DRAWN
VERTICALLY DOWN THE BODY AND FACE.  THEN THE FOUR BROTHERS STARTED
TOGETHER.  THEY SOON REACHED A PLACE ON THE CONFINES OF THE
SHUSWAP AND NKAMTCINEMUX COUNTRIES, ALBEIT RATHER WITHIN THE
BOUNDARIES OF THE FORMER.  HERE, CLOSE TO MARBLE CANYON, AND NOT FAR
FROM HAT CREEK, THE SKUNK SAID TO HIS BROTHERS, "LET US CAMP, FOR
WE NEED FOOD AND REST.  WE SHALL SOON HAVE TO BE ON THE ALERT WHEN
WE REACH THE HEART OF THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY."
HE THEN CAUSED YELLOW PINES TO APPEAR CLOSE TO WHERE THEY
WERE ENCAMPED, AND THEY TOOK THE DRY BARK OFF SOME OF THE TREES,
AND KINDLED FIRES.  AS SOON AS HIS BROTHERS WERE ASLEEP, THE SKUNK
EXCRETED HIS OBNOXIOUS FLUID OVER THEIR FACES, AND THEY FAINTED.  HE
NEXT TOOK THEIR WEAPONS FROM THEM, AND CAUSED A LAKE TO APPEAR,
AND A HIGH CLIFF NEAR IT.  THE WATERS OF THIS LAKE WERE COLORED WITH
FOUR LONGITUDINAL STRIPES,- RED, WHITE, YELLOW, AND BLUE.  HAVING
DONE ALL THIS, THE SKUNK WAS ABOUT TO DEPART, WHEN HE NOTICED SOME
OF HIS EXCREMENT NEAR THE LAKE'S EDGE, AND SAID TO IT, "WHO ARE
YOU?"  IT ANSWERED, "I AM THE SKUNK'S EXCREMENT."  THE SKUNK
REPLIED, "DO NOT SAY THAT, OR I WILL STRIKE YOU.  SAY, 'I AM THE
SKUNK'S SLAVE,' FOR I WANT YOU TO COME WITH ME AS MY LITTLE SLAVE."
THEN HE REPEATED HIS QUESTION, "WHO ARE YOU?"  BUT IT ALWAYS
ANSWERED, "I AM THE SKUNK'S EXCREMENT," INSTEAD OF SAYING, AS IT
WAS TOLD TO, "I AM THE SKUNK'S SLAVE."  THE SKUNK BECAME ANGRY,
AND STRUCK IT REPEATEDLY ON THE HEAD, UNTIL IT WAS DRY AND SCATTERED.
THEN HE TURNED HIS STEPS HOMEWARD, AND WHEN AT LENGTH HE NEARED
THE DWELLINGS OF THE PEOPLE, BEGAN TO WAIL, "OH MY YOUNGER BROTHERS]
THEY WENT TO WAR; THEY WERE ATTACKED; THEY WERE KILLED, - KILLED
BY THE SHUSWAP.  OH MY YOUNGER BROTHERS]"
THE PEOPLE HEARD HIM, AND RAN OUT ARMED, SAYING, "SOME ONE
APPROACHES, WAILING."  SOON THEY RECOGNIZED HIM, AND TOLD HIM TO
COME IN AND GIVE HIS NEWS.  HE ENTERED A LODGE AND SAT DOWN, AND
RELATED TO THE PEOPLE HOW THEY HAD BEEN ATTACKED, AND HOW HIS THREE
BROTHERS HAD BEEN KILLED, HE ALONE ESCAPING.  "LET MY SISTERS-IN-
LAW," HE SAID, "COME HERE, SO THAT I MAY RELATE TO THEM THE ACCOUNT
OF THE DEAD-WOUNDS RECEIVED BY THEIR HUSBANDS."  BUT TWO OF THE
WOMEN WOULD NOT GO, "FOR," THEY SAID, "HE HAS KILLED OUR HUSBANDS."
THE OTHER WOMAN, HOWEVER, WENT TO HIM.  THEN THE SKUNK RELATED
TO HER HOW THEY HAD BEEN ATTACKED, AND HOW, AFTER A FIERCE FIGHT, HIS
THREE BROTHERS WERE SLAIN, WHILE HE ALONE ESCAPED, HOW, HE HARDLY
KNEW.  SHE ASKED HIM WHERE HER HUSBAND WAS WOUNDED, AND THE
SKUNK TOOK HOLD OF HER SHOULDER WITH HIS LEFT HAND, AND WITH THE
INDEX FINGER OF HIS RIGHT HAND, TOUCHED HER BROW, SAYING, "HE WAS
HIT HER."  HE THEN TOUCHED HER NECK, SAYING, "AND HE WAS HIT
HERE."  THEN HE TOUCHED HER BREAST, AND SAID, "HE WAS HIT HERE."
HE THEN SAID, "YOU WERE MY BROTHER'S WIFE; YOU MUST NOW BE MY
WIFE."  SHE CONSENTED TO BECOME HIS WIFE; BUT THE OTHER TWO WOMEN
(HIS SISTERS-IN-LAW) REFUSED TO BECOME HIS WIVES.
A DAY OR TWO AFTER THIS, THREE MEN APPEARED IN SIGHT OF THE LODGES.
AGAIN THE PEOPLE RAN OUT ARMED; BUT THEY RECOGNIZED THEM AS THE
SKUNK'S THREE BROTHERS, AND WELCOMED THEM.  THEN THEY CAME IN,
AND TOLD THEIR STORY, TO THE EFFECT THAT THEY HAD CAMPED WITH THEIR
ELDER BROTHER, WHO WAS TO KEEP WATCH WHILE THEY SLEPT, AND THAT
AFTER FALLING ASLEEP, THEY KNEW NOTHING MORE; ALSO THAT HE HAD
EXCRETED HIS FLUID UPON THEM, INTENDING TO KILL THEM; BUT AFTER THE
STUPOR CAUSED THEREBY HAD WORN AWAY, THEY HAD AWAKENED TO SEE, TO
THEIR ASTONISHMENT, HIGH CLIFFS AND A LAKE NEAR AT HAND, WHEREAS THERE
HAD BEEN NONE BEFORE.  MOREOVER, THEY SMELLED THE SKUNK ODOR ON
THEIR BODIES AND ON THEIR CLOTHES; THEREFORE THEY HAD TAKEN THE BEAR
BERRY PLANT AND BURNED IT, CAUSING A GREAT SMOKE, IN WHICH THEY
STOOD WITH THEIR CLOTHES, UNTIL THE ODOR LEFT THEM, WHICH IT DID IN A
SHORT TIME.  SEEING THAT THEY WERE WITHOUT WEAPONS, THEY MADE
THEIR WAY HOME.  THEY AFTERWARDS SAW THE SKUNK, AND CURSED HIM,
SAYING, "YOU SHALL RUN ON THE GROUND, AND EAT VERMIN.  YOU SHALL
BE NO PERSON'S FRIEND.  EVERYBODY WILL DISLIKE AND AVOID YOU, ON
ACCOUNT OF YOUR SMELL."
***THO-029***
XV.  STORY OF THE CHIPMUNK AND THE GRIZZLY BEAR.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
FORMERLY THERE WAS A LARGE LOG WHICH BURNED ON THE TOP OF THE
MOUNTAIN CALLED YEKATWAUXUS CUXCUX, AND WHICH THREW OUT A
GREAT LIGHT AND HEAT.  THE GRIZZLY BEAR SAW THE LIGHT, AND COMING
ALONG TRIED TO PUT OUT THE FIRE, BECAUSE THE WARMTH AND THE LIGHT WERE
DISAGREEABLE TO HIM.  HE SCRAPED UP THE EARTH WITH HIS PAWS, AND
THREW IT ON THE FIRE, AND THUS HAD NEARLY EXTINGUISHED IT WHEN THE
CHIPMUNK CAME ALONG AND BEGAN TO THROW STICKS ON THE FIRE, THUS
MAKING THE GRIZZLY'S EFFORTS FUTILE.  THE CHIPMUNK RAN AROUND
GATHERING STICKS AND THROWING THEM ON THE FIRE, AND CRYING, "TCIXA,
TCIXA, MAA, MAA=" FOR HE WANTED TO SEE THE LIGHT AND WARMTH
REMAIN.  THE GRIZZLY BEAR IN THE MEANTIME WORKED HARD, THROWING
EARTH ON THE FIRE TO PUT IT OUT, AND CRYING, "LIPA, LIPA, LIPA]"
THUS THEY CONTENDED WITH ONE ANOTHER FOR A LONG TIME, BUT
EVENTUALLY THE EFFORTS OF THE CHIPMUNK SEEMED TO MEET WITH SUCCESS,
FOR THE LOG COMMENCED TO BURN MORE BRIGHTLY.  THE GRIZZLY BEAR, WHO
WAS NOW GETTING TIRED, BECAME ANGRY WITH THE CHIPMUNK FOR DEFEATING
HIM, AND ATTACKED HIM BY THROWING EARTH ON HIM.  THE LATTER
RETALIATED BY THROWING WOOD-DUST.  WHEN HE SAW THAT HE HAD NO
CHANCE IN A FIGHT WITH THE GRIZZLY BEAR, HE RAN AWAY, AND HID IN A
HOLLOW LOG CLOSE BY.  THE GRIZZLY BEAR CHASED HIM, AND JUST AS HE
WAS ENTERING THE LOG MADE A STROKE AT HIM, TEARING THE SKIN OF HIS
BACK IN STRIPES; BUT THE CHIPMUNK SOON GOT OUT OF HARM'S WAY, AND
WAS SAFE IN HIS RETREAT INSIDE THE LOG.  NO ONE KNOWS WHAT BECAME OF
THE FIRE AFTERWARDS.
***THO-030***
XVI. THE BLACK BEAR AND THE CHIPMUNK.
*NLAKAPAMUXOE AND NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THE BLACK BEAR AND THE CHIPMUNK ONCE CONTENDED AGAINST EACH
OTHER, THE FORMER FOR DARKNESS, THE LATTER FOR LIGHT.  THE BEAR CRIED,
"LIPA, LIPA, LIPA]" AND THE CHIPMUNK, "MAA, MAA, MAA]"
THE BEAR, FINDING THAT THE CHIPMUNK WAS HIS EQUAL IN THE POSSESSION
OF MAGICAL POWERS, FINALLY BECAME ENRAGED, AND WOULD HAVE KILLED HIS
ADVERSARY; BUT THE CHIPMUNK WAS TOO QUICK FOR HIM, AND RAN INTO
HIS HOLE JUST AS THE BEAR MADE A DASH FOR HIM.  THE BEAR SCRATCHED
THE CHIPMUNK WHEN GOING INTO HIS HOLE.  THIS IS THE ORIGIN OF THE
PRESENT STRIPES ON THE CHIPMUNK'S BACK.  IF THE BEAR HAD MANAGED
TO KILL THE CHIPMUNK, WE SHOULD HAVE HAD ETERNAL DARKNESS INSTEAD
OF DAY AND NIGHT, AS WE HAVE AT PRESENT.
***THO-031***
XVI.  THE DOG AND THE GIRL.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THE DAUGHTER OF A CHIEF AT LKAMTCIN (LYTTON), WHO WAS VERY
PRETTY, REFUSED ALL OFFERS OF MARRIAGE FROM HER NUMEROUS SUITORS.  AT
LAST HER FATHER BECAME ANGRY WITH HER, AND SAID, "IS A DOG TO BE YOUR
HUSBAND, THAT YOU REFUSE ALL THESE OFFERS FROM THE BEST YOUNG MEN?"
TO WHICH SHE REPLIED IN ANGER, "EVEN IF A DOG WERE MY HUSBAND,
IT WOULD SUIT ME AS WELL AS THESE."  AFTER THIS, ONE OF HER REJECTED
SUITORS, WHO WAS GIFTED IN MAGIC, CHANGED A DOG INTO A YOUNG MAN.
AT NIGHT THIS MAN WENT TO THE GIRL, UNKNOWN TO THE OTHER PEOPLE OF
THE UNDERGROUND LODGE.  HE DID SO REPEATEDLY; BUT AT DAYBREAK,
WHEN HE LEFT THE GIRL, HE WAS CHANGED BACK INTO A DOG, THEREFORE SHE
COULD NOT FIND OUT WHO HER LOVER WAS.  AFTER SOME TIME, WHEN SHE
WAS WITH CHILD, SHE DEVISED A PLAN TO DISCOVER THE IDENTITY OF HER
LOVER.  SHE RUBBED RED OCHRE ON HER HANDS, AND WHEN HER LOVER
CAME, SHE EMBRACED HIM, DRAWING HER PAINTED HANDS ALONG HIS SIDES.
THE MAN LEFT HER EARLY, BUT SHE DID NOT SEE HIM GO OUT OF THE
UNDERGROUND LODGE, ALTHOUGH SHE HAD WATCHED ALL THE PEOPLE GO OUT AND
IN.  AT LAST SHE NOTICED HER FATHER'S DOG GO OUT, WITH A RED STREAK OF
OCHRE ON EACH OF HIS SIDES.  OVERCOME WITH SHAME, SHE SAT DOWN
AND WEPT.  THE PEOPLE ASKED HER THE CAUSE OF HER SORROW, BUT SHE
WOULD NOT TELL.
AFTER SOME TIME SHE GAVE BIRTH TO A LITTER OF FOUR MALE PUPS.  HER
FATHER AND ALL THE PEOPLE WERE SO MUCH ASHAMED AND WROTH, THAT
THEY IMMEDIATELY LEFT HER, AND WENT TO BETANI.  SHE TOOK HER FOUR
CHILDREN, AND WENT TO LIVE IN A LONELY PLACE A LITTLE DISTANCE ABOVE
LYTTON, WHERE SHE WORKED VERY HARD TO PROVIDE FOOD FOR HERSELF AND
HER CHILDREN.  WHEN THEY HAD GROWN A LITTLE, SHE USED TO LEAVE THEM
AT NIGHTS, AND WENT SPEARING FISH BY TORCHLIGHT ALONG THE BANK OF
THE RIVER.  ONE MORNING, WHEN SHE WAS NEARING HOME, SHE HEARD
THE NOISE OF THE CHILDREN PLAYING.  SHE WENT ON NOISELESSLY, PEERED
INTO THE HOUSE, WHEN TO HER ASTONISHMENT SHE SAW HER CHILDREN IN
HUMAN FORM, PLAYING TOGETHER.  AS SOON AS THEY BECAME AWARE OF
HER APPROACH, THEY WERE ALL CHANGED INTO DOGS AGAIN.  THUS SHE
WATCHED THEM THREE SUCCESSIVE MORNINGS, AND DISCOVERED THAT THEY
WERE REALLY CHILDREN, WHO THREW OFF THEIR DOGSKINS AND LAID THEM
ASIDE WHEN THEY WENT TO PLAY, OR WHENEVER THEY THOUGHT THEIR
MOTHER HAD GONE AWAY; BUT AS SOON AS THEY BECAME AWARE OF HER
APPROACH, THEY PUT THEM ON AGAIN.  THAT DAY SHE PREPARED FOUR
KETTLES OF MEDICINE.  ON THE FOURTH NIGHT SHE SUDDENLY APPEARED
AT THE HOUSE, AND, GETTING BETWEEN THE CHILDREN AND THE PLACE WHERE
THEIR SKINS WERE LYING, SHE THREW THE CONTENTS OF THE FOUR KETTLES OF
MEDICINE OVER THEIR BODIES, AND THUS PREVENTED THEIR RESUMING THE
SHAPE OF DOGS.
THE WOMAN STAYED IN THIS PLACE FOR SEVERAL YEARS, NEITHER VISITING
NOR BEING VISITED BY PEOPLE.  IN THE MEANTIME HER FOUR BOYS GREW
UP INTO YOUNG MEN OF GREAT BEAUTY AND OF FAIR COMPLEXION.  THEY
BECAME GREAT HUNTERS, AND FILLED ALL THE CELLARS AND HOUSES OF THE
DESERTED VILLAGE WITH DEER FAT AND DRESSED SKINS.  THEY PUT THE
CHOICEST FOOD AND THE BEST SKINS IN THE CELLARS AND HOUSES OF THE
RAVEN AND THE CROW, BECAUSE THESE, WHEN LEAVING, HAD TAKEN PITY
ON THEIR MOTHER, AND HAD LEFT A FEW FISH-HEADS BEHIND IN THEIR CELLARS
FOR HER TO EAT.  ONE DAY IN THE EARLY SUMMER THEY WERE VISITED BY
THE MAGPIE, WHO HAD COME DOWN FROM BETANI, WHERE MOST OF THE
PEOPLE WERE AT THAT TIME CAMPED.  THE WOMAN AND HER SONS TREATED
THEIR VISITOR HOSPITABLY, AND GAVE HIM PLENTY OF DEER FAT TO EAT.  THE
MAGPIE THEN RETURNED TO BETANI, AND RELATED TO THE PEOPLE WHAT HE
HAD SEEN.  HE WENT TO THE LODGE OF THE WOMAN'S PARENTS, AND TOLD
THEM, "YOUR DAUGHTER IS STILL ALIVE AND WELL.  HER CHILDREN ARE NO
LONGER DOGS, BUT ARE YOUNG MEN OF FINE APPEARANCE AND OF FAIR SKIN.
THEY HAVE BECOME MIGHTY HUNTERS, AND HAVE FILLED ALL OUR HOUSES
AND CELLARS WITH MEAT, FAT, AND SKINS."  THE WOLF AND SOME OTHERS
LAUGHED AT THE MAGPIE, FOR THEY DID NOT BELIEVE HIS STORY; BUT MOST
OF THE PEOPLE BELIEVED HIM, AND SAID, "LET US GO DOWN AND SEE OUR
FRIENDS."  SO THEY ALL MOVED DOWN TO THEIR OLD VILLAGE, AND FOUND
THAT THE MAGPIE'S STORY WAS TRUE.  THEN THEY SENT OUT MESSENGERS
TO THE WOMAN AND HER SONS, ASKING THEM TO COME AND STAY WITH
THEM, BUT THEY WOULD NOT CONSENT TO DO SO FOR A LONG TIME.  MANY
PEOPLE WERE ANXIOUS TO MARRY THEIR DAUGHTERS TO THEM, BUT FOR A LONG
TIME THEIR PROPOSITIONS WERE REJECTED.  AT LENGTH THE WOMAN AND
HER SONS REMOVED TO THE VILLAGE, WHERE THEY TOOK UP THEIR ABODE WITH
THE PEOPLE, AND THE YOUNG MEN MARRIED MANY WIVES, AND BECAME THE
FATHERS OF NUMEROUS CHILDREN.
***THO-032***
XVII.  THE OWL.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
FORMERLY THE OWL WAS A GREAT HUNTER.  AT ONE TIME SOME PEOPLE
WHO WERE HUNTING HAPPENED TO CAMP NEAR HIS HAUNTS IN THE
MOUNTAINS.  THEY WERE ACCOMPANIED BY A BOY WHO WAS IN THE HABIT OF
CONTINUALLY MAKING A NOISE, AND CRYING, THUS CAUSING THEM MUCH
ANNOYANCE.  ONE EVENING HIS PARENTS, INTENDING TO MAKE HIM QUIET,
SAID, "OWL, COME AND TAKE HIM."  THAT NIGHT THE OWL CAME AND
TOOK HIM AWAY.  HE REARED HIM, AND THE BOY EVENTUALLY BECAME,
LIKE THE OWL HIMSELF, A CELEBRATED HUNTER.  THE TWO GENERALLY USED
TO HUNT IN COMPANY.  THE LAD ALWAYS WALKED NEAR THE TOP OF THE
HILLS, SO AS TO INTERCEPT AND SHOOT THE DEER, WHICH WERE STARTED UP
THE MOUNTAIN SIDE BY THE OWL, WHO ALWAYS WALKED BELOW, DRIVING
THE DEER BY MEANS OF CRIES.  ONE DAY WHILE HUNTING, THE BOY HEARD
THE OWL, WHO WAS DRIVING, SHOUTING MORE DISTINCTLY THAN USUAL, AND
RECOGNIZED THE WORDS TCITEM UL EN CAUT("GO TOWARDS MY SLAVE"),
WHICH HE WAS CALLING TO THE DEER.  HE FELT VERY MUCH ASHAMED AND
OFFENDED BECAUSE THE OWL CALLED HIM HIS SLAVE, AND THEREFORE
REPAIRED TO THE SHORT-TAILED MOUSE FOR ADVICE.  SHE TOLD HIM, "THE
OWL IS NOT YOUR FATHER: HE STOLE YOU FROM YOUR PARENTS.  GO BACK
TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY AND PEOPLE.  SHE TOLD HIM HOW AND WHERE TO
FIND HIS PEOPLE, SO HE LEFT THE OWL AND WENT BACK, TAKING UP HIS
ABODE WITH HIS OWN FRIENDS.
***THO-033***
XVIII.  THE MARTEN AND THE FISHER.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THE MARTEN AND THE FISHER WERE BROTHERS.  THEY LIVED TOGETHER IN
AN UNDERGROUND LODGE.  THE MARTEN HAD A YOUNG WIFE AND A BOY OF
THREE OR FOUR YEARS OF AGE.  ONE DAY THE MARTEN'S WIFE WENT DOWN
TO THE RIVER TO DRAW WATER, AND THE BOY ACCOMPANIED HER.  WHEN
SHE WAS FILLING HER BUCKET, THE SPRING SALMON JUMPED OUT OF THE
RIVER A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY.  SHE SAID TO HERSELF, "WHAT A GOOD
LOOKING FELLOW THAT IS]  I WISH I COULD HAVE HIM FOR MY HUSBAND."
THE SPRING SALMON HEARD HER, SWAM ASHORE, AND SAID, "I AM HE
WHOM YOU WISHED TO BE YOUR HUSBAND.  COME WITH ME."  THEY WENT INTO
THE RIVER TOGETHER.
MEANWHILE THE MARTEN SAID TO HIS BROTHER, "THE WOMAN IS LONG IN
COMING.  GO AND SEE WHAT HAS HAPPENED."  THE FISHER WENT DOWN
AND FOUND THE BUCKETS OF WATER AND THE BOY.  WHEN HE ASKED THE
LATTER WHAT HAD BECOME OF HIS MOTHER, HE POINTED TOWARDS THE RIVER.
THEN THE FISHER RETURNED HOME WITH THE BOY AND THE WATER.  HE
TOLD HIS BROTHER THE MARTEN THAT THE WOMAN HAD DISAPPEARED.  THE
MARTEN SAID, "I KNOW WHAT HAS BECOME OF MY WIFE.  SHE IS
FASCINATED WITH THE SPRING SALMON, WHO HAS BEWITCHED HER, AND TAKEN
HER HOME WITH HIM.  THEREFORE," HE SAID, "WE MUST GO AND GET
HER."  THEN THE FISHER WENT OUT AND CAUGHT A FAWN, AND BROUGHT IT
HOME FOR THE BOY TO PLAY WITH; AND HE ALSO MADE A BOW AND ARROWS
FOR THE BOY, SO THAT HE SHOULD AMUSE HIMSELF BY SHOOTING AT THE
FAWN; AND ON THE THIRD DAY AFTER THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE WOMAN,
THEY GAVE THE BOY AN AMPLE SUPPLY OF PROVISIONS AND LEFT HIM TO PLAY
WITH THE FAWN, WHILST THEY WENT TO THE UNDERGROUND LODGE WHERE THE
SPRING SALMON STAYED.  THERE WERE SEVERAL HOUSES THERE; AND
TOWARDS EVENING, WHEN MOST OF THE PEOPLE HAD GONE OUT TO THE WATER
TO WASH THEMSELVES, THESE TWO VENTURED OUT, AND IN THE DUSK MIXED
WITH THE WOMEN AS THEY WERE GOING HOME AGAIN.  THEY WERE IN
DISGUISE, AND REPRESENTED SOME FEMALE RELATIVES OF THE SPRING SALMON,
WHO HAD LEFT HOME A FEW DAYS BEFORE.  IN THIS DISGUISE THEY MET THE
WOMAN, AND WHISPERED TO HER THAT THEY HAD COME TO TAKE HER HOME,
AND TOLD HER TO KEEP HER NEW HUSBAND AWAKE AS LATE AS POSSIBLE BY
PLAYING WITH HIM, SO THAT WHEN HE WENT TO SLEEP HE SHOULD SLEEP
SOUNDLY.  THEY THEN ALL ENTERED THE HOUSE TOGETHER.  THERE WAS VERY
LITTLE LIGHT IN THE HOUSE, AS IT WAS MILD WEATHER; AND THE PEOPLE HAD
A VERY SMALL FIRE, SO THEY WERE NOT NOTICED MUCH WHEN THEY WENT IN.
GOING TO AN OUT-OF-THE-WAY CORNER OF THE HOUSE, THEY SAT DOWN.
SOME PERSON SAID, "LET THE FIRE GO OUT ALTOGETHER.  IT IS TOO WARM."
THIS WAS DONE, AND AFTER A WHILE IT WAS ALTOGETHER DARK INSIDE THE
HOUSE.  THE WOMAN, AS DIRECTED, KEPT THE SPRING SALMON AWAKE A
LONG TIME BY PLAYING AND TALKING WITH HIM, SO THAT SOME OF THE
PEOPLE, NOTICING THIS, SAID, "THE SPRING SALMON'S NEW WIFE IS VERY
FOND OF PLAYING WITH HER HUSBAND TO-NIGHT.  SHE HAS NOT DONE SO
HITHERTO."  AFTER THE SPRING SALMON FELL ASLEEP, THE WOMAN ROSE,
AND THE MARTEN WENT OVER AND KILLED HIM BY CUTTING OFF HIS HEAD.
THEN, TURNING THE BODY, NECK DOWN, TOWARDS THE FIREPLACE, THEY ALL
DEPARTED, THE MARTEN CARRYING THE SALMON HEAD.  THEY WALKED TO
THE SHORE OF A LAKE, WHERE THERE WAS A CANOE, BY MEANS OF WHICH
THEY CROSSED THE LAKE; AND WHEN THEY WERE HALF WAY OVER THE
MARTEN DROPPED THE SPRING SALMON'S HEAD OVERBOARD.  THEN THEY ALL
WENT HOME TOGETHER.  WHEN THE PEOPLE IN THE UNDERGROUND LODGE
AWOKE IN THE MORNING, THEY FOUND THE SPRING SALMON'S HEADLESS
BODY.  THE COYOTE SAID, "I AM CERTAIN THE MARTEN AND THE FISHER
HAVE BEEN HERE TO RECOVER THE MARTEN'S WIFE.  I THOUGHT THEY LOOKED
STRANGE WHEN THEY CAME DOWN THE LADDER LAST NIGHT, AND THEIR GAIT
LOOKED PECULIAR."
THE PEOPLE WENT OUT TO SEARCH FOR THE FUGITIVES.  THE WOLF TRACKED
THEM BY THE BLOOD TO THE PLACE WHERE THEY HAD EMBARKED IN THE
CANOE.  THEN THE EAGLE ARRIVED AND SAID, "I SAW THEM DROP THE HEAD IN
THE LAKE."  THE SPRING SALMON'S RELATIVES OFFERED A GREAT
PRICE FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE HEAD.  THE SWAN, THE GOOSE, THE
DUCKS, AND DIVERS, ALL TRIED TO FIND IT, BUT FAILED.  AT LAST THE LOON
SAID: "I SEE IT IN THE BOTTOM, BUT NONE BUT I CAN DIVE TO SUCH A
DEPTH.  IF YOU WILL TREBLE YOUR PRICE, I WILL GET IT."  THEY TREBLED
THE REWARD, AND THE LOON DIVED, AND GOT THE HEAD.  THE PEOPLE
THEN TOOK THE HEAD HOME, AND PUT IT ON THE BODY.  THE OTTER AND
THE WOLF, WHO WERE THE MOST POWERFUL SHAMANS, THEN TREATED THE
CORPSE AND BROUGHT IT BACK TO LIFE, AND THE SPRING SALMON BECAME
AS WELL AS BEFORE.
***THO-034***
XIX.  THE HARE AND THE GRIZZLY BEARS.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THE HARE LIVED WITH HIS OLD GRANDMOTHER, IN AN UNDERGROUND
LODGE ON ONE SIDE OF A LARGE RIVER; WHILST ON THE OTHER SIDE LIVED THE
GRIZZLY BEAR FAMILY, CONSISTING OF THE PARENTS AND FOUR CHILDREN.
THE GRIZZLY BEARS HAD PLENTY OF DRIED SALMON IN THEIR CELLAR, BUT
THE HARE HAD NONE.  HE SAID TO HIS GRANDMOTHER, "I WILL GO AND
STEAL THE DRIED FISH OF THE GRIZZLY BEARS FROM THEIR CELLAR."  THE OLD
WOMAN SAID, "DON'T DO SO; THEY MAY KILL YOU.  THEY ARE POWERFUL
PEOPLE."  BUT HE REPLIED, "OH, NO] THEY CANNOT KILL ME.  I WILL KILL
THEM."  HE WENT ACROSS IN HIS CANOE AT NIGHT, AND STOLE ALL THE
DRIED FISH OF THE GRIZZLY BEARS, AND DIGGING A HOLE IN HIS
UNDERGROUND LODGE, HID IT THERE.  ON THE NEXT MORNING THE GRIZZLY
BEAR'S WIFE CAME ALONG, AND ENTERED THEIR HOUSE, SAYING, "HAVE YOU
SEEN ANY STRANGER AROUND?  SOMEONE HAS STOLEN ALL OUR DRIED SALMON."
THE HARE WAS SITTING ON THE TOP OF THE HOLE WHERE THE STOLEN SALMON
WERE BURIED, AND HE MOCKED THE GRIZZLY BEAR, IMITATING HER TONE OF
VOICE, AND REPEATING HER WORDS, INSTEAD OF ANSWERING HER QUESTIONS.
THE GRIZZLY BEAR GOT ANGRY, AND SAID, "I BELIEVE IT IS YOU WHO HAVE
STOLEN OUR SALMON."  AT THE SAME TIME HE ATTACKED HIM.  IN THE
FIGHT WHICH FOLLOWED, THE BEAR TRIED TO BITE AND TO STRIKE THE
HARE; BUT THE LATTER WAS TOO QUICK, JUMPING FROM SIDE TO SIDE, AND
UNDERNEATH AND OVER THE GRIZZLY BEAR, WHO NOW PRESSED HER
ANTAGONIST HARD.  THE HARE WAS GETTING OUT OF BREATH, THEREFORE HE
CRIED TO HIS GRANDMOTHER, "THROW THE PITCHWOOD IN THE FIRE]  THE
GRIZZLY IS GETTING THE BETTER OF ME."  THE OLD WOMAN DID SO, AND
IMMEDIATELY THERE WAS A GREAT BLAZE AND HEAT, AND THE HOUSE WAS SOON
FULL OF SMOKE, CONSEQUENTLY THE BEAR, WHO WAS INCONVENIENCED
THEREBY, COMMENCED TO LOSE GROUND, AND FINALLY WAS CLUBBED AND
KILLED BY THE HARE, WHO SKINNED HER, AND CUT HER UP, HANGING THE
PAWS AND SOME OF THE FAT UNDERNEATH THE LADDER.  NEXT MORNING THE
HUSBAND OF THE BEAR CAME ACROSS THE RIVER AND ASKED IF THEY HAD
SEEN HIS WIFE.  THE HARE MOCKED AND MIMICKED HIM, AS HE HAD
DONE THE WIFE.  JUST THEN A DROP OF FAT FELL DOWN ON THE BEAR'S NOSE
FROM HIS WIFE'S PAWS, FOR HE WAS SITTING UNDER THE LADDER.  HE LOOKED
UP, AND, SEEING PARTS OF HIS WIFE'S BODY HANGING THERE, AT ONCE
ACCUSED THE HARE OF HAVING KILLED HIS WIFE, AND ATTACKED HIM
FIERCELY.  THE HARE WAS GETTING THE WORST OF THE ENGAGEMENT AGAIN,
SO HE CRIED TO HIS GRANDMOTHER TO THROW THE PITCHWOOD IN THE FIRE.
SHE DID SO, AND THE BEAR AT ONCE BECAME EMBARRASSED, AND FINALLY
WAS KILLED BY THE HARE, WHO BUTCHERED HIM AND HUNG UP HIS
CARCASS.  HE THEN TOLD HIS GRANDMOTHER THAT HE WOULD GO ACROSS THE
RIVER, AND KILL THE GRIZZLY CHILDREN.  SHE ADVISED HIM NOT TO DO SO;
BUT HE WENT, AND, ENTERING THEIR UNDERGROUND LODGE, HE SLEW THREE OF
THEM.  THE YOUNGEST ONE ESCAPED.  IF IT HAD NOT DONE SO, THERE
WOULD NOW BE NO GRIZZLY BEARS IN THE WORLD.
SOME TIME AFTERWARDS THE HARE SAID TO HIS GRANDMOTHER, "WASH
YOURSELF," WHICH SHE DID.  THEN HE SAID, "COMB AND DRESS YOUR
HAIR."  SHE DID SO.  THEN HE SAID, "PAINT YOUR FACE," AND SHE DID
AS TOLD.  HE THEN KILLED HER.
***THO-035***
XX.  BATTLE OF THE BIRDS.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
ALL THE BIRDS AGREED TO HELP THE HALAU TO STEAL THE WIFE OF THE
BALDHEADED EAGLE, WHO WAS A VERY GOOD WOMAN, BUT ILL TREATED BY
HER HUSBAND.  THE HALAU SAID, "WE WILL ALL GO TO THE UNDERGROUND
LODGE OF OUR GRANDFATHER, THE BALDHEADED EAGLE.  I WILL STAY OUTSIDE
WHILST ALL OF YOU GO INSIDE, AND ENGAGE HIM IN A GAME OF LEHAL, AND
YOU WILL AT THE SAME TIME COMPLAIN OF THE COLD, AND KEEP PUTTING
WOOD ON THE FIRE, UNTIL THE HOUSE GETS VERY HOT, WHEN HIS WIFE WILL
BE SURE TO COME OUTSIDE TO COOL HERSELF."  ACCORDINGLY ALL THE BIRDS
ENTERED, AND ENGAGED THE BALDHEADED EAGLE IN A GAME.   THEY DID
AS DIRECTED BY THE HALAU, AND SOON THE PLACE WAS VERY HOT.  BEFORE
LONG THE WIFE AROSE AND SAID, "I AM GOING OUT TO COOL MYSELF.  I
CANNOT STAND THE HEAT."  AS SOON AS SHE GOT OUTSIDE, THE HALAU TOOK
POSSESSION OF HER, AND CONDUCTED HER TO HIS HOUSE.  SHORTLY
AFTERWARDS THE BIRDS CEASED PLAYING WITH THE BALDHEADED EAGLE, AND ALL
WENT HOME IN A BODY.  AS THE WOMAN DID NOT RETURN, THE
BALDHEADED EAGLE KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED, AND BEGAN TO TRAIN HIMSELF.
AFTER TRAINING FOR SOME TIME, HE DONNED A COLLAR OF SEVERAL
THICKNESSES OF BIRCH-BARK, AND REPAIRED TO THE HOUSE OF THE HALAU,
WHERE ALL THE BIRDS WERE ASSEMBLED.  HERE HE TOOK UP HIS POSITION ON
THE TOP OF THE LADDER, AND CHALLENGED THEM TO BATTLE.  EACH ONE OF THE
SMALLER BIRDS WENT IN SUCCESSION TO THE WOMAN TO GET HIS HAIR
COMBED, AND STRAIGHTWAY TO FIGHT THE BALDHEADED EAGLE; BUT THEY
ALL FELL AN EASY PREY TO THEIR WARLIKE AND POWERFUL ENEMY.  THEN
THE LARGER AND MORE POWERFUL BIRDS HAD THEIR HAIR COMBED AND WENT
OUT; BUT THEY ALSO WERE SLAIN.  THE RAVEN HAD HIS HAIR COMBED BY
THE WOMAN AND THEN WENT OUT; BUT HE, TOO, SOON FELL A VICTIM.  NEXT
CAME THE CHICKEN HAWK; BUT HE SOON SHARED THE SAME FATE.  THEN
THE FISH HAWK SALLIED FORTH, AND THERE WAS A STUBBORN FIGHT; BUT
EVENTUALLY THE BALDHEADED EAGLE KILLED HIM AND CUT OFF HIS HEAD.
AFTER THAT THE HALAU HIMSELF WENT FORTH WITH A BIRCH-BARK COLLAR
AROUND HIS NECK, AND FORTHWITH ENSUED A FIERCE BATTLE.  THE
COMBATANTS ROSE TO THE CLOUDS, AND DROPPED TO THE EARTH, FIGHTING; BUT
AT LAST THE HALAU WAS SLAIN AND DECAPITATED.  THE WOMAN THEN
COMMENCED TO WAIL INSIDE THE HOUSE, FOR THERE WAS ONLY ONE BIRD LEFT,
VIZ., THE HATAHAT, WHO ALSO HAD HIS HAIR COMBED, AND WENT TO GIVE
BATTLE TO THE BALDHEADED EAGLE.  THE CONTEST WAS A VERY FURIOUS
ONE.  THE COMBATANTS FLEW UP TO THE CLOUDS SEVERAL TIMES, AND BACK
AGAIN.  AT LAST THE BALDHEADED EAGLE WAS SLAIN, AND THE HATAHAT
TOOK POSSESSION OF THE WOMAN.  AFTERWARDS HE WENT AROUND AND
HEALED THE WOUNDS OF THE DEAD BIRDS, PUT THEIR HEADS ON THEIR BODIES,
AND THEY ALL CAME TO LIFE AGAIN, EXCEPT THE BALDHEADED EAGLE.
***THO-036***
XXI.  STORY OF THE OTTER.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
AT ONE TIME THERE WAS A GROUP OF UNDERGROUND LODGES SOMEWHERE
IN THE NLAKAPAMUX COUNTRY.  IN ONE OF THESE LIVED A VERY PRETTY
GIRL, WHO HAD NUMEROUS SUITORS OR LOVERS, ALL OF WHOM SHE REFUSED.
HER REAL LOVER WAS THE OTTER, A YOUNG MAN WHO HAD SPENT MUCH
TIME IN TRAINING, BUT WHO WAS TOO BASHFUL TO ASK FOR THE GIRL FROM
HER PARENTS, SEEING THAT SO MANY OTHERS HAD BEEN REJECTED BY BOTH
THE PARENTS AND THE GIRL; MOREOVER, HE HAD NEVER BEEN ABLE TO SEE THE
GIRL HIMSELF.  ONE DAY, ONE OF THE REJECTED SUITORS THREW A SICKNESS
ON THE GIRL, SO THAT SHE DIED IN A FEW DAYS.  THE NIGHT AFTER SHE WAS
BURIED, THE OTTER REPAIRED TO THE GRAVE, AND DUG HER UP, AND TRIED TO
RESUSCITATE HER UNTIL DAYBREAK, BUT WITHOUT AVAIL.  HE THEN HASTILY
BURIED THE BODY AGAIN.  DURING THE DAYTIME HE SAT SULLEN AND
SORROWFUL, WITHOUT TALKING TO ANY ONE, NEITHER WOULD HE PARTAKE OF
FOOD.  AT NIGHT HE AGAIN DUG UP THE BODY OF HIS LOVE, AND TRIED TO
RESUSCITATE HER UNTIL DAYBREAK.  HE DID THIS FOUR SUCCESSIVE NIGHTS,
AND ON THE FOURTH HE BROUGHT HER SO FAR BACK TO LIFE, THAT SHE WAS
ABLE TO SIT UP AND SPEAK TO HIM.  HE THEN TOOK HER ON HIS BACK, TO
HER FATHER'S HOUSE, LAYING HER DOWN IN THE SAME PLACE SHE HAD
OCCUPIED WHEN IN LIFE, AND WHICH WAS NOT YET OCCUPIED BY THE PEOPLE.
HE THEN LAY DOWN BESIDE HER, SPREADING HER ROBE OVER BOTH.  THE
PEOPLE WOKE UP IN THE MORNING, AND WERE STARTLED TO SEE A COUPLE
SLEEPING THERE IN THE PLACE OF THE DEAD GIRL.  HER FATHER AND MOTHER
CRIED OUT, "WHOEVER YOU ARE, DON'T SLEEP THERE, FOR EVIL WILL BEFALL
YOU."  BUT THE COUPLE NEVER MOVED.  THE PEOPLE WONDERED WHO
THEY MIGHT BE, UNTIL THE COYOTE, WHO WAS SLEEPING IN ONE CORNER
OF THE HOUSE, SAID, IN HIS USUAL PECULIAR MANNER OF SPEAKING, "IT IS
THE OTTER, AND HE HAS DUG UP HIS SWEETHEART OUT OF THE GRAVE, AND
BROUGHT HER HOME."  THE PEOPLE WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE COYOTE
UNTIL THE OTTER AROSE AND TOLD THE GIRL TO DO THE SAME.  WHEN THE
PEOPLE SAW IT WAS THEIR DAUGHTER BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE AGAIN, THEY
WERE BOTH ASTONISHED AND PLEASED.  MESSENGERS WERE SENT OUT TO
CRY WITH A LOUD VOICE; AND ALL THE PEOPLE GATHERED IN THE LODGE
TO VERIFY THE STATEMENTS, AND TO SEE THE MAN WHO HAD RESTORED HER TO
LIFE.  THE OTTER THEN BECAME A MIGHTY SHAMAN.  ONE DAY HE WAS
LYING DOWN IN THE HOUSE WITH HIS WIFE, WHEN A LAD CAME IN, AND SAID
TO HIM IN A WHISPER, "HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO BRING YOUR WIFE
BACK TO LIFE AGAIN?  MY SWEETHEART IS DEAD AND I WANT TO RESUSCITATE
HER."  THE OTTER, FOR FUN, SAID, "I DUG HER UP, AND CARRIED HER
HOME, THEN I TICKLED THE SOLES OF HER FEET, AND SHE CAME TO LIFE
AGAIN."  THE BOY AT ONCE RAN AWAY.  THE OTTER'S WIFE SAID TO HER
HUSBAND, "WHY DID YOU TELL THE BOY THAT?  HE WILL GO AND DO IT."
ABOUT MIDNIGHT THE BOY STOLE SOFTLY INTO THE UNDERGROUND LODGE
CARRYING THE BODY OF HIS DEAD SWEETHEART.  HE LAID HER DOWN AND
AT ONCE COMMENCED TO TICKLE THE SOLES OF HER FEET.  HE TICKLED UNTIL
NEAR DAYBREAK, BUT THERE WAS NO APPEARANCE OF LIFE COMING.  HE
BECAME FRIGHTENED, AND TOOK THE BODY ON HIS BACK TO GO AND BURY IT
AGAIN.  BUT GOING UP THE LADDER OF THE UNDERGROUND LODGE HIS PACKING-
LINE BROKE, AND THE BODY FELL DOWN WITH A THUD.  HE HASTILY TIED
IT UP AGAIN, AND MOUNTED THE LADDER; BUT THE LINE BROKE A SECOND
TIME WHEN HE WAS HALF WAY UP, THE CORPSE FALLING AS BEFORE.  HE DID
THIS FOUR TIMES, THE LINE BREAKING EACH TIME, AND AT LAST THE PEOPLE
AWOKE.  THEY INQUIRED WHAT WAS THE MATTER.  THE FIFTH TIME HE GOT
OUTSIDE WITH THE CORPSE; BUT AS SOME ONE CAME UP THE LADDER BEHIND
HIM, HE BECAME AFRAID, AND LET THE BODY DOWN, AND RAN.  THE PEOPLE
WERE SURPRISED TO SEE THE BODY OF THE GIRL THERE, AND KNEW THAT SOME
ONE HAD BEEN CARRYING IT.  THEY BURIED IT AGAIN.
THE OTTER WAS NOT ONLY A NOTED SHAMAN, BUT ALSO A VERY
SUCCESSFUL FISHERMAN, AND USED TO CATCH IMMENSE NUMBERS OF FISH.
***THO-037***
XXII.  THE GRIZZLY BEARS AND THE BLACK BEARS.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
ONCE UPON A TIME A MAN LIVED IN THE MOUNTAINS WHO HAD TWO
WIVES, THE GRIZZLY BEAR AND THE BLACK BEAR.  HE LOVED THE LATTER,
SO THAT THE FORMER BECAME JEALOUS, AND MADE UP HER MIND TO GET RID
OF HER RIVAL.  ONE DAY SHE SAID TO HER HUSBAND, "I AM GOING TO DIG
ROOTS.  COME ALONG WITH ME, AND HELP ME TO CARRY THEM HOME."
HE ACCOMPANIED HER.  ABOUT SUNSET SHE TURNED TO HIM AND SAID,
"IT IS TIME WE WERE GOING HOME; BUT THERE IS NO GREAT HURRY.
COME HERE AND LAY YOUR HEAD ON MY LAP.  I WILL LOUSE YOU."  HE
DID AS REQUESTED, AND, AFTER PICKING OVER HIS HEAD A LITTLE WHILE, THE
GRIZZLY WIFE SAID, "WHAT A QUANTITY YOU HAVE]  IT IS A WONDER THE
WIFE YOU LOVE SO MUCH DOES NOT LOUSE YOU."  THEN SHE BIT HIM IN
THE THROAT, AND KILLED HIM.  SHE THEN CUT OFF HIS GENITALIA, PUT THEM
IN HER BASKET, AND WENT HOME.  HERE SHE SAID TO THE BLACK BEAR,
"OUR HUSBAND LEFT ME AND WENT SHOOTING, BUT DID NOT COME BACK."
AFTER DARK SHE PUT HER HUSBAND'S GENITALIA IN THE ASHES TO ROAST.
ONE OF THE YOUNG BLACK BEARS SAW HER WHEN SHE WAS RAKING THE
COALS, AND SHOUTED, "SHE IS BAKING MY FATHER'S GENITALIA."  BUT THE
GRIZZLY BEAR MADE FUN OF THE CHILD, AND PEACE WAS RESTORED.  AFTER
THE MEAT WAS COOKED, THE GRIZZLY AROSE FROM HER BED AND ATE IT.
THE NEXT MORNING SHE SAID TO THE BLACK BEAR, "LET US GO HOME TO
OUR CHILDREN.  BUT WE HAVE PLENTY OF TIME;  LET US REST BEFORE WE
START."  SHE THEN SAID, "COME AND LAY YOUR HEAD ON MY LAP.  I WILL
LOUSE YOU."  THIS THE BLACK BEAR DID, AND AFTER A WHILE THE GRIZZLY
BIT HER THROAT, KILLED HER, AND CUT OFF HER BREASTS.  ON ARRIVING
HOME, SHE TOLD THE BLACK BEAR'S CHILDREN, "IT IS STRANGE YOUR MOTHER
DID NOT OVERTAKE ME.  SHE MUST HAVE GONE A LONG WAY SEARCHING FOR
HER HUSBAND."  THAT NIGHT THE GRIZZLY BEAR BAKED THE BREASTS; BUT
ONE OF THE BLACK BEAR'S CHILDREN SAW HER AND SHOUTED, "OH, MY
MOTHER'S BREASTS]"  BUT THE GRIZZLY BEAR MADE FUN OF THE CHILD,
AND SAID SHE WAS BAKING ROOTS.  THEN SHE TOLD HER THREE CHILDREN
THAT SHE HAD KILLED HER HUSBAND AND HIS WIFE, AND THAT SHE ALSO
WANTED TO KILL THE BLACK BEAR'S THREE CHILDREN.  "WHEN I GO AWAY
TO DIG ROOTS IN THE MORNING," SHE TOLD THEM, "SAY TO THE BLACK BEAR'S
CHILDREN, 'LET US PLAY AT FEASTING]'  THEN SET BEFORE THEM A BASKET
OF THEIR CHOICEST FOOD, IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY EAT HEAVILY AND LOSE
THEIR STRENGTH.  YOU MUST EAT VERY LITTLE OF THE FOOD THEY GIVE TO
YOU.  THEN SAY, 'LET US GO AND SWIM,' AND WHEN YOU GET TO THE
LAKE SUGGEST, 'LET US PLAY AT FIGHTING.'  THEY WILL BE FULL, AND YOU
CAN EASILY OVERCOME THEM AND DROWN THEM.  THEN TAKE THEIR BODIES
HOME, AND STICK THE YOUNGEST ONE ON A STICK TO ROAST, FOR I SHALL
BE HUNGRY WHEN I GET HOME."  IN THE MORNING THE YOUNG GRIZZLY
BEARS DID AS TOLD.  THE ELDEST BLACK BEAR, HOWEVER, BECAME SUSPICIOUS,
AND WARNED HIS BROTHERS.  THEY ATE VERY LITTLE OF THE FOOD
GIVEN TO THEM BY THE GRIZZLY BEARS; BUT THE LATTER COULD NOT RESTRAIN
THEIR APPETITES.  THE GRIZZLY BEARS THEN SAID, "LET US GO AND
SWIM."  THEY ALL WENT DOWN TO THE LAKE AND SWAM.  THEY THEN
SUGGESTED, "LET US PLAY AT FIGHTING."  THE BLACK BEARS AGREED, AND
THE TWO YOUNGEST COMMENCED FIRST.  THE GRIZZLY BEAR BEING GLUTTED
WAS SOON PUT UNDER THE WATER BY THE BLACK BEAR, AND DROWNED.
THEY PULLED HIS BODY TO THE BANK AND LAID IT DOWN, SAYING, "WE
WILL BRING HIM TO LIFE AGAIN BY AND BY."  THE NEXT TWO THEN HAD A
CONTEST, RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF THE GRIZZLY BEAR, AS BEFORE; AND
LASTLY THE TWO ELDEST MET, WITH THE SAME RESULT.  THE BLACK BEARS
THEN TOOK THE BODIES OF THE GRIZZLY BEARS TO THE HOUSE, STUCK THE
YOUNGEST ONE ON A STICK TO ROAST, AND LAID THE OTHERS IN THE PLACE
WHERE THE BLACK BEARS THEMSELVES GENERALLY LAY, COVERING THEM OVER
WITH ROTTEN WOOD AND ANT-HILLS.  THEY THEN WENT AS FAST AS POSSIBLE
ALONG THE TRAIL TO THEIR GRANDFATHER'S HOUSE.
THE SHE GRIZZLY BEAR CAME HOME AFTER DARK, AND BEING HUNGRY
AT ONCE COMMENCED TO EAT THE SMALL BEAR ON THE SPIT, AND WAS THUS
ENGAGED WHEN THE MEADOWLARK CRIED OUT, "YOU ARE EATING YOUR
OWN CHILD]"  SHE THEN LOOKED, AND RECOGNIZED IT BY THE CLAWS.
SHE FLEW INTO A RAGE, RAN TO WHERE THE BLACK BEARS SLEPT, TO KILL
THEM, BUT FOUND THERE HER OWN CHILDREN DEAD.  SHE THEN STARTED
ON THE TRAIL OF THE BLACK BEARS, AND OVERTOOK THEM SHORTLY BEFORE THEY
REACHED THE RIVER, WHERE THEIR GRANDFATHER LIVED.  THE BLACK BEARS
RAN UP A TREE.  THE GRIZZLY CAME TO THE FOOT OF THE TREE, AND SAID TO
THEM, "YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER HAVE COME BACK, AND I HAVE COME
TO TELL YOU SO.  COME DOWN AND RETURN WITH ME TO YOUR PARENTS]"
BUT THE ELDEST BLACK BEAR TOLD HER SHE LIED, AND ADVISED THE OTHERS
NOT TO GO DOWN.  SHE THEN GREW ANGRY, AND SAID SHE WOULD KILL
THEM, COMMENCING AT ONCE TO BITE THE TREE AT THE BUTT, IN ORDER TO
MAKE IT FALL.  WHEN THE TREE WAS NEARLY FALLING, THE ELDEST BLACK
BEAR SAID, "WE WILL DROP THE YOUNGEST ONE DOWN TO YOU.  OPEN
YOUR MOUTH WIDE."  HE THEN THREW DRY ROTTEN WOOD MIXED WITH
ANTS INTO THE GRIZZLY'S FACE, CHOKING AND BLINDING HER.  THE THREE
BROTHERS FORTHWITH DESCENDED AND RAN FOR THE RIVER.  ON ARRIVING
THEY SAW THEIR GRANDFATHER S'QONEQA PATCHING HIS CANOE ON THE
OTHER SIDE.  HE CAME ACROSS TO FETCH THEM, AND LANDED THEM SAFELY
ON THE OTHER SIDE.  THEY TOLD HIM THEIR STORY AND SAID, "THE GRIZZLY
BEAR WILL BE HERE IN A LITTLE WHILE."  AS EXPECTED, THE GRIZZLY CAME
AND CALLED ON S'QONEQA TO TAKE HER OVER.  HE TOOK HER INTO HIS
CANOE, AND TOLD HER TO SIT DOWN ON AN UNPATCHED HOLE, SO AS TO KEEP
THE WATER FROM COMING IN.  THEY TOOK A LONG WHILE TO CROSS; AND
ALL THE LARGE FISHES BIT THE GRIZZLY THROUGH THIS HOLE, PULLING OUT
HER ENTRAILS.  WHEN SHE WOULD JUMP UP, THE CANOE WOULD FILL WITH WATER
SO THAT SHE HAD TO SIT DOWN AGAIN.  THE RESULT WAS THAT, WHEN SHE
LANDED, SHE FELL DOWN DEAD.
SHORTLY AFTERWARDS THE COYOTE CAME ALONG AND FOUND THE GRIZZLY
BEAR'S BODY, AND, CUTTING IT UP, PUT THE PIECES ON STICKS TO ROAST AT
THE FIRE WHICH HE HAD LIGHTED.  HERE HE LEFT THEM TO COOK, INTENDING
TO EAT THEM IN THE MORNING, AND IN THE MEANTIME RETURNED TO SLEEP
WITH HIS TWO CHILDREN, WHO ACCOMPANIED HIM.  DURING THE NIGHT THE
FOX CAME ALONG AND ATE ALL THE FAT MEAT WHICH HE FOUND ROASTING.
WHEN ABOUT TO DEPART, HE SAW THAT THE COYOTES STILL SLEPT, AND
RUBBED GREASE OVER THE MOUTHS OF THE TWO CHILDREN AND ON THE HANDS
OF THEIR FATHER.  IN THE MORNING WHEN THE COYOTE AWOKE, HE MISSED
HIS MEAT, AND SEEING STIFFENED GREASE AROUND THE MOUTHS OF HIS
CHILDREN, HE THOUGHT THEY HAD EATEN THE MEAT.  SO HE THRASHED THEM
SEVERELY.  BUT THEY CRIED OUT, "IT MUST HAVE BEEN YOU, FATHER, WHO
ATE THE MEAT, BECAUSE YOUR HANDS ARE ALL COVERED WITH GREASE."
THE COYOTE THEN GUESSED WHAT HAD HAPPENED, AND LAMENTED THE LOST
MEAT.
***THO-038***
XXIII.  THE GRIZZLY BEARS AND THE HUNTERS.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
FOUR BROTHERS LIVED TOGETHER IN THE MOUNTAINS.  THEY WERE
HUNTERS, AND CONSEQUENTLY SPENT ALL THEIR TIME THERE.  THEY HAD A
SISTER WHO LIVED WITH THEM AND WHOSE NAME WAS SILOLAXIXTEM.
SHE WAS A VERY SMALL GIRL, AND USED TO DIG ROOTS FOR HER BROTHERS,
WHO HAD BURNED A PIECE OF MOUNTAIN SIDE, SO THAT THE S'KAMITC
ROOT SHOULD YIELD A BETTER CROP; AND IT WAS HERE THAT THE LITTLE
SISTER WENT TO DIG ROOTS.  ONE OF HER BROTHERS HAD MADE A BASKET
FOR HER OUT OF A DEER'S HOOF.  SHE HAD A TINY DOG, THE LOUSE,
WHICH CONSTANTLY FOLLOWED HER.  THIS DOG HAD GREAT DIFFICULTY IN
WALKING THROUGH THE GRASS, AND GREW TIRED JUMPING OVER THE OBSTACLES
IN ITS WAY.  THEREFORE SHE USED TO LIFT IT OVER THE TALLER
GRASS.  SHE GENERALLY LED THE DOG BY A STRING, SINGING AS SHE WENT
ALONG, SOMETIMES TO OR ABOUT HER DOG, SOMETIMES ABOUT HER ROOTDIGGING,
OR AGAIN ABOUT HER BROTHERS WHO WERE OUT HUNTING.  SHE
USUALLY CARRIED A LUNCH OF DEER'S MARROW IN HER BASKET, WHICH SHE
PARTOOK OF WHENEVER SHE FELT HUNGRY.  THE FOUR GRIZZLY BEAR SISTERS
ALSO LIVED IN THE MOUNTAINS AND USED TO DIG ROOTS, WANDERING
ABOUT FROM PLACE TO PLACE.  AT LENGTH THEY CAME TO THE SPOT WHICH
HAD BEEN BURNED, AND FOUND THE S'KAMITC ROOT VERY PLENTIFUL.  HERE
THEY DUG, AND PRESENTLY HEARD THE LITTLE GIRL SINGING ABOUT HER
BROTHERS HAVING GONE HUNTING.  THEY SEARCHED FOR THE GIRL, WHO,
SEEING THEM COMING, BECAME FRIGHTENED, AND, IN ORDER TO HIDE HERSELF,
JUMPED INTO THE HOLE FROM WHICH SHE HAD DUG ROOTS.  BUT THERE
WAS NO ROOM FOR HER DOG IN THE HOLE; AND THE BEARS SEEING IT, WITH
A STRING LEADING TO THE HOLE WHERE SHE WAS HIDDEN, FOUND HER.  THEY
ASKED HER IF SHE HAD ANY ELDER BROTHERS, AND SHE SAID, "YES."
THEN THEY FILLED HER BASKET WITH ROOTS, AND SAID THEY WOULD
ACCOMPANY HER HOME, WHERE THEY HID OUTSIDE THE LODGE, WHILE THE GIRL
WENT INSIDE AND COOKED THE ROOTS FOR HER BROTHERS.  SHORTLY AFTER
DARK THE FOUR BROTHERS CAME IN, EACH CARRYING A DEER INSIDE ITS
SKIN.  THEY BEGAN TO EAT, PRAISING THEIR SISTER FOR THE LARGE
AMOUNT OF FINE ROOTS THAT SHE HAD DUG.  THEY SAID, "OUR LITTLE
YOUNGER SISTER MUST BE GROWING STRONG.  HITHERTO SHE WAS NOT ABLE
TO DIG SO MANY ROOTS."  THEY GAVE HER VENISON TO EAT, WHICH SHE
KEPT PASSING OUT UNDERNEATH THE TENT TO THE BEARS.  THE BROTHERS
WONDERED AT HER HUGE AND UNWONTED APPETITE, SAYING, "HITHERTO
OUR LITTLE YOUNGER SISTER WAS NOT ABLE TO EAT SO MUCH."  BEFORE
ENTERING THE LODGE, THE GRIZZLY BEAR HAD GIVEN SILOLAXIXTEM FOUR VERY
LARGE S'KAMITC ROOTS, IN THE HEART OF EACH OF WHICH THEY HAD PLACED
A HAIR TAKEN FROM THEIR PUBES, AND HAD DIRECTED HER TO ROAST THESE
ROOTS FOR HER BROTHERS, AND TO SEE THAT THEY ATE THEM WHOLE; FOR IF
THEY ATTEMPTED TO BREAK THEM, SHE WAS TO WARN THEM, SAYING, "DO
NOT BREAK THE ROOTS BEFORE YOU EAT THEM, BECAUSE IF YOU DO, MY
ROOTDIGGER WILL BREAK WHEN I DIG ROOTS WITH IT." SILOLAXIXTEM HAD
ROASTED THE FOUR ROOTS AS DIRECTED, AND NOW, TAKING THEM OUT OF THE
ASHES, GAVE THEM TO HER BROTHERS, WHO WERE SURPRISED AT THEIR LARGE
SIZE.  ONE OF THE BROTHERS TOOK ONE, AND WAS GOING TO BREAK IT IN
TWO, WHEN HIS SISTER TOLD HIM JUST AS THE GRIZZLY BEARS HAD INSTRUCTED
HER.  THEN HE DESISTED, AND PUT THE ROOT INTO HIS MOUTH WHOLE.
EACH OF THE BROTHERS ATE ONE.  BEFORE LONG SOME OF THE BROTHERS
SAID THEY WERE THIRSTY, AND, AS THERE WAS NO WATER IN THE LODGE, THEY
TOLD THE YOUNGEST BROTHER TO GO AND FETCH SOME.  HE TOOK THE BUCKET
AND WENT, BUT HAD NOT GONE FAR FROM THE LODGE WHEN ONE OF THE
GRIZZLY BEAR WOMEN RAN UP TO HIM AND EMBRACED HIM.  HE BECAME
ASHAMED, AND, TURNING BACK TO THE LODGE, ENTERED AND LAY DOWN.
HIS BROTHERS WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS ACTION, AND ASKED HIM WHAT HAD
HAPPENED, BUT HE DID NOT ANSWER THEM.  THEN ONE OF THE OTHERS
TOOK UP THE BUCKET AND WENT TO FETCH WATER; BUT HE, TOO, WAS EMBRACED
BY ONE OF THE WOMEN, AND, RETURNING, ACTED JUST LIKE HIS
BROTHER.  AFTER THE THIRD BROTHER HAD DONE LIKEWISE, THE ELDEST
AROSE AND WENT OUTSIDE, WHERE HE ALSO WAS EMBRACED BY ONE OF THE
GRIZZLY BEAR WOMEN, WHO SAID TO HIM, " WE ARE FOUR SISTERS.  WE
FOUND YOUR SISTER DIGGING ROOTS, AND SHE TOLD US THAT SHE HAD
BROTHERS.  WE THOUGHT THAT WE WOULD PAY YOU A VISIT."  THE HUNTER
ANSWERED, "THEN IT MUST HAVE BEEN YOU WHO GAVE OUR SISTER SO
MANY ROOTS:" AND THEY ANSWERED, "YES, WE DID SO."  THEN HE INVITED
THEM TO COME INSIDE THE LODGE, WHICH THEY DID, AND THE FOUR
HUNTERS TOOK THE FOUR GRIZZLY BEAR WOMEN FOR THEIR WIVES.
AFTERWARDS THE ELDEST GRIZZLY BEAR KILLED AND ATE THE THREE YOUNGER
BROTHERS AND THEIR THREE WIVES(HER SISTERS).  THE ELDEST BROTHER THEN
BECAME AFRAID, AND, TAKING HIS LITTLE SISTER WITH HIM, RAN AWAY, AND
CAMPED IN THE LONELY AND HIGH MOUNTAINS.  HIS WIFE, THE ELDEST GRIZZLY
BEAR, SEARCHED FOR THEM, BUT COULD NOT FIND THEM.  THE
HUNTER THEN MARRIED SILOLAXIXTEM, AND IN TIME SHE BORE HIM A CHILD.
ONE DAY THE GRIZZLY BEAR WAS OUT DIGGING ROOTS, AND SHE HEARD A
WOMAN SINGING TO HER BABY, "OH, YOUR UNCLE IS OUT HUNTING]  OH, YOUR
FATHER IS OUT HUNTING]"  SHE FOLLOWED THE SOUND AND FOUND THE
LODGE, WHICH WAS THAT OF THE LITTLE SISTER.  SHE WENT IN AND KILLED
THE YOUNG WOMAN AND ATE HER.  SHE ALSO KILLED THE CHILD, AND PUT IN
THE CRADLE A PIECE OF WOOD, WHICH SHE COVERED UP; THEN SHE SAT DOWN
AND SANG TO THE SUPPOSED CHILD, AND ROCKED THE CRADLE.  IN THE EVENING
THE HUNTER RETURNED, AND, HEARING THE SINGING, RECOGNIZED THE
VOICE AS THAT OF HIS GRIZZLY BEAR WIFE.  HE WAS AFRAID OF HER AND
WISHED TO KILL HER.  HE DEVISED A PLAN TO ACCOMPLISH HIS OBJECT.  HE
MADE ALL THE WATER OF THE CREEKS NEAR HIS LODGE GATHER IN FRONT OF
HIS HOUSE IN A HOLE, WHICH HE COVERED.  THEN HE ENTERED THE LODGE,
AND SAID, "I AM ALMOST DEAD WITH THIRST.  GO AND GET ME SOME
WATER."  THE GRIZZLY BEAR TOOK A PAIL AND RAN AWAY TO FETCH IT,
GOING FIRST TO ONE CREEK, AND THEN TO ANOTHER;  BUT FINDING EACH CREEK
DRY, SHE CAME BACK HOT AND COVERED WITH PERSPIRATION, SAYING, "I
CANNOT FIND ANY WATER."  THE HUNTER SAID, "I DID NOT TELL YOU TO GO
SO FAR.  YOU WILL FIND PLENTY OF IT IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE, IN A HOLE
UNDER COVER."  SHE WENT OUT, AND, TAKING OFF THE COVER, FOUND PLENTY.
BEING THIRSTY HERSELF AFTER HER LONG RUN, SHE BENT DOWN TO DRINK.
THEN THE HUNTER CAME OUT AND PUSHED HER FROM BEHIND, AND SHE
FELL INTO THE HOLE HEADLONG, AND WAS DROWNED.  THE HUNTER THEN
TURNED BACK THE WATERS INTO THEIR NATURAL CHANNELS.
***THO-039***
XXIV.  THE WOLF BOY AND HIS GRANDMOTHER.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
FORMERLY THERE WERE A GREAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE AROUND LKAMTCI'N
(LYTTON) AND THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, AND OVER MOST OF THE COUNTRY OF THE
NLAKAPAMUX; BUT THE COUNTRY WAS SET ON FIRE BY PEOPLE COMING
FROM THE DIRECTION OF THE OKANAGON COUNTRY, AND ALL THE INHABITANTS
WERE BURNED, EXCEPTING AN OLD BLIND WOMAN AND A BOY, WHO ESCAPED
BY TAKING REFUGE ON A WELL-BEATEN TRAIL WHICH THE FIRE COULD NOT
REACH.  THE BOY SAID THAT HE WOULD BE REVENGED.  HE WENT AND
TRAINED HIMSELF, AND OBTAINED MAGICAL POWERS.  AFTER A WHILE HE
TOLD HIS GRANDMOTHER THAT HE HAD WAXED STRONG IN MAGIC, AND WAS
GOING TO HAVE REVENGE ON HIS ENEMIES.  HIS GRANDMOTHER SAID, "I
WILL GO WITH YOU, AS I MAY BE OF HELP TO YOU."  HE FOUND A SHORT
PIECE OF HOLLOW WOOD, PUT HIS GRANDMOTHER INSIDE, AND IN THIS
MANNER DRAGGED HER ALONG, FOR SHE WAS TOO OLD AND FRAIL TO WALK.
AFTER MANY DAYS THEY CAME TO AN IMPENETRABLE PIECE OF BUSH.  HE TOLD
HIS GRANDMOTHER THAT HE COULD NOT PASS THROUGHT IT.  THEN SHE
CRAWLED OUT, AND TOLD HIM TO HOLD OPEN HER EYELIDS, SO THAT SHE COULD
LOOK AT IT.  AT ONCE THE OBSTACLE VANISHED.  THEY DID THE SAME WITH
A BARRIER OF FALLEN TIMBER.  AFTER A WHILE HE LEFT THE OLD WOMAN, AND
IN THE SHAPE OF A WOLF WENT ON ALONE.  PRESENTLY HE APPROACHED A
LARGE GROUP OF UNDERGROUND LODGES.  A BOY SAW THE WOLF, AND CRIED
OUT TO THE PEOPLE INSIDE; BUT HE TRANSFORMED HIMSELF INTO EAGLE'S
DOWN, AND FLUTTERED DOWN ON TO THE LODGE, SETTING IT ON FIRE, AND
BURNING ALL THE INMATES.  HE DID SO WITH THREE LARGE HOUSES, AND THEN
WENT ON TO THE FOURTH ONE.  THE BOY WHO HAD FIRST SEEN HIM RAN
INTO THE CHIEF'S HOUSE, AND TOLD HIM WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THE OTHER
HOUSES AND INMATES.  THE CHIEF THEN SEIZED ALL HIS DAUGHTERS AND
THE OTHER YOUNG WOMEN IN THE HOUSE, THROWING THEM ON A HEAP OF
TANNED SKINS.  HE THEN RAN OUT, AND, SEEING THE WOLF, SAID, "CHIEF,
HAVE MERCY ON ME.  COME INTO MY HOUSE, AND I WILL GIVE YOU A GREAT
PRESENT."  THE WOLF CHANGED INTO THE EAGLE'S DOWN, AND WHEN NEAR
THE HOUSE AGAIN METAMORPHOSED HIMSELF INTO A YOUNG MAN.  HE
ENTERED, AND RECEIVED THE LARGE PRESENT OF SKINS, AND ALL THE YOUNG
WOMEN ON THEM FOR HIS WIVES, AND DID NOT RETURN TO HIS OWN COUNTRY.
HE LEFT HIS GRANDMOTHER, WHO WAS THE SHORT-TAILED MOUSE, IN THE
MOUNTAINS, WHERE SHE EVER AFTERWARDS DWELT ALL ALONE, AND LIVED BY
HER MAGIC.  AFTER THIS THE NLAKAPAMUX COUNTRY WAS UNINHABITED
FOR A LONG TIME.
***THO-040***
XXV.  STORY OF STETSO.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THERE ONCE LIVED NEAR SPENCES BRIDGE A LAD NAMED STETSO, THE
ONLY SURVIVOR OF THE GREAT FIRE.  THIS LAD WAS ENDOWED WITH MAGIC,
AND POSSESSED GREAT KNOWLEDGE.  ONE DAY DURING THE RUN OF THE
SALMON HE WENT TO THE MOUTH OF NICOLA RIVER TO FISH.  AT HIS WORD
TREES FELL DOWN, WERE SPLIT, AND CUT INTO LENGTHS, AND TOOK THEIR
POSITION IN THE RIVER, FORMING A WEIR.  HE THEN COMMANDED, AND SPEARS
AND NETS WERE MADE, AND THE FISH WERE TAKEN OUT OF THE RIVER, OPENED,
SPLIT, AND HUNG UP TO DRY IN HUNDREDS.  AFTER THIS HE WENT HOME,
AND TOLD HIS GRANDMOTHER WHAT HE HAD DONE.  SHE DID NOT BELIEVE
HIM, AND SAID TO HIM, "YOU COULD NOT POSSIBLY HAVE DONE ALL THAT IN
ONE DAY.  YOUR FATHERS WORKED MANY DAYS WHEN CONSTRUCTING THEIR
WEIRS, AND COULD ONLY CATCH A FEW FISH AT MOST."  THE NEXT MORNING,
STETSO WENT TO SEE HIS FISH, AND FOUND THAT THEY HAD ALL BEEN EATEN
UP.  HE WENT HOME AND TOLD HIS GRANDMOTHER WHAT HAD HAPPENED,
AND IN ANGER SAID HE WOULD MAKE A BOW AND ARROWS TO SHOOT THE
THIEVES.  BUT HE COULD NOT MAKE THESE SIMPLY BY HIS MAGIC;
THEREFORE HE ASKED HIS GRANDMOTHER'S ADVICE.  SHE TOLD HIM THE
DIFFERENT ANIMALS TO WHOM HE MUST GO AND ASK HELP TO FINISH HIS BOW
AND ARROWS.  FIRSTLY, HE MUST GO TO THE EAGLE FOR FEATHERS TO TIP HIS
ARROWS WITH.  HE COVERED HIMSELF UP WITH THICK BIRCH-BARK FOR
PROTECTION, AND WENT DOWN TO A VERY PRECIPITOUS ROCK, IN WHICH THE
EAGLE HAD HIS HOME.  WHEN THE EAGLE SAW STETSO APPROACHING, HE
ATTACKED HIM.  THE YOUTH LAID HOLD OF THE EAGLE.  IN THE STRUGGLE
THEY FELL OFF THE ROCK, AND GRADUALLY REACHED THE GROUND, THE EAGLE
STOPPING THE RAPIDITY OF THEIR FALL BY THE FLAPPING OF HIS WINGS.
THEY CONTINUED THEIR FIGHT FOR A SHORT TIME AFTER REACHING THE GROUND;
BUT STETSO HAD THE BEST OF THE ENGAGEMENT, AND CHOKED THE
EAGLE, WHO WAS UNABLE TO HURT HIM, OWING TO HIS BIRCH-BARK ARMOR.
THEN HE PULLED OUT THE EAGLE'S TAIL-FEATHERS, AND RAN AWAY WITH THEM,
LEAVING HIS ADVERSARY TO LAMENT HIS LOSS.  NEXT STETSO WAS SENT BY HIS
GRANDMOTHER TO THE BUCK DEER FOR SINEW FOR HIS BOW-STRING.  HE
WENT AND MET THE FAWN, WHO TOLD HIM, "MY MOTHER THE DOE IS
COMING ALONG."  HE THEN MET THE DOE, WHO SAID, "YOU WILL SEE MY
GRANDFATHER THE BUCK A SHORT DISTANCE BEHIND."  AT LAST HE MET THE
BUCK, WHO WAS GLAD TO SEE HIM, AND INVITED HIM TO HAVE A RIDE ON
HIS BACK, AN INVITATION WHICH STETSO GLADLY ACCEPTED.  PRESENTLY HE
TOOK HIS KNIFE, AND COMMENCED TO CUT THE BUCK AT THE BACK OF THE
NECK.  THE LATTER SAID, "AH, MY CHILD]  THAT HURTS.  WHAT ARE YOU
DOING TO ME?"  STETSO ANSWERED, "I AM ONLY SCRATCHING FOR YOUR
LICE."  FINALLY STESTO CUT SO DEEPLY THAT THE BUCK FELL DOWN AND
DIED.  HE THEN CUT HIM UP, AND TOOK THE SINEW FROM HIS BACK.  AFTER
HE HAD RETURNED HOME, HIS GRANDMOTHER SENT HIM TO TWO OLD MEN
WHO WERE THE POSSESSORS OF ARROWSTONE, AND WHO LIVED IN AN
UNDERGROUND LODGE SOME DISTANCE AWAY.  HE ARRIVED THERE AND THEY
WELCOMED HIM.  HE TALKED QUIETLY TO ONE AND TOLD HIM THAT THE OTHER
OLD MAN CALLED HIM "ARROW EYES" AND OTHER BAD NAMES, AND MADE MUCH
FUN OF HIM.  THEN HE WENT TO THE OTHER OLD MAN AND TOLD HIM
SOMEWHAT THE SAME STORY OF HIS COMPANION, WHO, HE SAID, TOLD LIES
ABOUT HIM, AND CALLED HIM NAMES.  BY THIS MEANS THE TWO OLD MEN
BECAME INCENSED AT ONE ANOTHER, AND COMMENCED TO FIGHT.
IMMEDIATELY WHITE ARROWSTONE BEGAN TO DROP FROM THE BODY OF THE ONE,
AND BLACK ARROWSTONE FROM THAT OF THE OTHER.  STETSO GATHERED THEM UP
AND RAN OUT CARRYING A LARGE PILE OF THEM, UNNOTICED.  HE THEN TOLD
THE OLD MEN, "YOU HAVE HAD ENOUGH.  STOP FIGHTING.  I WAS ONLY
FOOLING YOU."  THE OLD MEN SAT DOWN, SAYING, "IT IS TOO BAD THAT YOU
MADE US QUARREL LIKE THAT BY TELLING LIES]"  STETSO TOOK THIS
ARROWSTONE HOME TO HIS GRANDMOTHER, WHO SAID, "TAKE IT TO THE RAVEN,
WHO IS SKILLED AT MAKING ARROW-HEADS."  HE TOOK IT TO THE RAVEN,
WHO CHIPPED THE STONE INTO ARROW-HEADS OF DIFFERENT SIZES AND SHAPES,
SOME OF WHICH WERE VERY LARGE.  HE THEN SCATTERED THEM OVER THE
COUNTRY, MORE FALLING IN SOME LOCALITIES THAN IN OTHERS.  AFTER THAT
THE INDIANS ALWAYS FOUND THE STONE IN THE SHAPE OF ARROW-HEADS.
MOREOVER, IF THEY WANTED STONE TO MAKE ARROW-HEADS, THEY PICKED UP
THESE RAVEN ARROW-HEADS, AND FINISHED THEM OFF.  THE ONES USED BY
THE INDIANS WERE VERY SMALL, WHILE THE RAVEN ARROW-HEADS WERE MUCH
LARGER, AND VERY CLUMSILY SHAPED.  THE INDIANS OFTEN MADE SIX OR
MORE ARROW-HEADS OUT OF ONE OF THESE PIECES OF CHIPPED STONE.
***THO-041***
XXVI.  THE WAR OF THE FISHES WITH THE OKANAGON.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
FORMERLY ALL THE FISHES WENT FROM LYTTON TO MAKE WAR AGAINST
THE OKANAGON.  ON RETURNING FROM THE WAR, IN WHICH THEY HAD
BEEN COMPARATIVELY SUCCESSFUL, THEY WERE PURSUED AND FINALLY
OVERTAKEN BY THE OKANAGON.  HERE THE STURGEON, IN HIS ENDEAVORS TO
ESCAPE FROM THE ENEMY, JUMPED FROM SIDE TO SIDE, AND RAN AROUND IN
LARGE CURVES, THUS TEMPORARILY THROWING THE ENEMY OFF THE SCENT.  IN
THIS WAY HE FORMED THE LARGE AND NUMEROUS WINDINGS WHICH ARE SO
CHARACTERISTIC OF THE UPPER COLUMBIA RIVER AT THE PRESENT DAY.  HIS
ENDEAVORS WERE OF LITTLE AVAIL, HOWEVER, FOR THE SEMAESUL, THE
PISUL, AND MOST OF THE OTHER FISH, WERE OVERTAKEN AND SLAIN
BEFORE REACHING THE NICOLA COUNTRY, AND THEIR BODIES THROWN INTO
THE LAKES AND STREAMS.  HERE THE WHITEFISH AND OTHER FISH WERE SLAIN,
AND SHORTLY AFTERWARDS THE HUMPBACK SALMON AND THE STEELHEAD
SALMON WERE ALSO OVERTAKEN, AND THEIR BODIES THROWN INTO THE NICOLA
RIVER.  UPON REACHING THE THOMPSON, THE SLEKASUL, THE TSOLXLA, THE
SOCKEYE SALMON, AND THE SPRING SALMON WERE OVERTAKEN, AND
THEIR BODIES THROWN INTO THAT RIVER.  THE STURGEON WAS KILLED ON
REACHING LYTTON, AND HIS BODY THROWN INTO THE FRASER RIVER.  ONLY
THE KULOX ESCAPED OF ALL THE FISHES, AND EVER SINCE HE HAS BEEN AFRAID
TO COME UP THE FRASER RIVER ABOVE YALE.  THENCE THE PURSUERS
RETURNED HOME.  THAT IS THE REASON THAT AT THE PRESENT DAY THESE
FISHES ARE TO BE FOUND SO ABUNDANTLY THROUGHOUT THE LAKES AND
SMALLER STREAMS OF THE UPPER NLAKAPAMUX AND OKANAGON
COUNTRIES; THAT THE SALMON ABOUND CHIEFLY IN THOMPSON RIVER, AND NOT
IN THE NICOLA, AND THAT THE STURGEON DOES NOT FREQUENT THOMPSON
RIVER, BUT IS ALTOGETHER CONFINED TO FRASER RIVER.  THIS IS ALSO THE
REASON THAT THE KULOX SELDOM OR NEVER ENTERS THE NLAKAPAMUX
COUNTRY, ONLY ASCENDING THE FRASER RIVER AS FAR AS HOPE OR YALE.
***THO-042***
XXVII.  STORY OF TCISKIKIK.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
TCISKIKIK WAS A GREAT DEER HUNTER.  HE HAD A SISTER TO WHOM HE
HAD GIVEN STRICT INJUNCTIONS NEVER TO EAT VENISON WHILE HE WAS
HUNTING.  ONE DAY SHE DISOBEYED HIM, WHICH MADE HIM VERY ANGRY
WITH HER, BECAUSE HE THOUGHT THAT NOW HIS GOOD LUCK WOULD LEAVE
HIM.  HE STRUCK HER SEVERAL TIMES, AND ALSO FIRED AN ARROW AT HER.
THEN SHE RAN AWAY AND LEFT HIM, AT THE SAME TIME TELLING HIM THAT
SHE WOULD NOT LIVE WITH HIM ANY MORE, NOR EVEN TALK TO HIM.
THEREFORE SHE TRANSFORMED HERSELF INTO A BIRD CALLED KAQWA, AND SOON
DISAPPEARED FROM SIGHT.  HER BROTHER, AFTER HIS ANGER HAD SUBSIDED,
WAS VERY SORRY BECAUSE HIS SISTER HAD LEFT HIM, AND BEGAN TO WAIL,
AND BEMOAN HIS FATE, FOR HE REALLY LOVED HIS SISTER.  THIS IS THE
REASON THAT AT THE PRESENT DAY THE TCISKIKIK ALWAYS CRIES,
"NAXLENTCETCA]"  ("OH, MY YOUNGER SISTER.")
***THO-043***
XXVIII.  STORY OF THE ANTS AND THE TWO BROTHERS.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
TWO BROTHERS LIVED AT ONE TIME WITH CERTAIN OTHER PEOPLE IN AN
UNDERGROUND LODGE.  ONE DAY ONE OF THESE BROTHERS DISAPPEARED.
THE OTHER BROTHER SEARCHED FOR HIM BUT IN VAIN.  THEN HE BECAME
VERY SORROWFUL.  HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT HAD BECOME OF HIS BROTHER,
FOR THE ANTS HAD STOLEN HIM, AND BY THIS TIME HAD LED HIM TO THEIR
ABODE UNDERNEATH THE GROUND.  THE ANTS WERE PLAYING A GAME OF
LACROSSE, AND HE WAS PLAYING WITH THEM.  SUDDENLY HE STOPPED
PLAYING, AND SITTING DOWN, COMMENCED TO CRY.  THE ANTS SAID SOMEONE
MUST HAVE STRUCK HIM WITH HIS BALL-STICK WHILE PLAYING.  BUT
HE ANSWERED, "NO]  NOBODY STRUCK ME.  I AM SORROWFUL, BECAUSE WHILE
I WAS PLAYING A TEAR FELL ON MY HAND.  IT WAS MY BROTHER'S TEAR FROM
THE UPPER WORLD, AND I KNOW BY IT THAT HE IS SEARCHING FOR ME, AND
WEEPING."  THE ANTS PITIED HIM, AND ONE OF THEM SAID, "I WILL GO TO
THE UPPER WORLD, AND LET YOUR BROTHER KNOW WHERE YOU ARE, AND THAT
YOU ARE WELL."  THE ANT WENT AND REACHED THE SURFACE FROM
UNDERNEATH THE FIRESTONE OF THE LODGE IN WHICH THE BROTHERS USED TO
DWELL.  THE FIRE WAS LOW, AND THE PEOPLE WERE SITTING SMOKING, AND
SOME OF THEM HAD RETIRED FOR THE NIGHT.  SUDDENLY THEY SAW A MAN AT
THE FOOT OF THE LADDER.  THEY WONDERED HOW HE HAD COME DOWN
THE LADDER WITHOUT BEING NOTICED; SO THEY ADDRESSED HIM, SAYING,
"WELCOME, FRIEND]  WHERE HAVE YOU COME FROM?"  HE SAID, "I AM
WANDERING ABOUT THE COUNTRY."  HE STAYED A DAY OR TWO, AND THEN
SUDDENLY DISAPPEARED.  HE HAD, HOWEVER, TAKEN OPPORTUNITY TO TELL
THE BROTHER ABOVE ALL CONCERNING HIS RELATIVE BELOW, AND HOW HAPPY
THE LATTER WAS, AND THE BROTHER LATER ON TOLD THE PEOPLE.  THEN HE
ASKED THE ANT, "HOW CAN I GO TO SEE MY BROTHER?"  AND THE LATTER
SAID, "I MUST NOT TELL YOU.  GO TO THE SPIDER, AND HE MAY TELL YOU."
HE WENT TO THE SPIDER; BUT THE LATTER SAID, "I CANNOT LET YOU DOWN, AS
MY THREAD IS TOO WEAK.  GO TO THE CROW, AND HE WILL GIVE YOU
ADVICE."  HE WENT TO THE CROW.  THE CROW SAID, "I WILL NOT TELL
YOU WITH MY MOUTH, BUT I WILL TELL YOU IN A DREAM.  BE CAREFUL AND
NOTICE WHAT YOU DREAM."  HE WENT HOME AND FELL ASLEEP, AND IN HIS
SLEEP DREAMED.  HE WAS TOLD IN THE DREAM TO LOOK UNDER THE
FIRESTONE OF THE LODGE, AND HE WOULD DISCOVER A HOLE.  HE WAS TO
SHUT HIS EYES, AND TAKE ONE JUMP DOWN THE HOLE, WHEN HE WOULD
ALIGHT ON AN OBSTACLE.  HE WAS THEN TO ROLL OVER AND TAKE ANOTHER
JUMP, AND WOULD ALIGHT ON ANOTHER OBSTACLE.  THIS HE WAS TO DO FOUR
TIMES, AND THEN TO OPEN HIS EYES, AS HE WOULD THEN BE IN THE
LOWER WORLD.  HE DID AS DIRECTED, AND EVENTUALLY FOUND HIMSELF IN A
FINE COUNTRY, WHERE THE ANT PEOPLE WERE PLAYING BALL.  HERE HE
FOUND HIS BROTHER, AND WAS HAPPY.
***THO-044***
XXIX.  STORY OF AQ.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
SEVEN WOMEN WENT OFF INTO THE MOUNTAINS TO DIG ROOTS, AND TOOK
WITH THEM A BOY.  THEY ARRIVED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE PLACE
WHERE THEY INTENDED TO DIG, AND CAMPED THERE IN THE EVENING.
SHORTLY AFTER THEY HAD CAMPED, THEY HEARD A CRY AT A LONG DISTANCE.
THE CRY CAME NEARER, AND THEY WONDERED WHAT IT MIGHT BE.  THE
CRY WAS, "AQ,AQ,AQ]" THREE TIMES IN SUCCESSION, WITH SHORT
INTERVALS OF SILENCE.  THE VOICE APPROACHED THE CAMP, AND SOON FROM
THE EDGE OF THE TIMBER THERE EMERGED INTO THE OPEN A MAN OF
GIGANTIC STATURE, WHO LOOKED FROM SIDE TO SIDE, TURNING HIS FACE
UPWARDS, AND CRYING, "AQ,AQ,AQ]"  HE WALKED INTO THE CAMP.  THE
WOMEN TALKED TO HIM; BUT HE ONLY ANSWERED WITH THE CRY OF "AQ."  SOME
SAID, "PROBABLY HE WANTS AQWEN" (FISH-ROE), AND THOSE WHO HAD
FISH-ROE AMONGST THEIR FOOD OFFERED SOME TO HIM; BUT HE TURNED AWAY
HIS HEAD AND CRIED, "AQ]"  THE WOMEN THEN SAID, "LET HIM ALONE]
HE WILL BE LIKELY TO GO AWAY BY AND BY.  WE MIGHT AS WELL GO TO
SLEEP."  THEY WENT TO SLEEP.  AFTER THEY HAD ALL FALLEN ASLEEP, THE
MAN KILLED THEM ALL BY RIPPING OPEN THEIR STOMACHS, AND THEN
SWALLOWED ALL THEIR HEARTS.  THE BOY HAD HIDDEN BENEATH AN
OVERTURNED BASKET AND WAITED THERE UNTIL THE MAN HAD GONE AWAY.  HE
THEN WENT HOME AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE AND TOLD THE PEOPLE WHAT
HAD HAPPENED.  SEVEN MEN ARMED THEMSELVES, AND, ACCOMPANIED BY
THE BOY, TRAVELLED TO THE PLACE OF THE TRAGEDY.  THESE MEN DRESSED
THEMSELVES, PAINTED THEIR FACES, AND DID UP THEIR HAIR, SO AS TO
RESEMBLE WOMEN.  THEY ALSO CARRIED BASKETS AND ROOT-DIGGERS, AND
HAD THEIR WEAPONS CONCEALED ON THEIR BODIES.  THE SPOT WAS REACHED AND
THE DEAD WOMEN FOUND.  THEN THEY LIT A HUGE FIRE AND WAITED UNTIL
NIGHTFALL.  PRESENTLY THEY HEARD THE SAME CRY GRADUALLY COMING
NEARER, AND FINALLY THE MAN ENTERED THE CAMP, CRYING, "AQ]"  THEY
PRETENDED TO BE KIND TO HIM AND OFFERED HIM FOOD, AND AT THE SAME
TIME SURROUNDED HIM.  FIRST THOSE BEHIND HIS BACK ATTACKED HIM,
THEN THEY ALL CLOSED IN ON HIM, AND SO DISPATCHED HIM IMMEDIATELY.
THEY THEN CUT HIM UP (SIMILAR TO THE WAY INDIANS CUT UP LARGE
GAME,) AND THREW ONE PART IN THE DIRECTION OF EACH OF THE
SURROUNDING TRIBES.  IN HIS STOMACH WERE FOUND ALL THE WOMEN'S
HEARTS, WHICH THEY REPLACED IN THEIR RESPECTIVE PLACES IN THE WOMEN'S
BREASTS; AND AS EACH WOMAN'S HEART WAS PLACED BACK IN HER BREAST, SHE
AROSE AND SAID, "I HAVE BEEN ASLEEP A LONG TIME."  BUT THE MEN AND
BOY TOLD THEM ALL THAT HAD HAPPENED, AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED.
***THO-045***
XXX.  STORY OF NTCIMKA AND THE CANNIBAL.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THERE FORMERLY LIVED, A LITTLE TO THE EAST OF THE PRESENT INDIAN
VILLAGE OF LKAMTCIN (OR LYTTON), A MAN GIFTED IN MAGIC, AND CALLED
NTCIMKA.  HE LIVED THERE IN AN UNDERGROUND LODGE WITH HIS WIFE.
ON THE WEST SIDE OF FRASER RIVER, NEAR THE PRESENT INDIAN VILLAGE
OF NXOMIN, LIVED ANOTHER MAN WHO WAS A CANNIBAL.  HE WAS
SOMETIMES CALLED BY NAME TCUISQALEMUX, AND WAS DREADED BY
EVERYBODY.  HE CAME OUT OF HIS HOUSE EVERY MORNING AND LOOKED AROUND.
HE KNEW AT ONCE IF A PERSON APPROACHED HIS HOME, AND HE CHASED AND
KILLED HIM WITH THE LONG STAFF WHICH HE ALWAYS CARRIED IN HIS HAND,
AND WHICH HAD STRINGS OF HUMAN NAILS ATTACHED TO IT BY WAY OF
ORNAMENT.  NO PERSON COULD COME ANYWHERE NEAR HIS ABODE WITHOUT BEING
KILLED AND EATEN.  ONCE HE CAME OVER TO NTCIMKA'S HOUSE.  AS HE
APPROACHED, NTCIMKA CALLED TO HIS AID ALL HIS MAGICAL ARTS TO CRUSH
THIS ENEMY, BUT WITHOUT AVAIL.  THE CANNIBAL TOOK THE WIFE OF NTCIMKA,
WHO HAD RETREATED UP THOMPSON RIVER.  NTCIMKA WAS THEREFORE
SORROWFUL, BECAUSE HE DID NOT KNOW HOW TO EFFECT A REVENGE.  THUS
HE WANDERED UP THOMPSON RIVER UNTIL HE REACHED KAMLOOPS, AND
THEN, TURNING SOUTH, HE WENT THROUGH THE OKANAGON COUNTRY, RETURNING
BY THE SIMILKAMEEN AND NICOLA RIVERS.  IN THE OKANAGON
COUNTRY HE STOLE A LITTLE BOY, AND CARRIED HIM ON HIS BACK EVERY DAY
AS HE TRAVELLED.  AT NIGHT HE CAMPED, AND WASHED THE BOY WITH FIR
BRANCHES, SO THAT HE GREW PRODIGIOUSLY EVERY DAY, OWING TO THIS
TREATMENT.  NTCIMKA CAME DOWN THOMPSON RIVER AS FAR AS
TSOTCOWAUX CREEK, WHICH HE FOLLOWED UP WITH HIS COMPANION.  HERE HE
STAYED WITH THE BOY, WASHING, SWEATING, AND TRAINING HIM UNTIL HE WAS
A FULL-GROWN MAN, WHICH WAS NOT LONG, AS PEOPLE GREW FAST IN THOSE
DAYS.  IN A SHORT TIME THE BOY WAS PERFECT IN MAGIC AND KNEW
EVERYTHING.  NTCIMKA PUT FOUR NECKLACES AROUND THE BOY'S NECK.
ONE OF THESE WAS OF EAGLE'S FEATHERS, TWO WERE OF HAWK'S FEATHERS OF
DIFFERENT KINDS, AND THE LAST WAS OF RATTLESNAKE SKIN.  HE TOLD THE
LAD TO GO TO THEIR ENEMY'S ABODE, AND THAT HE HIMSELF WOULD GO AND
SIT DOWN ON THE BANK OPPOSITE AND WATCH THEM, BUT THE LAD WAS
NOT TO BEGIN HIS ENGAGEMENT UNTIL HE SAW THE SMOKE FROM NTCIMKA'S
PIPE RISE OVER THE HILL.  NTCIMKA THEN SAT DOWN ON THE BANK OF THE
RIVER, OPPOSITE NXOMIN, AND BEGAN TO SMOKE HIS LARGE PIPE.  ON
SEEING THE SMOKE RISE, THE LAD JUMPED OVER THE FRASER, ALIGHTING NEAR
HIS ENEMY'S HOUSE.  THE CANNIBAL AT ONCE ATTACKED THE LAD, TRYING TO
RUN HIS STAFF THROUGH HIM; BUT THE LATTER JUMPED UP TO THE TOP OF
ONE OF THE MOUNTAIN PEAKS TO THE WEST OF THE FRASER, AND THE
CANNIBAL ONLY FOUND A NECKLACE ON THE POINT OF HIS STAFF.  HE TRIED
FOUR TIMES TO HIT THE LAD WITH HIS STAFF; BUT AT EACH ATTEMPT THE LAD
JUMPED ON THE TOP OF ONE OF THE HIGH MOUNTAIN PEAKS, AND THE
CANNIBAL ONLY FOUND A NECKLACE ON THE POINT OF HIS STAFF.  HE DID NOT
KNOW THAT THE MAGIC POWER HAD LEFT HIS STAFF, AND THAT IT HAD BEEN
REDUCED TO AN ORDINARY STAFF BY THE MAGIC OF THE FOUR NECKLACES.
THE LAD THEN JUMPED BACK ACROSS FRASER RIVER TO THE PLACE WHERE
NTCIMKA WAS SITTING SMOKING.  THE CANNIBAL CAME ACROSS TO WHERE
THEY WERE, INTENDING TO KILL THEM WITH HIS MAGICAL STAFF, BUT HE FOUND
IT WAS NOW OF NO AVAIL.  NTCIMKA THEN ATTACKED THEIR ENEMY, AND
THEY WRESTLED FOR THE MASTERY.  THEY ROLLED AND TUMBLED AROUND ON
THE EAST BANK OF FRASER RIVER, FROM THERE TO THE MOUTH OF THOMPSON
RIVER.  PRESENTLY NTCIMKA BEGAN TO FEEL FAINT.  HE CALLED ON THE
LAD TO HELP HIM; BUT THE LATTER LAY ON HIS BACK RESTING AND TOOK NO
HEED.  NTCIMKA GRADUALLY BECAME WEAKER, AND IN A FAINT VOICE CALLED
ON THE LAD AGAIN.  FOUR TIMES HE CALLED FOR HELP.  THE LAD THEN ROSE
UP AND RUSHED AT THE CANNIBAL, WHO WAS ON TOP OF NTCIMKA, AND
STRUCK OFF HIS HEAD WITH ONE BLOW OF HIS LARGE KNIFE.  NTCIMKA SAID,
"CUT OFF HIS ARMS, FOR HE STILL WRESTLES WITH ME."  THEN THE LAD CUT
OFF HIS ARMS AT THE SHOULDER.  NTCIMKA THEN CRIED, "CUT OFF HIS LEGS,
FOR HE IS STILL OVERCOMING ME WITH THEM."  THE LAD DID SO, AND SO ON
UNTIL THE BODY WAS ALL CUT IN PIECES.  AFTER RESTING A WHILE, NTCIMKA
TOLD THE LAD TO THROW THE BODY AWAY IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS,
TELLING HIM IN WHICH DIRECTION TO THROW THE DIFFERENT PARTS.  THUS
HIS HEART WAS THROWN IN THE DIRECTION OF THE OKANAGON; HIS HANDS AND
ARMS TO THE SHUSWAP; HIS LEGS TO THE LILLOOET PROPER (OR UPPER
LILLOOET, WHO LIVE NEAR FRASER RIVER); HIS FEET AND GENITALIA TO THE
A'YUT (OR LOWER LILLOOET OF THE LAKES).  AFTER HE HAD SCATTERED
THE PARTS OF THE BODY, NTCIMKA SAID, "YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN TO GIVE
ANYTHING TO THE UTAMQT.  IT WAS THEN NOTICED THAT HIS HEAD STILL
REMAINED ON THE GROUND SOME DISTANCE AWAY, SO THE LAD TOOK IT UP
AND THREW IT TOWARDS THE UTAMQT.  HE THEN WIPED HIS HANDS, AND
THREW THE WIPINGS AFTER THE HEAD.  THAT IS THE REASON THAT THE
OKANAGON ARE BRAVE, AND THAT THE A'YUT AND LILLOOET ARE INFERIOR
TO THE UPPER NLAKAPAMUX AND SHUSWAP (HAVING FEET TO RUN AWAY
WITH, BUT NO ARMS TO FIGHT), AND ALSO THAT THE UTAMQT ARE INFERIOR
PEOPLE, AND HAVE LARGER HEADS THAT THE UPPER NLAKAPAMUX.
NTCIMKA AND THE LAD THEN CROSSED FRASER RIVER, AND THE FORMER
RECOVERED HIS WIFE.  THEY FOUND THE CANNIBAL'S SON THERE AND SLEW
HIM, AFTERWARDS TURNING HIS BODY INTO STONE, WHICH IS YET TO BE SEEN
NEAR NXOMIN.  NTCIMKA SAID THAT HIS BODY WOULD LIE THAT WAY FOR
ALL COMING GENERATIONS TO SEE, AND THAT HIS SPIRIT WOULD HAUNT THE
PLACE WHERE HIS BODY WAS.  THAT IS THE REASON THAT INDIANS REPAIR
TO THIS SPOT WHEN SUFFERING FROM PAINS IN ANY PART OF THE BODY.
THEY RUB THE PART AFFLICTED WITH A FIR BRANCH, LAYING THE LATTER
BESIDE THE STONE, AND PRAYING TO THE SPIRIT THAT THEY MAY RECOVER,
AFTERWARDS LEAVING AN OFFERING OR PAYMENT ON THE STONE IN THE SHAPE OF
HAIR, TOBACCO, CLOTHES, ETC.
AFTER A WHILE NTCIMKA TOLD HIS HELPER TO GO HOME TO HIS OWN
COUNTRY, BECAUSE HE COULD NOW GET ALONG WITHOUT HIS AID, AND FURTHER
ADDED THAT HIS FRIENDS WOULD BE GLAD TO SEE HIM.  HE TOLD HIM TO
TRAVEL THE SAME WAY THE HE HIMSELF HAD GONE,- UP THOMPSON
RIVER TO A POINT BEYOND KAMLOOPS, AND THEN TO TURN SOUTH.  THE
FIRST DAY HE WAS TO TRAVEL AS FAR AS CANEXENENAMAX, ON THE TOP OF
WHICH MOUNTAIN HE WAS TO CAMP.  HE WAS TO RETURN TO NTCIMKA
THE NEXT DAY.  ON THE FOLLOWING DAY HE WAS TO GO TO THE SAME PLACE,
CAMP AGAIN, THEN NEXT MORNING TO CONTINUE HIS JOURNEY UP THOMPSON
RIVER.  BEFORE DEPARTING, THE LAD WENT OUT HUNTING, AND GATHERED
AN IMMENSE BAND OF DEER IN THE VALLEY LEADING FROM LYTTON TO
BETANI.  HE KILLED A GREAT NUMBER, WHICH HE GAVE TO NTCIMKA AS A
PRESENT.  WHEN HE WAS READY TO START ON HIS JOURNEY, NTCIMKA
PRESENTED HIM WITH A GREAT NUMBER OF EAGLE'S QUILLS AND DENTALIA.  HE
TRAVELLED AS DIRECTED.  ON THE SECOND DAY HE RETURNED TO NTCIMKA'S
HOUSE, HAVING CAMPED THE PRECEDING NIGHT ON THE TOP OF CANEXENENAMAX.
NTCIMKA HAD ADVISED HIM TO DO THIS SO THAT HE MIGHT
HAVE GOOD LUCK ON HIS JOURNEY, AS CANEXENENAMAX WAS A MYSTERIOUS
PLACE.  THE NEXT DAY HE STARTED AGAIN.  NTCIMKA GAVE HIM DIRECTIONS
HOW TO GO, AND TOLD HIM THAT HE MIGHT HAVE DIFFICULTY WHEN
PASSING KAMLOOPS.  WHEN THE LAD REACHED THE PLAINS WHICH LIE WEST
OF KAMLOOPS, A GREAT NUMBER OF MEN RAN OUT WITH WEAPONS TO ATTACK
HIM; THEREFORE HE CAUSED TWO LARGE, THICK TREES TO GROW, AND CLIMBED
UP INTO ONE OF THEM FOR REFUGE.  THE KAMLOOPS MEN BEGAN TO
CHOP IT DOWN, BUT IT WAS NEARLY NIGHTFALL BEFORE IT FELL.  JUST BEFORE
IT FELL THE LAD JUMPED INTO THE TOP OF THE OTHER ONE.  HIS ENEMIES
SAID, "WE WILL CAMP HERE, AND ON THE MORROW WE WILL CHOP DOWN THE
OTHER TREE."  THEREFORE THAT NIGHT THEY ALL CAMPED AROUND THE TREE
IN A LARGE CIRCLE, LEAVING ONE OLD MAN AT THE BOTTOM TO KEEP WATCH.
DURING THE NIGHT THE LAD CREPT DOWN AND OFFERED TO GIVE THE SENTINEL
ALL HIS DENTALIA AND EAGLE'S TAIL FEATHERS IF HE WOULD CONDUCT HIM
OUTSIDE OF THE CIRCLE OF HIS ENEMIES, TO WHICH PROPOSITION THE OLD
MAN ASSENTED.  IN THE MORNING WHEN THEY AWOKE, THE PEOPLE SAW THAT THE
LAD HAD ESCAPED, AND, SEEING THE OLD MAN IN POSSESSION OF THE
DENTALIA AND FEATHERS, AT ONCE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HE HAD
PURPOSELY ALLOWED THE LAD TO ESCAPE.  THEREFORE THEY WERE ANGRY
WITH HIM, AND WERE GOING TO KILL HIM, BUT THE OLD MAN OFFERED TO
DIVIDE THE SPOILS AMONGST THEM, AND THUS PACIFIED THEM.  THE QUILLS
WERE DIVIDED FIRST, BUT THERE WERE NOT ENOUGH OF THEM TO GO AROUND
THE PARTY.  FOR THIS REASON THE PORCUPINE GOT NONE, WHICH ANNOYED
HIM VERY MUCH, SO HE BENT HIS HEAD ON HIS KNEES, AND WOULD NOT
SPEAK TO THEM.  ONE OF THE MEN TOLD HIM NOT TO BE SULKY, BECAUSE HE
WOULD BE ALLOWED MORE DENTALIA THAN THE OTHERS, SO AS TO MAKE UP
FOR THE QUILLS; BUT THE PORCUPINE NEITHER LOOKED UP NOR ANSWERED.
THEN THE OLD MAN, WHO WAS DIVIDING THE SPOILS, GREW ANGRY, AND,
THROWING ALL THE DENTALIA AT HIM, CURSED HIM.  HE TURNED HIM INTO
A PORCUPINE, AS SEEN AT THE PRESENT DAY.  THEREFORE PORCUPINE
QUILLS WERE ONCE DENTALIA, AND THE PORCUPINE HIMSELF WAS AT ONE TIME
A MAN.
***THO-046***
XXXI.  STORY OF NUKANOXA, THE WOMAN AND THE HAXAATKO.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THERE WERE AT ONE TIME A NUMBER OF INDIANS WHO LIVED NEAR A
LAKE.  ONE OF THEM HAD A YOUNG WIFE, WHO SUDDENLY BECAME UNWELL,
AND WAS NOT ABLE TO DO HER HOUSEHOLD WORK AND OTHER DUTIES WHICH
DEVOLVED ON HER.  EVERY MORNING SHE REPAIRED TO THE LAKE TO WASH
HERSELF, RETURNING ABOUT NOON, GROANING, AND LEANING ON A STAFF.  THIS
CONDUCT SHE CONTINUED FOR SOME TIME, SEEMINGLY WITHOUT GETTING
ANY BETTER, ALTHOUGH SHE HAD BEEN WASHING HERSELF AND TAKING
MEDICINE EVERY DAY.  AT LAST HER HUSBAND BECAME SUSPICIOUS, AND
THOUGHT HE WOULD WATCH HER, AS HE BELIEVED SHE WAS ONLY FEIGNING
SICKNESS.  ACCORDINGLY, THE NEXT MORNING, WHEN SHE WENT TO WASH
HERSELF, HE FOLLOWED AT SOME LITTLE DISTANCE, KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON
HER MOVEMENTS.  NOT KNOWING THAT SHE WAS WATCHED, THE WOMAN
REPAIRED, AS WAS HER WONT, TO A PLACE WHERE SHE HAD HIDDEN NICE
CLOTHING, AND OTHER ARTICLES.  HERE SHE DIVESTED HERSELF OF THE
CLOTHES SHE HAD ON, AND, AFTER WASHING, CLAD HERSELF IN THIS NEW
APPAREL, COMBED HER HAIR, AND PAINTED HER FACE.  AFTER FINISHING HER
TOILET, SHE STEPPED OUT ON THE OPEN BANK OF THE LAKE,- A SPRIGHTLY
AND HANDSOME WOMAN, WITHOUT ANY APPEARANCE OF SICKNESS.  LYING DOWN
NEAR THE EDGE OF THE LAKE, SHE CRIED, "NUKANOXA]" AND IMMEDIATELY A
GRIZZLY BEAR HALF EMERGED OUT OF THE WATER AND LOOKED AT HER.  SHE
CRIED TO HIM, "IT IS NOT YOU I WANT, IT IS YOUR ELDER BROTHER."
HE DISAPPEARED AT ONCE.  SHE CRIED "NUKANOXA]" MANY TIMES, AND EACH
TIME THE HEAD AND HALF OF THE BODY OF SOME ANIMAL OR FISH WOULD
RISE OUT OF THE WATER; BUT SHE TOLD THEM ALL THAT SHE CARED NOT FOR
THEM, IT WAS THEIR ELDER BROTHER SHE WANTED.  AT LAST THE HEAD AND
HALF THE BODY OF A MAN APPEARED, AND SHE SAID TO HIM, "IT IS YOU I
CALL FOR."  THE MAN, WHO WAS EXCEEDINLY HANDSOME AND HAD VERY LONG
HAIR, SWAM ASHORE.  ADVANCING NAKED TOWARDS HER, HE EMBRACED HER,
AND IN RETURN RECEIVED HER EMBRACE.  TO JUDGE BY THE WAY THEY
ACTED, IT WAS EVIDENT THAT THEY WERE OLD ACQUAINTANCES, AND NOW THE
HUSBAND KNEW THAT HIS WIFE ONLY SHAMMED SICKNESS, AND THAT
SHE REPAIRED TO THE LAKE EVERY DAY FOR NO OTHER PURPOSE THAN TO
MEET HER PARAMOUR.  THE HUSBAND WENT HOME, AND BEFORE LONG
HIS WIFE ALSO ARRIVED, GROANING, AND LEANING ON HER STAFF.  THE NEXT
MORNING HE SHARPENED HIS LARGE KNIFE, AND AT DAYBREAK REPAIRED TO THE
LAKE, WHERE HE DRESSED IN HIS WIFE'S CLOTHES, AND DISGUISED
HIMSELF IN SUCH MANNER AS TO RESEMBLE HER.  THEN HE WENT TO THE EDGE
OF THE LAKE, AND CALLED AS HIS WIFE HAD DONE ON THE PREVIOUS DAY.
AFTER ALL THE ANIMALS AND FISHES HAD ANSWERED HIS CALL, THE MAN
OR HAXAATKO (WATER MYSTERY OR SPIRIT) APPEARED, AND, SEEING, AS HE
SUPPOSED, THE WOMAN, AT ONCE SWAM ASHORE, WENT UP AND EMBRACED
HER.  IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS, WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PURSUE HIS USUAL
PASTIME, THE HUSBAND STABBED HIM TO DEATH WITH HIS KNIFE, AND
AFTERWARDS CUT OFF HIS GENITALIA, WHICH HE TOOK HOME, WHILE HE
DISPOSED OF THE BODY IN THE LAKE, WHERE IT IMMEDIATELY SANK.  AFTER
HE HAD REACHED HOME, HIS WIFE DEPARTED FOR THE LAKE, AS WAS HER WONT.
AS SOON AS SHE HAD GONE, THE HUSBAND BOILED THE GENITALIA IN A
BASKET-KETTLE, WHICH HE AFTERWARDS PUT ASIDE, WITH A COVER OVER IT,
FOR HIS WIFE TO EAT.  ON HER ARRIVAL HOME HE SAID TO HER, "I WENT
OUT THIS MORNING AND PROCURED SOME MEDICINE, WHICH I HAVE BOILED,
AND WHICH I AM SURE WILL MAKE YOU WELL."  HE THEN SET BEFORE HER THE
KETTLE, AND SHE PARTOOK OF THE CONTENTS, BUT AFTERWARDS SHE GREW
SUSPICIOUS, AND ASKED WHAT IT WAS.  HE ANSWERED,"THIS IS THE GENITALIA
OF THE HUSBAND YOU LOVE BETTER THAN ME," WHEREUPON SHE GOT VIOLENTLY
SICK, WENT OUTSIDE, AND VOMITED.  SHE BECAME VERY MUCH
ASHAMED, WENT AWAY, AND DID NOT RETURN HOME FOR MANY DAYS.
***THO-047***
XXXII.  THE YOUNG MEN WHO LOST THEIR MOTHER.
*NKAMTCINEMUX AND CAWAXAMUX.*
AT ONE TIME, LONG AGO, TWO YOUNG MEN LIVED IN A LODGE WITH THEIR
MOTHER.  THEY WERE GREAT HUNTERS, AND USED TO LIVE ALTOGETHER ON
GAME.  THEIR MOTHER MADE MOST OF THEIR CLOTHES FOR THEM, AND
GENERALLY STAYED AT HOME IN THE LODGE, MAKING HERSELF USEFUL BY
TANNING SKINS, CURING MEAT, AND GATHERING FIREWOOD.  THEY ALL
LIVED VERY HAPPILY, BECAUSE THEY LOVED EACH OTHER.  THEY WERE NEVER
KNOWN TO QUARREL.  ONE NIGHT WHEN THE YOUNG MEN CAME HOME,
EACH CARRYING A DEER ON HIS BACK, THEY FOUND NO FIRE IN THE LODGE,
AND WONDERED WHAT HAD BECOME OF THEIR MOTHER.  THEY LOOKED FOR
HER ALL AROUND IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE LODGE, BUT AT THE END OF
FOUR DAYS THEY GAVE UP THE SEARCH, CONCLUDING THAT SHE MUST HAVE
GONE AWAY SOME LONG DISTANCE THEY DID NOT KNOW WHERE.  THEY MADE
UP THEIR MINDS THAT THEY WOULD FIND HER OR DIE IN THE ATTEMPT.  THEY
WOULD LOOK FOR HER AS LONG AS THEY LIVED.  THEREFORE THEY TOOK
DRESSED SKINS AND MADE MOCCASINS FOR FOUR DAYS.  THEN THEY TOOK
THEIR BOWS AND ARROWS, AND SET OUT ON THEIR JOURNEY.  THEY TRAVELLED
SOUTH, THROUGH A COUNTRY OF HEAT AND OF GREAT RIVERS, UNTIL THEY
REACHED THE EDGE OF THE EARTH.  AT THE END OF ONE YEAR THEY
RETURNED WITHOUT HAVING FOUND THEIR MOTHER.  THEN THEY MADE MORE
MOCCASINS, AND TRAVELLED NORTH THROUGH A COUNTRY OF COLD AND OF
SMALL STREAMS, UNTIL THEY REACHED THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, BUT WITH NO
BETTER SUCCESS THAN IN THE FIRST JOURNEY.  NOW THE TRAVELLED EAST,
THROUGH A COUNTRY OF GREAT PLAINS AND MANY MYSTERIES, BUT NEVER
HEARD ANYTHING OF THEIR MOTHER.  THEN THEY TRAVELLED WEST, THROUGH
A LAND OF HIGH MOUNTAINS AND OF EVIL SPIRITS, BUT FAILED IN THEIR
QUEST JUST AS BEFORE.  THE BROTHERS FELT VERY SORROWFUL, SAYING TO
ONE ANOTHER, "THUS WE HAVE TRAVELLED FOR FOUR YEARS.  WE HAVE
PASSED THROUGH ALL COUNTRIES, EVEN TO THE EDGES OF THE EARTH, BUT
HAVE NOT FOUND OUR MOTHER.  WE HAVE ASKED OFTEN, BUT NOBODY HAS SEEN
HER.  SHE MUST BE DEAD."  THAT NIGHT ONE OF THE BROTHERS DREAMED THAT
HIS PROTECTING SPIRIT TOLD HIM THAT THEIR MOTHER WAS IN THE LAND OF
THE DEAD.  AFTER IMPLORING THE AID OF THE SPIRITS, THEY TOOK THEIR
CANOE AND STARTED ON THEIR VOYAGE TO THE SPIRIT LAND, OVER A GREAT
LAKE.  AFTER PADDLING SEVERAL DAYS IN A DIM ATMOSPHERE, IT GREW
LIGHTER, AND THEY SAW THE SHORE OF ANOTHER COUNTRY.  THEY HEARD THE
NOISE OF PEOPLE SINGING AND DANCING.  WHERE THEY LANDED THERE
WAS A KIND OF ENTRANCE OR DOOR.  HERE, ON THEIR APPROACH, A MAN
BARRED THE WAY, ASKING THEM WHY THEY, BEING MORTALS, HAD COME TO
THE LAND OF THE SOULS.  THEY SAID THEY WERE IN SEARCH OF THEIR
MOTHER, WHOM THEY HAD LOST, AND HAD FAILED TO FIND AFTER TRAVELLING
THROUGH ALL THE LANDS OF THE LIVING.  HE TOLD THEM, "YOUR MOTHER IS
HERE, BUT YOU CANNOT ENTER ALIVE TO SEE HER, NEITHER CAN YOU TAKE
HER AWAY."  ONE OF THEM SAID, "I MUST SEE HER]"  THEN THE MAN
TOOK HIS BODY OR MORTAL PART AWAY FROM HIM, AND HE ENTERED.  THE
OTHER BROTHER CAME BACK.
***THO-048***
XXXIII.  THE SKUNK AND THE BADGER.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
THE SKUNK AND THE BADGER WERE BROTHERS,- THE FORMER THE ELDER,
AND THE LATTER THE YOUNGER.  THEY LIVED NEAR NSISKET, IN THE
NICOLA COUNTRY.  THEY WERE NOTED AS BEING STRONG IN MYSTERY, AND
GREAT MEDICINE-MEN, ALSO FOR THEIR BEAUTY, AND FOR THEIR SUCCESS IN
GAMBLING.  THEY OWNED A ROAN HORSE, WHICH THEY ALWAYS USED WHEN
TRAVELLING; AND ONE DAY THEY SAID, "LET US GO TO THE OKANAGON
AND PLAY WITH THEM."  THEY STARTED, AND ON ARRIVING AMONGST THE
OKANAGON COMMENCED A GAME OF LEHAL.  THEY PLAYED ALL NIGHT,
AND BEAT THEIR OPPONENTS, THUS OBTAINING MUCH PROPERTY.  THE NEXT
DAY THEY RAN THEIR HORSE AGAINST THE BEST HORSES OF THE OKANAGON, AND
WON EACH TIME, SO THAT THEY GAINED ALMOST ALL THEIR VALUABLES.
NOW THERE WAS A YOUNG WOMAN AMONGST THE OKANAGON WHO HAD
REFUSED ALL OFFERS OF MARRIAGE MADE TO HER; AND THE BADGER SAID TO
HIS BROTHER, "GO AND VISIT THE GIRL TO-NIGHT.  PERHAPS YOU MAY WIN
HER AFFECTIONS."  SO THE SKUNK WENT, AND STEALTHILY CRAWLED INTO THE
HOUSE WHERE THE GIRL LIVED.  WHEN HE CAME UP TO HER SIDE, SHE GREW
ANGRY AND STRUCK HIM, CALLING HIM POPOMUT, AND RIDICULED HIS
MANNER AND GAIT.  HE WAS INSULTED AT THIS TREATMENT, AND HASTILY
BEAT A RETREAT, FEELING CRESTFALLEN, AS IN HIS HEART HE REALLY LOVED
THE GIRL.  HE WENT AND TOLD HIS BROTHER THE RESULT OF HIS VISIT,
WHEREUPON THE BADGER REPLIED, "SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL, I
WILL GO AND SEE WHAT I CAN DO."  HE ALSO CREPT UNPERCEIVED TO WHERE
THE GIRL WAS LYING, AND, BEFORE SHE WAS AWARE OF IT, HE STOLE
AWAY HER BREATH, DRAWING IT DOWN HIS THROAT, AND KEEPING IT IN HIS
STOMACH.  THEN HE HASTILY RETIRED, AND AWAITED EVENTS.  IN THE
MORNING THE PEOPLE FOUND THEIR DAUGHTER DEAD.  THERE WAS GREAT
COMMOTION AMONGST THEM, AND ON THE FOLLOWING DAY THE GIRL WAS BURIED
IN THE GRAVEYARD.  DURING THE FOLLOWING NIGHT THE BROTHERS WENT AND
DUG UP THE BODY OF THE GIRL, TIED IT ON THEIR HORSE, AND STARTED FOR
HOME WITH IT.  WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT THEIR HOUSE, THEY LAID DOWN THE
BODY INSIDE.  THEN THE BADGER SAID TO HIS BROTHER, "USE THE ART OF A
SHAMAN, AND IF YOU BRING HER TO LIFE AGAIN, SHE SHALL BE YOUR WIFE."
SO THE SKUNK COMMENCED HIS INCANTATIONS, AND CONTINUED ALMOST ALL
NIGHT, BUT HAD TO GIVE IT UP IN DESPAIR.  THE BADGER THEN TAUNTED
HIM, SAYING, "I SEE YOU ARE NO SHAMAN.  WATCH ME, I WILL BRING
HER BACK TO LIFE."  HE COMMENCED HIS INCANTATIONS, TOOK HER BREATH
FROM HIS STOMACH, AND BLEW IT INTO HER MOUTH.  THIS DONE, THE
GIRL SAT UP, AND LOOKED AROUND, SAYING, "I MUST HAVE BEEN IN A
DREAM.  WHERE DO I FIND MYSELF?"  THE BADGER THEN TOLD HER,
"YOU WERE DEAD AND BURIED.  MY BROTHER AND I DUG YOU UP, CARRIED
YOU TO OUR HOUSE, AND NOW I HAVE BROUGHT YOU TO LIFE AGAIN, IN ORDER
THAT YOU MAY BECOME MY WIFE."  HE THEN GAVE HER FOOD, AND SHE
ATE.  THE SKUNK BECAME ANGRY AND JEALOUS OF HIS BROTHER, FOR
HE LOVED THE WOMAN; THEREFORE HE NEITHER AROSE, NOR ATE FOR FOUR
DAYS; AND HIS BROTHER SAID TO HIM, "I AM LONELY.  YOU DO NOT TALK
TO ME.  I HAVE GOT THE WOMAN FOR MY WIFE; I WILL GIVE YOU THE ROAN
HORSE TO BE YOUR SOLE PROPERTY."  THIS GRATIFIED THE SKUNK, WHO
AFTERWARDS TREATED HIS BROTHER AS USUAL.  THE WOMAN STAYED WITH
THE BADGER, AND BORE HIM TWO CHILDREN.
AT LENGTH SHE BECAME DESIROUS OF SEEING HER PEOPLE AGAIN.  AFTER
OBTAINING THE BADGER'S CONSENT, SHE STARTED FOR HER OWN COUNTRY,
TAKING HER TWO CHILDREN WITH HER.  WHEN SHE APPROACHED THE VILLAGE,
SHE SAT DOWN A SHORT DISTANCE FROM HER PARENTS' HOUSE, WHERE SHE
SAW HER YOUNGER SISTER, AND CALLED TO HER, SAYING, "DO YOU NOT KNOW
ME?"  HER SISTER ANSWERED, "NO."  SHE THEN SAID, "WHY, I AM
YOUR SISTER."  THEN THE YOUNGER SISTER RAN INTO THE HOUSE AND TOLD
HER MOTHER.  BUT HER MOTHER WEPT AND SAID, "WHY DO YOU BRING
BACK THE MEMORY OF YOUR SISTER IN SUCH A MANNER? DON'T YOU
KNOW THAT SHE HAS BEEN DEAD AND BURIED THESE MANY YEARS?"  THE
DAUGHTER, HOWEVER, PERSISTED; AND AT LAST THE MOTHER WENT OUT, AND,
RECOGNIZING THE YOUNG WOMAN, TOOK HER INTO THE HOUSE.  WHEN SHE
HAD HEARD HER STORY, MESSENGERS WERE SENT OUT TO THE PEOPLE TO COME
AND SEE THE GIRL WHO HAD BEEN DEAD.  THEY FLOCKED TO THE PLACE,
BOTH TO SEE THE WOMAN AND TO HEAR HER STORY.  AFTER A FEW MONTHS,
SHE RETURNED TO HER HUSBAND IN NICOLA.
***THO-049***
XXXIV.  STORY OF THE LAD WHO CAUGHT THE WIND.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
LONG AGO THE WIND DID MUCH DAMAGE, BLOWING VIOLENTLY OVER THE
COUNTRY OF THE INDIAN.  MOREOVER, IT OFTEN KILLED MANY PEOPLE AND
DESTROYED MUCH PROPERTY.  AT THAT TIME THERE WAS A MAN WHO LIVED
NEAR SPENCES BRIDGE, AND WHO HAD THREE SONS.  THE YOUNGEST WAS
VERY AMBITIOUS, AND FOND OF TRYING TO DO WONDERFUL THINGS.  ONE DAY
HE SAID TO HIS FATHER AND BROTHERS, "I WILL SNARE THE WIND;" BUT THEY
LAUGHED AT HIM, SAYING, "HOW CAN YOU DO THAT?  THE WIND IS
UNSEEN."  HOWEVER, HE WENT OUT AND SET A SNARE.  HE DID NOT
SUCCEED FOR SEVERAL NIGHTS, AS HIS NOOSE WAS TOO LARGE.  HE MADE IT
SMALLER EVERY NIGHT, AND, ON VISITING HIS SNARE ONE MORNING, FOUND
HE HAD CAUGHT THE WIND.  AFTER GREAT DIFFICULTY, HE SUCCEEDED AT
LAST IN GETTING IT INTO HIS BLANKET, AND MADE FOR HOME WITH IT, WHERE
HE PUT IT DOWN.  HE TOLD HIS PEOPLE THAT HE HAD AT LAST CAPTURED THE
WIND.  THEY LAUGHED AT HIM.  THEN, TO VERIFY HIS STATEMENTS, HE
OPENED ONE CORNER OF THE BLANKET, AND IMMEDIATELY IT BEGAN TO BLOW
FIERCELY, AND THE LODGE ITSELF WAS ALMOST BLOWN OVER.  THE PEOPLE
CRIED TO HIM TO STAY THE FORCE OF THE WIND, WHICH HE DID BY AGAIN
TYING UP THE CORNER OF THE BLANKET.  AT LAST HE RELEASED THE WIND
ON THE CONDITION THAT HE WOULD NEVER BLOW STRONGLY ENOUGH TO HURT
PEOPLE IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY AGAIN, WHICH PROMISE HE HAS KEPT.
AFTER THIS THE LAD DREAMED THAT THERE WAS A MIGHTY CHIEF
POSSESSED OF GREAT RICHES, WHO LIVED IN A LARGE HIGH HOUSE AWAY TO THE
SOUTH, AND HAD A BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER WHO SHOULD BECOME HIS WIFE.
HE MADE UP HIS MIND TO GO TO THIS MAN AND TRY TO MARRY HIS DAUGHTER.
HE STARTED OUT, TAKING HIS BOW AND ARROWS.  AFTER TRAVELLING
A LONG DISTANCE, HE WORE OUT ALL HIS MOCCASINS AND BECAME FOOTSORE.
AT THIS MOMENT HE SAW A COYOTE ON THE HILLSIDE, AND WOULD HAVE
SHOT HIM IF HE HAD NOT CRIED OUT, "I AM YOUR FRIEND, AND WILL SHOW
YOU TO THE HOUSE OF THE GREAT CHIEF."  THE COYOTE ASKED HIM TO SIT
ON HIS BACK.  THE LAD OBEYED.  THEN THE COYOTE SAID, "I CAN GO
ONLY SLOWLY NOW, BUT SHALL GO FASTER AFTER A WHILE."  THEY PRESENTLY
SAW A GROUSE, AND THE COYOTE TOLD THE LAD TO SHOOT IT.  HE DID SO,
AND THE COYOTE AT ONCE SINGED IT OVER A FIRE AND ATE IT.  THEY THEN
WENT FASTER, AND IN A LITTLE WHILE SAW A FAWN.  THIS IN TURN WAS
SHOT, AND THE COYOTE, AFTER EATING IT, WAS ABLE TO RUN FASTER.  THEN
A BUCK WAS SEEN, AND THE SAME WAS DONE, AND THE COYOTE NOW WENT
AT A GALLOP.  A GRIZZLY BEAR AND AN ELK EACH APPEARED, AND THE SAME
WAS DONE WITH THEM.  THE COYOTE WAS NOW GOING LIKE THE WIND.
AT LAST THEY CAME IN SIGHT OF THE CHIEF'S HOUSE, WHICH THE COYOTE
POINTED OUT TO HIM, GIVING DIRECTIONS TO HIM HOW TO ENTER AND WHAT
TO SAY.  AFTER PASSING SOME ARMED GUARDS HE WAS USHERED IN, AND,
ALTHOUGH RECEIVED VERY COLDLY AT FIRST, HE WORKED HIMSELF INTO THE
CHIEF'S FAVOR, AND WAS HOSPITABLY ENTERTAINED.  HE ALSO FOUND FAVOR
WITH THE CHIEF'S DAUGHTER, AND ONE NIGHT HE RAN AWAY WITH HER, AFTER
STEALING THE TWO BEST HORSES AND SADDLES THE CHIEF POSSESSED.  IN
THE MORNING THEY WERE CHASED, AND, BEING OVERTAKEN, THEY TURNED
THEIR HORSES AND SADDLES INTO STSUQ, WHICH THEY HID IN THEIR SHIRTS
FOR SAFETY.  THEY THEN HID IN THE BUSH, THUS EVADING THEIR PURSUERS.
AFTER TRAVELLING ON FOOT FOR SOME DISTANCE, THEY MET THE LAD'S TWO
BROTHERS, WHO HAD ACCOMPANIED HIM PART OF THE WAY ON HIS JOURNEY
TO THE CHIEF'S HOUSE, BUT, BEING DISCOURAGED, HAD REMAINED IN THAT
NEIGHBORHOOD HUNTING.
THEY THEN JOURNEYED TOGETHER TOWARDS HOME.  ON THE WAY HOME,
HIS BROTHERS, WHO HAD TAKEN A FANCY TO THE GIRL, THREW THE YOUNGER
MAN OVER A VERY HIGH CLIFF INTO A CHASM, AND WENT HOME WITH HER.
THE YOUNG MAN, ALTHOUGH HE WAS NOT KILLED, WAS UNABLE TO FIND A
WAY OUT.  HE CALLED ON ALL THE ANIMALS TO HELP HIM.  THE WOLF
CAME AND HUNG HIS TAIL OVER THE CLIFF, BUT COULD NOT REACH HIM.
THEN THE MAGPIE, WHO ALSO HAD A LONG TAIL, HUNG IT OVER, BUT WITH THE
SAME RESULT.  IN FACT, ALL THE ANIMALS AND BIRDS TRIED IT, BUT FAILED.
HE THEN THOUGHT OF AN OLD COYOTE WHO HAD HIS HOME IN A CLIFF VERY
CLOSE TO SPENCES BRIDGE.  THIS COYOTE CAME IN ANSWER TO HIS
SUMMONS, AND LET DOWN HIS TAIL AND DREW HIM OUT.  THE YOUNG MAN
THEN CHANGED HIS STSUQ BACK INTO A HORSE, AND, GOING TO A VILLAGE
CLOSE BY, RODE A RACE WHICH HE WON, AND THEN SOLD THE HORSE FOR
MUCH VALUABLE GOODS, BUT AFTERWARDS TURNED THE HORSE INTO STSUQ,
AND THE LATTER INTO A CANOE, IN WHICH HE WENT HOME.  REACHING
HOME, HE FOUND HIS WIFE (WHO HAD BEEN PROTECTED FROM HIS BROTHERS
IN HIS FATHER'S LODGE), AND SHE REJOICED AT HIS RETURN.  AFTER THIS
HE WAS CONSIDERED A GREAT MAN IN MAGIC.  THE COYOTE WAS HIS
FRIEND.
***THO-050***
XXXV.  THE RAVEN.
*NKAMTCINEMUX.*
A MAIDEN WHO LIVED AT LYTTON REFUSED ALL OFFERS OF MARRIAGE, MUCH
AGAINST THE WILL OF HER PARENTS.  A YOUNG MAN, THE RAVEN, WHO LIVED
IN A DISTANT COUNTRY TOWARDS THE EAST, KNEW OF HER BY HIS MAGIC
POWER, AND SAID TO HIMSELF, "I WILL GO AND GET THAT GIRL FOR MY WIFE."
THEN BY HIS MAGIC HE WENT TO LYTTON IN HALF A NIGHT, AND SHORTLY
AFTER MIDNIGHT ENTERED THE UNDERGROUND LODGE IN WHICH THE GIRL
LIVED.  HE CRAWLED UP TO HER COUCH AND AWOKE HER, WHEREUPON SHE
STRUCK HIM, TELLING HIM TO GO AWAY, AS SHE DID NOT WISH ANY MAN FROM
THAT NEIGHBORHOOD (MEANING HER NATIVE PLACE) TO TOUCH HER.  BUT HE
REPLIED TO HER, "I AM NOT OF YOUR PEOPLE.  I CAME FROM FAR AWAY.
MY NAME IS RAVEN, AND I HAVE COME TO MARRY YOU."  THEN SHE
CONSENTED TO BECOME HIS WIFE.  HE SAID, "AWAKE YOUR PARENTS, AND TELL
THEM THAT I WISH TO START HOME WITH YOU BEFORE DAYBREAK."  SHE
AWAKENED THEM AND TOLD THEM, AND ALSO BADE THEM NOT TO TELL THE
NEIGHBORS WHAT HAD BECOME OF HER.  BEFORE DAYBREAK THE RAVEN
DEPARTED WITH HER AS HIS WIFE, BUT DID NOT GIVE HER PARENTS ANY
MARRIAGE PRESENTS.  SHORTLY THEY ARRIVED IN THE HUSBAND'S COUNTRY,
WHERE HE HID HER, FOR HE DID NOT WISH HIS FATHER, WHO WAS A GREAT
CHIEF, TO KNOW THAT HE HAD MARRIED A STRANGE WOMAN.  HE SAID TO
HIS WIFE, "I WILL PREPARE A HOUSE FOR US TO LIVE IN, THEN I WILL COME
AND FETCH YOU."  THE HOUSES IN THAT COUNTRY WERE LIKE WHITE MEN'S
HOUSES, AND THE PEOPLE HAD PLENTY OF HORSES, AND METAL (MONEY).
HE THEN WENT SOME DISTANCE FROM HIS FATHER'S HOUSE, AND, PULLING A
FEATHER OUT OF HIS WING, THREW IT DOWN, AND IMMEDIATELY A HOUSE
SPRANG UP.  ON THE SECOND DAY HE PULLED ANOTHER FEATHER OUT OF HIS
WING, AND THIS BECAME FOOD OF MANY KINDS AND OF GREAT QUANTITY.
ON THE THIRD DAY HE DID LIKEWISE, AND AT ONCE THERE WAS A YOUNG
MALE SLAVE TO COOK FOR THEM.  MEANWHILE HIS FATHER WONDERED AT THE
NEW HOUSE WHICH HAD SO SUDDENLY ARISEN, AND SENT HIS YOUNGER SON
TO SEE WHO WAS THERE.  HE FOUND HIS OWN BROTHER IN THE HOUSE, WHO
TOLD HIM, "I AM MARRIED, AND I HAVE MADE THIS HOUSE TO LIVE IN;" AT
THE SAME TIME HE WARNED HIM NOT TO TELL THEIR FATHER.  THE
YOUNGER BROTHER RETURNED AND SAID, "I DO NOT KNOW WHOSE HOUSE IT
IS.  I COULD NOT GAIN ADMITTANCE.  NEITHER DID I SEE ANYBODY."  AT
THIS THE OLD MAN'S CURIOSITY WAS AROUSED, AND THE NEXT DAY HE WENT
HIMSELF TO HAVE A LOOK.  HE WAS SURPRISED TO FIND HIS SON THEREIN.
THE LATTER GAVE HIM TO EAT, AND TOLD HIM ALL THE CIRCUMSTANCES.  THE
FATHER SAID NOTHING, BUT WENT HOME AND TOLD HIS WIFE EVERTHING,
ADDING, "I WILL KILL MY SON, FOR HE HAS DISPLEASED ME."  THE RAVEN,
HOWEVER, ALREADY KNEW OF HIS FATHER'S INTENTIONS AND KEPT AWAY.
FOR FOUR SUCCESSIVE DAYS THE FATHER WENT TO KILL THE RAVEN, BUT EACH
TIME FOUND HIM ABSENT.  THE RAVEN, WHO WAS ANNOYED AT THESE
ATTEMPTS OF HIS FATHER ON HIS LIFE, SAID TO HIS YOUNGER BROTHER WHEN
THEY MET, "LET US TRAVEL," AT WHICH HIS BROTHER CONSENTED.  THEY
TRAVELLED TOWARDS WHERE RAVEN HAD HIDDEN HIS WIFE.  HER
HIDINGPLACE WAS SURROUNDED BY A DEEP CHASM, WHICH WAS SPANNED BY A
SINGLE LONG THIN LOG, SO THAT ANY PERSON WHO ATTEMPTED TO CROSS WAS
AT ONCE PRECIPITATED INTO THE CHASM BELOW; FOR RAVEN BY HIS MAGIC
CAUSED THIS LOG, WHEN TRODDEN UPON IN THE CENTRE, AT ONCE TO TURN
OVER.  THE YOUNGER BROTHER HAD LEFT RAVEN A LONG DISTANCE BEHIND
THE CHASM A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN WASHING HERSELF.  HE DID NOT
ON REACHING THIS PLACE, AND WAS SURPRISED TO SEE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF
THEN KNOW THAT IT WAS HIS BROTHER'S WIFE, FOR RAVEN HAD NOT TOLD HIM
WHERE HIS WIFE WAS HIDDEN.  BEING EQUALLY GIFTED IN MAGIC WITH HIS
BROTHER, HE BOUNDED ACROSS THE LOG, AND WAS IMMEDIATELY ON THE
OTHER SIDE.  THEN HE WENT UP TO THE WOMAN AND SAID, "I SHOULD LIKE
YOU TO BECOME MY WIFE."  SHE ANSWERED, "CERTAINLY, YOU MUST
BECOME MY HUSBAND, BECAUSE YOU HAVE SEEN MY NAKED BODY."  SHE
THEN BY HER MAGIC CAUSED FOOD TO APPEAR AND THEY ATE.  HE TOLD
HER THAT HE WAS TRAVELLING WITH HIS BROTHER TO A DISTANT COUNTRY, AND
ASKED HER TO ACCOMPANY THEM.  "NO," SHE ANSWERED, "I CANNOT GO
WITH YOU, BUT I WILL HELP YOU," AND FORTHWITH GAVE HIM A LONG KNIFE
AND A STSUQ, SAYING, "WHEN YOU GET TIRED AND WISH TO RIDE, THROW
THE STSUQ DOWN AND IT WILL BECOME A HORSE.  WHEN YOU DESIRE,
COMMAND, AND IT WILL BECOME STSUQ AGAIN."  THEN HE WENT ON HIS WAY,
AND SHORTLY THREW THE STSUQ DOWN, AND IT BECAME A FINE LARGE BLACK
HORSE, FLEET OF LIMB, ON WHICH HE MOUNTED, TYING THE LARGE KNIFE ON
ONE SIDE, SAYING TO HIMSELF, "WHEN HE SEES ME, MY BROTHER WILL
WONDER."  PRESENTLY HIS BROTHER OVERTOOK HIM, BUT DID NOT SAY MUCH,
BECAUSE HE ALREADY KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED; BUT IN HIS HEART HE
RESOLVED THAT HE WOULD KILL HIS YOUNGER BROTHER.  THUS THEY WENT
ON, AND TOWARDS EVENING THEY NEARED A LARGE VILLAGE.  THE YOUNGER
MAN SUGGESTED, "LET US ENTER THE VILLAGE BEFORE IT GETS TOO DARK."
BUT THE ELDER SAID, "NO, WE ARE TOO LATE.  LET US CAMP HERE, AND GO
IN WITH DAYLIGHT IN THE MORNING."  THE YOUNGER BROTHER TIED HIS
HORSE TO A TREE, AND PRESENTLY THEY LAY DOWN TO SLEEP.  WHILE THE
YOUNGER BROTHER WAS SLEEPING, THE RAVEN WENT TO THE HORSE, UNTIED
THE LARGE KNIFE, AND, RETURNING, KILLED HIS BROTHER WITH IT BY CUTTING
OFF HIS HEAD.  THEN HE DUG A SHALLOW GRAVE IN THE GROUND AND
BURIED THE BODY.  IN THE MORNING HE MOUNTED THE BLACK HORSE AND
RODE INTO THE VILLAGE, WHERE FOR SEVERAL DAYS HE RODE RACES, BEATING
EVERYBODY, AND OBTAINING GREAT WEALTH.  HE ALSO FOUND FAVOR WITH
THE CHIEF OF THE VILLAGE, WHO GAVE HIM HIS DAUGHTER TO WIFE.  THE
EVENING AFTERWARDS, WHILE THE RAVEN WAS EATING WITH HIS NEW WIFE
AND HIS PARENTS-IN-LAW, HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, WHO HAD IN THE MEAN
TIME COME TO LIFE AGAIN, APPEARED IN THE DOORWAY AND SALUTED HIM,
SAYING, "I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU."  RAVEN DID NOT ANSWER, FOR
HE WAS ASHAMED, BUT AT LENGTH INVITED HIS BROTHER TO EAT, WHICH HE
DID, AND AFTER FINISHING WENT OUTSIDE.  THAT NIGHT THE HORSE WHICH
THE RAVEN HAD TAKEN DISAPPEARED, THE YOUNGER BROTHER BEING SEEN
NEXT MORNING RIDING HIM OUT OF THE VILLAGE, AND AFTERWARDS NOTHING
MORE WAS KNOWN OF HIM.
THEN THE RAVEN TOOK HIS NEW WIFE AND RETURNED HOME.  HE
PUT HER IN THE HOUSE HE HAD FORMERLY BUILT, AND MADE A NEW ONE
IN ANOTHER PLACE FOR HIS WIFE FROM LYTTON.  HE LIVED WITH BOTH HIS
WIVES, TIME ABOUT, AND NEITHER OF THEM KNEW OF THE OTHER.  AFTERWARDS
HIS FIRST WIFE SAID THAT SHE WISHED TO SEE HER PEOPLE AND HER
COUNTRY AGAIN, AND THE RAVEN ACCOMPANIED HER TO LYTTON, WHERE HE
STAYED WITH HER FOR A TIME.  THEY HAD AT THAT TIME SEVERAL CHILDREN.
HE BUILT A NEW HOUSE FOR HER THERE, AND ON DEPARTING LEFT PLENTY OF
FOOD, AND MANY TOYS FOR THE CHILDREN.  HE SAID HE WOULD RETURN FOR
HER VERY SOON, BUT DID NOT COME BACK.
***THO-051***
XXXVI.  THE MOON.
THE MOON WAS FORMERLY AN INDIAN, BUT WAS TRANSFORMED TO WHAT
HE IS AT PRESENT.  AT ONE TIME HIS FACE WAS AS BRIGHT AS THAT OF THE
SUN, IF NOT MORE BRILLIANT.  IT WOULD BE JUST AS BRIGHT NOW, BUT HIS
YOUNGER SISTER SITS ON IT AND DARKENS IT.  HE AND HIS YOUNGER SISTER
NOW LIVE TOGETHER.  WHENEVER IT THREATENS TO SNOW OR TO RAIN, HE
BUILDS A HOUSE (THE HALO) AND ENTERS IT.  HE IS AN INVETERATE SMOKER.
THE CLOUDS ARE THE SMOKE OF HIS PIPE.  IF THE WEATHER IS QUITE CLEAR
AND HE BEGINS TO SMOKE, CLOUDS ARISE.  HE ALWAYS HOLDS HIS PIPE IN
HIS HAND.  THEREFORE WE ALWAYS SEE THE MOON HOLDING HIS PIPE, AND
WE ALSO SEE THE BASKET WHICH HE USES AS A HAT.
***THO-052***
THE MOON AND HIS YOUNGER SISTER.
THE MOON WAS FORMERLY A HANDSOME, WHITE-FACED INDIAN.  THE
STARS WERE HIS FRIENDS.  THE HARE WAS HIS YOUNGER SISTER.  ONCE
UPON A TIME HE CALLED THE PLEIADES AND ALL THE OTHER STARS TO HIS
HOUSE, BUT ONLY THE STAR CLUSTER CAME.  THEY ARE NAMED THE PLEIADES.
YET THE HOUSE WAS CROWDED, SO THAT SOME OF THEM HAD NO PLACE TO
SIT.  AFTER THE GUESTS HAD ALL ARRIVED, THE MOON SENT HIS YOUNGER
SISTER TO FETCH SOME WATER.  SHE TOOK HER WATER-BUCKETS AND LEFT.
ERE LONG SHE RETURNED CARRYING A BUCKET IN EACH HAND.  WHEN SHE
HAD ENTERED SHE SAID TO HER BROTHER, "THERE IS NO PLACE FOR ME TO
SIT."  HER ELDER BROTHER REPLIED, "SIT HERE ON MY FACE, FOR THERE IS
NO ROOM ELSEWHERE."  HIS SISTER JUMPED ON TO HIS FACE.  IF THE
MOON HAD NOT JOKED IN THIS MANNER, HE WOULD NOW BE MUCH BRIGHTER,
FOR HIS SISTER IS DARKENING HIS BRIGHTNESS.  THE WOMAN MAY STILL BE
SEEN SITTING ON THE MOON'S FACE, HOLDING HER WATER-BUCKETS; AND
BECAUSE THE PLEIADES GATHERED IN HIS HOUSE, THEY FORM A CLUSTER UP TO
THIS DAY, AND TRAVEL THE WAY THEY FOLLOW NOW.  THEY ARE THE MOON'S
CLOSEST FRIENDS.
***THO-053***
XXXVII.   THE MAN WHO STOLE THE HORSE.
*NKAMTCINEMUX AND CAWAXAMUX.*
ONCE UPON A TIME THERE LIVED AN INDIAN WHO WAS NOTED FOR HIS
GREAT "MEDICINE."  ONE DAY, WHILE ON A JOURNEY TO A DISTANT PART OF
THE COUNTRY, HE HAPPENED TO SEE A HORSE BELONGING TO ANOTHER MAN,
AND, TAKING A FANCY TO THE ANIMAL, STOLE IT, AND MADE FOR HOME.  THE
OWNER SOON DISCOVERED THE THEFT, AND, SADDLING HIS HORSE, STARTED IN
PURSUIT.  HE HAD ALMOST OVERTAKEN THE THIEF, WHEN THE LATTER, WHO
SAW HIM COMING, HAD RECOURSE TO HIS MAGIC, AND CAUSED A LARGE RIVER
TO FLOW BETWEEN HIM AND HIS PURSUER.  AFTER A LITTLE DIFFICULTY THE
MAN CROSSED THE RIVER AND FOLLOWED IN PURSUIT, AS BEFORE.  HE HAD
AGAIN ALMOST OVERTAKEN THE FUGITIVE, WHEN HE WAS STOPPED BY AN
IMMENSE TRACT OF MUD WHICH STRETCHED BETWEEN THEM.  THIS OBSTACLE
WAS SURMOUNTED AFTER SOME DELAY, AND THE CHASE CONTINUED.  PRESENTLY
THE THIEF CONJURED UP AN ALMOST IMPASSABLE TRACT OF COUNTRY,
FULL OF THICK TIMBER, AND BROKEN UP WITH ROCKS; BUT THIS OBSTACLE THE
PURSUER ALSO SOON OVERCAME, AND AT LENGTH BEGAN TO GAIN ON HIS
FLEEING ENEMY, WHO SAID TO HIMSELF, "I WILL CAUSE YET ANOTHER
OBSTACLE TO DIVIDE US, AND, IF HE SURMOUNTS THAT, I WILL LEAVE HIS
HORSE TO REWARD HIM FOR HIS TROUBLE AND PERSEVERANCE."  SO HE CAUSED A
FIELD OF SMOOTH ICE TO LIE BETWEEN THEM.  THIS HIS PURSUER TRIED TO
CROSS, BUT, FINDING IT TOO SLIPPERY, HE SAT DOWN AND CRIED, AND THEN
AROSE AND WENT HOME, WITH THE FULL DETERMINATION TO BE AVENGED ON HIS
ENEMY.  HE TOLD HIS WIFE NOT TO BE ALARMED IF HE STAYED AWAY A LONG
TIME, BECAUSE HE WAS GOING TO STRENGTHEN HIS "MEDICINE."  HE ALSO
TOLD HER TO MAKE PLENTY OF MOCCASINS FOR HIM, BECAUSE WHEN HE CAME
BACK HE WOULD START ON A LONG AND ROUGH JOURNEY.  THEN HE WENT
UP THE MOUNTAINS, WHERE HE SPENT TEN MONTHS IN TRAINING, DREAMING,
SWEAT-BATHING, FASTING, PURIFYING, AND PRAYING.  AT THE END OF THIS
TIME HE RETURNED HOME, REDUCED IN FLESH AND WEAK.  HE TOLD HIS
WIFE THAT HE HAD DREAMED OF A CANOE AND OF WATER.  AFTER A FEW DAYS
SPENT IN RECRUITING HIS STRENGTH, HE CREATED A LAKE WHICH STRETCHED
FROM HIMSELF TO THE VILLAGE OF HIS ENEMY.  THEN HE CAUSED A CANOE
TO APPEAR, AND PAINTED THE PROW A BRIGHT RED.  IN THE LATTER HE
EMBARKED, BUT, BEFORE LEAVING, TOLD HIS WIFE THAT HE WOULD STAY AWAY
FOR TEN DAYS, DURING WHICH TIME SHE MUST FAST AND PURIFY HERSELF.
ON THE FIFTH DAY AFTER HIS DEPARTURE HE NEARED THE VILLAGE OF HIS
ENEMY, AND THE PEOPLE, SEEING HIM COMING, RAN AND TOLD THE THIEF,
"A CANOE APPROACHES.  ITS PROW IS LIKE FIRE."  BUT HE ANSWERED, "I
ALREADY KNOW ALL ABOUT IT.  THAT IS THE MAN COMING FOR HIS HORSE."
ON REACHING THE SHORE THE MAN JUMPED OUT, AND, GOING UP TO THE
PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE, ASKED THEM WHERE HIS HORSE WAS.  THEY POINTED
TO A LARGE LOON AWAY OUT ON THE LAKE, SAYING, "THAT IS YOUR HORSE,"
FOR HIS ENEMY HAD CHANGED THE HORSE INTO A LOON.  THE INDIAN DID
NOT BELIEVE WHAT THE PEOPLE TOLD HIM UNTIL HE HEARD THE LOON NEIGH.
THEN HE TOOK HIS CANOE AND GAVE CHASE OVER THE WATER.  IN THE
MEANTIME HIS WIFE HAD DONE AS HE HAD TOLD HER, AND HAD BECOME SO
STRONG IN MAGIC THAT SHE FAR SURPASSED HER HUSBAND.  AT LAST SHE
SAID TO HERSELF, "I AM TIRED OF THAT FELLOW.  I WILL HAVE ANOTHER
HUSBAND."  SO SHE CHANGED HIM AND THE CANOE INTO A FISH, AND, HAVING
TAKEN A FANCY TO PRETTY LITTLE TEAL DUCK, SHE CHANGED IT INTO A MAN,
WHO BECAME HER HUSBAND.
TWO TRADITIONS OF THE LILLOOET.
***THO-054***
XXXVIII.  THE BROTHERS.
TWO BROTHERS, WHEN BOYS STARTED OUT AND TRAVELLED UNTIL THEY
WERE FULL-GROWN MEN.  NOW A HAXA, WHO WAS ALSO A CANNIBAL, LIVED
ON A HILL ACROSS A LARGE RIVER.  THE LIGHT FROM HIS HOUSE COULD BE
SEEN OVER ALL THE WORLD.  IT WAS THIS HOUSE THAT THE BOYS REACHED
AND ENTERED.  THE WIFE SAID TO THEM "MY HUSBAND WILL SOON BE
HOME, AND WILL EAT YOU."  BUT THEY REPLIED, "WE ARE NOT AFRAID."
PRESENTLY THE CANNIBAL CAME HOME CARRYING A MAN (FOR HE ATE
INDIANS), AND HIS WIFE SAID TO HIM, "DO NOT EAT THOSE BOYS JUST NOW]
I WILL FEED THEM UP, AND WHEN THEY ARE FAT YOU SHALL KILL AND EAT
THEM."  THE HAXA HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN, WITH WHOM THE BOYS PLAYED
FOR A TIME.  AFTER A WHILE, THE CANNIBAL MADE UP HIS MIND TO KILL THE
BOYS ON THE MORROW.  BUT THEY ALREADY KNEW OF HIS INTENTIONS, AND
WHEN HE RETIRED TO REST THEY INDUCED HIS CHILDREN TO CHANGE
BEDPLACES WITH THEM, AFTER EVERY ONE HAD FALLEN ASLEEP.  THEN THEY
AROSE AND STOLE HIS MAGIC STAFF.  REACHING THE RIVER, WHERE THEY
THREW IT DOWN, IT FORMED A BRIDGE, AND THEY CROSSED ON IT.  EARLY IN
THE MORNING THE HAXA AROSE AND KILLED HIS OWN CHILDREN BY MISTAKE.
THEN HE GAVE CHASE, BUT COULD NOT CROSS THE RIVER WITHOUT HIS
STAFF.  THE BOYS THEN WENT TO A WHITE MAN'S TOWN AND WORKED FOR
WAGES.  THEY WORKED FOR SALOON-KEEPERS.  THE ELDER BROTHER
SQUANDERED ALL HIS MONEY FOR DRINK, BUT THE YOUNGER ONE SAVED HIS.
THE CHIEF OF THE TOWN, HEARING THAT THEY HAD STOLEN THE CANNIBAL'S
STAFF, ASKED THEM TO GO AND STEAL THE LIGHT FROM THE CANNIBAL'S
HOUSE, WHICH THE YOUNGER ONE VOLUNTEERED TO DO.  HE REACHED THERE,
AND, UNPERCEIVED, PUT A LARGE QUANTITY OF SALT INTO THE CANNIBAL'S
KETTLE AMONGST THE HUMAN FLESH.  THE CANNIBAL WAS SURPRISED AT THE
FINE TASTE, SO HE AND HIS WIFE FINISHED THE MESS AND LICKED THE
KETTLE, TRYING TO GET MORE SALT.  THUS THEY BECAME THIRSTY, AND, UPON
THEIR GOING TO THE RIVER TO DRINK, THE LAD STOLE THE LIGHT, PUTTING IT
ON HIS HEAD AND RUNNING AWAY WITH IT.  THE CANNIBAL CHASED HIM, BUT HE
THREW DOWN THE STAFF, AND CROSSED THE RIVER AS BEFORE.  HE RECEIVED
A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY FROM ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN FOR THIS
FEAT.  HE WAS THEN ASKED TO STEAL THE CANNIBAL'S WAGON AND HORSES.
HE ACCOMPLISHED THIS ALSO, RECEIVING A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY.  HE
WAS THEN ASKED TO BRING THE CANNIBAL HIMSELF.  HE TOOK AN IRON
COFFIN AND SOME WHISKEY, WHICH HE PUT IN THE WAGON.  THEN HE
PROCEEDED TO THE CANNIBAL'S HOUSE.  THE LATTER WAS AT HOME, AND HE
SAID, "I CAME HERE TO GIVE YOU A PRESENT OF MYSTERIOUS WATER, WHICH
WILL MAKE YOU STRONG.  AFTER YOU HAVE DRUNK MY PRESENT, YOU MAY
KILL ME IF YOU LIKE."  THE CANNIBAL DRANK THE WHISKEY AND BECAME
HELPLESSLY DRUNK.  THE LAD THEN DRAGGED HIM TO THE WAGON, PUT HIM
INTO THE COFFIN, AND CLOSED THE LID.  HE THEN DROVE TO TOWN, WHERE
HE RECEIVED A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY FOR HIS FEAT.  THE CANNIBAL, AFTER
HAVING GOT OVER HIS DRUNKENNESS, STRUCK LIKE THUNDER ON THE INSIDE
OF THE COFFIN TO GET OUT, AND THE WHITE PEOPLE SAID, "LET HIM OUT,
THAT WE MAY SEE HIM."  THEN THE LAD LET HIM OUT, AND IMMEDIATELY
THE CANNIBAL BEGAN TO KILL THE PEOPLE, WHICH HE EVENTUALLY
ACCOMPLISHED, AND ATE THEM ALL.  THE LAD WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THE WHOLE
TOWN WHO ESCAPED.  HE REACHED HOME WITH THE MAGIC STAFF AND
GREAT WEALTH.
***THO-055***
I.  THE STORY OF TSUNTIA.
LONG AGO, DURING THE TIME WHEN THE EARTH WAS BEING BROUGHT INTO
ITS SHAPE, AND FORMED AS WE SEE IT TO-DAY, AND PEOPLE MADE
AS THEY ARE NOW, A MAIDEN WHO LIVED IN THE LILLOOET COUNTRY
WANDERED AROUND MOSTLY BY HERSELF.  TAKING A FANCY TO A ROOT CALLED
KOKWELA, WHICH IS UTILIZED BY THE INDIANS AS FOOD, SHE HAD
CONNECTION WITH IT, AND BECAME PREGNANT; AND IN COURSE OF TIME THE
PEOPLE WONDERED AT THIS, AS THE GIRL WAS UNMARRIED, NOR WAS SHE
KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN WITH ANY MAN.  THIS SON, WHOSE FATHER WAS THE
ROOT KOKWELA, AFTERWARDS BECAME A MAN OF RENOWN, GIFTED IN MAGIC;
MOREOVER, IT IS SAID THAT MOST OF THE UPPER LILLOOET TRIBE ARE HIS
DESCENDANTS.  WHEN HE WAS YET A YOUNG MAN, HE WENT TO A SPOT A
SHORT DISTANCE FROM LILLOOET TOWN, WHICH WAS HIS NATIVE PLACE.
HERE HE MET SEVERAL LADS WHO WERE PLAYING, AND HE WANTED TO JOIN
IN THE GAME; BUT ONE OF THEM CALLED HIM "BASTARD," SAYING THAT THE
KOKWELA-ROOT WAS HIS FATHER, AND ORDERED HIM AWAY TO HIS OWN
PLACE.  HE THEREUPON CHANGED THIS LAD INTO A FISH, WHICH IS CALLED
TSANATZ; THEN HE TOOK A STONE AND STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD, THEREBY
FLATTENING IT, AND CURSED HIM, SAYING, "YOU WILL BE A FISH, AND PEOPLE
WILL TAKE YOU AND EAT YOU, AND YOU SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO HELP
YOURSELF."  HENCE THE REASON OF THE PECULIAR SHAPED HEAD OF THE
TSANATZ AT THE PRESENT DAY.  TSUNTIA, FOR THAT WAS HIS NAME, THEN
WENT HOME AND ASKED HIS MOTHER WHO HIS FATHER WAS.  SHE WAS ASHAMED TO
TELL HIM THE TRUTH, AND REPLIED THAT THE REASON THAT HE NEVER SAW HIS
FATHER WAS THAT, BEFORE HIS (TSUNTIA'S) BIRTH, HIS FATHER WAS DROWNED
IN THE RIVER.  TSUNTIA THEN TOOK HIS BOW AND ARROWS, AND WENT TO
KILL THE WATER, BECAUSE IT HAD TAKEN HIS FATHER'S LIFE.  BUT THE WATER
TOLD HIM, "THOSE WHOM I KILL I KNOW AGAIN.  IF I HAD KILLED YOUR
FATHER, I SHOULD KNOW HIM; BUT AS IT IS, I DO NOT."  HE THEN WENT
BACK TO HIS MOTHER, AND ASKED HER WHY SHE HAD LIED, DEMANDING
AGAIN TO KNOW WHO HIS FATHER WAS.  SHE TOLD HIM OTHER STORIES,
WHICH HE PROVED TO BE UNTRUTHS.  FINALLY HE GREW ANGRY, AND THREW
HER INTO A LITTLE LAKE BELOW LILLOOET, CALLED BY THE INDIANS
HULAKONANTKO.  HE THEN BEGAN TO TRAVEL ALL OVER THE WORLD, TURNING
PEOPLE INTO ANIMALS, FISHES, AND ROCKS BY HIS MAGIC, AND
TRANSFORMING THE FEATURES OF MANY PARTS OF THE COUNTRY THROUGH WHICH
HE JOURNEYED, PERFORMING MANY WONDERFUL FEATS.  HE WAS IN BETANI, AND
AFTERWARDS WENT DOWN THE CREEK TO LYTTON, WHENCE HE FOLLOWED UP
FRASER RIVER TO ITS HEADWATERS, DOING WONDERS AS HE WENT.  HE CAME
BACK, FOLLOWING THOMPSON RIVER FROM IT SOURCE TO ITS MOUTH,
CROSSED FRASER RIVER, AND A LITTLE BELOW LYTTON MET THE NSPATCEIT,
OR THE FOUR YOUNG BLACK BEARS, OTHERWISE (AND GENERALLY) CALLED QOAQOAL
BY THE NLAKAPAMUX, WHO WERE ALSO DOING GREAT MARVELS.
THESE WERE ON THEIR WAY UP FROM THE MOUTH OF FRASER RIVER.  UPON
MEETING, THEY TRIED TO METAMORPHOSE EACH OTHER INTO MANY DIFFERENT
OBJECTS BY THEIR POWERS OF MAGIC; BUT ALL SCHEMES FAILED, FOR IT
SEEMED THEY WERE ALL EQUALLY GIFTED.  HAVING AGREED TO EAT TOGETHER,
TSUNTIA FORTHWITH BROUGHT OUT A SMALL CUP OR KETTLE, AND
COMMENCED TO PREPARE SOME NKAUX.  THE BROTHERS LAUGHED  AT THE IDEA
OF SUCH A SMALL VESSEL HOLDING ENOUGH FOOD FOR ALL OF THEM; BUT
TSUNTIA ASSURED THEM THAT IT WOULD.  THEN HE SET IT BEFORE THE
BROTHERS TO EAT.  THEY TOOK A SPOONFUL EACH, WHICH FILLED THEM TO
SATISFACTION, AND MADE NO IMPRESSION ON THE NKAUX, WHICH REMAINED,
TO ALL APPEARANCES, JUST THE SAME.  TSUNTIA THEN SAID, "SEE WHAT
YOU THOUGHT WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH TO SATISFY YOUR APPETITES]"
AFTERWARDS THEY ATE OF THE BROTHERS' FOOD.  THEY INTENDED TO SERVE
TSUNTIA AS HE HAD DONE THEM; BUT HE TOOK IT ALL, AND LEFT THE KETTLE
EMPTY.  TSUNTIA THEN SAID, "WHERE SHALL WE SLEEP?"  TELLING THEM
TO MAKE A SLEEPING-PLACE BY THEIR MAGIC; BUT THEY SAID THEY THOUGHT
HE COULD DO IT BETTER THAN THEY, AND TOLD HIM TO DO SO.  HE THEN
CAUSED A LARGE, FLAT, SMOOTH STONE TO APPEAR, AND UPON IT THE FIVE
SLEPT THAT NIGHT.  TSUNTIA SLEPT WITH HIS HEAD TO THE NORTH, AND THE
BROTHERS WITH THEIRS TOWARDS THE SOUTH.  THE IMPRESSIONS MADE BY
THEIR BODIES CAN STILL BE SEEN.  ONE MARK IN PARTICULAR SHOWS THE
IMPRINT OF THE BACK OF THE HEAD, THE ELBOWS, AND THE HEELS OF ONE OF
THEM.  NEXT MORNING THEY SEPARATED, TSUNTIA GOING DOWN THE RIVER,
AND THE OTHERS IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.  IT IS NOT KNOWN WHAT
BECAME OF TSUNTIA, FOR HE DISAPPEARED, AND IT IS SAID THAT HE WENT
UP TO HEAVEN.  HE LEFT DESCENDANTS OF FRASER RIVER AT LILLOOET.
***THO-056***
II.  STORY OF TSUNTIA'S MOTHER ; OR, THE FROG-PEOPLE.
AFTER TSUNTIA HAD THROWN HIS MOTHER INTO THE LAKE, SHE BEGAT
PEOPLE BY HER INTERCOURSE WITH THE LAKE, WHO GREW VERY NUMEROUS
IN COURSE OF TIME.  THE INHABITANTS OF SETL (LILLOOET TOWN) BECAME
AWARE THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE NOW DWELLING BY THE LAKE, WHEREAS
FORMERLY THERE WERE NONE; ALSO THAT THEY WERE GOOD-LOOKING, ESPECIALLY
THE YOUNG WOMEN; AND THAT THEY ALWAYS DWELT SEPARATE, HOLDING NO
INTERCOURSE WHATEVER WITH OTHER PEOPLE.  THEY LIVED ON FROGS, SOME
OF WHICH WERE IN THOSE DAYS OF ENORMOUS SIZE.  FROG-SKINS WERE THEIR
BLANKETS.  NOW, MANY OF THE YOUNG MEN OF SETL VILLAGE TOOK A FANCY
TO THE YOUNG WOMEN OF THE LAKE, AND AT DIFFERENT TIMES REPAIRED THERE
WITH THE INTENTION OF MARRYING; BUT ALL OF THEM, UPON ENTERING THE
HOUSES OF THE "FROG-PEOPLE," WERE OVERCOME BY THE SMELL OF FROG,
FROG, AND THEREBY GAINED THE DESIRED KNOWLEDGE OF ESCAPING DEATH
AND FELL INTO A SLEEP, IN WHICH THEY INVARIABLY DIED, IN WHICH CASE
THEIR BODIES WERE THROWN OUTSIDE.  AT LAST ONE YOUNG MAN SAID HE
WOULD OVERCOME THE DIFFICULTY.  HE WENT INTO THE MOUNTAINS AND
PREPARED HIS "MEDICINE" FOR FIVE YEARS.  AT LAST HE DREAMED OF THE
WHILE HAVING INTERCOURSE WITH THE FROG-EATERS.  HE THEN WENT TO
THE DWELLINGS OF THE "FROG-PEOPLE," AND TRIED TO ENTER.  THEY WERE
LIVING IN UNDERGROUND LODGES, AS IT WAS WINTER TIME.  AN ELDERLY
PERSON SAID TO HIM, AS HE WAS ABOUT TO GO IN, "YOU ARE A YOUNG MAN,
IN YOUR PRIME.  I SHOULD NOT LIKE TO SEE YOU DIE; THEREFORE
DO NOT ENTER, FOR YOUR FATE WILL BE THE SAME AS THAT OF YOU FELLOWS
WHO HAVE COME HERE BEFORE.  IT IS A WONDER THAT YOU PEOPLE HAVE
NOT LEARNED WISDOM BY YOUR EXPERIENCE."  BUT THE YOUTH WAS NOT
TO BE FRIGHTENED AWAY, SINCE HE WAS CONFIDENT OF HIS POWERS.  HE
REMAINED WITHIN FOR QUITE A TIME, WHILE THE INMATES COOKED FROG
AND FROG'S FAT, AND PARTOOK OF THEIR SUPPER; BUT HE DID NOT SHARE IN
IT.  THEY THEN BEGAN TO TALK, AND INWARDLY WONDERED WHY HE DID
NOT FALL INTO THE DEATH-SLEEP, AS THE OTHERS BEFORE HIM HAD DONE.  SO
HE REMAINED, AND TOOK TO WIFE THE TWO PRETTIEST MAIDENS.  SHORTLY
AFTER THIS THE NEW SON-IN-LAW WAS TAKEN OUT TO HUNT FROGS, AND TOLD
IF HE SAW ANY NOT TO KILL THEM HIMSELF, BUT TO LET THE PEOPLE KNOW.
FEELING THIRSTY, AND CHANCING TO PASS A SWAMP (AT THE BACK OF
LILLOOET), HE WADED INTO THE BOG AND DRANK, ALTHOUGH ALMOST MIRED IN
THE ATTEMPT.  WHILE DRINKING, HE SAW AN ENORMOUS FROG LOOKING AT
HIM (ABOUT AS LARGE AS A BEAR).  UPON RETURNING, HE TOLD THE
FROG-EATERS, WHO WENT THERE, KILLED THE ANIMAL, AND CARRIED IT HOME.
AFTER THIS, THE YOUNG MAN BECAME THOROUGHLY DISGUSTED WITH THEIR
FROG-EATING PROPENSITIES, AND DECIDED TO CHANGE THE FOOD OF A PEOPLE
WHO LOOKED ON EVERYTHING AS NON-EDIBLE, EXCEPT FROG.  DEER ESPECIALLY
WAS THOUGHT BY THEM TO BAD "MEDICINE," AND ALTOGETHER UNFIT FOR
FOOD.  SO HE TOOK HIS SNOWSHOES, AND WENT BACK IN THE
MOUNTAINS AND SHOT A BIG DEER, WHICH HE TOOK HOME, MUCH TO THE HORROR
AND DISGUST OF THE PEOPLE.  NEVERTHELESS, HE LOWERED IT DOWN INTO THE
HOUSE, AND AFTER A GOOD DEAL OF PERSUASION INDUCED THE PEOPLE TO EAT
IT.  THREE OF THEM, HOWEVER, WOULD NOT PARTAKE OF THIS STRANGE FOOD,
AND RAN AWAY.  THESE HE TURNED INTO DOGS, WHO STILL HAUNT THAT LAKE.
THE INDIANS OFTEN HEAR THEM YELPING AT SUNRISE; IN FACT, I MYSELF
HAVE HEARD THEM.  THE OTHER PEOPLE BECAME THEN AS ORDINARY HUMAN
BEINGS AFTER PARTAKING OF THE VENISON; AND, BEING PERSUADED BY THEIR
SON-IN-LAW, THEY ALL MOVED UP NEAR SETL, AND THERE MADE THEIR HOMES.
THEY INTERMARRIED WITH THE OTHER PEOPLE, AND SOME OF THE LILLOOET
TRIBES ARE THEIR DESCENDANTS, I BEING ONE OF THEM.
***THO-057***
         TH001 AN INDIAN TALE OF SACRIFICE                            TH00100010
LONG AGO, IN THAT PART OF THE COUNTRY NOW KNOWN AS THE NICOLA         TH00100020
VALLEY, THERE DWELT A YOUNG MAN AND HIS HALF-SISTER, A BEAUTIFUL      TH00100030
YOUNG WOMAN NAMED SKIHOSA, AND THEIR LITTLE CHILD NAKO.               TH00100040
UNFORTUNATELY, THE MAN AND WOMAN WERE ALWAYS SAD BECAUSE THEIR        TH00100050
PARENTS CONSIDERED THEIR UNION A DREADFUL DISGRACE, AND WERE VERY     TH00100060
MUCH ANGRY WITH THEM.                                                 TH00100070
THE DAY CAME WHEN SKIHOSA FELT SHE COULD NO LONGER FACE HER           TH00100080
PARENTS' DISPLEASURE.  "WE MUST GO AWAY AT ONCE," SAID SHE TO HER     TH00100090
LOVER, "SOMEWHERE ENTIRELY BY OURSELVES, AND NEVER COME BACK AGAIN.   TH00100100
NONE OF THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE TRIBE MUST KNOW OF THE DISGRACE WE   TH00100110
HAVE BROUGHT UPON OUR RELATIVES.  WE WILL LEAVE HERE THIS VERY        TH00100120
DAY."                                                                 TH00100130
HAVING LITTLE OR NOTHING TO HOPE FOR BY REMAINING, THE YOUNG MAN      TH00100140
AGREED TO THE PLAN, AND WHEN DARKNESS FELL THEY STOLE AWAY            TH00100150
TOGETHER FROM THE HOUSE.  FOR SOME DISTANCE THEY TRAVELLED ALONG      TH00100160
THE WATER'S EDGE, AND, AT WHAT APPEARED TO BE THE JUNCTION OF THE     TH00100170
RIVER, THEY TURNED OFF INTO THE FOREST; SKIHOSA HUGGING THE           TH00100180
LITTLE NAKO CLOSELY TO HER BREAST.  TREADING THE SOFT MOSS AND        TH00100190
LICHEN-COVERED TRAIL, THEY MADE SCARCELY A SOUND; YET EVERY NOW AND   TH00100200
THEN SOME NIGHT-BIRD WOULD FLY OFF, STARTLED BY THEIR PRESENCE, OR    TH00100210
THE STILLNESS WOULD BE BROKEN BY THE CRY OF A COYOTE ON ITS NIGHTLY   TH00100220
PROWL.                                                                TH00100230
TOWARD MORNING THEY REACHED THE EDGE OF A GORGE AND FLUNG             TH00100240
THEMSELVES DOWN TO REST IN THE THICKEST PART OF THE BRACKEN.  BUT     TH00100250
ABOVE THE WEARINESS OF BODY POOR SKIHOSA WAS HEART-SICK AT THE        TH00100260
THOUGHT OF HAVING TO LEAVE ALL HER FRIENDS BEHIND.  SHE COULD NOT     TH00100270
SLEEP.  AS THE MORNING LIGHT BROADENED AGAINST THE SKYLINE, THE SKY   TH00100280
BECAME OVERCAST WITH CLOUDS.  THE SMELL OF COMING RAIN WAS IN THE     TH00100290
AIR.  RAGGED CLOUDS SPED ABOVE THE MOUNTAINS.  SKIHOSA THOUGHT THAT   TH00100300
THEY TOO, WERE HASTENING TO HIDE FROM SOMETHING BEHIND THEM.          TH00100310
SHE AWAKENED HER LOVER AND BEGGED HIM TO CONTINUE THEIR JOURNEY,      TH00100320
BUT THE WIND ROSE TO A HURRICANE, AND IMPEDED THEIR PROGRESS.         TH00100330
TREMBLINGLY THEY WATCHED THE LIGHTENING STRIKE AND BREAK AGAINST      TH00100340
THE MOUNTAIN-SIDE.  TREE-TRUNKS SNAPPED IN THE WIND.  HUGE BOULDERS   TH00100350
TUMBLED DOWN THE PRECIPITOUS SLOPES, AND THE RAIN BEAT MERCILESSLY    TH00100360
UPON THEM THROUGH THE TREES.  SKIHOSA FELT THAT THE SPIRITS OF THE    TH00100370
MOUNTAINS, AND OF THE RIVERS AND THE TREES ALL KNEW THEIR SHAME AND   TH00100380
WERE ANGRY WITH THEM BECAUSE OF THE DISGRACE THEY HAD BROUGHT UPON    TH00100390
THEIR PARENTS.                                                        TH00100400
FOR TEN LONG DAYS THEY JOURNEYED THUS IN EXTREME MISERY.  AT EACH     TH00100410
TURN IN THE FOREST, SKIHOSA PULLED OFF STRIPS OF BEADWORK  FROM HER   TH00100420
DRESS AND HUNG PIECES OF IT ON THE BRANCHES OF THE TREES OR ON THE    TH00100430
JUTTING PIECES OF ROCK TO MARK THE TRAIL BY WHICH THEY HAD COME .     TH00100440
WHEN SHE HAD USED THE LAST PIECE OF BEADWORK SKIHOSA HALTED AND       TH00100450
SAID TO HER COMPANION, "I THINK WE HAVE TRAVELLED FAR ENOUGH; LET     TH00100460
US REMAIN HERE."  SUITING THEIR ACTION TO THE WORD, THEY MADE CAMP,   TH00100470
AND SET UP THEIR DWELLING IN THE DEEPEST RECESS OF THE FOREST.        TH00100480
HERE THE YEARS DRAGGED SLOWLY BY UNTIL LITTLE NAKO GREW INTO A FINE   TH00100490
HEALTHY BOY.  AS SOON AS HE WAS OLD ENOUGH TO FOLLOW THE GAME, HE     TH00100500
TOOK HIS WEAPONS AND WENT OUT TO HUNT MOUNTAIN GOAT AND SHEEP.        TH00100510
DURING HIS ABSENCE HIS PARENTS TALKED OFTEN OF THE COURSE THEY        TH00100520
INTENDED TO PURSUE.  NAKO PROVIDED HIS MOTHER WITH A LARGE STORE OF   TH00100530
MEAT AND KIDNEY-FAT, AND WITH THE LARGE NUMBER OF SKINS HE BROUGHT    TH00100540
HOME FROM THE CHASE, SHE WAS ABLE TO WEAVE TWELVE LARGE BLANKETS.     TH00100550
AS SOON AS SKIHOSA HAD FINISHED MAKING THE BLANKETS SHE CALLED THE    TH00100560
YOUTH TO HER AND TOLD HIM SHE WISHED TO SEND HIM ON A JOURNEY.        TH00100570
"YOU ARE BIG ENOUGH NOW TO TRAVEL ALONE," SAID SHE, "AND YOUR         TH00100580
FATHER AND I WISH YOU TO VISIT YOUR GRANDPARENTS."                    TH00100590
"BUT WHY DON'T YOU AND MY FATHER GO TOO?" QUESTIONED NAKO.            TH00100600
"WE CANNOT LEAVE THIS PLACE," HIS MOTHER REPLIED.                     TH00100610
"BUT HOW SHALL I FIND MY WAY?" QUERIED THE YOUTH.                     TH00100620
"THAT WILL NOT BE DIFFICULT ," ANSWERED THE MOTHER, "BECAUSE ON OUR   TH00100630
WAY THITHER, I MARKED THE TRAIL."                                     TH00100640
"BUT HOW SHALL I KNOW MY GRANDPARENTS WHEN I GET THERE?" HE           TH00100650
PERSISTED.                                                            TH00100660
"YOUR UNCLE WHO LIVES THERE HAS ONLY ONE EYE.  LOOK FOR HIM FIRST     TH00100670
OF ALL, AND THEN YOU WILL FIND THEM EASILY."                          TH00100680
HIS MOTHER THEN INSTRUCTED HIM IN THINGS WHICH ONLY WISE  MEDICINE-   TH00100690
MEN KNOW, SUCH AS HOW TO MAKE HIMSELF INVISIBLE, AND MANY OTHER       TH00100700
MAGIC ARTS. IN THE MEANTIME, HIS FATHER HAD BEEN STACKING A HUGE      TH00100710
PILE OF PITCH-PINE LOGS IN THE CENTRE OF THE KEEKWILLIE HOUSE.        TH00100720
"WHY DO YOU WANT SO MUCH WOOD AT THIS TIME OF YEAR?" QUESTIONED       TH00100730
NAKO, "WINTER IS NOT COMING YET."                                     TH00100740
"YOUR FATHER AND I HAVE A USE FOR IT, MY SON," GRAVELY ANSWERED THE   TH00100750
MOTHER.  "WHILE YOU ARE ON YOUR JOURNEY, WE HAVE A GREAT TASK TO      TH00100760
PERFORM."                                                             TH00100770
THE BOY WAS CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT THIS TASK MIGHT BE, BUT SOMETHING    TH00100780
IN HIS MOTHER'S MANNER CAUSED HIM TO REFRAIN FROM ASKING ANY MORE     TH00100790
QUESTIONS.                                                            TH00100800
AT LENGTH WHEN ALL WAS READY, SKIHOSA WRAPPED UP A LARGE SUPPLY OF    TH00100810
DRIED MEAT AND FAT IN THE BLANKETS SHE HAD WOVEN.  SHE THEN           TH00100820
UTTERED SOME "MEDICINE" WORDS OVER THE BUNDLE WHICH CAUSED IT TO      TH00100830
SHRINK IN SIZE SO THAT IT WOULD BE EASY TO CARRY.                     TH00100840
"YOU WILL TAKE THIS TO YOUR GRANDPARENTS AS A GIFT FROM US.  WE       TH00100841
DESIRE YOU TO GO NOW, WITHOUT DELAY," SHE SAID TO THE YOUTH AS SHE    TH00100850
BADE HIM GOOD-BYE.                                                    TH00100860
SHOULDERING THE BUNDLE, NAKO STARTED ON HIS LONG JOURNEY.  HIS        TH00100870
PARENTS WATCHED HIM GO, AND WEPT BITTERLY AS HE DISAPPEARED IN THE    TH00100880
WINDINGS OF THE FOREST, AND THEY COULD NO LONGER SEE HIM.             TH00100890
THEN, TAKING EACH OTHER BY THE HAND, THEY TURNED TOWARDS THEIR        TH00100900
DWELLING."COME, DEAR ONE," SAID SKIHOSA, "OUR TASK IS ALMOST          TH00100910
COMPLETED, LET US FINISH IT."                                         TH00100920
TOGETHER THEY ENTERED THE HOUSE, AND IMMEDIATELY STARTED A FIRE AT    TH00100930
THE BASE OF THE PILE OF PINE-LOGS.  THIS DONE, THEY CLIMBED UPON      TH00100940
THE TOP OF THE PILE AND WITH HANDS FAST CLASPED, LAY DOWN UPON IT ,   TH00100950
SIDE BY SIDE.  THE FLAMES FROM THE PITCH ENVELOPED THEM AND IN A      TH00100960
VERY SHORT TIME THE WHOLE PILE WAS CONSUMED, AND THEY WITH IT.        TH00100970
DURING THIS TRAGIC HAPPENING, NAKO HAD PROCEEDED SOME DISTANCE ON     TH00100980
HIS WAY, AND, HAVING REACHED AN EMINENCE FROM WHICH HE THOUGHT HE     TH00100990
MIGHT CATCH A LAST GLIMPSE OF HIS HOME, HE LOOKED BACK, AND WAS       TH00101000
ASTONISHED TO SEE FLAMES AND SMOKE RISING FROM THE ROOF OF THE        TH00101010
HOUSE HE HAD SO RECENTLY LEFT.  DROPPING HIS BUNDLE, HE RAN BACK      TH00101020
UPON HIS TRAIL WITH THE FLEETNESS OF A DEER.  THE INTENSE HEAT OF     TH00101030
THE BURNING STRUCTURE HINDERED HIS CLOSE APPROACH TO THE HOUSE.  HE   TH00101040
HALTED, AND AS HE STOOD WATCHING AND WONDERING WHAT HAD HAPPENED,     TH00101050
THE ROOF FELL IN WITH A CRASH, SENDING A VOLLEY OF SPARKS UPWARDS,    TH00101060
AS THE FLAMES LEAPED AND DANCED UNTIL THE LAST TIMBERS OF THE         TH00101070
DWELLING WERE DESTROYED.                                              TH00101080
AS NAKO HAD SEEN NO SIGN OF HIS PARENTS SINCE HE RETURNED, HE         TH00101090
WAS IN A GREAT AGONY OF MIND LEST HIS PARENTS MIGHT HAVE PERISHED     TH00101100
IN THE FLAMES.  AS SOON AS IT WAS POSSIBLE, HE GROPED AMONG THE       TH00101110
CHARRED RUINS OF THE FIRE AND SAW ENOUGH TO CONVINCE HIM THAT HIS     TH00101120
PARENTS WERE NO MORE.                                                 TH00101130
     UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND IT ALL, HE SAT UPON THE GROUND AND WEPT     TH00101140
BITTERLY ALL THAT NIGHT AND THE NEXT DAY.  THE FOLLOWING NIGHT,       TH00101150
HOWEVER,  HE FELL INTO A DEEP SLEEP AND DREAMED.  IN THE DREAM, IT    TH00101160
WAS REVEALED TO HIM WHY HIS PARENTS HAD LEFT THEIR HOME, AT HIS       TH00101170
BIRTH, AND DWELT ALONE IN THE FOREST, AND WHY THEY HAD METED OUT      TH00101180
SUCH A DESPERATE PUNISHMENT FOR THEMSELVES.                           TH00101190
VERY SAD AT HEART, HE SHOULDERED HIS PACK ANEW AND CONTINUED ON HIS   TH00101200
WAY THROUGH THE FOREST UNTIL AT LAST HE ARRIVED AT THE VILLAGE OF     TH00101210
HIS GRANDFATHER.  HERE HE SAW A LITTLE OLD MAN SHOOTING ON THE        TH00101220
GROUND WITH HIS ARROWS.  PERCEIVING THAT HE HAD ONLY ONE EYE, NAKO    TH00101230
WENT FORWARD AND SPOKE TO HIM AND SOON DISCOVERED THAT HE WAS THE     TH00101240
UNCLE HE WAS SEEKING.  BUT WHEN NAKO SAID TO HIM:  "I AM YOUR         TH00101250
NEPHEW," THE UNCLE WOULD NOT BELIEVE HIM.                             TH00101260
"GO AND TELL MY GRANDPARENTS THAT I AM HERE," SAID NAKO.  "BUT        TH00101270
STAY A MOMENT, PERHAPS THEY, TOO, WILL BE DOUBTFUL.  I WILL GIVE      TH00101280
YOU SOME PROOF OF MY PRESENCE TO SHOW THEM.  TELL ME, UNCLE, WHAT     TH00101290
IS THE MATTER WITH YOUR EYE?"                                         TH00101300
"I AM BLIND IN IT, I WAS BORN SO," SAID THE LITTLE MAN.               TH00101310
"WELL," ANSWERED THE YOUTH, "I WILL GIVE YOU SIGHT, WITH MY           TH00101320
'MEDICINE POWER', AND THEN MY GRANDPARENTS WILL BELIEVE WHAT YOU      TH00101330
TELL THEM.  SO SAYING, THE NEPHEW PASSED HIS HANDS OVER HIS UNCLE'S   TH00101340
EYE, FOUR TIMES IN SUCCESSION, AND, IN A MOMENT, THE OLD MAN          TH00101350
EXCLAIMED:                                                            TH00101360
"I CAN SEE]  I CAN SEE]"  AND FULL OF ADMIRATION FOR HIS NEPHEW'S     TH00101370
POWER HE RAN OFF TO TELL THE BOY'S GRANDMOTHER.  WHEN HE FIRST        TH00101380
WHISPERED THE TIDINGS IN THE GRANDMOTHER'S EAR SHE WAS ANGRY WITH     TH00101390
HIM FOR ATTEMPTING, AS SHE THOUGHT, TO FOOL HER, BUT WHEN HE          TH00101400
SHOWED HER THAT HIS EYE WAS NO LONGER BLIND, SHE KNEW THAT HE MUST    TH00101410
BE SPEAKING THE TRUTH.                                                TH00101420
"ULKSTA, ULKSTA."  (BRING HIM IN, BRING HIM IN), SHE EXCLAIMED.       TH00101430
NAKO ENTERED THE DWELLING.  THE GRANDFATHER LOOKED ON IN AMAZEMENT    TH00101440
WONDERING WHO THE STRANGER WAS, BUT THE GRANDMOTHER WAS DELIGHTED     TH00101450
TO FIND SO COMELY A YOUTH CLAIMING HER AS HIS GRANDMOTHER.            TH00101460
THE BOY TOLD THEM THE PATHETIC STORY OF THE SOLITARY LIFE HIS         TH00101470
PARENTS HAD LIVED IN THE FOREST, AND THE REASON OF THEIR TRAGIC       TH00101480
DEATHS AS IT HAD BEEN REVEALED TO HIM IN HIS DREAM.  THE OLD WOMAN    TH00101490
WEPT AS SHE LISTENED TO THE SAD TALE OF HER DAUGHTER AND STEP-SON.    TH00101500
NEXT DAY THE GRANDFATHER CALLED ALL THE VILLAGE TOGETHER AND TOLD     TH00101510
THEM OF HIS GRANDSON'S ARRIVAL, AND THE EVENTS WHICH  HAD LED TO      TH00101520
THE VOLUNTARY DEATHS OF SKIHOSA AND HER STEP-BROTHER.  THE OLD LADY   TH00101530
BADE THE SLAVE-GIRLS CLEAN UP THE HOUSE, AND SPREAD OUT THE           TH00101540
TWELVE  BEAUTIFUL BLANKETS, WHILST HER OLD FACE FLUSHED WITH PRIDE.   TH00101550
SHE SET THE MEAT AND FAT READY AT HAND FOR THE FEAST WHICH THE        TH00101560
CHIEF NOW PROCLAIMED.  DURING THE FEAST, NAKO RETOLD THE STORY OF     TH00101570
HIS MOTHER'S AND FATHER'S LIFE IN THE FOREST, AT THE RECITAL OF       TH00101580
WHICH ALL THE WOMEN PRESENT WEPT BITTERLY.  MANY OF THE MAIDENS       TH00101590
DESIRED NAKO FOR THEIR HUSBAND, BUT THE GRANDMOTHER TOLD THE          TH00101600
NEIGHBOURS SHE INTENDED TO KEEP HIM IN SECLUSION IN ORDER THAT HE     TH00101610
MIGHT STRENGTHEN HIS MYSTERY POWER.  THIS SHE DID,  NAKO OBEYING      TH00101620
WILLINGLY, AND IN TIME HE BECAME THE GREATEST MEDICINE-MAN OF HIS     TH00101630
DAY.                                                                  TH00101640
***THO-058***
          TH002  THE LOON'S NECKLACE                                  TH00200010
IN THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF SHULUS, ON THE BANKS OF THE NICOLA RIVER,    TH00200020
THERE LIVED LONG AGO AN OLD BLIND MEDICINE MAN, NAMED KELORA.         TH00200030
BECAUSE OF HIS BLINDNESS, HE WAS MISERABLY POOR, HARDLY ABLE TO       TH00200040
SUPPORT HIMSELF AND HIS WIFE.                                         TH00200050
     THOUGH HE CALLED HIMSELF A MEDICINE MAN, HE REALLY DID LITTLE    TH00200060
BUT DREAM.  IN THE SUMMER HE WOULD SIT ALL DAY LONG IN THE SHADE OF   TH00200070
THE TREES AND IN WINTER HE WOULD SUN HIMSELF WITH HIS BACK PROPPED    TH00200080
AGAINST THE HOUSE, WRAPPED IN A TATTERED BLANKET OF GROUNDHOG SKINS   TH00200090
TO KEEP OUT THE COLD.  NOW AND THEN HIS WIFE WOULD SCOLD HIM FOR      TH00200100
HIS IDLENESS.                                                         TH00200110
     "AFTER ALL," SHE WOULD REMIND HIM, "YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY BLIND    TH00200120
MAN THERE IS.  LOOK AT INTAMEEN, UP THERE NEAR QUILCHENA.  HE FINDS   TH00200130
PLENTY TO DO.  HE GETS THE SPRUCE ROOTS READY FOR HIS WIFE WHEN SHE   TH00200140
MAKES BASKETS, AND HE MAKES THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BONE BEADS, AND EVEN   TH00200150
SPINS THE TWINE TO THREAD THEM ON.  AND ALL YOU DO IS SIT HERE        TH00200160
GRINNING AT THE SUN, AND SCRATCHING YOUR WORTHLESS OLD HIDE."         TH00200170
     ONLY ONCE HAD HE TRIED TO EXCUSE HIMSELF AND REMIND HER THAT     TH00200180
HE WAS, AFTER ALL, A MEDICINE MAN AND, HE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO ADD,    TH00200190
SHOULD BE SHOWN SOME RESPECT.  WERE NOT MEDICINE MEN IMPORTANT        TH00200200
PEOPLE?                                                               TH00200210
     "A MEDICINE MAN]  YOU, A MEDICINE MAN?  NOBODY EVER COMES TO     TH00200220
YOU UNLESS EVERY OTHER HEALER HE HAS HEARD OF HAS FAILED.  'FAST      TH00200230
FOUR DAYS', YOU TELL EVERYBODY THE SAME THING.  'THEN TAKE FOUR       TH00200240
SWEAT BATHS, STILL FASTING, AND THEN CHEW FOUR JUNIPER BERRIES,       TH00200250
TAKING CARE TO SWALLOW ALL THE JUICE.'  IT'S FOUR OF THIS, AND FOUR   TH00200260
OF THAT]  RUBBISH]  ANY NITWIT COULD GIVE THE SAME ADVICE AND GET     TH00200270
MORE FOR THE GIVING OF IT."                                           TH00200280
     OLD KELORA DIDN'T SEEM TO MIND AT ALL.  HE JUST SAT STARING UP   TH00200290
AT THE SUN AS THOUGH HE HAD NOT HEARD A WORD OF WHAT SHE HAD SAID.    TH00200300
THERE WAS ONLY ONE SOUND THAT WAS SURE TO ROUSE HIM AND THAT WAS      TH00200310
THE CRY OF THE LOON, THE STRANGEST AND, PERHAPS, THE MOST LOVELY OF   TH00200320
ALL WOODLAND SOUNDS.  WHENEVER HE HEARD IT, A GREAT RESTLESSNESS      TH00200330
SEEMED TO SEIZE HIM.  HIS BLIND HANDS WOULD FUMBLE FOR HIS STICK      TH00200340
AND THEN HE WOULD START OFF, GROPING HIS WAY ALONG THE LITTLE TRAIL   TH00200350
BESIDE THE CREEK THAT FLOWS OUT OF MAMETTE LAKE.  SLOWLY AND          TH00200360
PAINFULLY HE WOULD GO, HIS STICK FEELING THE WAY, AND AN UPRAISED     TH00200370
ELBOW SHEILDING HIS EYES FROM THE TWIGS AND BRANCHES THAT HUNG OVER   TH00200380
THE TRAIL.                                                            TH00200390
     SOMETIMES HE WAS GONE FOR DAYS AND, WHEN HE RETURNED,  TIRED     TH00200400
OUT, HALF STARVED, STAINED WITH MUD WHERE HE HAD STUMBLED ON THE      TH00200410
WAY, HE WOULD SAY NOTHING OF WHERE HE HAD BEEN.                       TH00200420
     "I HAVE BEEN TALKING WITH MY FATHER THE LOON," HE WOULD          TH00200430
EXPLAIN PATIENTLY, AND THAT WAS ALL.                                  TH00200440
     AFTER A LONG WET AUTUMN, IT HAPPENED THAT THERE WAS A VERY       TH00200450
POOR CROP OF BERRIES THE INDIANS USED TO DRY FOR THEIR WINTER FOOD,   TH00200460
AND THEN A VERY HARD, COLD SEASON BEGAN.  EVERY DAY THE MEN CAME      TH00200470
HOME TO THE VILLAGE FROM THEIR HUNTING WITH ALMOST NO GAME.  THERE    TH00200480
SEEMED TO BE NO DEER, NO GROUSE, NO RABBITS, BUT THE TRACKS OF        TH00200490
WOLVES WERE EVERYWHERE IN THE SNOW.  WITH SO LITTLE FRESH MEAT, THE   TH00200500
PEOPLE WERE FORCED TO USE UP THEIR STOCKS OF DRIED FOOD, AND THE      TH00200510
THOUSANDS OF SALMON WHICH THEY HAD SMOKED DURING THE SUMMER WERE      TH00200520
BEING EATEN MUCH TOO FAST.                                            TH00200530
     THE OLDER MEN MET TOGETHER AND WONDERED WHETHER THEY SHOULD      TH00200540
SEND SOME YOUNG MEN TO NEARBY VILLAGES AND EVEN AS FAR AWAY AS        TH00200550
KAMLOOPS AND LYTTON, TO TULAMEEN,  AND EVEN TO LILLOOET TO TRY TO     TH00200560
BUY FOOD.                                                             TH00200570
     ONE DAY, AFTER THE HUNTERS HAD COME HOME AGAIN EMPTY-HANDED,     TH00200580
OLD KELORA SPOKE TO THE CHIEF.                                        TH00200590
     "TELL YOUR YOUNG MEN AND THE HUNTERS TO BE ON THEIR GUARD,"      TH00200600
HE SAID.  "THE WOLVES ARE HUNGRY TOO, JUST AS WE ARE, FOR THEY HAVE   TH00200610
KILLED ALL THE GAME IN THE VALLEY.  SOON THEY WILL COME RIGHT INTO    TH00200620
THE VILLAGE AND TRY TO STEAL THE CHILDREN."                           TH00200630
     THE CHIEF, WORRIED AND ANXIOUS, TURNED AWAY FROM THE OLD BLIND   TH00200640
MAN.                                                                  TH00200650
     "GO BACK TO YOUR DREAMING," HE LAUGHED.  "I HAVE NO TIME FOR     TH00200660
THE CHATTER OF FOOLS.  GO BACK TO YOUR MEDICINE MAKING AND LISTEN     TH00200670
FOR THE CALL OF THE LOON."                                            TH00200680
     NOW HARDLY A FULL DAY HAD PASSED, WHEN THE WOMEN WERE STARTLED   TH00200690
TO HEAR THE SCREAM OF A CHILD. RUNNING DOWN TO THE RIVER BANK, THEY   TH00200700
CAUGHT SIGHT OF A LARGE GREY WOLF, TROTTING EASILY TOWARDS WARM       TH00200710
SPRINGS.  THEY FOUND SOME BLOOD STAINS ON THE SNOW, A LITTLE WINTER   TH00200720
CAP OF SQUIRREL SKINS, A TOY BOW, THE TRACKS OF A CHILD, -AND OF      TH00200730
THE WOLF.                                                             TH00200740
     "OLD KELORA WAS RIGHT," SAID THE CHIEF.  "EVEN THE WOLVES ARE    TH00200750
STARVING NOW."                                                        TH00200760
     THE WOLVES GREW BOLDER AND BOLDER.  GROWN MEN WERE NO LONGER     TH00200770
SAFE ALONE, BUT HAD TO HUNT IN PAIRS.  TRAPS WERE SET AND DEADFALLS   TH00233780
BUILT; MANY WOLVES WERE KILLED, BUT THEIR NUMBERS HARDLY SEEMED TO    TH00200790
GROW LESS.  THE PEOPLE WERE BECOMING VERY MUCH AFRAID AND THERE WAS   TH00200800
EVEN TALK OF ABANDONING THE WHOLE VILLAGE OF SHULUS AND MOVING        TH00200810
SOMEWHERE ELSE, AN ALMOST UNHEARD OF THING TO DO, ESPECIALLY IN THE   TH00200820
DEAD OF WINTER.                                                       TH00200830
     OLD KELORA SAID THIS WOULD NOT BE WISE, AND THIS TIME THE        TH00200840
CHIEF LISTENED TO HIM.                                                TH00200850
     "DO YOU THINK WE COULD MOVE MORE QUICKLY THAN THE WOLVES COULD   TH00200860
FOLLOW US?"  HE ASKED, AND HE WAS QUITE PLAINLY RIGHT.                TH00200870
     "TRUE," THE PEOPLE ADMITTED, "BUT WHAT ARE WE TO DO?  WE ARE     TH00200880
STARVING, AND OUR CHILDREN ARE STARVING WITH US."                     TH00200890
     OLD KELORA KNEW NOW THAT THE TIME FOR WHICH HE HAD WAITED SO     TH00200900
LONG HAD COME AT LAST.  IF THE VILLAGE COULD BE SAVED AT ALL, IT      TH00200910
WOULD BE BY KELORA'S USE OF HIS OWN POWERS OF MAGIC.  WHEN HE WAS A   TH00200920
BOY HE HAD SPENT MANY DAYS ALL ALONE ON THE FAR HILLTOPS, BATHING IN  TH00200930
LITTLE LAKES, SCRUBBING HIMSELF WITH HARSH HEMLOCK TWIGS TILL THE     TH00200940
BLOOD FLOWED, STARVING HIMSELF FOR DAYS ON END THAT HE MIGHT BECOME   TH00200950
A MEDICINE MAN.                                                       TH00200960
     HE HAD NOT GONE THROUGH ALL THESE HARDSHIPS FOR NOTHING, FOR     TH00200970
IN EVERY ONE OF HIS VISIONS THE LOON HAD APPEARED TO HIM, AND GIVEN   TH00200980
HIM POWERS NOT KNOWN TO OTHER MEN.  NOBODY HAD EVER GUESSED THAT      TH00200990
KELORA REALLY HAD MAGICAL POWERS FOR HE HAD NEVER PROVED IT TO        TH00201000
ANYBODY, NOT EVEN TO THE MOST POWERFUL CHIEFS OR IMPORTANT MEDICINE   TH00201010
MEN.  ONLY WHEN THERE WAS SOME SERIOUS DANGER WOULD HIS GUARDIAN      TH00201020
SPIRIT ALLOW THE SINGING OF HIS SACRED SONGS, THE WEARING OF HIS      TH00201030
COLLAR OF GLEAMING WHITE DENTALIUM SHELLS, EACH SHAPED LIKE A TINY    TH00201040
ELEPHANT'S TUSK, OR THE USE OF HIS MAGICAL BOW.  BUT NOW, HE KNEW,    TH00201050
THE RIGHT TIME HAD COME TO USE THE POWERS THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN HIM.    TH00201060
     CAREFULLY HE FELT HIS WAY DOWN THE FROZEN RIVER'S EDGE WHERE     TH00201070
THE VILLAGE SWEAT HOUSES STOOD ON THE SANDY BANK.  FOUR TIMES HE      TH00201080
STEAMED HIMSELF IN THE SWEAT HOUSE AND FOUR TIMES HE PLUNGED INTO     TH00201090
THE ICE-COLD RIVER.  THEN HE MADE HIS WAY HOME, PUT ON HIS SACRED     TH00201100
COLLAR OF DENTALIUM SHELLS, AND SANG ALOUD HIS MYSTICAL SONGS.  HE    TH00201120
STRUNG HIS MAGICAL BOW AND PICKED OUT FOUR ARROWS WITH THEIR SHARP    TH00201130
STONE TIPS.                                                           TH00201140
     HARDLY HAD HE FINISHED GETTING READY WHEN HE HEARD A SHOUT.      TH00201150
ONCE MORE THE WOLVES WERE COMING RIGHT INTO THE VILLAGE, HOPING TO    TH00201160
STEAL SOME UNCARED-FOR CHILD.                                         TH00201170
     IN STRONG, CLEAR TONES, OLD KELORA TOLD HIS WIFE TO LEAD HIM     TH00201180
QUICKLY TOWARDS THE WOLVES.  SHE WAS SO SURPRISED THAT SHE OBEYED     TH00201190
WITHOUT THINKING.  AS SOON AS THEY APPEARED IN THE VILLAGE STREET     TH00201200
THERE WERE SHOUTS OF LAUGHTER.                                        TH00201210
     "ARE YOU GOING TO THROW HIM TO THE WOLVES?" THEY ASKED.  "TAKE   TH00201220
HIM BACK HOME.  WHAT DOES HE KNOW ABOUT SHOOTING WOLVES?"             TH00201230
     "PAY NO ATTENTION TO THEM," KELORA ORDERED HER, "BUT POINT MY    TH00201240
ARROW TOWARDS THE BIGGEST WOLF.  CAREFULLY NOW.  AS THOUGH YOU        TH00201250
YOURSELF WERE GOING TO SHOOT."                                        TH00201260
     "ALL RIGHT.  UP A LITTLE," SHE SAID.  "A BIT MORE TO THIS        TH00201270
SIDE.  SO.  NOW.  LET FLY YOUR ARROW."                                TH00201280
     OLD KELORA LET FLY.  SWIFT AND TRUE WENT THE ARROW, STRAIGHT     TH00201290
TO THE FLANK OF A HUGE WOLF HIDING IN A LITTLE PATCH OF BRUSH.        TH00201300
     "LOOK] LOOK]" CRIED THE PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN WATCHING.  "WHAT A   TH00201310
SHOT]  NO ORDINARY MAN COULD SHOOT LIKE THAT EVEN IF HE COULD SEE     TH00201320
PROPERLY.  KELORA MUST BE A MAGICIAN.  A GREAT MAGICIAN. WE SHALL     TH00201330
ALL BE SAVED, THANKS TO KELORA THE MAGICIAN."                         TH00201340
     THE OLD MAN SAID NOTHING, BUT TURNED BACK TO HIS HOME.           TH00201350
     FOR THE REST OF THE WINTER, WHENEVER THE WOLVES WERE SEEN HE     TH00201360
WOULD GO OUT TO THE EDGE OF THE VILLAGE.  ALWAYS HE MADE HIS WIFE     TH00201370
GET HIS AIM STRAIGHT, AND ALWAYS HE KILLED THE WOLF HE SHOT AT.  AT   TH00201380
LAST THEY DREW OFF, LOOKING FOR SAFER HUNTING GROUNDS, AND ONCE       TH00201390
MORE THE VILLAGE HUNTERS WERE ABLE TO BRING BACK GAME.                TH00201400
     DURING THE NEXT SUMMER, OLD KELORA DECIDED TO GO ONCE MORE TO    TH00201410
VISIT HIS GUARDIAN SPIRIT , THE LOON.  HE WALKED FOR MILES IN THE     TH00201420
DISTANT HILLS TILL THE DAY WAS NEARLY DONE.  HE PAUSED IN THOUGHT     TH00201430
AND THEN HE FELT THE WARMTH OF THE SETTING SUN ON HIS LEFT CHEEK.     TH00201440
     "SO," HE MURMURED TO HIMSELF, "THEN THE LITTLE LAKE I ONCE       TH00201450
KNEW SO WELL SHOULD LIE RIGHT AHEAD OF ME, JUST A LITTLE WAY OVER     TH00201460
THE TOP OF THE SLOPING GROUND."                                       TH00201470
     SUDDENLY, AS IF TO PROVE THAT HE WAS RIGHT, HE HEARD THE LONG-   TH00201480
DRAWN, QUAVERING CRY OF THE LOON.                                     TH00201490
     SLOWLY AND CAUTIOUSLY HE MADE HIS WAY FORWARD, HIS FEET          TH00201500
TRIPPED BY ROOTS, HIS FACE SCRATCHED BY THE UNDERBRUSH.  AT LAST,     TH00201510
AS THE SUN SANK LOWER, THE RANK LUSH SMELL OF THE LAKE GREW STRONG    TH00201520
AND HE HEARD THE PLOP OF A FROG AS IT JUMPED INTO THE WATER.  SOON    TH00201530
HE FELT THE DAMP EARTH SINK SLIGHTLY BENEATH HIS MOCCASINS AND,       TH00201540
BENDING DOWN, HE TOUCHED WITH HIS FINGER TIPS THE COOL, STILL WATER.  TH00201550
     KELORA DREW HIMSELF TO HIS FULL HEIGHT AS HE STOOD FACING THE    TH00201560
LAKE, HIS OWN LAKE AS HE ALWAYS CALLED IT.  HE LIFTED HIS HAND TO     TH00201570
HIS THROAT TO MAKE SURE HE STILL HAD HIS SACRED COLLAR OF DENTALIUM   TH00201580
SHELLS, AND HE SANG ONCE MORE THE SACRED SONGS HE HAD LEARNED NEAR    TH00201590
THIS VERY SPOT SO LONG AGO.  THEN HE CALLED ALOUD.                    TH00201600
     "OH, MY FATHER, THE LOON," HE CRIED.  " COME TO ME NOW.  HELP    TH00201610
ME, MY FATHER."                                                       TH00201620
     CLOSE BY HIS FEET, A VOICE ANSWERED HIM.                         TH00201630
     "WHAT IS IT THAT MY SON DESIRES?"                                TH00201640
     "I AM BLIND, MY FATHER, AND I WISH TO SEE."                      TH00201650
     "CLIMB THEN UPON MY BACK" SAID THE LOON.                         TH00201660
     AWKWARDLY KELORA SEATED HIMSELF ON THE BIRD'S BACK.              TH00201670
     "NOW, CLASP ME TIGHTLY AND HOLD YOUR BREATH," CRIED THE LOON     TH00201680
AND HE DIVED DEEP INTO THE WATERS OF THE LAKE AND SWAM SWIFTLY AND    TH00201690
STRONGLY TO THE OTHER SIDE.                                           TH00201700
     "CAN YOU SEE NOW, MY SON?" HE ASKED.                             TH00201710
     "I SEE, BUT NOT AS A MAN SHOULD SEE, FOR THERE IS STILL A        TH00201720
THICK FOG OVER MY EYES."                                              TH00201730
     "HOLD TIGHT ONCE MORE," CRIED THE LOON, AND AGAIN THEY PLUNGED   TH00201740
DEEP INTO THE WATER.  FOUR TIMES IN ALL THEY SWAM BELOW THE SURFACE   TH00201750
FROM SIDE TO SIDE OF THE LAKE.                                        TH00201760
     "NOW I SEE]  I SEE, AND IT IS AS IF I HAD NEVER KNOWN            TH00201770
BLINDNESS]"  CRIED KELORA.                                            TH00201780
     HE TURNED TO GIVE THANKS TO THE ONE WHO HAD MADE HIM SEE         TH00201790
AGAIN, BUT THERE WAS NOBODY THERE AT ALL, JUST A LOON SWIMMING        TH00201800
QUIETLY ON THE STILL WATER.                                           TH00201810
     NONE BUT THE DEAREST OF ALL HIS TREASURES WOULD BE ENOUGH.       TH00201820
OLD KELORA TOOK OFF THE COLLAR OF LITTLE WHITE SHELLS AND, WITH A     TH00201830
WIDE SWEEP OF HIS ARM, TOSSED IT GENTLY TOWARDS THE LOON.             TH00201840
     SPINNING SLOWLY AS IT SAILED THROUGH THE AIR, THE COLLAR         TH00201850
WRAPPED ITSELF AROUND THE BIRD'S THROAT, MAKING THE SHINING WHITE     TH00201860
NECKLACE WE SEE THERE TODAY.                                          TH00201870
     A HANDFULL OF SHELLS, WHICH BROKE AWAY FROM THE STRING, FELL     TH00201880
SCATTERED ON THE LOON'S BACK.                                         TH00201890
     THESE, TOO, YOU MAY SEE ON ANY LOON.                             TH00201900
***THO-059***
          TH003  THE ANIMAL PEOPLES' TRIP TO THE PACIFIC COAST        TH00300010
    IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWO OF THE ANIMAL-PEOPLES' LIVES THEY    TH00300020
VISITED THE PACIFIC COAST.  IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND OF THEIR LIVES   TH00300030
A TERRIBLE FLOOD HAD COVERED BRITISH COLUMBIA AND THE FATHER OF       TH00300040
MYSTERIES SENT HIS SEA RULER, MR. SEE-SEE-UTL, UP TO THE HIGH         TH00300050
MOUNTAIN NEAR WHERE LYTTON, B.C., NOW IS, TO MEET MR. COYOTE.  THIS   TH00300060
WAS THE FIRST MEETING OF THE RULER OF SALT WATER WITH THE RULER OF     H00300070
THE ANIMAL FOLK.  SUCH A                                               H00300071
HAPPY MEETING IT WAS TOO, AND IT WAS ON THIS OCCASION THAT THE        TH00300080
ANIMAL PEOPLE RECEIVED THEIR INVITATION TO VISIT THE SEA SHORE,       TH00300090
NOW KNOWN AS VANCOUVER, B.C.                                          TH00300100
     WHEN MR. SEE-SEE-UTL VISITED MR. AND MRS. COYOTE DURING THE      TH00300110
TERRIBLE FLOOD, HE FOUND THEM TAKING REFUGE ON MOUNT KI-KO.  IN       TH00300120
ROWING OVER FROM THE SEA  IT IS SAID THAT HE FOLLOWED A COURSE AS     TH00300130
THE BIRD WOULD FLY, SINCE THE WHOLE FRASER VALLEY WAS SUBMERGED IN    TH00300140
WATER.  AND, ON THE DAY OF HIS VISIT THE FLOOD WAS AT ITS WORST AND   TH00300150
REACHED LEVEL WITH MOUNT KI-KO - THE HIGHEST ELEVATION OF THE         TH00300160
FRASER VALLEY.  IT WAS A SAD DAY, TOO,  AS THE LAST OF  THE ANIMAL    TH00300170
PEOPLE WHO FAILED TO GET HIGH ENOUGH UP THE MOUNTAIN WERE THAT        TH00300180
MORNING DROWNED.  HOWEVER, MANY CLOSE ASSOCIATES OF MR.  COYOTE WHO   TH00300190
ACCEPTED HIS WISE COUNCIL, WERE SAFELY PROTECTED ON THE MOUNTAIN.     TH00300200
     BUT, IT IS SAID, THAT WITH ALL THE DISCOMFORTS, MRS. COYOTE      TH00300210
WENT ABOUT CHEERING ALL THE LADY FOLK SHE COULD FIND.  HER TWO        TH00300220
POWERFUL EAGLES, SIR DOBBIN AND SIR GORDON, WERE ALWAYS NEAR HER      TH00300230
AND TRANSPORTED HER ON THEIR BACKS TO ANY SPOT SHE MIGHT CARE TO      TH00300240
GO.  WITH HER, TOO, SHE ALWAYS CARRIED HER COILED MAGIC BASKET        TH00300250
KETTLE, WHICH COULD PERFORM MIRACLES.  IT WAS HER GIFT FROM THE       TH00300260
FATHER OF MYSTERIES BEFORE SHE LEFT THE HEAVENS, AND REMAINED A       TH00300270
FAITHFUL PROTECTOR FOR FOUR THOUSAND YEARS.                           TH00300280
     SO THE DAYS PASSED AND THE FLOOD BEGAN TO RECEDE AND AFTER       TH00300290
SIXTY DAYS THE ANIMAL PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO DESCEND INTO THE LOWER      TH00300300
FRASER ONCE MORE.  HOW SAD MOST FELT AS THEY LOOKED OVER THE WASTE    TH00300310
LANDS OF THE FRASER VALLEY, YET THEY KNEW IT WAS THE WISH OF THE      TH00300320
FATHER OF MYSTERIES, AND WERE COMFORTED BY THE PROMISE HE HAD MADE    TH00300330
TO THEM, THAT WITHIN THREE MONTHS THE FRASER VALLEY WOULD BE GREEN    TH00300340
ONCE MORE.  THIS PROMISE HE FULFILLED AND A BUILDING PROGRAM FOR      TH00300350
NEW HOMES BEGAN AT ONCE.  MR. COYOTE SELECTED THE BEAVER MEN AS THE   TH00300360
CHIEF ARCHITECTS AND CONSTRUCTORS, AND BEFORE THE SUMMER WAS OVER A   TH00300370
NEW VILLAGE FOR THE ANIMAL PEOPLE HAD BEEN ERECTED.                   TH00300380
     IT MUST BE REMEMBERED THINGS MOVED QUICKLY IN THE TIME OF THE    TH00300390
ANIMAL PEOPLE.  CHILDREN GREW TO MATURITY IN THREE MONTHS;  AND       TH00300400
VALLEYS, RIVERS AND TREES COULD CHANGE IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE,    TH00300410
IF IT WERE THE WILL OF THE FATHER OF THE MYSTERIES.  EVERYTHING       TH00300420
LIVING POSSESSED A SOUL IN THE TIME OF THE ANIMAL FOLK.               TH00300430
     SO IN THE WINTER OF TWO THOUSAND ONE OF THE ANIMAL PEOPLES'      TH00300440
LIVES, GREAT PREPARATIONS WERE IN HAND FOR THEIR WESTERN TRIP.  BY    TH00300450
MAY 25 OF TWO THOUSAND TWO A CONVOY OF SALMON MEN ARRIVED UP THE      TH00300460
FRASER, SENT BY MR. SEE-SEE-UTL TO GUIDE THE PARTY DOWN THE RAPID     TH00300470
AND DANGEROUS RIVER.  BUT IT WAS A JOLLY EXCURSION, AND REPORTS SAY   TH00300480
THE LOVING ANIMAL PEOPLE ENJOYED EVERY SECOND OF THE TRIP.  THE       TH00300490
RIVER WAS ROUGH AT THAT  PERIOD OF THE YEAR, TOO, BUT MRS. COYOTE     TH00300500
CHEERED TIMID MRS. RABBIT LADY AND THE RESERVED MRS. PORCUPINE LADY   TH00300510
SO MUCH THAT EVEN THE MEEKEST OF THE ANIMAL FOLK FORGOT THE           TH00300520
DANGEROUS WATERS.                                                     TH00300530
     AT HIGH NOON OF THE SECOND DAY THE PARTY REACHED THE SPOT        TH00300540
WHERE HOPE, B.C., IS NOW, AND IT WAS HERE THAT TWO DWARF LADIES       TH00300550
PRESENTED MRS. COYOTE WITH A MAGIC WALKING CANE.  HOW HAPPY MRS.      TH00300560
COYOTE WAS OVER THIS]  ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS THESE DWARF LADIES    TH00300570
 HAD DONE VALUABLE WORK IN NOTIFYING MRS. COYOTE OF THE WHEREABOUTS   TH00300580
OF THE GIANT MEN WHO WERE THE ENEMIES OF THE ANIMAL PEOPLE, AND WHO    H00300590
OFTEN TRIED TO CREEP UP SILENTLY AND KILL THEM.                       TH00300600
 THE FOLLOWING DAY THE PARTY REACHED THE MOUTH OF THE FRASER RIVER,   TH00300610
WHERE THEY WERE WELCOMED ROYALLY BY MR. SEE-SEE-UTL AND HIS CHIEF     TH00300650
ADVISOR, MR. NAT-NEES MAN, TOGETHER WITH THEIR WIVES. SUCH A          TH00300660
GLORIOUS WELCOME IT WAS, AND MRS. COYOTE WEPT WITH JOY AS TWO         TH00300670
QUAILS AND EIGHT GOLDEN CHOIR BIRDS FROM HEAVEN SANG A SONG OF        TH00300680
WELCOME FROM THE TIP OF THE CANOE JUST AS MR. AND MRS. COYOTE         TH00300690
SHOOK HANDS WITH THE DIGNITARIES OF THE SEA.                          TH00300700
     NOT LONG AFTER THIS THE PROCESSION HEADED TOWARDS THE SPOT       TH00300710
WHERE VANCOUVER NOW IS, AND IT IS SAID THAT IT WAS  THE GRANDEST      TH00300720
PROCESSION EVER TO HAVE SAILED THE INLAND WATERS.  EVERY DIPLOMAT     TH00300730
OF THE SEA WAS THERE, AND THE ANIMAL FOLK ALL REMARKED THAT           TH00300740
EVERYTHING FAR EXCEEDED THEIR EXPECTATION.  THE SEA AIR AND THE       TH00300750
BALMY BREEZES DELIGHTED MRS. COYOTE.  MANY TIMES SHE LEANED OUT OF    TH00300760
THE CANOE TO TOUCH THE SALT WATER, WHILE TO MRS. BEAVER LADY AND      TH00300770
MRS. BEAR LADY THE BEAUTY OF IT ALL APPEARED LIKE A DREAM.            TH00300780
     THAT EVENING THE PARTY GATHERED ON THE SHORE AND HELD THE        TH00300790
LARGEST FEAST EVER TO HAVE OCCURED AMONG THE FOLK OF THE SEA AND      TH00300800
LAND.  FAR INTO THE NIGHT MANY SPEAKERS GAVE WELCOME TO THE           TH00300810
STRANGERS FROM THE INLAND REGIONS, YET HOW HAPPY THEY WERE.  THE      TH00300820
ANIMAL FOLK WERE OVERWHELMED WITH JOY AND REMARKED HOW SORRY THEY     TH00300830
WERE THAT THEY LIVED TWO THOUSAND AND TWO YEARS WITHOUT VISITING      TH00300840
THEIR SEA FRIENDS.                                                    TH00300850
     SO THE DAYS PASSED, WITH EVERY MINUTE FULL OF JOY.  MRS.         TH00300860
COYOTE FOUND NO END OF COMFORT TALKING TO MRS. SEE-SEE-UTL AND MRS.   TH00300870
SALMON, NOR FORGETTING THE BUSY MRS. NAT-NEES, WHO WAS ALWAYS AS      TH00300880
BUSINESSLIKE AS HER HUSBAND, MR. NAT-NEES, SECRETARY TO MR.           TH00300890
SEE-SEE-UTL.  EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING WAS FULL OF ACTIVITIES,      TH00300900
AND BEFORE THE ANIMAL PEOPLE REALISED IT A WEEK HAD PASSED BY.        TH00300910
WEDNESDAY OF THE WEEK WAS "LADIES' DAY", WHEN ALL THE WOMEN           TH00300920
GATHERED IN THE PARK TO DISCUSS MANY PROBLEMS OF THEIR LIVES.  WHAT   TH00300930
A JOLLY TIME THEY ALL HAD]  AT THE CLOSE OF THE MEETING MRS.          TH00300940
SEE-SEE-UTL, WHOSE HOME WAS FAR UP THE COAST, PRESENTED MRS. COYOTE   TH00300950
WITH A BEAUTIFUL SEALSKIN COAT, AND MRS. NAT-NEES PRESENTED HER       TH00300960
WITH A NECKLACE OF ONE THOUSAND ASSORTED PEARLS COLLECTED             TH00300970
THROUGHOUT THE OCEAN.  THESE PRICELESS GIFTS WERE TOO MUCH FOR MRS.   TH00300980
COYOTE AND SHE WEPT AS SHE TRIED TO THANK HER KIND FRIENDS.           TH00300990
     "NEVER BEFORE," SHE BEGAN, "HAVE I BEEN SO HONOURED, EXCEPTING   TH00301000
THE DAY I RECEIVED MY MAGIC KETTLE FROM THE FATHER OF MYSTERIES IN    TH00301010
HEAVEN," SHE WAS OVERCOME BY HER TEARS OF GRATITUDE AND COULD NOT     TH00301020
CONTINUE.                                                             TH00301030
     SATURDAY SAW MANY SAD HEARTS DEPARTING HOME UP THE FRASER        TH00301040
RIVER.  MR. COYOTE, IN ADDRESSING A GROUP OF THE SEA FOLK BEFORE      TH00301050
HIS DEPARTURE, SAID, "THIS TRIP HAS BEEN ONE THAT WILL REMAIN         TH00301060
ENGRAVED ON OUR MINDS FOR MANY GENERATIONS, AND THOUGH IT IS NOT      TH00301070
THE WISH OF THE FATHER OF THE MYSTERIES THAT WE MEET AGAIN, YET WE    TH00301080
HAVE THIS WEEK MADE A TIE BETWEEN THE LAND AND SEA WHICH  WILL        TH00301090
NEVER BE BROKEN."                                                     TH00301100
     THESE WORDS WERE SO TRUE.  NEVER AGAIN DID THE ANIMAL  PEOPLE    TH00301120
VISIT THE SEA FOLK.  YET IT IS SAID THAT ALL REMAINED MUTUALLY        TH00301130
INTERESTED IN EACH OTHER TO THE END OF THEIR DAYS.                    TH00301140
***THO-060***
          TH004 MR. AND MRS. COYOTE AND THEIR MAGIC KETTLE            TH00400010
     LONG, LONG AGO WHEN THE ANIMAL PEOPLE LIVED IN BRITISH           TH00400020
COLUMBIA THEY WERE ALL VERY FRIENDLY  TOGETHER AND LOOKED LOYALLY     TH00400030
TO MR. COYOTE AS THEIR LEADER.  THEY WERE CLEVER FOLK, SO THAT WHEN   TH00400040
AFTER MANY YEARS MANKIND FIRST APPEARED IN THEIR WORLD IT WAS THE     TH00400050
ANIMAL PEOPLE WHO TAUGHT THESE MEN HOW TO BUILD SHELTERS AGAINST      TH00400060
WIND AND RAIN, HOW TO MAKE FIRES FOR WARMTH AND HOW TO MAKE STONE     TH00400070
TOOLS.                                                                TH00400080
     BEFORE MR. AND MRS. COYOTE LEFT THE SKY-WORLD THE FATHER OF      TH00400090
MYSTERIES GAVE MRS. COYOTE THIS WONDERFUL KETTLE MADE OF COILED       TH00400100
BASKET WORK; IT COULD HOLD WATER AND COOK FOOD; BUT OF MUCH GREATER   TH00400110
IMPORTANCE IT HAD THE MAGIC POWER TO GRANT THE WISHES OF ITS OWNER    TH00400120
AND TO PROTECT HER FROM DANGER.  WHO CAN BE SURPRISED AT THE CARE     TH00400130
TAKEN BY MRS. COYOTE OF THIS PRECIOUS GIFT, FOR IT POSSESSED          TH00400140
ANOTHER AMAZING PROPERTY.  IF BY CHANCE MRS. COYOTE WAS INJURED A     TH00400150
SWEET HERB OR FLOWER OR FINE SHADE TREE INSTANTLY SPRANG UP TO HEAL   TH00400160
THE WOUND.  AND ONCE, WHEN BY ACCIDENT MRS. COYOTE WAS SHOT IN ONE    TH00400170
ARM AND LOST MUCH STRENGTH, AT THE EXACT MOMENT A MUCH-NEEDED         TH00400180
STREAM BEGAN TO FLOW ON A FAR DISTANT HILL-SIDE PROVIDING AN AMPLE    TH00400190
SUPPLY OF PURE WATER FOR THE THIRSTY FOLK WHO LIVED THERE.            TH00400200
     SO THE ANIMAL PEOPLE FELT VERY SAD WHEN, AFTER MRS. COYOTE HAD   TH00400210
SPENT FOUR THOUSAND YEARS AMONG THEM, SHE DECIDED TO CLIMB UP THE     TH00400220
MAGIC LADDER DOWN WHICH SHE HAD COME TO EARTH AND RETURN TO THE       TH00400230
GREAT FATHER OF MYSTERIES, TAKING WITH HER THIS PRECIOUS MAGIC        TH00400240
BASKET.                                                               TH00400250
***THO-061***
          TH005 THE THREE COYOTE BROTHERS                             TH00500010
     MR. COYOTE HAD THREE CLEVER BROTHERS WHO WERE VERY FRIENDLY      TH00500020
WITH THE ANIMAL PEOPLE AMONG WHOM THEY SPENT MANY YEARS, ALTHOUGH     TH00500030
THEY LOVED ALSO  TO  TRAVEL LONG JOURNEYS TO STUDY THE WAYS OF THE    TH00500040
STRANGE PEOPLE THEY MET.  ONCE ON THEIR RETURN AFTER A LONG PERIOD    TH00500050
THEY MADE KNOWN TO THE SURPRISED ANIMAL PEOPLE THAT DURING THEIR      TH00500060
ABSENCE THE ELDER BROTHER HAD BECOME A DOCTOR ABLE TO CURE EVERY      TH00500080
KIND OF SICKNESS.  THE SECOND BROTHER HAD STUDIED LAW AND COULD       TH00500090
SETTLE ALL DISPUTES JUSTLY; WHILE THE THIRD BROTHER COULD NOW         TH00500100
INVENT A NUMBER OF USEFUL CONVENIENCES TO ADD TO THE COMFORT OF       TH00500110
THE ANIMAL PEOPLE.                                                    TH00500120
     BUT, SAD TO SAY, THE BROTHERS ENVIED MRS. COYOTE HER MAGIC       TH00500130
KETTLE.  AGAIN AND AGAIN THEY MADE PLANS TO SECURE THIS  PRECIOUS     TH00500140
TREASURE; BUT THEIR PLANS ALWAYS FAILED BECAUSE THE MAGIC KETTLE      TH00500150
WARNED MRS. COYOTE OF THEIR TREACHERY IN TIME FOR HER TO TAKE MEANS   TH00500160
TO DEFEAT IT.  THUS THE BROTHERS WERE SAVED FROM COMMITTING A VERY    TH00500170
WRONG DEED.                                                           TH00500180
     FOR AT HEART THEY WERE GOOD, AND DID ALL SORTS OF KIND ACTS      TH00500190
FOR THE ANIMAL PEOPLE.  THUS, WITH HARD LABOUR THEY MADE SAFE         TH00500200
TRAILS FROM LYTTON TO KAMLOOPS, FOR THEY BELIEVED IN BEING GOOD       TH00500210
NEIGHBOURS; AND BY THIS MEANS ENABLED THE ANIMAL PEOPLE TO MAKE       TH00500220
FRIENDS WITH THE LAKE FOLK AT KAMLOOPS.  AGAIN, WHEN AFTER TWO        TH00500230
THOUSAND YEARS OF HAPPY LIFE THE FATHER OF MYSTERIES TOLD THEM        TH00500240
THERE WOULD BE A GREAT FLOOD THE THREE BROTHERS GATHERED ALL THE      TH00500250
ANIMAL PEOPLE ON THE VERY HIGHEST MOUNTAIN PEAK TO SAVE THEM FROM     TH00500260
DESTRUCTION IN THE RAGING WATERS, AS YOU WILL LEARN.                  TH00500270
***THO-062***
          TH006 THE GREAT FLOOD AND THE CAPTURE OF WIND-MAN           TH00600010
     DURING THE TIME THAT MR. COYOTE RULED THE ANIMAL WORLD IT ONCE   TH00600020
CAME TO PASS THAT RAIN POURED DOWN IN TORRENTS AND WIND-MAN RAGED     TH00600030
SO FIERCELY THAT ALL THE LAND WAS FLOODED. HAPPILY THE PEOPLE HAD     TH00600040
ALREADY BEEN GUIDED TO SAFETY ON A VERY HIGH MOUNTAIN, (LOOK FOR IT   TH00600050
WHEN YOU VISIT THE LYTTON COUNTRY), AND ON THIS NARROW PEAK MRS.      TH00600060
COYOTE SAVED THEIR LIVES WITH FOOD FROM HER MAGIC BASKET.             TH00600070
     AT LAST THE STORM CLOUDS WEARIED; THE DOWN-POUR CEASED AND THE   TH00600080
SUN-MAN SHONE TO WARM THE SHIVERING PEOPLE AND TO DRY THE SODDEN      TH00600090
GROUND.  BUT THE WIND-MAN STILL RAGED FURIOUSLY; EVEN THE KIND        TH00600100
MOON-MAN TRIED TO CALM HIM, BUT IN VAIN.                              TH00600110
     SUDDENLY THE CLOUD-MAN APPEARED SAYING HE WOULD SURELY TAME      TH00600120
THE WIND-MAN.  TELLING THE FRIGHTENED ANIMAL PEOPLE TO MAKE A LONG,   TH00600130
STRONG ROPE, THIS DARING CLOUD-MAN THREW A COIL OF THE ROPE           TH00600140
SUDDENLY ROUND THE MAD WIND-MAN, CALLING TO ALL THE PEOPLE TO PULL    TH00600150
HARD. AND PULL THEY DID WITH ALL THEIR MIGHT] SOON THE WIND-MAN'S     TH00600160
STRUGGLES WEAKENED AND AT LAST HE CEASED TO BREATHE.  THEN CLOUD-     TH00600170
MAN TOLD HIM HE WOULD DIE UNLESS HE GAVE HIS WORD ONLY TO RAGE        TH00600180
MADLY FROM TIME TO TIME, SO THAT BETWEEN WHILES THE WORLD COULD       TH00600190
ENJOY CALM DAYS AND QUIET NIGHT.  BROKEN AND BREATHLESS HE GAVE       TH00600200
THIS PLEDGE.  THEN CLOUD-MAN VANISHED AND MR. COYOTE LED A HAPPY      TH00600210
FAMILY DOWN FROM THEIR NARROW PEAK, AND ALL OF THEM SANG SONGS AND    TH00600220
DANCED FOR JOY THAT THEY WERE SAVED FROM THEIR GREAT DANGER.          TH00600230
***THO-063***
          TH007 THE DANCE OF THE ANIMAL PEOPLE                        TH00700010
IT WAS A HABIT AMONG THE ANIMAL PEOPLE TO GATHER ON CERTAIN DAYS IN   TH00700020
THE YEAR TO PERFORM CEREMONIAL DANCES.  IN THE WINTER TIME THEY MET   TH00700030
IN ONE OF THEIR LARGE COMMUNITY HOUSES BUT IN THE SUMMER THEY         TH00700040
ASSEMBLED OUT OF DOORS IN CUSTOMARY SELECTED PLACES.  THE CEREMONY    TH00700050
CONSISTED OF THREE GROUPS OF FOUR DANCES EACH, PERFORMED AT           TH00700060
SUNRISE, AT NOON AND AT SUNSET.  A PAUSE WAS MADE FOR REST AND FOOD   TH00700070
AFTER EACH FOUR DANCES WHICH VARIED IN THEIR DETAILS.  SOMETIMES      TH00700080
THE MOVEMENTS WERE BY SUDDEN JERKS; IN OTHERS THE BODY WAS THROWN     TH00700090
BACK WITH BOTH HANDS AND FEET IN VIOLENT CONTINUOUS ACTION.  NO       TH00700100
WORD WAS SPOKEN AS EACH ANIMAL CHOSE HIS PARTNER FOR THE DANCE.  HE   TH00700110
TOUCHED HER ON THE SHOULDER AND SHE FOLLOWED HIM TO THE CIRCLE IN     TH00700120
WHICH THE TWO WERE TO TAKE THEIR PLACES.                              TH00700130
     IN ALL THESE PROCEEDINGS THEY WERE GUIDED BY MR. COYOTE.  ON     TH00700140
THE APPOINTED DAY AT SUNRISE ALL THE DANCERS ARRANGED THEMSELVES IN   TH00700150
THREE LARGE CIRCLES, ONE WITHIN THE OTHER, IN THE CENTRE OF WHICH     TH00700160
STOOD MR. COYOTE AND HIS THREE BROTHERS.  THEN ALL JOINED  IN A       TH00700170
SONG, FOR THESE DANCES WERE A FORM OF THANKSGIVING TO THE FATHER OF   TH00700180
MYSTERIES FOR ALL HIS MANY GOOD GIFTS TO THE ANIMAL PEOPLE.  THEN     TH00700190
UNDER MR. COYOTE'S DIRECTIONS THE DANCERS MARKED TIME WITH THEIR      TH00700200
FEET, MOVING SLOWLY IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CIRCLES.  SOON THE PACE       TH00700210
QUICKENED, UNTIL THE DANCERS IN THE INNER AND OUTER CIRCLES HAD TO    TH00700220
HOLD FIRMLY TO THE  SASHES OF THOSE IN THE MIDDLE CIRCLE SO SWIFTLY   TH00700230
DID THEY WHIRL ROUND AND ROUND.                                       TH00700240
     NEXT IN ORDER A DANCE IN WHICH ALL SANG, WHILE TAKING            TH00700250
SHORT STEPS, RAISING THEIR ARMS SHOULDER HIGH AND THEN LOWERING       TH00700260
THEM, KEEPING TIME WITH THE MOVEMENTS OF THEIR FEET.  AT THE          TH00700270
COMPLETION OF EACH SET OF FOUR DANCES, WHEN FOOD WAS SERVED IT WAS    TH00700280
EATEN IN SILENCE AND PRECEDED BY PRAYER, IN KEEPING WITH THE SOLEMN   TH00700290
OCCASION.                                                             TH00700300
***THO-064***
          TH008 MR. AND MRS. COYOTE RENEW FRIENDSHIP WITH BROTHER     TH00800010
          TH008 AND SISTER SKUNK                                      TH00800020
     FOR MANY YEARS THE SKUNK FAMILY HAD BEEN IN DISGRACE WITH        TH00800030
OTHER ANIMAL PEOPLE, BECAUSE WHEN ANNOYED OR ALARMED THEY EXPRESSED   TH00800040
THEIR FEELINGS IN A MOST OFFENSIVE WAY.  YET THE SKUNK WERE A VERY    TH00800050
HANDSOME PEOPLE AND POSSESSED UNUSUAL WISDOM; INDEED IT WAS           TH00800060
BELIEVED THAT THE STRIP OF WHITE FUR DOWN EACH SKUNK'S BACK WAS A     TH00800070
SIGN OF VERY SUPERIOR KNOWLEDGE.  THEY WERE SPECIALLY CLEVER IN       TH00800080
FINDING LOST ARTICLES AND THEIR EARS WERE SO SHARP THEY WERE QUICK    TH00800090
TO CATCH STRANGE SOUNDS.  THUS THEY COULD GIVE WISE ADVICE IF THEIR   TH00800100
EARS CAUGHT WARNINGS OF TROUBLE.  THEY WERE ALSO EXCELLENT            TH00800110
PLAYMATES.  FURTHER THEY WERE VERY KIND TO THE INSECT PEOPLE AND      TH00800120
REPORT SAID THAT IT WAS THE SKUNK FAMILY WHICH TAUGHT WISE HABITS     TH00800130
TO THE TINY ANTS.                                                     TH00800140
     SO IT WAS NOT SURPRISING THAT MR. AND MRS. COYOTE FELT THEY      TH00800150
MUST BRING BACK THE SKUNK FAMILY INTO GOOD FELLOWSHIP WITH THE        TH00800160
OTHER ANIMAL PEOPLE.  THE PUZZLE WAS HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS WITHOUT      TH00800170
ALARMING OR ANNOYING THEM, WHICH MIGHT REVIVE THE DISGUSTING SKUNK    TH00800180
HABIT.  HOWEVER, BY DEGREES, TACTFUL MR. AND MRS. COYOTE MADE         TH00800190
LITTLE FRIENDLY ADVANCES AND SO OVERCAME THE SKUNK SHYNESS THAT       TH00800200
THEY COULD TAKE PLEASANT WALKS TOGETHER.                              TH00800210
     LATER ON THEY BEGAN TO GIVE SMALL "SOCIALS", WHEN THEY INVITED   TH00800220
MORE AND MORE OF THE ANIMAL PEOPLE TO MEET BROTHER AND SISTER         TH00800230
SKUNK; AND PRESENTLY THEY VENTURED TO INTRODUCE FAVORITE              TH00800240
DANCES.  THUS GRADUALLY BY THEIR KINDNESS MR. AND MRS. COYOTE         TH00800250
COAXED THE SKUNK FAMILY BACK INTO SHARING THE HAPPY LIVES OF ALL      TH00800260
THE OTHER ANIMAL PEOPLE.                                              TH00800270
***THO-065***
          TH009 MR. COYOTE AND HIS FRIENDS THE BIRDS                  TH00900010
     MR. COYOTE LOVED THE SINGING BIRDS WHICH FILLED THE FORESTS      TH00900020
WITH THEIR HAPPY SONGS AND KNEW EACH ONE BY ITS OWN SWEET NOTES OF    TH00900030
WELCOME WHEN HE WAS SEEN APPROACHING THROUGH THE TREES.  HE MADE      TH00900040
GREAT FRIENDS AMONG THEM AND THEY COMPLETELY TRUSTED HIS CARE.        TH00900050
THUS , ONE DAY SOON AFTER MR. COYOTE HAD RENEWED HIS FRIENDSHIP       TH00900060
WITH BROTHER AND SISTER SKUNK HE INVITED THEM TO GO WITH HIM TO       TH00900070
HELP HIM MAKE A SPECIAL FEAST FOR THE FEATHERED FOLK.  THE BIRDS      TH00900080
FELT NO FEAR OF THESE STRANGE VISITORS, THEIR TRUST IN MR. COYOTE'S   TH00900090
PROTECTION WAS SO STRONG.  INDEED SO GREAT WAS THEIR FAITH THAT       TH00900100
OFTEN THEY WOULD TAKE PART IN MRS. COYOTE'S "SOCIALS" AND SOME OF     TH00900110
THE SHY PRAIRIE CHICKENS ACTUALLY PERFORMED SPECIAL DANCES FOR THE    TH00900120
ENTERTAINMENT OF HER GUESTS.                                          TH00900130
     MR. COYOTE ALSO ENCOURAGED THE SQUIRREL FOLK TO SHARE IN HIS     TH00900140
GUARDIANSHIP OF THESE FAVOURED BIRDS.  IF, FOR INSTANCE, A BIRD WAS   TH00900150
HURT A FRIENDLY SQUIRREL WOULD FEED AND PROTECT IT UNTIL IT WAS       TH00900160
ONCE MORE ABLE TO FLY.  YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THAT IN THOSE DAYS ALL    TH00900170
ANIMALS AND BIRDS TALKED THE SAME LANGUAGE AND UNDERSTOOD EACH        TH00900180
OTHERS LITTLE WAYS.  IT WAS ONLY THE LARGE FIERCE BIRDS OF PREY       TH00900190
THAT MR. COYOTE FELT IT RIGHT TO DESTROY WITH HIS BOW AND ARROWS      TH00900200
BECAUSE OF THEIR CRUELTY TO DEFENCELESS CREATURES.  BUT HE  FELT      TH00900210
THIS DUTY A HARD ONE AND TOOK GREAT CARE TO AIM SO ACCURATELY THAT    TH00900220
THE CRUEL BIRD SHOULD DIE INSTANTLY AND NOT SUFFER THE WOUNDS AND     TH00900230
DISTRESS CAUSED TO ITS OWN VICTIMS.                                   TH00900240
***THO-066***
          TH010  THE MYSTERIOUS LAKE                                  TH01000010
     CONTENTED AS WERE THE ANIMAL PEOPLE NEVERTHELESS THEY FELT       TH01000020
UNEASY ABOUT A CERTAIN LAKE ON WHOSE WATERS MYSTERIOUS HAPPENINGS     TH01000030
OCCURRED.  SOMETIMES CANOES COULD BE SEEN WITH HUMAN                  TH01000040
FIGURES PADDLING TOWARDS THE ONLOOKERS, YET BOTH CANOES AND MEN       TH01000050
VANISHED AS THEY APPROACHED THE SHORE.  THESE APPEARANCES GAVE        TH01000060
GREAT ANXIETY.  IF ONLY FOUR FIGURES WERE IN THE CANOE ALL BODED      TH01000070
WELL TO THE WATCHERS ON THE SHORE; BUT IF THERE WERE ONLY THREE MEN   TH01000080
OR FIVE THEIR DISAPPEARANCE BODED ILL TO THOSE WHO CAUGHT SIGHT OF    TH01000090
THEM; FOR YOU MUST KNOW THE NUMBERS FOUR OR EIGHT WERE GOOD OMENS,    TH01000100
ESPECIALLY IN GAMBLING GAMES OR WHEN DIVIDING A CATCH OF FISH;        TH01000110
WHEREAS ODD NUMBERS FORETOLD DISASTER.                                TH01000120
     AT OTHER TIMES FLOATING LOGS COULD BE SEEN ON THE LAKE WITH      TH01000130
CREATURES LIKE DOGS ON THEM RUNNING TO AND FRO; THESE LIKEWISE        TH01000140
DISAPPEARED BEFORE REACHING THE SHORE.  SOME OF THE ANIMAL PEOPLE     TH01000150
BELIEVED THESE MYSTERIOUS FIGURES WERE THE SPIRITS OF MEN ESCAPED     TH01000160
FROM THE OTHER WORLD, BUT THEY NEVER REACHED ANY DEFINITE             TH01000170
CONCLUSION ON THE MATTER.  SO OF COURSE THEY TOOK THEIR FEARS TO      TH01000180
MR. COYOTE.  THEIR WISE COUNCILLOR PROMPTLY ADVISED THEM TO HIDE      TH01000190
THEIR FACES WHEN THEY SAW THESE UNCANNY SIGHTS AND TO RUN AWAY AT     TH01000200
ONCE, NOT TO STAND BY THE SHORE WATCHING AND WONDERING WHAT THESE     TH01000210
APPEARANCES MIGHT BE.  "SHEER WASTE OF TIME," HE SAID, "TO FEED       TH01000220
THEIR FEARS, WAITING FOR WHAT MIGHT NEVER HAPPEN]"                    TH01000230
     NEVERTHELESS, EVEN TO-DAY THE THOMPSON INDIANS WHISPER THAT      TH01000240
THIS LAKE GIVES MYSTERIOUS SIGNS OF COMING EVENTS TO THOSE WHO KNOW   TH01000250
HOW TO DISCERN THEM.  THESE MAY BE GOOD OR BAD, BUT ARE EVIDENCE OF   TH01000260
A MYSTERY STILL UNEXPLAINED.                                          TH01000270
***THO-067***
          TH011  THE GIANT ANIMAL PEOPLE                              TH01100010
     THE ANIMAL PEOPLE WERE SO HAPPY WITH THEIR WISE AND KIND         TH01100020
LEADERS MR. AND MRS. COYOTE, THAT IT SEEMS SAD TO REPORT THAT THEY    TH01100030
HAD BITTER ENEMIES IN CERTAIN HUGE, VERY STRONG CREATURES CALLED      TH01100040
"THE GIANT ANIMALS", WHO DESPISED AND WERE JEALOUS OF MR. COYOTE'S    TH01100050
LEADERSHIP.  THESE ENEMIES WERE REALLY STUPID FOLK; THEY COULD NOT    TH01100060
SING OR DANCE; THEY NEVER ENJOYED PLEASANT SOCIAL MEETINGS; ALL       TH01100070
THEY WANTED TO DO WAS TO INJURE, MAIM OR KILL OTHERS OF THEIR OWN     TH01100080
KIND.  THEY WERE SPECIALLY HARSH AND CRUEL TO ALL THE WEAKER ANIMAL   TH01100090
PEOPLE AND TO THE DEFENCELESS BIRD FAMILIES.  THEY STAMPED WITH ALL   TH01100100
THEIR GREAT STRENGTH ON BUSHES, DESTROYING THE DELICIOUS BERRY        TH01100110
CROPS; THEY TRAMPLED DOWN SWEET HERBS AND LOVELY FLOWERS AND EVEN     TH01100120
SET FIRE TO THE FORESTS WHENEVER THEY COULD DO SO UNOBSERVED.         TH01100130
     OFTEN THE ANIMAL PEOPLE TALKED OF THEIR ALARMS TO MR. COYOTE,    TH01100140
FOR THEY WERE SORELY FRIGHTENED OF THESE GIANT PEOPLE, THOUGH TOO     TH01100150
TERRIFIED TO ATTEMPT THEIR DESTRUCTION.  THEN THEIR WISE LEADER       TH01100160
SHOWED THEM THE BETTER WAY WAS TO PRAY FOR PROTECTION AND GUIDANCE    TH01100170
TO THE FATHER OF MYSTERIES; AND TO THEIR INTENSE DELIGHT THEY WERE    TH01100180
SAVED BY THIS MEANS FROM THE DANGERS THEY FEARED.  FOR, WHEN THE      TH01100190
GREAT FLOOD SWEPT OVER THE EARTH AND THEY THEMSELVES WERE SHIVERING   TH01100200
BUT SAFE ON THE NARROW MOUNTAIN PEAK, THE ROARING TORRENTS OF         TH01100210
STORM-TOSSED WATERS SWEPT THE GIANT ANIMAL PEOPLE RIGHT OFF THEIR     TH01100220
FEET, DASHED THEM AGAIN AND AGAIN ON THE SHARP ROCKS AND DESTROYED    TH01100230
THEM EVERY ONE.                                                       TH01100240
     THUS WERE THE ANIMAL PEOPLE AND ALL OTHER LIVING THINGS MADE     TH01100250
SECURE AGAINST THIS DANGER TO THEIR HAPPINESS AND LIVES.              TH01100260
***THO-068***
          TH012 THE PRECIOUS TOBACCO TREE OR THE FIRST "SMOKE" OF     TH01200010
          TH012  THE SEASON                                           TH01200020
     "TOBACCO DAY" WAS A HAPPY EVENT FOR THE ANIMAL PEOPLE.           TH01200030
CAREFULLY THEY HAD WATCHED THE PRECIOUS TREE FOR THE HOUR WHEN ITS    TH01200040
LEAVES RIPENED, FOR MR. COYOTE HAD TAUGHT THEM THAT THE LEAVES MUST   TH01200050
BE CUT AT THIS PRECISE MOMENT TO ENSURE THEIR FULL DELIGHTFUL         TH01200060
FLAVOUR.  THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THIS TREE WAS POISONOUS TO  ANIMAL    TH01200070
FOLK, BUT MR. COYOTE'S MAGIC REMOVED THIS DANGER AND TRANSFORMED      TH01200080
ITS LEAVES TO THEIR WHOLESOME ENJOYMENT.                              TH01200090
     AT EARLY DAWN ON THIS FESTIVE DAY MR. COYOTE SUMMONED ALL HIS    TH01200100
PEOPLE, AND TAKING HIS PLACE IN  THEIR MIDST AS THEY SAT AROUND HE    TH01200110
LED THEM IN GIVING THANKS TO THE FATHER OF MYSTERIES FOR THIS GREAT   TH01200120
GIFT OF TOBACCO.  THEN HE GATHERED AND CUT UP THE RIPE LEAVES,        TH01200130
MIXING THEM WITH THOSE OF THE BEAR-BERRY, PREVIOUSLY ROASTED, AFTER   TH01200140
WHICH HE FILLED THE HIGH NARROW BOWL OF  HIS LARGE SOAPSTONE PIPE     TH01200150
WITH THE MIXTURE AND CALLED FOR A LIGHT.                              TH01200160
 AFTER A SHORT SMOKE HE HANDED THE PIPE ROUND TO EACH PERSON IN THE   TH01200170
CIRCLE, WARNING THEM AFTER A MOMENT'S ENJOYMENT TO PASS IT ON IN      TH01200180
THE SAME DIRECTION AS THE COURSE THE SUN-MAN RAN IN THE HEAVENS.      TH01200190
AFTER EACH MAN ENJOYED HIS "PULL" ON THE PIPE HE PUT BOTH HANDS       TH01200200
TOGETHER ON A LEVEL WITH HIS LIPS AND BLEW THE SMOKE DOWNWARDS OVER   TH01200210
HIS CHEST; THEN, CROSSING HIS HANDS, HE VIGOROUSLY RUBBED HIS         TH01200220
BREAST AND SHOULDERS.  FINALLY ALL PRESENT PRAYED TOGETHER:  "O       TH01200230
LEAF OF GOOD, MAKE LONG MY BREATH SO THAT I  MAY BE WELL AND LIVE     TH01200240
FOR MANY MOONS."                                                      TH01200250
     FINALLY THE CROP OF TOBACCO LEAVES WAS PICKED AND DIVIDED        TH01200260
EQUALLY BETWEEN ALL THE ANIMAL PEOPLE.                                TH01200270
***THO-069***
          TH013  STORY OF THE ELK-MAIDEN                              TH01300010
     IN THE REMOTE DAYS OF LONG AGO, WHEN THE ANIMALS SPOKE AND       TH01300020
BEHAVED LIKE HUMAN BEINGS, THERE LIVED IN THE FAR NORTH AN ELK MAN    TH01300030
AND HIS WIFE.  THEY POSSESSED AN ONLY DAUGHTER, AND THE ONE GRIEF     TH01300040
OF THEIR LIVES WAS THAT NO HUSBAND COULD BE FOUND FOR HER.  THE       TH01300050
DAUGHTER, WHO HAD NO WISH TO REMAIN SINGLE ALL HER DAYS, GREW         TH01300060
DISSATISFIED WITH HER LOT, AND DETERMINED TO LEAVE HOME AND SEEK AN   TH01300070
OLD AUNT, A SISTER OF HER FATHER'S, WHO LIVED SOMEWHERE IN THE FAR    TH01300080
SOUTH.  SHE ACCORDINGLY SET OUT AND TRAVELLED BY HERSELF FOR MANY     TH01300090
WEEKS AND MOONS.  SHE HAD NOT, HOWEVER, GONE FAR BEFORE HER AUNT,     TH01300100
WHO WAS A VERY WISE WOMAN, LEARNT IN A DREAM THAT HER NIECE WAS ON    TH01300110
HER WAY TO SEEK HER.                                                  TH01300120
     NOW, IN THE OLD ELK-AUNT'S VILLAGE, OF WHICH SHE WAS             TH01300130
CHIEFTAINESS, AND WHICH CONSISTED OF MANY KEEKWILEE-HOUSES, OR        TH01300140
SEMI-SUBTERRANEAN WINTER DWELLINGS, THERE WERE NO WOMEN OR FEMALES    TH01300150
OF ANY KIND.  THE WHOLE COMMUNITY, EXCEPT HERSELF, WAS COMPOSED OF    TH01300160
MALES.  BEING A WISE OLD WOMAN, SHE FORESAW THAT AS SOON AS HER       TH01300170
NIECE SHOULD ARRIVE SHE WOULD BE PESTERED TO DEATH BY SUITORS FOR     TH01300180
THE MAIDEN'S HAND, AND THAT TROUBLE AND DISCORD WOULD ARISE UPON      TH01300190
HER APPEARANCE AMONG THEM.  SHE THEREFORE SET HER WITS TO WORK TO     TH01300200
DEVISE SOME PLAN BY WHICH SHE MIGHT KEEP HER NIECE TO HERSELF AND     TH01300210
PREVENT DISCORD AND JEALOUSIES FROM DISTURBING THE PEACE AND          TH01300220
HARMONY OF THE VILLAGE.  AND THIS IS THE WAY SHE DID IT.  SHE         TH01300230
STRAIGHT WAY SENT FOR YOUNG NIGHT-HAWK, BECAUSE HE HAD A STRONG       TH01300240
VOICE, AND BADE HIM MAKE KNOWN TO ALL HIS COMPANIONS THAT IF THEY     TH01300250
DESIRED TO WIN A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG ELK-MAIDEN FOR WIFE THEY SHOULD      TH01300260
COME TO HER ON A CERTAIN DAY.  NIGHT-HAWK SOON MADE THE NEWS KNOWN    TH01300270
TO HIS COMPANIONS.  HIS TIDINGS CAUSED MUCH COMMOTION IN THE          TH01300280
VILLAGE, AND NOT A YOUTH WAS MISSING ON THE APPOINTED DAY.  WHEN      TH01300290
ALL WERE ASSEMBLED THE OLD AUNT TOLD THEM BRIEFLY THAT HER NIECE      TH01300300
WAS ABOUT TO PAY HER A VISIT, AND AS SHE  WAS UNMARRIED WOULD         TH01300310
PROBABLY DESIRE TO HAVE A HUSBAND AND SETTLE DOWN WITH HER.  "AMONG   TH01300320
SO MANY DESIRABLE YOUTHS," SAID SHE, "I FIND IT DIFFICULT TO SELECT   TH01300330
ONE WHOSE CLAIMS ARE GREATER THAN THE REST.  IN ORDER, THEREFORE,     TH01300340
THAT EACH ONE OF YOU MAY HAVE A CHANCE TO OBTAIN THE MAIDEN I HAVE    TH01300350
DECIDED TO LET YOU RACE FOR HER. YOU SHALL ALL BE PLACED AT ONE END   TH01300360
OF                                                                    TH01300361
THE VILLAGE, AND SHE AT THE OTHER.  AT THE WORD 'GO', YOU SHALL       TH01300370
START AFTER HER, AND WHOEVER FIRST CATCHES HER SHALL HAVE HER FOR     TH01300380
WIFE."  THIS PLAN WAS NOT EQUALLY PLEASING TO ALL.  YOUNG DEER AND    TH01300390
THE OTHER FLEET-FOOTED YOUTHS THOUGHT THE IDEA AN EXCELLENT ONE,      TH01300400
EACH BELIEVING THAT HE COULD EASILY SNATCH THE PRIZE FROM HIS         TH01300410
FELLOWS; BUT TORTOISE THOUGHT IT WAS HARDLY FAIR TO HIM AND HIS       TH01300420
FELLOWS, WHO WERE NOT GIFTED WITH LONG AND NIMBLE LEGS.  HIS          TH01300430
OBJECTION, HOWEVER, WAS OVERRULED, AND HE AND HIS FRIENDS PACIFIED    TH01300440
BY A PROMISE OF A GOOD START IN ADVANCE OF THE REST.  ALL             TH01300450
UNCONSCIOUS OF THE EXCITEMENT THE NEWS OF HER EXPECTED ARRIVAL HAD    TH01300460
CAUSED IN HER AUNT'S VILLAGE, THE MAIDEN HAD GRADUALLY NEARED HER     TH01300470
DESTINATION, AND WAS NOW BUT A FEW MILES DISTANT.  THE OLD AUNT HAD   TH01300480
FOLLOWED HER COURSE DAY BY DAY IN HER DREAMS, AND KNEW EXACTLY        TH01300490
WHERE SHE WAS AND WHEN SHE WOULD APPEAR.  SO WHEN SHE WAS BUT A       TH01300500
LITTLE WAY OFF SHE WENT FORTH TO MEET AND BRING HER IN.  SHE SAID     TH01300510
NOTHING TO THE OTHERS AS SHE WENT, HOPING SHE MIGHT PASS OUT          TH01300520
AND IN UNOBSERVED.  BUT THEY HAD SEEN HER STEALING OFF, AND WHEN      TH01300530
SHE RETURNED A LITTLE WHILE LATER WITH HER NIECE EVERY YOUTH IN THE   TH01300540
PLACE WAS ON THE LOOK-OUT FOR THEM.  THE MAIDEN WAS WHOLLY            TH01300550
UNPREPARED TO PASS THE GAUNTLET OF EYES THAT NOW MET HER, AND WAS     TH01300560
MUCH EMBARRASSED BY THE PRESENCE OF SO MANY MALES, AND BY THE         TH01300570
ARDENT GLANCES THEY CAST UPON HER.  AFTER ONE HURRIED LOOK ROUND,     TH01300580
SHE BENT HER EYES TO THE GROUND, AND DID NOT RAISE THEM TILL SHE      TH01300590
WAS WITHIN HER AUNT' S KEEKWILEE-HOUSE.  THE EXCITEMENT IN THE        TH01300600
VILLAGE NOW BECAME INTENSE, AND THE OLD CHIEFTAINESS SAW THAT IF      TH01300610
SHE WISHED TO PREVENT TROUBLE AND DISCORD SHE MUST HAVE THE CONTEST   TH01300620
FOR HER NIECE'S HAND SETTLED WITHOUT UNNECESSARY DELAY.  SHE          TH01300630
ACCORDINGLY FIXED A NEAR DAY, AND BADE ALL BE IN READINESS.  ON THE   TH01300640
DAY APPOINTED EVERY YOUTH IN THE VILLAGE PRESENTED HIMSELF AT THE     TH01300650
AUNT'S DWELLING.  THE OLD CHIEFTAINESS THEN ARRANGED THEM FOR THE     TH01300660
CONTEST, PLACING ALL THE SLOW-FOOTED COMPETITORS IN THE FOREMOST      TH01300670
RANK, WITH TORTOISE IN FRONT OF ALL, AND DEER AND HIS COMRADES IN     TH01300680
THE REAR.  SHE THEN LED FORTH HER NIECE, CLAD IN A BEAUTIFUL          TH01300690
DOESKIN DRESS, EMBROIDERED FROM TOP TO BOTTOM WITH MANY COLOURED      TH01300700
BEADS AND SHELLS, AND PAINTED WITH NUMEROUS MYSTIC SYMBOLS.  A BUZZ   TH01300710
OF ADMIRATION GREETED HER AS HER AUNT LED HER TO THE FAR END OF THE   TH01300720
CAMP AND INSTRUCTED HER TO MAKE STRAIGHT FOR THE HOUSE AGAIN AS       TH01300730
SOON AS THE WORD WAS GIVEN TO START.  THE AUNT THEN WENT BACK TO      TH01300740
THE  OTHERS, AND, BIDDING THEM BE READY, GAVE THE WORD TO START.      TH01300750
SUCH A RUSHING AND STRIVING AS THEN FOLLOWED WAS NEVER SEEN IN THE    TH01300760
VILLAGE BEFORE, AS EACH YOUTH STROVE TO OUTDO THE OTHERS.  AT THE     TH01300770
COMMAND TO GO  ALL HAD SEEN THE MAIDEN DISAPPEAR BEHIND THE           TH01300780
FARTHEST KEEKWILEE-HOUSE, AND EACH ENDEAVOURED TO BE AT THE TURN      TH01300790
FIRST.  BUT NO SOONER HAD THE OLD WOMAN GIVEN THE WORD TO START       TH01300800
THAN  SHE EXERCISED HER MAGIC POWERS AND CAUSED THE SKY TO BECOME     TH01300810
QUICKLY OVERCAST WITH THICK DARK CLOUDS, WHICH EFFECTUALLY SHUT       TH01300820
OUT THE LIGHT OF DAY AND ENVELOPED THE RUNNERS IN ITS BEWILDERING     TH01300830
FOLDS, SO THAT NONE COULD DISCERN HIS FELLOW OR SEE WHITHER HE        TH01300840
WENT.  ONE RAN INTO ANOTHER AND EAGERLY CLASPED HIM, THINKING HE      TH01300850
HAD SECURED THE PRIZE; BUT FINDING HIS MISTAKE, LET GO HIS HOLD AND   TH01300860
STARTED AFRESH, ONLY TO FIND HIMSELF REPEATING THE SAME MISTAKE       TH01300870
AGAIN AND AGAIN.  "I HAVE HER]"  "I HAVE HER]"  CRIED A DOZEN         TH01300880
VOICES AT ONCE.  "NO, SHE'S MINE]"  "SHE'S MINE]"  SHOUTED YOUNG      TH01300890
RAVEN, AS HE GRASPED THE BARK OF A  CEDAR TREE WHICH WAS HANGING      TH01300900
LOOSE AND FLUTTERING IN THE WIND, AND TORE IT OFF IN HIS EXCITEMENT   TH01300910
THINKING HE HAD CAUGHT THE MAIDEN BY HER DRESS, WHICH HAD GIVEN WAY   TH01300920
IN HIS HAND.  "SHE IS MINE]  I HAVE HER]" HE REPEATED AGAIN, AS HE    TH01300930
GRASPED THE TREE IN HIS ARMS.  BUT BEFORE HE COULD REALISE HIS        TH01300940
MISTAKE HE WAS DRAGGED BACK FROM THE TREE BY A DOZEN HANDS, AND HAD   TH01300950
TO TAKE UP THE HUNT AGAIN.  AND THUS THEY STROVE IN VAIN TO FIND      TH01300960
THE MAIDEN, UNTIL THEY HAD TORN THE CLOTHES FROM EACH OTHER'S BACKS   TH01300970
AND THE LIGHT OF THE DAY HAD RETURNED ONCE MORE.  "WHO'S GOT HER?"    TH01300980
"WHERE IS SHE?" WAS NOW THE CRY ALL ROUND; AND, TO THE ASTONISHMENT   TH01300990
OF ALL , NO ONE SEEMED TO HAVE SECURED THE PRIZE.  SHE HAD ESCAPED    TH01301000
THEM ALL, AND, MOREOVER, WAS NOW NOWHERE TO BE SEEN.  WHILE ALL       TH01301010
THESE FRANTIC STRUGGLES IN THE DARK HAD BEEN GOING ON, THE OLD AUNT   TH01301020
HAD RUN ROUND THE OTHER WAY  AND LED BACK HER NIECE  INTO THE HOUSE   TH01301030
AGAIN, AND, TAKING OFF HER BEAUTIFUL DRESS, HAD STRAIGHTWAY HIDDEN    TH01301040
HER IN A LARGE BASKET FASHIONED LIKE A CRADLE, WHICH SHE HAD          TH01301050
PREPARED FOR THE PURPOSE.  THIS SHE PLACED ON A SHELF JUST UNDER      TH01301060
THE THE ROOF, WHERE NO ONE WOULD BE LIKELY TO INVESTIGATE AND         TH01301070
DISCOVER ITS CONTENTS.  EVERYONE NOW WONDERED WHAT COULD HAVE         TH01301080
BECOME OF THE MAIDEN, BUT NONE SAVE CRAFTY, KEEN-EYED LYNX            TH01301090
SUSPECTED THAT A TRICK HAD BEEN PLAYED UPON THEM BY THEIR             TH01301100
CHIEFTAINESS.  IT WAS COMMONLY SUPPOSED THAT THE SUN, OBSERVING THE   TH01301110
BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN AS SHE RAN, HAD BECOME ENAMOURED OF HER, AND HAD     TH01301120
LEFT HIS ABODE IN THE HEAVENS AND COME DOWN AND SEIZED AND CARRIED    TH01301130
HER OFF.  "HOW ELSE," ARGUED THEY, "COULD YOU ACCOUNT FOR THE         TH01301140
SUDDEN DARKNESS OF MIDNIGHT AT NOONDAY?"  BUT LYNX THOUGHT            TH01301150
OTHERWISE, THOUGH HE SAID NOTHING.  HE, LIKE THE OTHERS, HAD          TH01301160
ENTERED THE RACE, BUT, FINDING HIMSELF OUTSTRIPPED AT THE             TH01301170
COMMENCEMENT, GAVE UP THE CONTEST, AND KEPT HIS KEEN EYES UPON THE    TH01301180
CHIEFTAINESS.  HE THOUGHT HE HAD SEEN HER RUN ROUND THE OTHER SIDE    TH01301190
OF THE HOUSE AND RETURN AGAIN WITH HER NIECE, BUT WAS NOT QUITE       TH01301200
SURE, AS THE DARKNESS HAD BAFFLED  EVEN HIS KEEN SIGHT.               TH01301210
NEVERTHELESS HE INCLINED TO THE BELIEF THAT THE MAIDEN HAD RETURNED   TH01301220
TO HER AUNT'S DWELLING, AND EVEN NOW LAY CONCEALED THERE, AND HE      TH01301230
DETERMINED TO SATISFY HIMSELF ON THIS POINT BEFORE LONG.  FOR         TH01301240
SEVERAL DAYS AND NIGHTS THEREFORE, HE HUNG ROUND THE OLD WOMAN'S      TH01301250
KEEKWILEE-HOUSE, MAKING ALL SORTS OF EXCUSES TO PAY HER SUDDEN AND    TH01301260
UNEXPECTED VISITS.  AT ONE TIME HE WOULD TAKE HER A FINE SALMON, AT   TH01301270
ANOTHER SOME RARE ROOTS, AND AT ANOTHER A HAUNCH OF VENISON; BUT      TH01301280
ENTER AS OFTEN AND AS SUDDENLY AS HE WOULD, NO TRACE OF THE  MAIDEN   TH01301290
COULD HE SEE.  HAVING FAILED IN THIS PLAN, HE HAD RESORT TO           TH01301300
ANOTHER.                                                              TH01301310
     ON EACH OCCASION THAT HE HAD VISITED THE OLD AUNT'S HOUSE        TH01301320
SINCE THE GIRL'S DISAPPEARANCE HE HAD NOTICED THE LARGE CRADLE-       TH01301330
BASKET ON THE SHELF.  HE COULD NOT REMEMBER TO HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE,   TH01301340
AND FROM ITS APPEARANCE IT WAS PLAIN THAT IT WAS NOT AN OLD CRADLE;   TH01301350
SO HE COULD NOT HELP CONNECTING ITS PRESENCE WITH THE DISAPPEARANCE   TH01301360
OF THE MAIDEN.  HE VOWED HE WOULD LEARN BY SOME MEANS THE CONTENTS    TH01301370
OF THAT BASKET BEFORE LONG; BUT AS THERE WAS NO CHANCE OF DOING       TH01301380
THIS OPENLY HE MUST FIND SOME OTHER WAY.  SO ACCORDINGLY ONE NIGHT,   TH01301390
WHEN THE WHOLE VILLAGE WAS ASLEEP, HE STOLE TO THE ROOF OF THE OLD    TH01301400
WOMAN'S HOUSE AND BEGAN SNIFFING OVER THE SPOT WHERE HE KNEW THE      TH01301410
CRADLE LAY, AND HAVING A KEEN NOSE SOON ASSURED HIMSELF THAT THE      TH01301420
MAIDEN LAY THERE ASLEEP.  HAVING SATISFIED HIMSELF ON THIS SCORE HE   TH01301430
NOW CAREFULLY AND QUIETLY REMOVED A LITTLE OF THE BARK COVERING       TH01301440
FROM THE ROOF, THUS MAKING A SMALL HOLE THEREIN LARGE ENOUGH TO       TH01301450
PEEP THROUGH AND SEE THE MAIDEN SLEEPING SOUNDLY BENEATH HIM.         TH01301460
ENLARGING THE HOLE A LITTLE HE THRUST IN HIS PAW, AND GENTLY          TH01301470
REMOVING THE BLANKET FROM HER BREAST SPAT THREE TIMES UPON HER        TH01301480
ABDOMEN.  HE THEN REPLACED THE BLANKET, RESTORED THE HOLE AS BEFORE   TH01301490
AND SLUNK HOME TO HIS OWN QUARTERS.  FOR THREE SUCCESSIVE NIGHTS HE   TH01301500
REPEATED THIS ACTION, AFTER WHICH HE RETURNED NO MORE, BUT WENT       TH01301510
ABOUT HIS BUSINESS AS USUAL AND AWAITED RESULTS.  IN THE MEANTIME     TH01301520
LIFE HAD NOT GONE VERY MERRILY WITH THE MAIDEN.  PENT UP IN HER       TH01301530
NARROW QUARTERS SHE GREW WEARIER EACH DAY AS THE WEEKS WENT BY, AND   TH01301540
BEGGED HER AUNT AGAIN AND AGAIN TO ALLOW HER TO  COME OUT OF HER      TH01301550
BASKET.  BUT THIS THE OLD CHIEFTAINESS WOULD NOT DO.  BUT AS TIME     TH01301560
WENT ON THE MAIDEN PRESENTLY DISCOVERED HERSELF TO BE IN A PECULIAR   TH01301570
AND DISTRESSING CONDITION.  IT SEEMED AS IF SHE WOULD SHORTLY         TH01301580
BECOME A MOTHER.  WHEN THE FIRST CONSCIOUSNESS OF HER CONDITION       TH01301590
DAWNED UPON HER SHE WOULD NOT BELIEVE IT, BUT AS THE DAYS WENT BY     TH01301600
SHE COULD NO LONGER ENTERTAIN ANY DOUBT OF IT.  SHE HID THE MATTER    TH01301610
FROM HER RELATIVE UNTIL IT WAS NO LONGER POSSIBLE TO DO SO, AND       TH01301620
THEN THE AUNT WAS ANGRY INDEED, AND BITTERLY REPROACHED HER NIECE     TH01301630
FOR THE DISGRACE SHE WAS BRINGING UPON HER, AND WOULD NOT AT FIRST    TH01301640
BELIEVE THAT THE GIRL HERSELF WAS INNOCENT IN THE MATTER.  BUT        TH01301650
HAVING PRESENTLY CONVINCED HERSELF OF THIS, SHE SET HER WITS TO       TH01301660
WORK TO DISCOVER WHO IT WAS THAT HAD OUTWITTED HER IN THIS WAY.       TH01301670
BUT THOUGH EXCEEDINGLY WISE AND VERSED IN MUCH MAGIC SHE YET COULD    TH01301680
NOT DISCOVER DIRECTLY WHO THE OFFENDER WAS, BUT WAS OBLIGED TO GET    TH01301690
HER INFORMATION IN A ROUNDABOUT WAY.  BUT NOW THE MAIDEN'S FULL       TH01301700
TIME HAD COME, AND SHE WAS DELIVERED OF A MALE CHILD, WHO GREW IN     TH01301710
AN INCREDIBLY SHORT SPACE OF TIME INTO A STRONG AND VIGOROUS BOY.     TH01301720
THE OLD CHIEFTAINESS, HAVING THOUGHT OUT HER PLAN OF ACTION, NOW      TH01301730
SENT ONCE MORE FOR HER PUBLIC CRIER, YOUNG NIGHT-HAWK, AND BADE HIM   TH01301740
INFORM THE VILLAGE OF THE BIRTH OF A CHILD TO HER NIECE, AND TELL     TH01301750
HIS COMPANIONS THAT THEY WERE ALL TO PRESENT THEMSELVES AT HER        TH01301760
HOUSE ON A CERTAIN DAY, AND BRING EACH OF THEM A PRESENT FOR THE      TH01301770
CHILD.                                                                TH01301780
     THIS THEY ALL DID, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF TWO, EACH BURNING       TH01301790
WITH CURIOSITY TO LEARN WHEN THE MAIDEN HAD RETURNED, AND WHO HAD     TH01301800
SECURED HER FOR WIFE.  THE BIDDING OF THE TRIBE TO HER HOUSE WAS      TH01301810
PART OF THE OLD AUNT'S PLAN FOR DISCOVERING THE FATHER OF HER         TH01301820
GRAND-NEPHEW.  BY HER MAGIC POWERS SHE HAD LEARNT THAT IF EACH        TH01301830
VISITOR PRESENTED THE CHILD WITH A GIFT, HE WOULD ACCEPT AND RETAIN   TH01301840
ONLY ONE, VIZ., THE PRESENT OFFERED BY HIS OWN FATHER, AND WOULD      TH01301850
REJECT WITH DISDAIN THOSE OF ALL THE OTHERS.  THUS SHE WOULD BE       TH01301860
ABLE TO DISCOVER THE PERPETRATOR OF THE DEED.  ON THE DAY APPOINTED   TH01301870
EACH BROUGHT HIS PRESENT.  AS THEY DESCENDED THEY OFFERED THEIR       TH01301880
PRESENTS ONE BY ONE  TO THE CHILD, WHO TOOK THEM, ONLY TO THROW       TH01301890
THEM ASIDE AGAIN AT THE NEXT MOMENT.  THIS HAPPENED UNTIL ALL THE     TH01301900
PRESENTS HAD BEEN MADE, AND ALL THE VISITORS HAD ASSEMBLED.  AS THE   TH01301910
CHILD HAD SHOWN NO INTEREST IN ANYTHING THAT HAD YET BEEN OFFERED     TH01301920
HIM, THE OLD WOMAN                                                    TH01301921
KNEW FROM THIS THAT SOMEONE MUST BE ABSENT.  SHE THEREFORE ANGRILY    TH01301930
DEMANDED WHO HAD DISOBEYED HER INJUNCTIONS; AND AFTER SOME LITTLE     TH01301940
DELAY AND CALLING OF NAMES IT WAS ASCERTAINED THAT YOUNG RABBIT AND   TH01301950
HIS BROTHER LYNX WERE ABSENT.  A MESSENGER WAS IMMEDIATELY            TH01301960
DISPATCHED FOR THEM, AND IN A FEW MINUTES THEY ARRIVED, RABBIT        TH01301970
DESCENDING FIRST.  AS RABBIT CLAMBERED DOWN THE NOTCHED POLE THAT     TH01301980
SERVED FOR A LADDER, THE CHILD NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME EVINCED SOME    TH01301990
INTEREST IN WHAT WAS GOING ON, AND LOOKED UP AND SMILED AT RABBIT     TH01302000
AND HELD OUT HIS HAND FOR THE PRESENT.  FOR A MOMENT HE SEEMED        TH01302010
INCLINED TO PLAY WITH IT, BUT THREW IT ASIDE AT ONCE WHEN HE          TH01302020
PERCIEVED LYNX DESCENDING.  AS THE LATTER APPROACHED HE CROWED AND    TH01302030
LAUGHED AND CLAPPED HIS HANDS WITH DELIGHT, EAGERLY STRETCHING THEM   TH01302040
OUT FOR LYNX'S PRESENT, WHICH HE RETAINED AND IMMEDIATELY BEGAN TO    TH01302050
PLAY WITH.  THE OLD CHIEFTAINESS KNEW FROM THIS THAT THE CHILD'S      TH01302060
FATHER STOOD BEFORE HER.  SHE NOW RELATED TO THE ASSEMBLED GUESTS     TH01302070
ALL THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE.                                             TH01302080
     POINTING TO LYNX WHO HUNG HIS HEAD IN SILENCE, SHE EXCLAIMED,    TH01302090
"WHAT SHALL BE DONE TO A CREATURE GUILTY OF SUCH MEANNESS?  DEATH     TH01302100
IS TOO GOOD FOR SUCH A ONE.  I WILL TELL YOU WHAT SHALL BE DONE TO    TH01302110
HIM....  HE SOUGHT TO ROB ME OF MY NIECE; NOW THAT HE HAS DISGRACED   TH01302120
HER HE SHALL HAVE HER WHETHER HE WILL OR NO; BUT HE SHALL POSSESS     TH01302130
HER IN LONELINESS; HE SHALL NOT LIVE WITH US. I HAVE BEEN THINKING    TH01302140
OF CHANGING CAMP FOR SOME TIME PAST; WE WILL DO SO NOW, AND LEAVE     TH01302150
HIM AND THE GIRL  AND CHILD BEHIND TO LOOK AFTER THEMSELVES AS BEST   TH01302160
THEY MAY."  AS THEY LEFT THE HOUSE EVERY ONE OF THEM, EVEN LYNX'S     TH01302170
OWN BROTHER, RABBIT, GAVE HIM A KICK OR A CUFF, SO THAT BY THE TIME   TH01302180
ALL HAD GONE POOR LYNX WAS A MASS OF BRUISES AND SORES.  WHEN ALL     TH01302190
HAD AT LENGTH LEFT, THE GIRL, WHO HAD BEEN WATCHING THE WHOLE         TH01302200
PROCEEDING IN SHAME AND ANGER, NOW CAME FORWARD AND WASHED AND TIED   TH01302210
UP POOR LYNX'S BATTERED HEAD, MILDLY REPROACHING HIM THE WHILE FOR    TH01302220
THE TROUBLE AND DISGRACE HE HAD BROUGHT UPON THEM.  MEANWHILE THE     TH01302230
OTHERS WERE BUSY PREPARING FOR THE DEPARTURE ACROSS THE WATER,        TH01302240
WHICH DIVIDED THEIR PRESENT ENCAMPMENT FROM THE COUNTRY BEYOND.       TH01302250
THERE WERE MANY AMONG THEM WHO, WHILE THEY FELT NO PITY OR            TH01302260
COMPASSION FOR LYNX, WERE YET SORRY FOR THE GIRL; AND IN PACKING UP   TH01302270
THEIR FOOD STORES PURPOSELY LEFT SOME SCRAPS BEHIND FOR HER IN        TH01302280
THEIR FOOD-CELLARS.  IN A SHORT TIME THEY WERE READY TO START, AND    TH01302290
THE OLD CHIEFTAINESS GIVING THE WORD, THEY PADDLED AWAY, LEAVING      TH01302300
THE PAIR BEHIND THEM.  THE OLD AUNT HAD LEFT VERY LITTLE OF HER       TH01302310
STORE OF FOOD BEHIND HER, SO THAT IN A FEW DAYS THE FORSAKEN COUPLE   TH01302320
FOUND THEIR LARDER EMPTY.  THEN IT WAS THAT  LYNX REMEMBERED THAT     TH01302330
THERE WERE OTHER FOOD-CELLARS IN THE VILLAGE, AND SUGGESTED THAT      TH01302340
THE GIRL SHOULD GO ROUND AND SEE WHAT SHE COULD FIND IN THEM.         TH01302350
     SHE SOON DISCOVERED THE FOOD THAT WAS LEFT BEHIND; AND, POOR     TH01302351
AND SCANTY AS IT WAS, SHE WAS GREATFUL FOR THE KINDNESS OF THOSE      TH01302360
WHO HAD THOUGHT OF HER IN THIS WAY, AND PROMISED HERSELF THAT IF      TH01302370
OPPORTUNITY OFFERED SHE WOULD NOT FORGET THEIR KIND ACTS.  THE FOOD   TH01302380
THUS SECURED LASTED THEM TILL LYNX HAD RECOVERED FROM HIS WOUNDS      TH01302390
AND WAS ABLE TO GO OUT HUNTING.  BUT THE NIGHT BEFORE HE WAS TO       TH01302400
START HE HAD A DREAM, AND IN HIS DREAM HIS GUARDIAN SPIRIT CAME TO    TH01302410
HIM AND TOLD HIM NOT TO DESPAIR OR BE DOWNCAST AT THE TURN EVENTS     TH01302420
HAD TAKEN; THAT HE WOULD ASSIST HIM, AND THAT ONE DAY HE WOULD BE A   TH01302430
GREAT MAN AND RULE OVER HIS TRIBE. HE WAS FURTHER INSTRUCTED TO       TH01302440
PREPARE A BOW AND ARROWS AFTER THE PATTERN SHOWN HIM IN HIS DREAM,    TH01302450
AND GO TO THE WOODS AT THE BACK OF THE VILLAGE AND THERE HE WOULD     TH01302460
ALWAYS FIND GAME IN PLENTY.  ACCORDINGLY, NEXT DAY, AFTER RELATING    TH01302470
THE DREAM TO HIS WIFE, HE FASHIONED HIMSELF A BOW AND A QUIVER OF     TH01302480
ARROWS, AFTER THE PATTERN HE HAD SEEN IN HIS DREAM, AND WENT FORTH    TH01302490
TO HUNT.  HE HAD SCARCELY LEFT THE VILLAGE BEHIND HIM WHEN FAT DEER   TH01302500
SPRANG UP ON ALL SIDES.  HAVING KILLED AS MANY AS HE DEEMED ENOUGH    TH01302510
FOR THEM, HE RETURNED TO THE VILLAGE TO INFORM HIS WIFE OF HIS GOOD   TH01302520
LUCK, AND TO SECURE HER HELP IN BRINGING HOME THE GAME.  FROM THIS    TH01302530
TIME ON THEY HAD GAME AND SKINS IN PLENTY, AND LIVED UPON THE FAT     TH01302540
OF THE LAND.  SO PLENTIFUL INDEED HAD ALL KINDS OF FOOD NOW BECOME    TH01302550
THAT THAT PRECIOUS POSSESSION, MOUNTAIN GOATS' AND SHEEP'S KIDNEY     TH01302560
FAT, WAS AS COMMON AS MEAT, AND THE BOY WAS GIVEN A BALL OF IT TO     TH01302570
PLAY WITH; AND SO MUCH HAD THE WIFE THROWN AWAY THROUGH THE SMOKE-    TH01302580
HOLE THAT THE ROOF WAS COATED WITH CONGEALED MASSES OF IT.            TH01302590
    NOW THINGS WERE QUITE OTHERWISE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WATER.   TH01302600
SOON AFTER ELK-WOMAN AND HER PEOPLE HAD SETTLED THERE ALL THE GAME    TH01302610
HAD SUDDENLY DISAPPEARED, AND NOW THE BEST AND KEENEST HUNTERS        TH01302620
COULD FIND NOTHING TO BRING HOME AFTER A LONG DAY'S HUNT.  FAMINE     TH01302630
WAS BUSY AMONG THEM AND THEY WERE ANYTHING BUT HAPPY IN THEIR NEW     TH01302640
QUARTERS.  THIS STATE OF THINGS HAD BEEN GOING ON FOR SOME TIME,      TH01302650
WHEN ONE DAY RAVEN TOOK IT INTO HIS HEAD TO FLY ACROSS THE WATER      TH01302660
AND SEE HOW THE DESERTED LYNX AND HIS FAMILY WERE FARING.  GREATLY    TH01302670
EXHAUSTED BY HIS EXERTIONS IN HIS HALF-FAMISHED STATE, HE WAS GLAD    TH01302680
TO ALIGHT ON THE RIDGE-POLE OF LYNX'S KEEKWILEE-HOUSE.  RECOVERING    TH01302690
HIMSELF HE LOOKED ROUND HIM AND COULD SCARCELY BELIEVE HIS EYES       TH01302700
WHEN HE SAW A CHUBBY CHILD, ACTUALLY PLAYING WITH A BALL OF           TH01302710
PRECIOUS KIDNEY FAT, AS IF IT WERE OF NO VALUE AT ALL.  SEIZING AN    TH01302720
OPPORTUNITY, WHEN THE CHILD HAD ROLLED THE BALL OF FAT TOWARDS HIM,   TH01302730
HE POUNCED DOWN UPON IT AND, URGED PARTLY BY HUNGER AND PARTLY BY     TH01302740
GREEDINESS, STROVE TO SWALLOW IT WHOLE.  BUT THE BALL WAS TOO BIG     TH01302750
FOR HIS MOUTH AND STUCK IN THE BACK OF HIS THROAT.  THE CHILD,        TH01302760
SEEING RAVEN GOBBLE UP HIS PLAYTHING, SET UP A HOWL, WHICH SPEEDILY   TH01302770
BROUGHT OUT HIS MOTHER.  PERCEIVING WHAT HAD HAPPENED SHE SEIZED      TH01302780
RAVEN BY THE NECK AND FORCED HIM TO DISGORGE THE BALL AGAIN.  THEN,   TH01302790
GIVING HIM A GOOD SHAKING, SHE DEMANDED FROM HIM WHAT HE WAS DOING    TH01302800
THERE, ROBBING THE CHILD OF HIS PLAYTHING.  RAVEN CONFESSED THAT HE   TH01302810
HAD FLOWN OVER, OUT OF CURIOSITY, TO SEE HOW THEY WERE GETTING ON,    TH01302820
AND, BEING VERY HUNGRY, COULD NOT RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO SWALLOW    TH01302830
THE BALL OF FAT WHEN THE OPPORTUNITY WAS GIVEN HIM.  "BUT HOW CAME    TH01302840
YOU TO BE SO STARVING?" QUESTIONED THE WOMAN; "YOU ARE SURELY NOT     TH01302850
SHORT OF FOOD OVER THE WATER."  "INDEED, WE ARE," RESPONDED RAVEN;    TH01302860
"WE ARE WORSE THAN SHORT OF FOOD, WE ARE ALL STARVING."  "AH," SAID   TH01302870
THE WOMAN, "YOU HAVE RIGHTLY FALLEN UPON THE LOT YOU DESIRED FOR      TH01302880
ME.  GO BACK TO YOUR COMPANIONS AND TELL THEM I REJOICE TO HEAR OF    TH01302890
THEIR MISFORTUNES.  MY HUSBAND AND I SHALL ENJOY OUR FOOD THE MORE    TH01302900
FROM KNOWING YOUR STOMACHS ARE ACHING WITH HUNGER."  SHE SPOKE THUS   TH01302910
BITTERLY BECAUSE RAVEN'S PRESENCE RECALLED THEIR DESERTION OF         TH01302920
HERSELF AND CHILD.  BUT RAVEN PLEADED SO HARD FOR A MEAL FIRST THAT   TH01302930
SHE RELENTED AND GAVE HIM AS MUCH MEAT AND FAT AS HE COULD EAT, AND   TH01302940
TOLD HIM HE MIGHT COME OVER EVERY DAY AND GET A MEAL ON CONDITION     TH01302950
THAT HE DID NOT TELL THE OTHERS.  THIS RAVEN READILY AGREED TO.       TH01302960
WHEN RAVEN FIRST FLEW OVER HE WAS THIN AND POOR, BUT AFTER A LITTLE   TH01302970
WHILE THE GENEROUS DIET BEGAN TO SHOW ITS EFFECTS UPON HIM, AND HE    TH01302980
GREW PLUMP AND SAUCY ONCE MORE, WHILE HIS COMPANIONS GREW THINNER     TH01302990
AND THINNER.  HIS CONDITION SOON ATTRACTED ATTENTION, AND HIS         TH01303000
COMRADES BEGAN TO SUSPECT THAT HE KNEW OF SOME STORES OF FOOD WHICH   TH01303010
HE SELFISHLY KEPT TO HIMSELF.  SO ONE DAY THEY SEIZED HIM AND         TH01303020
THREATENED TO KILL HIM IF HE WOULD NOT REVEAL THE SOURCE WHENCE HE    TH01303030
SECURED HIS FOOD.  AT FIRST RAVEN WAS TRUE TO HIS PROMISE, AND        TH01303040
WOULD DISCLOSE NOTHING; BUT SEEING THAT HIS COMPANIONS WERE IN        TH01303050
EARNEST, AND WOULD UNDOUBTEDLY KILL HIM IF HE HID THE MATTER FROM     TH01303060
THEM ANY LONGER, HE CONFESSED THAT HE HAD BEEN GOING TO THE OLD       TH01303070
SETTLEMENT, AND HAD BEEN GENEROUSLY FED BY LYNX AND HIS WIFE, WHO     TH01303080
WERE LIVING IN PLENTY.  ON HEARING THIS THEY DETERMINED TO POCKET     TH01303090
THEIR  PRIDE AND RETURN TO THE OLD CAMP THE VERY NEXT DAY.  IN THE    TH01303100
MEANTIME, WHILE THEY WERE MAKING THEIR PREPARATIONS, RAVEN FLEW       TH01303110
3VER AND TOLD LYNX AND HIS WIFE WHAT HAD TRANSPIRED.  THE WOMAN, ON   TH01303120
HEARING THE NEWS, RECALLED THE PROMISE SHE HAD MADE TO HERSELF, AND   TH01303130
HASTENED TO STOCK THE FOOD-CELLARS OF THOSE WHO HAD THOUGHT OF HER    TH01303140
IN HER DISTRESS.  SHE FILLED THEIR CELLARS WITH THE  CHOICEST GAME    TH01303150
AND FAT, BUT PUT NOT A MORSEL IN THE CELLARS OF THE OTHERS.  NEXT     TH01303160
DAY, WHEN THE TRIBE RETURNED, THOSE WHOSE KIND ACTIONS HAD BORNE      TH01303170
FRUIT FEASTED UPON LYNX'S GAME AS THEY HAD NOT FEASTED FOR A LONG     TH01303180
TIME BEFORE.  THE OTHERS, WHOSE CELLARS WERE AS EMPTY AS THEIR        TH01303190
STOMACHS, GATHERED ROUND LYNX'S KEEKWILEE-HOUSE AND EAGERLY PICKED    TH01303200
UP AND DEVOURED THE SCRAPS WHICH THE WOMAN HAD PURPOSELY THROWN       TH01303210
OUT.  LITTLE ANT AND SEVERAL OF HIS RELATIVES CLIMBED ON THE ROOF     TH01303220
AND BEGAN TO EAT THE FAT THAT HAD GATHERED THERE.  FOR SOME DAYS      TH01303230
NEITHER LYNX NOR HIS WIFE WOULD SHOW THEMSELVES, BUT EACH MORNING     TH01303240
THEY THREW OUT A BASKETFUL OF BONES AND PICKINGS, WHICH WERE          TH01303250
QUICKLY SEIZED AND DEVOURED BY THE STARVING CROWD.  WHEN THE WOMAN    TH01303260
THOUGHT SHE HAD SUFFICIENTLY HUMBLED THEIR PRIDE AND REVENGED HERSELF TH01303270
FOR THEIR CRUELTY TO HER SHE BADE HER HUSBAND MAKE A GREAT FEAST      TH01303280
AND INVITE THEM ALL TO IT.  THIS HE DID, AND WHEN THEY HAD            TH01303290
EATEN THEIR FILL HE TOLD THEM OF HIS VISION AND THE PROMISE HIS       TH01303300
GUARDIAN SPIRIT HAD MADE TO HIM.  FROM THIS THEY PERCEIVED THAT HE    TH01303310
WAS ORDAINED TO BE THEIR CHIEF.  THEY ACCORDINGLY DENOUNCED THE OLD   TH01303320
CHIEFTAINESS, DECLARING THAT SHE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN ALL THIS, AND,     TH01303330
DEPOSING HER , THEY MADE HIM CHIEF IN HER PLACE.                      TH01303340
     THUS LYNX'S DREAM WAS FULFILLED, AND HE BECAME A GREAT MAN       TH01303350
AMONG THEM FROM THAT TIME FORWARD.                                    TH01303360
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          TH014 TLA'PAS CIMA'MS, OR THE FORGOTTEN WIFE STORY          TH01400010
     THERE WAS ONCE A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS VERY DESIROUS OF BECOMING A   TH01400020
GREAT "MEDICINE" MAN, OR SHAMAN.  FOLLOWING THE USUAL CUSTOM OF THE   TH01400030
INDIANS HE RETIRED TO A SOLITARY SPOT THAT HE MIGHT BE ALONE.  HE     TH01400040
SUBJECTED HIMSELF TO THE SEVEREST DISCIPLINE, FASTING TILL HIS BODY   TH01400050
WAS SO WASTED THAT HIS BONES ALMOST CAME THROUGH HIS SKIN, BUT HE     TH01400060
MET WITH NO  SUCCESS.  NO DREAM OR VISION CAME TO HIM; NO SPIRIT      TH01400070
PROMISED HIM ITS AID AND HELP. GIVING UP THE TRIAL IN DESPAIR, HE     TH01400080
RESOLVED TO GO AND VISIT A CERTAIN FAMOUS SHAMAN WHO LIVED IN         TH01400090
ANOTHER PART OF THE COUNTRY.  ON HIS JOURNEY THITHER HE CAME UPON A   TH01400100
SECLUDED VILLAGE THROUGH WHICH HIS PATH RAN; AND, AS IT WAS NEAR      TH01400110
NIGHT, HE RESOLVED TO STAY THERE TILL NEXT MORNING.  TO HIS           TH01400120
SURPRISE HE FOUND THE VILLAGE DESERTED, BUT FOR ONE OLD WOMAN.        TH01400130
GOING UP TO HER HE SAW THAT SHE WAS VERY OLD AND DECREPIT, SO OLD,    TH01400140
INDEED, THAT SHE COULD NOT SIT UPRIGHT, HER BODY FALLING FORWARD      TH01400150
BETWEEN HER KNEES AS SHE CROUCHED OVER THE EMBERS OF A DECAYING       TH01400160
CHARCOAL FIRE.  BY HER SIDE WAS A BASKET OF KOAKOE'LA, OR "HUSBAND"   TH01400170
ROOTS; WHILE FROM EVERY JOINT IN HER LIMBS AND FROM EACH SIDE OF      TH01400180
HER HEAD THERE GREW OUT YOUNG FIR-TREES.  THESE APPEARED TO           TH01400190
INCOMMODE HER CONSIDERABLY, AND AS SOON AS SHE SAW THE YOUNG MAN      TH01400200
SHE BEGGED HIM TO CUT THEM FOR HER.  BEING OF AN OBLIGING NATURE,     TH01400210
AND SEEING THAT SHE WAS EXTREMELY OLD, AND PROBABLY WISE AND GIFTED   TH01400220
WITH SUPERNATURAL POWER, HE COMPLIED WITH HER REQUEST.  SHE THEN      TH01400230
BEGGED HIM TO MAKE HER A LITTLE FRESH CHARCOAL FOR HER FIRE AND       TH01400240
PLACE IT BY HER SIDE.  THIS HE DID ALSO, AND THEN BEGAN TO QUESTION   TH01400250
HER AS TO WHY SHE WAS ALL ALONE AND WHY HER PEOPLE HAD DESERTED       TH01400260
HER.  "THEY HAVE NOT DESERTED ME," ANSWERED SHE, "THEY ARE ALL        TH01400270
DEAD.  I HAVE OUTLIVED THEM ALL.  I AM VERY OLD, SO OLD THAT THE      TH01400280
FIR-TREES GROW UPON ME AS YOU HAVE SEEN."                             TH01400290
     "BUT HOW HAVE YOU MANAGED TO LIVE SO LONG?" QUESTIONED THE       TH01400300
YOUTH.  "BECAUSE MY 'MEDICINE' IS GOOD," SHE ANSWERED.  "SEE THESE    TH01400310
ROOTS AT MY SIDE?  THAT IS MY 'POWER'."  I HAVE EATEN NOTHING BUT     TH01400320
THESE SINCE I WAS  A GIRL.  IN THEIR STRENGTH I HAVE LIVED ON,        TH01400330
WHILE ALL MY KINSFOLK HAVE DIED AND PASSED AWAY.  I HAVE LEARNT,      TH01400340
TOO, TO READ THE SECRETS OF THE HEART; I KNOW YOUR AMBITION AND THE   TH01400350
OBJECT OF YOUR JOURNEY THROUGH THE FOREST.  BUT YOU WILL NOT ATTAIN   TH01400360
YOUR DESIRE UNLESS I ASSIST YOU.  THIS I WILL DO IN RETURN FOR YOUR   TH01400370
KINDNESS TO ME.  TAKE THIS ROOT, PEEL OFF THE SKIN, AND EAT IT WHEN   TH01400380
YOU ARE GOING TO REST FOR THE NIGHT, CAREFULLY PRESERVING THE ROOT    TH01400390
ITSELF FOR THE FUTURE.  IN YOUR SLEEP YOU WILL HAVE A DREAM.  COME    TH01400400
TO ME  IN THE MORNING AND TELL ME WHAT YOU DREAMT, AND I WILL         TH01400410
ADVISE YOU OF YOUR FUTURE COURSE."  THE YOUTH TOOK THE ROOT,          TH01400420
PROMISING TO DO AS SHE BADE HIM.  BEFORE HE LAY DOWN TO SLEEP HE      TH01400430
CAREFULLY SKINNED THE ROOT AS HE HAD BEEN BIDDEN, AND THEN ATE THE    TH01400440
SKIN, PUTTING THE ROOT ASIDE.  IN HIS SLEEP, AS THE OLD WOMAN HAD     TH01400450
FORETOLD, HE HAD A STRANGE AND PECULIAR DREAM.  HE DREAMT THAT HE     TH01400460
HAD ARRIVED AT THE SHAMAN'S HOUSE, AND HAD BEEN SENT BY HIM TO        TH01400470
PERFORM THREE HERCULEAN TASKS, WHICH IF HE ACCOMPLISHED HE WAS TO     TH01400480
HAVE THE SHAMAN'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER TO WIFE, BUT IF HE FAILED HE     TH01400490
WAS TO BE                                                             TH01400491
CAST TO A FIERCE AND DREADFUL BEAST, WHICH THE SHAMAN KEPT IN A DEN   TH01400500
FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEVOURING THE BODIES OF THE YOUNG MEN WHO FAILED   TH01400510
TO                                                                    TH01400511
ACCOMPLISH HIS TASKS.  NEXT MORNING HE RELATED HIS DREAM TO THE       TH01400520
OLD WOMAN, WHO THEN TOLD HIM THE NATURE OF HIS FIRST TASK, ADDING     TH01400530
THAT IF HE SUCCEEDED IN ACCOMPLISHING THIS HE WOULD RECEIVE HELP      TH01400540
AND ADVICE FROM ANOTHER SOURCE WITH REGARD TO THE OTHERS.  "YOU       TH01400550
WILL HAVE TO CLEAR A LARGE TRACT OF FOREST LAND IN A GIVEN TIME;      TH01400560
AND SO DENSE IS THE FOREST, AND THE TIME ALLOWED TO DO THE WORK SO    TH01400570
SHORT, THAT YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY DO IT OF YOURSELF; BUT IF YOU WILL    TH01400580
BE CAREFUL TO FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS YOU WILL BE ENABLED TO PERFORM   TH01400590
THE TASK WITHIN THE ALLOTED TIME AND OUTWIT THE SHAMAN.  WHEN HE      TH01400600
TAKES YOU TO THE FIELD AND ASKS IF YOU WILL UNDERTAKE THE WORK,       TH01400610
ANSWER BOLDLY, "YES, IF YOU WILL SUPPLY ME WITH A SUITABLE TOOL."     TH01400620
HE WILL AT ONCE CONSENT TO DO THIS; THEN ASK TO SEE HIS MATTOCKS.     TH01400630
WHEN THEY ARE PLACED BEFORE YOU LAUGH AT HIM, AND ASK IF HE THINKS    TH01400640
YOU CAN USE SUCH CHILDREN'S TOOLS AS THOSE.  HE WILL BE SURPRISED,    TH01400650
AND ASK YOU WHAT KIND OF TOOLS YOU WANT.  REQUEST HIM THEN TO HAVE    TH01400660
A MATTOCK MADE FOR YOU THAT WILL TAKE THE STRENGTH OF TWENTY MEN TO   TH01400670
LIFT.  HE WILL BE ASTONISHED, BUT WILL DO AS YOU REQUEST."  "BUT,"    TH01400680
INTERRUPTED THE YOUTH, "WHAT SHALL I DO WITH SUCH AN UNWIELDY         TH01400690
INSTRUMENT AS THAT?  I AM NOT STRONGER THAN TWENTY MEN."  "BE         TH01400700
PATIENT AND LISTEN," REPLIED THE OLD WOMAN.  "THE ROOT I GAVE YOU     TH01400710
LAST NIGHT IS A 'MAGIC' ROOT.  EAT A MORSEL OF IT NOW AND TEST IT."   TH01400720
THE YOUTH BIT OFF A MOUTHFUL, AND BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED CHEWING IT   TH01400730
HE FELT A STRANGE POWER ENTER HIS BODY, AND  WITH IT A DESIRE TO      TH01400740
EXERCISE HIS STRENGTH.  "TAKE UP THIS LOG," SAID THE OLD WOMAN,       TH01400750
"AND SWING IT ROUND YOUR HEAD."  THE YOUTH OBEYED, AND TOOK UP A      TH01400760
LOG THAT REQUIRED THE STRENGTH OF A DOZEN ORDINARY MEN TO LIFT, AND   TH01400770
SWUNG IT ROUND HIS HEAD AS IF IT HAD BEEN A SPEAR-HAFT.  "NOW,"       TH01400780
SAID THE OLD WOMAN WHEN HE HAD CAST THE LOG TO ONE SIDE, "YOU NEED    TH01400790
NOT FEAR THE  WEIGHT OF YOUR HEAVY MATTOCK; ONLY IF YOU DESIRE THE    TH01400800
ROOT TO BE EFFECTIVE YOU MUST GIVE GOOD HEED TO MY INSTRUCTIONS.      TH01400810
YOU WILL BE TEMPTED TO PARTAKE OF THE FOOD FROM THE SHAMAN'S TABLE    TH01400820
BEFORE YOU SET OUT TO PERFORM YOUR TASK.  THIS YOU MUST ON NO         TH01400830
ACCOUNT DO.  TURN YOUR BACK UPON HIS BREAKFAST AND SATISFY YOUR       TH01400840
APPETITE WITH THE ROOT I GAVE YOU.  EAT IT ON AN EMPTY STOMACH AND    TH01400850
HAVE CONFIDENCE IN ITS VIRTUE, AND YOU WILL SUCCESSFULLY ACCOMPLISH   TH01400860
YOUR LABOURS."  THE YOUTH THANKED THE OLD WOMAN FOR HER GOOD ADVICE   TH01400870
AND THE ROOT, AND, BIDDING HER GOOD DAY, CONTINUED ON HIS WAY.  ON    TH01400880
THE FOLLOWING DAY HE CAME TO THE RESIDENCE OF THE GREAT SHAMAN.  AS   TH01400890
HE APPROACHED THE HOUSE THE YOUNGER DAUGHTER OF THE  SHAMAN SAW HIM   TH01400900
COMING, AND PERCEIVING HIM TO BE A GOODLY, WELL-FAVOURED YOUTH, HER   TH01400910
HEART WENT OUT TO HIM,  AND SHE WAS MOVED WITH PITY, KNOWING THE      TH01400920
EVIL                                                                  TH01400921
THAT AWAITED HIM AT HER FATHER'S HANDS.  WHEN HE ARRIVED AT THE       TH01400930
HOUSE                                                                 TH01400931
THE SHAMAN CAME AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE COULD DO FOR HIM.  THE YOUNG    TH01400940
MAN ANSWERED THAT HE SOUGHT TO BECOME A SHAMAN, AND DESIRED HIS AID   TH01400950
AND ADVICE TO THAT END.  "VERY GOOD," SAID THE SHAMAN, "I AM          TH01400960
WILLING TO HELP YOU ON CERTAIN CONDITIONS.  YOU MUST BECOME MY        TH01400970
SERVANT FOR A TIME, AND MUST UNDERTAKE TO PERFORM CERTAIN TASKS       TH01400980
WHICH I WILL SET YOU.  IF YOU SUCCEED IN ACCOMPLISHING THESE I        TH01400990
SHALL SEE THAT YOU ARE FITTED TO BECOME A SHAMAN, AND WILL INITIATE   TH01401000
YOU INTO THE MYSTERIES OF MY PROFESSION, AND WILL ALSO BESTOW UPON    TH01401010
YOU ONE OF MY DAUGHTERS FOR WIFE."  "ON THESE TERMS," BROKE IN THE    TH01401020
YOUTH, "I AM WILLING TO BECOME YOUR SERVANT, AND ATTEMPT THE TASKS    TH01401030
YOU MAY SET ME."  "STAY A WHILE, MY FRIEND," SAID THE SHAMAN, "YOU    TH01401040
HAVE HEARD BUT HALF THE CONDITIONS.  IF YOU FAIL TO ACCOMPLISH        TH01401050
EITHER OF YOUR TASKS YOU WILL BE CAST TO THE FIERCE BEAST IN THE      TH01401060
DEN YONDER," AND HE POINTED TO A HUGE AND FEARFUL-LOOKING CREATURE    TH01401070
WHICH WAS PENNED UP NEAR THE HOUSE, AND WHICH NOW ROARED HORRIBLY     TH01401080
AS THE SHAMAN SPOKE.  THE SIGHT OF THIS RAVENING BEAST MIGHT HAVE     TH01401090
DETERRED A LESS DETERMINED MAN THAN THIS YOUTH, BUT REMEMBERING HIS   TH01401100
DREAM  AND THE POWER WHICH WAS HIS BY VIRTUE OF THE OLD WOMAN'S       TH01401110
ROOT, HE AGAIN DECLARED HIS EAGERNESS TO ESSAY THE TASKS AND ENTER    TH01401120
UPON HIS NOVITIATE.  "VERY GOOD," SAID THE SHAMAN WITH A WICKED       TH01401130
SMILE, "TO-MORROW MORNING YOU SHALL BEGIN YOUR WORK.  COME AND I      TH01401140
WILL SHOW YOU YOUR FIRST TASK."  AND WITH THAT HE LED HIM TO THE      TH01401150
FOREST.  "TO-MORROW BEFORE SUNSET YOU MUST CLEAR AND PREPARE FOR      TH01401160
PLANTING SEVENTY 'FATHOMS' SQUARE OF THIS LAND," SAID THE SHAMAN      TH01401170
WHEN THEY HAD REACHED THE TIMBER.  "VERY WELL," REPLIED THE YOUTH,    TH01401180
TO THE SHAMAN'S ASTONISHMENT, WHO EXPECTED TO HEAR HIM CRY OUT AND    TH01401190
DECLARE SUCH A TASK TO BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY MAN.  "I WILL DO THE     TH01401200
WORK PROVIDED YOU SUPPLY ME WITH PROPER TOOLS."  "THERE ARE PLENTY    TH01401210
OF MATTOCKS IN THE HOUSE," SAID THE SHAMAN; "I WILL HAVE THEM         TH01401220
BROUGHT TO YOU AND YOU CAN CHOOSE YOUR OWN."  WHEN THE TOOLS WERE     TH01401230
PLACED BEFORE THE YOUTH HE LAUGHED AT THE SHAMAN, AS THE OLD WOMAN    TH01401240
HAD BIDDEN HIM, AND SAID THEY WERE CHILDREN'S TOOLS, AND THAT HE      TH01401250
WANTED A MAN'S TOOL.  "WHAT KIND OF MATTOCK DO YOU WANT," THEN        TH01401260
EXCLAIMED THE SHAMAN, MORE ASTONISHED THAN EVER AT THE MANNER OF      TH01401270
THE YOUNG MAN.  "I WILL GIVE YOU WHATEVER TOOL YOU REQUIRE."  "VERY   TH01401280
WELL," THEN SAID THE YOUTH, "HAVE A  MATTOCK MADE FOR ME THAT WILL    TH01401290
REQUIRE THE UNITED STRENGTH OF TWENTY MEN TO MOVE IT, AND I WILL      TH01401300
CLEAR YOUR LAND FOR YOU."  THE SHAMAN, MARVELLING MUCH AT THE         TH01401310
CONFIDENT MANNER OF THE YOUTH BEFORE HIM, PROMISED THAT THE TOOL      TH01401320
SHOULD BE READY FOR HIM AT SUNRISE NEXT MORNING.  ON THE MORROW THE   TH01401330
YOUNG MAN WAS UP BEFORE DAYBREAK.  HE WENT TO THE STREAM AND          TH01401340
PLUNGED INTO THE COLD WATER; HE THEN EXERCISED HIMSELF AFTER THE      TH01401350
CUSTOM OF THE INDIAN YOUTH OF THE OLD TIMES, AFTER WHICH HE MADE      TH01401360
HIS BREAKFAST OF THE KOAKOE'LA ROOT.  THIS, NOT BEING VERY LARGE,     TH01401370
ONLY SERVED TO WHET HIS APPETITE; AND WHEN THE SHAMAN PRESENTLY       TH01401380
INVITED HIM TO SIT DOWN TO BREAKFAST WITH HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY,     TH01401390
THE SAVORY SMELL OF THE FISH AND VENISON SORELY TEMPTED HIM TO        TH01401400
COMPLY, BUT REMEMBERING THE ADMONITION OF THE OLD WOMAN HE THRUST     TH01401410
ASIDE HIS DESIRE, TURNED HIS BACK UPON THE MEAL, AND WENT FORTH TO    TH01401420
HIS TASK.  HE HAD NO SOONER LEFT THE HOUSE THAN HE FELT A RUSH OF     TH01401430
ENERGY AND STRENGTH TO HIS BODY AND LIMBS, AND CATCHING UP  THE       TH01401440
NEWLY-MADE MATTOCK SWUNG THE HUGE IMPLEMENT WITH EASE ROUND AND       TH01401450
ROUND HIS SHOULDERS.  WITHOUT LOSS OF TIME HE BETOOK HIMSELF TO THE   TH01401460
FOREST, AND SUCH WAS THE MARVELLOUS POWER OF THE KOAKOE'LA ROOT       TH01401470
THAT ERE THE SUN HAD REACHED THE ZENITH HE HAD CLEARED THE PIECE OF   TH01401480
LAND AND FELT LITTLE THE WORSE FOR THE TASK. HE NOW RETURNED TO THE   TH01401490
HOUSE, AND THE SHAMAN, SEEING HIM COMING, WEARING A BOLD AND SELF-    TH01401500
CONFIDENT LOOK, SCARCELY KNEW WHAT TO THINK; AND WHEN TOLD THAT THE   TH01401510
WORK WAS DONE WOULD NOT BELIEVE IT TILL HE EXAMINED IT WITH HIS OWN   TH01401520
EYES.  FINDING THE TASK REALLY SATISFACTORILY PERFORMED, A GREAT      TH01401530
HATE NOW SPRANG UP IN  HIS HEART TOWARDS THE YOUTH, AND HE SECRETLY   TH01401540
DETERMINED TO CUT HIS LIFE SHORT, LEST HE SHOULD PROVE A FUTURE       TH01401550
RIVAL TO HIMSELF AND ROB HIM OF HIS INFLUENCE AND POWER.  TO THIS     TH01401560
END HE PREPARED A SNARE FOR HIM.  PRETENDING TO BE WELL PLEASED AT    TH01401570
THE MANNER IN WHICH HE HAD PERFORMED HIS FIRST TASK, HE TOLD THE      TH01401580
YOUNG MAN THAT HE WOULD NOT WAIT TILL HE HAD ACCOMPLISHED THE OTHER   TH01401590
TASKS BEFORE GIVING HIM HIS DAUGHTER TO WIFE, BUT WOULD BESTOW HER    TH01401600
UPON HIM THAT VERY DAY.  THE YOUNG MAN, NOTHING LOTH TO POSSESS SO    TH01401610
DESIRABLE A WIFE AS ONE OF THE SHAMAN'S DAUGHTERS, ASKED WHICH OF     TH01401620
THE TWO WAS TO BE HIS WIFE.  SAID THE SHAMAN, "CHOOSE FOR YOURSELF,   TH01401630
MY SON; YOU MAY HAVE WHICH YOU LIKE."  THE YOUTH LOOKED AT THE TWO    TH01401640
YOUNG WOMEN, AND TO HIS SURPRISE FOUND THEM SO EXACTLY ALIKE THAT     TH01401650
HE COULD NOT  TELL ONE FROM THE OTHER, AND WAS AT A LOSS FOR THE      TH01401660
MOMENT WHICH TO CHOOSE, TILL HE CAUGHT THE SOFT AND YEARNING LOOK     TH01401670
IN THE EYES OF THE YOUNGER, WHOSE HEART HE HAD UNCONSCIOUSLY WON,     TH01401680
WHEN HE HESITATED NO LONGER, BUT CHOSE HER.  "VERY WELL," SAID THE    TH01401690
PARENT, "I WILL PREPARE A HOUSE FOR YOU, AND TO-NIGHT YOU SHALL       TH01401700
FIND BOTH IT AND HER READY FOR YOU."  NOW THE YOUNG WOMAN'S LOVE      TH01401710
FOR THE YOUTH MADE HER SUSPECT HER FATHER'S MOTIVES, AND FEIGNING     TH01401720
COMPLETE INDIFFERENCE FOR HER FUTURE HUSBAND SHE SOUGHT TO DISCOVER   TH01401730
HER PARENT'S PURPOSES.  HE, NEVER SUSPECTING THAT HER FEELINGS HAD    TH01401740
BEEN ROUSED, OR THAT SHE CARED ONE JOT FOR THE YOUTH, MADE NO         TH01401750
SECRET OF HIS PURPOSE.  HE HAD CAUSED A DEEP HOLE TO BE MADE IN THE   TH01401760
GROUND, JUST BEFORE THE DOOR OF THE CHAMBER HE HAD PREPARED FOR THE   TH01401770
NEWLY WEDDED PAIR, AT THE BOTTOM OF WHICH HE HAD BUILT A HUGE FIRE    TH01401780
OF CHARCOAL, AND OVER THE TOP OF WHICH, ON A LEVEL WITH THE GROUND,   TH01401790
HE HAD PLACED A CUNNINGLY CONTRIVED DOOR THAT REVOLVED ON A CENTRAL   TH01401800
PIVOT.  THIS DOOR WAS SO EVENLY HUNG THAT IT REMAINED BALANCED BY     TH01401810
ITS OWN WEIGHT, EFFECTUALLY COVERING THE HOLE AND FIRE BENEATH; BUT   TH01401820
SHOULD ONE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE CONTRIVANCE BE UNWARY ENOUGH TO      TH01401830
PLACE HIS FOOT ON EITHER HALF OF THE DOOR, IT WOULD IMMEDIATELY       TH01401840
GIVE WAY BENEATH AND  PRECIPITATE HIM INTO THE YAWNING FURNACE        TH01401850
BELOW, FROM WHICH THERE WAS NO POSSIBLE ESCAPE.  THIS WAS THE         TH01401860
BRIDAL COUCH THE JEALOUS SHAMAN PREPARED FOR HIS UNSUSPECTING         TH01401870
SON-IN-LAW, AND THE LATTER WOULD DOUBTLESS HAVE THUS MISERABLY        TH01401880
ENDED HIS LIFE BUT FOR THE LOVE AND WARNING OF HIS BRIDE.  HAVING     TH01401890
ASCERTAINED THAT HER FATHER ENTERTAINED NO DOUBTS THAT HIS TRAP       TH01401900
WOULD SUCCESSFULLY DISPOSE OF HER LOVER, AND THAT THEY WOULD BE       TH01401910
LEFT IN PEACE, AT LEAST FOR THE NIGHT, IF HE SUCCEEDED IN PASSING     TH01401920
THE DEATH-TRAP, SHE TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY, UNOBSERVED BY HER SISTER    TH01401930
OR PARENTS, TO ACQUAINT HER HUSBAND WITH THE WHOLE PLOT, TELLING      TH01401940
HIM HOW TO SAFELY CROSS THE DOOR.  HE SAW FROM THIS THAT HIS YOUNG    TH01401950
WIFE'S HELP WAS THE AID THE OLD WOMAN HAD TOLD HIM WOULD BE GIVEN     TH01401960
HIM AFTER HE HAD PERFORMED THE FIRST TASK, AND FEELING THAT SOME      TH01401970
FRIENDLY POWER WAS WORKING FOR HIM, HE AWAITED THE APPROACH OF        TH01401980
NIGHT WITHOUT AGITATION OR CONCERN.  WHEN THEY HAD EATEN THEIR        TH01401990
SUPPER, AND THE YOUNG WOMAN HAD RETIRED, THE SHAMAN POINTED OUT TO    TH01402000
THE YOUTH THE APARTMENT OCCUPIED BY HIS BRIDE, AND LEFT HIM TO JOIN   TH01402010
HER.  AS HE APPROACHED THE DOOR HE TROD VERY CAREFULLY, TRYING THE    TH01402020
GROUND IN FRONT OF HIM BEFORE HE PUT HIS FOOT DOWN.  WHEN HE HAD      TH01402030
GOT QUITE NEAR THE DOOR HE FELT THE GROUND GIVE WAY BENEATH HIS       TH01402040
ADVANCED FOOT, AND PRESSING UPON IT A LITTLE DISCERNED THE OUTLINES   TH01402050
OF THE TRAP-DOOR; AND PUTTING HIS FOOT IN THE CENTRE, AS HIS WIFE     TH01402060
HAD INSTRUCTED HIM, HE GAVE A LEAP AND CROSSED THE TREACHEROUS SPOT   TH01402070
WITHOUT HARM, AND THE WARM WELCOME OF HIS BRIDE SOON MADE HIM         TH01402080
FORGET THE DANGER HE HAD RUN IN REACHING HER.  NEXT MORNING, WHEN     TH01402090
THE SHAMAN, ACCORDING TO HIS WONT, AROUSED HIS FAMILY, HE WAS         TH01402100
GREATLY ASTONISHED TO SEE THE YOUNG MAN APPEAR SAFE AND SOUND FROM    TH01402110
HIS DAUGHTER'S QUARTERS; BUT DISSEMBLING HIS FEELINGS HE BADE HIM     TH01402120
GOOD MORROW AND HOPED HE WAS READY FOR HIS SECOND TASK THAT DAY.      TH01402130
"O YES," RESPONDED THE YOUTH, "I AM QUITE READY AND EAGER."  WHEN     TH01402140
HE HAD GONE FOR HIS MORNING PLUNGE AND EXERCISE, THE FATHER TOOK      TH01402150
THE OPPORTUNITY OF WARNING HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTERS THAT THEY WERE ON   TH01402160
NO ACCOUNT TO GIVE THE YOUTH ANY HINTS OR ADVICE.  "HE HAS SOME       TH01402170
POWERFUL MEDICINE," ADDED HE, "WORKING IN HIS BEHALF, OR HE COULD     TH01402180
NOT HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THE TASK I SET HIM YESTERDAY OR ESCAPE THE      TH01402190
TRAP I PLACED FOR HIM LAST NIGHT.  IF I DO NOT DESTROY HIM I FORSEE   TH01402200
HE WILL OUTWIT ME AND DEPRIVE ME OF MY PRESTIGE AND POWER."  HE       TH01402210
LITTLE SUSPECTED THAT HIS YOUNGER DAUGHTER HAD ALREADY REVEALED THE   TH01402220
NATURE OF HIS SECOND TASK HE PROPOSED TO SET HIM, AND HAD CONSPIRED   TH01402230
TO OUTWIT HIM AND ASSIST HER HUSBAND.  BUT SO IT WAS; FOR BEFORE      TH01402240
THEY HAD RISEN THAT MORNING SHE HAD TOLD HIM THAT HER FATHER WOULD    TH01402250
CHANGE HERSELF AND SISTER AND MOTHER INTO THREE BEAUTIFUL SPECKLED    TH01402260
TROUT, SO EXACTLY ALIKE THAT IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL ONE       TH01402270
FROM ANOTHER WITHOUT ASSISTANCE FROM THE FISH THEMSELVES.  SAID THE   TH01402280
YOUNG WIFE, "I WILL WAG MY HEAD FROM SIDE TO SIDE AS I SWIM ABOUT:    TH01402290
BY THIS MEANS YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DISTINGUISH ME FROM THE OTHERS      TH01402300
WHEN YOU ARE ASKED TO POINT ME OUT, WITHOUT EXCITING MY FATHER'S      TH01402310
SUSPICIONS THAT I AM HELPING YOU; FOR," ADDED SHE, "THE TASK THAT     TH01402320
AWAITS YOU TO-DAY IS TO POINT OUT WHICH OF THE THREE FISH IS YOUR     TH01402330
WIFE.  BE CAREFUL NOT TO POINT ME OUT AT THE VERY COMMENCEMENT OF     TH01402340
THE TRIAL.  PRETEND FOR A WHILE TO BE IN DOUBT,  AND DECLARE THE      TH01402350
TASK TO BE IMPOSSIBLE, AND ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE EXHAUSTED MY FATHER'S   TH01402360
PATIENCE MAKE A REAL AND FINAL EFFORT."  THE YOUNG MAN PROMISED TO    TH01402370
DO AS SHE HAD BIDDEN HIM, AND THANKED HER FOR HER GOOD ADVICE.        TH01402380
     ALL BREAKFAST-TIME THE SHAMAN WAS VERY MERRY AND TALKED MUCH,    TH01402390
TELLING THE YOUTH HOW MANY YOUNG MEN HAD COME TO HIM TO BE            TH01402400
INITIATED INTO THE MYSTERIES OF SHAMANISM AND PROVED THEMSELVES       TH01402410
UNWORTHY, AND HAD BEEN CAST TO THE BEAST AND BEEN DEVOURED.  THE      TH01402420
YOUTH WAS NOT TO BE DISMAYED BY THE MISFORTUNES OF THOSE WHO HAD      TH01402430
TRIED BEFORE HIM AND FAILED.  SECURE IN THE LOVE AND ASSISTANCE OF    TH01402440
THE SHAMAN'S OWN DAUGHTER, AND MINDFUL OF HIS DREAM, HE MAINTAINED,   TH01402450
TO THE SHAMAN'S SECRET CHAGRIN, THE SAME SELF-CONFIDENT AIR THAT HE   TH01402460
HAD WORN ON THE PREVIOUS DAY.  AS SOON AS THE MORNING MEAL WAS OVER   TH01402470
THE SHAMAN BADE HIS DAUGHTERS FETCH A LARGE BASKET-TUB AND FILL IT    TH01402480
WITH WATER.  AS SOON AS THEY HAD DONE THIS HE CALLED THE YOUNG MAN    TH01402490
TO HIM AND SAID, "NOW YOU MUST ESSAY YOUR SECOND TASK, AND IF YOU     TH01402500
FAIL, NOTWITHSTANDING YOUR SUCCESS OF YESTERDAY, I SHALL CAST YOU     TH01402510
TO                                                                    TH01402511
THE BEAST."  TRANSFORMING HIS WIFE AND TWO DAUGHTERS THEREWITH INTO   TH01402520
THREE SPECKLED TROUT, SO EXACTLY ALIKE THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO      TH01402530
DETECT THE SLIGHTEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM, HE CAST THEM INTO THE   TH01402540
BASKET OF WATER AND BADE THE YOUTH COME NEAR.  AFTER WATCHING THEM    TH01402550
FOR A MOMENT HE ASKED THE YOUNG MAN WHICH HAD THE SMALLEST TAIL.      TH01402560
"IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY," REPLIED THE YOUTH; "THEY SEEM TO ME TO     TH01402570
BE EXACTLY OF THE SAME SIZE."  "WHICH HAS THE LARGEST HEAD THEN?"     TH01402580
QUESTIONED THE SHAMAN.  "I CANNOT SAY," SAID THE YOUTH.  "WHICH HAS   TH01402590
THE FINEST FINS?"  "THEY ARE EQUALLY FINE," WAS THE ANSWER.           TH01402600
AND THUS THE SHAMAN QUESTIONED HIM ON ALL THEIR POINTS, ALWAYS        TH01402610
RECEIVING A SIMILAR ANSWER FROM THE YOUTH, AS HIS WIFE HAD            TH01402620
INSTRUCTED HIM.  THE SHAMAN THEN PUT THE  REAL AND FINAL QUESTION:    TH01402630
"WHICH OF THE THREE IS YOUR WIFE, MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER?"  "REALLY,    TH01402640
I DON'T THINK I CAN SAY," PRETENDED THE YOUTH; "IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE   TH01402650
TO DETERMINE."  "OH, BUT YOU MUST," DECLARED THE SHAMAN, NOW SO       TH01402660
DELIGHTED THAT HE COULD SCARCE HIDE IT, "OR PAY THE FORFEIT."  AND    TH01402670
AS HE SPOKE HE POINTED TO THE BEAST, WHICH ROARED HORRIBLY AT THE     TH01402680
SAME MOMENT.  THE YOUNG MAN THEN PUT FORTH HIS HAND AS IF TO POINT    TH01402690
OUT THE FISH HE THOUGH HIS WIFE.  BUT IMMEDIATELY WITHDREW IT AGAIN   TH01402700
WITH A SHOW OF DOUBT AND HESITATION.  HE REPEATED THIS MANOEVRE       TH01402710
SEVERAL TIMES UNTIL THE SHAMAN, LOSING PATIENCE AND BELIEVING THAT    TH01402720
THE YOUTH WAS NOW IN HIS POWER, DECLARED HE MUST HESITATE NO LONGER   TH01402730
BUT MAKE HIS CHOICE AND ABIDE BY THE RESULT.  THE YOUTH THEN          TH01402740
CLOSELY WATCHED THE THREE FISH FOR A MOMENT, AND SEEING ONE           TH01402750
SEPARATE ITSELF A LITTLE FROM THE OTHER TWO AND SHAKE ITS HEAD        TH01402770
VIGOROUSLY, HE QUICKLY POINTED TO IT AND SAID, "THAT ONE IS MY WIFE   TH01402780
AND YOUR YOUNGER DAUGHTER."  AS HE UTTERED THE WORDS THE THREE FISH   TH01402790
WERE TRANSFORMED BACK TO WOMEN AGAIN, AND STEPPED OUT OF THE          TH01402800
BASKET.  THE SHAMAN WAS SO DISAPPOINTED AT THE TURN EVENTS HAD        TH01402810
TAKEN THAT HE COULD SCARCELY HIDE HIS FEELINGS, BUT MAKING PRETENCE   TH01402820
HE CONGRATULATED THE YOUTH, DECLARING THAT ONE DAY HE WOULD BECOME    TH01402830
A VERY GREAT SHAMAN IF HE WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN HIS   TH01402840
THIRD AND FINAL TRIAL, WHICH WAS FIXED TO TAKE PLACE ON THE MORROW.   TH01402850
     THE NEXT MORNING, BEFORE THEY ROSE, THE YOUNG WIFE INFORMED      TH01402860
HER HUSBAND THAT THE TASK WHICH AWAITED HIM FOR THAT DAY WAS A RACE   TH01402870
WITH HER FATHER, WHO WAS SO EXCEEDING FLEET OF FOOT THAT NO MAN HAD   TH01402880
EVER SUCCESSFULLY COMPETED WITH HIM.  "YOU CANNOT OF YOURSELF,"       TH01402890
SAID SHE, "HOPE TO BEAT HIM - HIS MEDICINE IS TOO STRONG FOR THAT.    TH01402900
I ALONE CAN AID YOU, AND IF YOU WILL PLACE YOUR TRUST AND             TH01402910
CONFIDENCE IN ME I CAN PROMISE YOU SUCCESS.  WHEN YOU FIND MY         TH01402920
FATHER GAINING ON YOU IN THE RACE AND YOUR STRENGTH FAILING, YOU      TH01402930
MUST FIX YOUR EYES STEADFASTLY UPON MY FACE, AND YOU WILL THEN FIND   TH01402940
YOURSELF ABLE TO OUTRUN HIM.  DO NOT NEGLECT MY INSTRUCTIONS, OR      TH01402950
ILL WILL IT BE FOR BOTH OF US."  HE THANKED HER FOR HER HELP AND      TH01402960
ADVICE, AND MADE UP HIS MIND TO DO AS SHE HAD TOLD HIM IF HE FOUND    TH01402970
HE WAS LOOSING GROUND.                                                TH01402980
     THE SHAMAN PRESENTLY CALLED HIM ASIDE AND INFORMED HIM THAT HE   TH01402990
MUST NOW PREPARE HIMSELF FOR THE THIRD AND FINAL TRIAL, "WHICH,"      TH01403000
SAID HE, "IS A RACE WITH MYSELF."  THE YOUTH PREPARED HIMSELF         TH01403010
ACCORDINGLY, AND PRESENTLY STOOD SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE SHAMAN,        TH01403020
WAITING FOR THE MOMENT TO START.  THE THREE WOMEN HAD GONE TO THE     TH01403030
OTHER END OF THE COURSE TO SEE THE FINISH.  THE SIGNAL BEING GIVEN    TH01403040
THEY STARTED, AND RAN NECK AND NECK FOR THE GREATER PART OF THE       TH01403050
WAY.  BUT AS THEY APPROACHED THE GOAL THE  SHAMAN BEGAN TO MAKE USE   TH01403060
OF HIS MEDICINE AND LEAVE THE YOUTH BEHIND.  THE LATTER STROVE        TH01403070
AGAIN AND AGAIN TO OVERTAKE THE SHAMAN, BUT ALL HIS EFFORTS WERE IN   TH01403080
VAIN:  HE FOUND HIMSELF SLIPPING FARTHER AND FARTHER BEHIND, AND IT   TH01403090
WAS ONLY WHEN HIS STRENGTH BEGAN TO FAIL HIM, AND THE SHAMAN WAS      TH01403100
ALMOST AT THE GOAL, THAT HE RECALLED HIS WIFE'S INSTRUCTIONS.         TH01403110
QUICKLY FIXING HIS GAZE UPON HER FACE, HE FELT IN AN INSTANT A        TH01403120
SUDDEN RUSH OF                                                        TH01403121
ENERGY TO HIS LIMBS AS HER EYES SEEMED TO BURN THROUGH HIS BRAIN,     TH01403130
AND HIS FEET SEEMED AS IF THEY HAD TAKEN WINGS TO THEMSELVES, FOR     TH01403140
THEY NOW CARRIED HIM ALONG WITHOUT ANY EFFORT OF HIS OWN, AND         TH01403150
LANDED HIM AT THE GOAL SEVERAL YARDS IN ADVANCE OF HIS FATHER-IN-     TH01403160
LAW, WHOSE RAGE AND DISAPPOINTMENT WAS NOW SO GREAT THAT HE COULD     TH01403170
NOT SPEAK FOR ANGER.  BUT STILL HE DISSEMBLED AND ACKNOWLEDGED HIS    TH01403180
SON-IN-LAW'S VICTORY, AND FORTHWITH UNDERTOOK TO INITIATE HIM INTO    TH01403190
THE MYSTERIES OF HIS PROFESSION IF HE WOULD SETTLE DOWN WITH HIM      TH01403200
AND BECOME HIS PUPIL.  THIS THE YOUTH CONSENTED TO DO, BEING STILL    TH01403210
WISHFUL TO BECOME A SHAMAN.  BUT THE SHAMAN'S DAUGHTER, HIS WIFE,     TH01403220
WAS TROUBLED IN HER MIND, KNOWING THAT HER PARENT WOULD NEVER SPARE   TH01403230
HER HUSBAND'S LIFE, BUT WOULD CONTINUE TO PLOT AGAINST HIM TILL HE    TH01403240
HAD DESTROYED HIM.  SO WHEN NIGHT CAME, AND SHE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY    TH01403250
OF COMVERSING WITH HIM ALONE WITHOUT AROUSING SUSPICION, SHE          TH01403260
COMMUNICATED HER FEARS TO HIM CONCERNING HIS SAFETY UNDER HER         TH01403270
FATHER'S ROOF, AND COUNSELLED IMMEDIATE AND SECRET FLIGHT TO HIS      TH01403280
OWN VILLAGE AND HOME.  THE YOUTH ASSENTING TO HER PLAN, THEY SET      TH01403281
OUT TOGETHER THAT VERY NIGHT, MAKING ALL THE HASTE POSSIBLE THAT      TH01403290
THEY MIGHT BE WELL ADVANCED UPON THEIR JOURNEY BEFORE THEY WERE       TH01403300
MISSED.  IN THE MORNING, WHEN THE SHAMAN ROUSED HIS FAMILY AS USUAL   TH01403310
HE WAS SURPRISED TO FIND HIS DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW ABSENT, AND AS   TH01403320
THE DAY ADVANCED, AND THERE WAS NO APPEARANCE OF THEM, HE BECAME      TH01403330
CONVINCED THAT THEY HAD FLED TOGETHER FROM HIM.  SAID HE TO HIS       TH01403340
WIFE, "NOW I UNDERSTAND WHERE HIS ASSISTANCE CAME FROM.  OUR          TH01403350
DAUGHTER HAS BETRAYED ME, AND NOW RUN AWAY WITH HER HUSBAND.  BUT     TH01403360
THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE ME THUS.  I WILL AFTER THEM AND BRING THEM      TH01403370
BACK."  AND AS HE SPOKE HE SOUGHT FOR THEIR TRAIL, WHICH, AS THEY     TH01403380
HAD MADE NO ATTEMPT TO HIDE IT, TRUSTING TO THEIR START, HE SOON      TH01403390
DISCOVERED AND HASTENED TO FOLLOW UP.  WITH THE AID OF HIS            TH01403400
SHAMANISTIC POWERS HE WAS ABLE TO TRAVEL MUCH FASTER THAN THEY; AND   TH01403410
HE HAD NOT PURSUED THEM LONG WHEN THE RUNAWAY DAUGHTER CRIED OUT TO   TH01403420
HER HUSBAND:  "MY FATHER IS PURSUING US AND IS CLOSE UPON US; I       TH01403430
KNOW IT BY THE TREMBLING IN MY BODY.  NOW STAY A MOMENT, AND I WILL   TH01403440
USE MY MEDICINE."  FORTHWITH SHE TRANSFORMED HER  HUSBAND INTO A      TH01403450
LITTLE SUGAR-TREE WHERE HE STOOD, AND HERSELF INTO ANOTHER CLOSE BY   TH01403460
OVER AGAINST HIM; AND WHERE A MOMENT BEFORE TWO HUMAN BEINGS HAD      TH01403470
STOOD THERE NOW GREW IN THEIR PLACE TWO OLD AND PARTLY DECAYED        TH01403480
SUGAR-TREES.  THE TRANSFORMATION HAD SCARCELY BEEN EFFECTED WHEN      TH01403490
THE SHAMAN CAME UP.  WHEN HE REACHED THE SUGAR-TREES HE FOUND THE     TH01403500
TRAIL SUDDENLY STOP, AND LOOK AND SEARCH AS HE WOULD HE COULD FIND    TH01403510
NO CONTINUATION OF IT.  CASTING HIS EYES AROUND HIM, HE PRESENTLY     TH01403520
PERCEIVED THAT THE TRAIL ENDED AT THE SUGAR-TREES, SO HAVING THE      TH01403530
POWER TO CONVERSE WITH TREES HE ADDRESSED THEM, AND ASKED IF THEY     TH01403540
HAD SEEN A YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN PASS THAT WAY.  THE SUGAR-TREE THAT    TH01403550
WAS HIS DAUGHTER REPLIED THAT NO ONE HAD PASSED BY THAT WAY SINCE     TH01403560
THEY HAD GROWN THERE.  "HOW LONG  HAVE YOU BEEN GROWING HERE?"        TH01403570
QUESTIONED THE SHAMAN.  "OH, WE ARE VERY OLD," SAID THE DAUGHTER.     TH01403580
"CANNOT YOU SEE HOW DECAYED WE HAVE BECOME?"  NEVER SUSPECTING THAT   TH01403590
HE WAS CONVERSING WITH HIS DAUGHTER, AFTER SEARCHING ALL ROUND        TH01403600
AGAIN AND FINDING NO CLUE TO FOLLOW, HE GAVE UP THE PURSUIT AND       TH01403610
TURNED BACK HOMEWARDS AGAIN.  WHEN HE WAS OUT OF SIGHT THE DAUGHTER   TH01403620
RESUMED HER PROPER FORM, TRANSFORMING AT THE SAME TIME HER HUSBAND    TH01403630
TO HIS OWN SHAPE, AND BOTH CONTINUED ON THEIR WAY AS FAST AS THEY     TH01403640
COULD.  THE SHAMAN, ON REACHING HIS HOME, WAS ASKED BY HIS WIFE WHY   TH01403650
HE HAD RETURNED ALONE.  HE RELATED HIS EXPERIENCE, TELLING HER THAT   TH01403660
THE TRAIL WAS CLEAR AND EASY TILL HE CAME TO THE SUGAR-TREES, AND     TH01403670
THEN IT CEASED SUDDENLY, AND NO TRACE OF THE FUGITIVES COULD BE       TH01403680
FOUND BEYOND.  "YOU SILLY MAN," SAID THE WIFE, "DON'T YOU SEE THAT    TH01403690
THE SUGAR-TREES WERE YOUR DAUGHTER AND HER HUSBAND?  YOU KNOW THAT    TH01403700
SHE POSSESSES THE 'POWER' AS WELL AS YOU.  HASTEN BACK AFTER THEM     TH01403710
AND DON'T BE FOOLED BY HER AGAIN."  PERCEIVING THAT SHE MUST BE       TH01403720
RIGHT, HE STARTED AFTER THE  RUNAWAYS ONCE MORE, AND PRESENTLY        TH01403730
ARRIVED AT THE SPOT WHERE THE SUGAR-TREES HAD STOOD, BUT WHICH WERE   TH01403740
NOW NOWHERE TO BE SEEN.  DESPERATELY ANGRY AT FINDING HE HAD BEEN     TH01403750
OUTWITTED AGAIN BY HIS OWN DAUGHTER, AS HIS WIFE HAD SUGGESTED, AND   TH01403760
PERCEIVING THE TRAIL BROAD AND CLEAR BEFORE HIM, HE HASTENED TO       TH01403770
OVERTAKE THEM ONCE MORE.  IT WAS NOT LONG AFTER THIS THAT THE YOUNG   TH01403780
WIFE CRIED OUT TO HER HUSBAND, "MY FATHER IS PURSUING US AGAIN, AND   TH01403790
WILL SPEEDILY OVERTAKE US AND SEIZE US IF I DO NOT DO SOMETHING TO    TH01403800
PREVENT IT.  I KNOW IT BY THE TREMBLING IN MY BODY."  IMMEDIATELY     TH01403810
SHE SET TO WORK TO GATHER TWO BUNDLES OF BRUSHWOOD.  THIS DONE, SHE   TH01403820
TRANSFORMED THEM INTO TWO WRETCHED, BROKEN-DOWN HUTS, AND HERSELF     TH01403830
AND HER HUSBAND INTO A PAIR OF DECREPIT AND GREY-HEADED OLD PEOPLE.   TH01403840
SHE HAD NO SOONER ACCOMPLISHED THIS SECOND METAMORPHOSIS THAN HER     TH01403850
FATHER ARRIVED, AND FINDING THE TRAIL STOPPED SHORT HERE, HE          TH01403860
ACCOSTED THE OLD COUPLE AND ASKED THEM IF THEY HAD SEEN TWO  YOUNG    TH01403870
PEOPLE PASS THAT WAY.  THE DAUGHTER ANSWERED FOR BOTH AGAIN, AND      TH01403880
REPLIED THAT NO ONE HAD PASSED THAT WAY FOR MANY YEARS.  "HAVE YOU    TH01403890
BEEN LIVING HERE LONG?" QUESTIONED THE SHAMAN.  "WE WERE YOUNG AND    TH01403900
ACTIVE WHEN WE FIRST SETTLED HERE," ANSWERED THE DAUGHTER; "NOW YOU   TH01403910
CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF THAT WE ARE OLD AND GREY."  "IT IS STRANGE,"     TH01403920
REPLIED THE SHAMAN, "HERE ARE THEIR TRACKS TO THIS VERY SPOT, AND     TH01403930
NO SIGN OF THEM BEYOND.  PERHAPS THEY HAVE HIDDEN THEMSELVES IN       TH01403940
YOUR HOUSES."  "YOU ARE WELCOME TO LOOK," SAID THE WOMAN, "BUT I AM   TH01403950
SURE THEY ARE NOT THERE."  THE SHAMAN THEN MADE A CLOSE SEARCH OF     TH01403960
BOTH HOVELS, BUT FOUND NO TRACE OF THOSE WHOM HE SOUGHT; AND AFTER    TH01403970
A FRUITLESS EFFORT TO DISCOVER THE TRAIL BEYOND THE HUTS GAVE UP      TH01403980
THE SEARCH AND RETURNED HOME ONCE MORE.  AS BEFORE, NO SOONER WAS     TH01403990
HE GONE THAN THE PAIR, RESUMING THEIR PROPER FORMS, STARTED OFF       TH01404000
AGAIN ON THEIR JOURNEY WITHOUT DELAY.  WHEN THE SHAMAN ARRIVED HOME   TH01404010
HE                                                                    TH01404011
RELATED HIS SECOND EXPERIENCE TO HIS WIFE, WHO LAUGHED AT HIM AGAIN   TH01404020
FOR NOT PERCEIVING IN THE OLD PAIR ANOTHER RUSE OF HIS DAUGHTER'S.    TH01404030
"THE OLD MAN AND WOMAN WERE YOUR DAUGHTER AND HER HUSBAND WITHOUT     TH01404040
DOUBT.  RETURN QUICKLY AND YOU WILL STILL SECURE THEM."  THE SHAMAN   TH01404050
SET OUT YET A THIRD TIME AFTER THE RUNAWAYS, AND COMING TO THE SPOT   TH01404060
WHERE THE COTTAGES HAD STOOD A LITTLE WHILE BEFORE DISCOVERED         TH01404070
NOTHING THERE BUT TWO HEAPS OF BRUSHWOOD, BEYOND WHICH HE NOW         TH01404080
CLEARLY DISCERNED THE TRACKS OF THE FUGITIVES.  TAKING UP THE TRAIL   TH01404090
AGAIN HE HURRIED AFTER THEM.  AS HE WAS ABOUT TO COME UP WITH THEM    TH01404100
THE YOUNG WOMAN CRIED OUT, "I AM ALL IN A TREMBLE AGAIN:  MY FATHER   TH01404110
IS CLOSE UPON US.  I MUST USE MY POWER ONCE AGAIN, AND IF WE          TH01404120
SUCCEED IN DECEIVING HIM THIS TIME HE WILL MOLEST US NO FURTHER."     TH01404130
AND WITH THAT SHE SPAT UPON THE GROUND AND THE SPITTLE BECAME AT      TH01404140
ONCE A LAKE.  SHE THEN TRANSFORMED HERSELF AND HUSBAND INTO A PAIR    TH01404150
OF MALLARD DUCKS, AND ENTERING THE WATER BADE HER HUSBAND FOLLOW      TH01404160
HER.  THEY HAD BEEN IN THE WATER BUT A FEW MOMENTS WHEN THE SHAMAN    TH01404170
CAME UP, AND FINDING THE TRAIL LEAD INTO THE WATER HE STOPPED AND     TH01404180
LOOKED ABOUT HIM.  UNDERSTANDING THE LANGUAGE OF  BIRDS HE NOW        TH01404190
ACCOSTED  THE DUCKS AND ASKED THEM IF THEY HAD SEEN A YOUNG MAN AND   TH01404200
WOMAN CROSS THE LAKE.  THE DAUGHTER, ANSWERING FOR BOTH, AS SHE       TH01404210
ALONE KNEW THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS, REPLIED SHORTLY THAT THEY HAD       TH01404220
NOT.  THE SHAMAN THEN REQUESTED THEM TO SWIM OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE   TH01404230
OF THE LAKE AND SEE IF THEY COULD DISCOVER ANY TRACKS LEADING OUT     TH01404240
OF THE WATER.  SAID THE FEMALE DUCK "GO AND LOOK FOR YOURSELF; WE     TH01404250
CANNOT WAIT UPON YOU."  THE SHAMAN, THOUGH BY THIS TIME WEARY AND     TH01404260
FOOTSORE, DRAGGED HIMSELF ROUND TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAKE, BUT    TH01404270
PERCEIVING NO FOOTMARKS THERE CONCLUDED THAT THE FUGITIVES HAD        TH01404280
DROWNED THEMSELVES, AND PRESENTLY RETURNED HOME AND GAVE UP THE       TH01404290
CHASE.  THE YOUNG PEOPLE, STARTING ON THEIR WAY ONCE MORE, SHORTLY    TH01404300
CAME NEAR THE YOUNG MAN'S HOME.  AS THEY APPROACHED THE VILLAGE HE    TH01404310
SAID TO HIS WIFE, "NOW, I WANT YOU TO REMAIN HERE IN THE WOOD WHILE   TH01404330
I GO FORWARD AND PREPARE MY MOTHER AND FATHER FOR YOUR ARRIVAL.       TH01404340
SHE DEMURRED TO THIS, ASKING WHY SHE COULD NOT ACCOMPANY HIM.  "OH,   TH01404350
THAT WOULD NEVER DO," SAID HE, "MY PARENTS MUST HAVE TIME TO          TH01404360
PREPARE FOR YOUR RECEPTION.  I WILL ONLY GO FORWARD AND INFORM THEM   TH01404370
THAT I AM BRINGING HOME A WIFE AND THEN RETURN FOR YOU."  SHE         TH01404380
CONTINUED TO DEMUR TO THE ARRANGEMENT.  "HAVE YOU ANY BROTHERS?"      TH01404390
QUESTIONED SHE PRESENTLY.  "NO," HE ANSWERED, "I HAVE NO BROTHERS,    TH01404400
ONLY TWO SISTERS."  "PROMISE ME, THEN," SAID SHE "THAT IF I LET YOU   TH01404410
GO YOU WILL NOT LET YOUR FAMILY KISS YOU BEFORE YOU RETURN TO ME."    TH01404420
"WHY DO YOU WISH ME TO MAKE THAT PROMISE?"  ASKED HE.  "BECAUSE IF    TH01404430
YOUR SISTERS OR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER KISS YOU BEFORE YOU COME       TH01404440
BACK TO ME YOU WILL FORGET ALL ABOUT ME AND WILL NOT RETURN, BUT      TH01404450
LEAVE ME HERE ALL ALONE IN THE WOODS."  THE YOUNG MAN, WHO WAS VERY   TH01404460
FOND OF HIS WIFE, DECLARED THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE; BUT WILLING TO        TH01404470
GRATIFY HER HE READILY PROMISED TO DO AS SHE REQUESTED, AND BIDDING   TH01404480
HER                                                                   TH01404481
HAVE NO FEAR OF HIS SPEEDY RETURN HE LEFT HER THERE AND ENTERED THE   TH01404490
VILLAGE.  HE HAD NOT GOT FAR BEFORE HIS TWO SISTERS PERCEIVED HIM     TH01404500
COMING, AND RUSHED IN TO INFORM THEIR PARENTS, WHO NO SOONER HEARD    TH01404510
OF HIS ARRIVAL THAN THEY RAN OUT TO MEET HIM, FOLLOWED BY THEIR TWO   TH01404520
DAUGHTERS.  WHEN THEY GOT NEAR THEY EMBRACED HIM FONDLY, AND HE, IN   TH01404530
THE PLEASURE OF MEETING THEM AGAIN, FORGOT ALL ABOUT HIS PROMISE TO   TH01404540
HIS WIFE, AND SUFFERED HIMSELF TO BE KISSED BY THEM.  AND AS THEY     TH01404550
LED HIM INTO THE HOUSE ALL RECOLLECTION OF HIS YOUNG WIFE ANXIOUSLY   TH01404560
WAITING FOR HIM AT THE EDGE OF THE FOREST LEFT HIS MIND, AND HE       TH01404570
FORGOT HER AS COMPLETELY AS IF SHE HAD NEVER EXISTED.  WHEN HE HAD    TH01404580
BEEN ABSENT SOME HOURS AND NIGHT BEGAN TO COME ON WITHOUT ANY SIGN    TH01404590
OF HIM SHE BEGAN TO FEAR THAT HE HAD BROKEN HIS PROMISE; AND AS DAY   TH01404600
AFTER DAY WENT BY SHE BECAME CERTAIN OF THE FACT.  SO SHE BUILT       TH01404610
HERSELF A LITTLE HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE VILLAGE CLOSE TO THE        TH01404620
ROADWAY, AND AT THE BACK OF IT SHE ADDED A SMALL LEAN-TO.  WHEN SHE   TH01404630
HAD DONE THIS SHE TOOK A LUMP OF CLAY, AND AFTER KNEADING IT SHE      TH01404640
MADE FROM IT TWO CLAY BIRDS.  SHE NEXT TRANSFORMED THE CLAY           TH01404650
EFFIGIES INTO REAL, LIVE BIRDS, AND PLACED THEM IN THE LEAN-TO AT     TH01404660
THE BACK OF HER HOUSE.  SEVERAL DAYS HAD NOW ELAPSED SINCE SHE HAD    TH01404670
LOST HER HUSBAND, WHO, HAVING COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN THAT HE HAD EVER   TH01404680
BEEN MARRIED, AT THE SUGGESTION OF HIS PARENTS BEGAN TO LOOK ROUND    TH01404690
FOR A WIFE.  HAVING CHOSEN A MAIDEN THAT SUITED HIS FANCY HE ASKED    TH01404700
HIS PARENTS TO TAKE THE NECESSARY STEPS TO BRING ABOUT THE            TH01404710
MARRIAGE.  NEGOTIATIONS WERE OPENED, PRESENTS ACCEPTED AND            TH01404720
EXCHANGED, AND A DAY WAS FIXED FOR THE CEREMONY.  THE FATHER OF THE   TH01404730
BRIDE-ELECT WAS DESIROUS OF MARKING THE EVENT IN A VERY CONSPICUOUS   TH01404740
MANNER; SO HE GAVE NOTICE THAT A GREAT FEAST WOULD BE HELD IN         TH01404750
HONOUR OF THE OCCASION, AND SENT OUT INVITATIONS FAR AND WIDE.  HE    TH01404760
ALSO INVITED ALL THOSE WHO POSSESSED ANY CURIOUS OR INTERESTING       TH01404770
THINGS TO COME AND EXHIBIT THEM, BEING DETERMINED TO MAKE THE FEAST   TH01404780
A MEMORABLE EVENT.  THE FORSAKEN YOUNG WIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE        TH01404790
VILLAGE HEARD THE NEWS OF THE APPROACHING MARRIAGE OF HER HUSBAND     TH01404800
IN SOME MYSTERIOUS WAY, AND LAID HER PLANS TO PREVENT IT              TH01404810
ACCORDINGLY.  A DAY OR TWO BEFORE THE FEAST A YOUNG MAN CHANCED TO    TH01404820
RETURN FROM THE FOREST, WHITHER HE HAD GONE TO GATHER ROOTS FOR THE   TH01404830
FEAST, BY THE PATH THAT LED PAST HER HUT.  AS HE PASSED THE DOOR      TH01404840
SHE CAME OUT AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE HAD IN HIS BASKET.  "THEY ARE      TH01404850
ROOTS," ANSWERED HE, "THAT I HAVE BEEN GATHERING FOR THE FEAST."      TH01404860
"AH," SAID SHE, "THAT IS JUST WHAT I WANT FOR MY TAME BIRDS.  I       TH01404870
WILL BUY THEM FROM YOU."  "BUT I CANNOT SELL THEM," RETURNED HE,      TH01404880
"THEY ARE FOR THE FEAST.  BUT LET ME TAKE YOUR BIRDS INSTEAD; WE      TH01404890
WANT ALL THE MEAT WE CAN GET."  "NO, I DO NOT WANT TO PART WITH MY    TH01404900
BIRDS," REPLIED SHE; "BUT COME IN AWHILE AND TALK TO ME."  THE        TH01404910
YOUTH, PERCEIVING HER TO BE A VERY AGREEABLE AND PLEASING YOUNG       TH01404920
WOMAN, NOTHING LOTH, ACCEDED TO HER REQUEST, AND ENTERED THE HUT      TH01404930
WITH HER.  SHE NOW PRETENDED TO MAKE LOVE TO HIM, AND HE, FALLING     TH01404940
INTO THE SNARE, DESIRED TO SPEND THE NIGHT AT HER HOUSE.  THIS WAS    TH01404950
WHAT SHE DESIRED FOR HER PURPOSE, AND BADE HIM WELCOME.  WHEN THEY    TH01404960
WERE ABOUT TO RETIRE FOR THE NIGHT, AND HE HAD DISROBED HIMSELF, A    TH01404970
SUDDEN COMMOTION TOOK PLACE AMONG THE BIRDS IN THE LEAN-TO.  "OH,"    TH01404980
CRIED SHE, "I HAVE FORGOTTEN TO PLACE MY PETS ON THEIR PERCH.  DO     TH01404990
GO OUT AND SET THEM ON THE PERCH FOR ME."  HE WANTED HER TO LEAVE     TH01405000
THEM AS THEY WERE, BUT SHE INSISTED THAT HE SHOULD FIRST SET THEM     TH01405010
ON THE PERCH BEFORE HE LAY DOWN.  THINKING IT BEST TO HUMOUR HER HE   TH01405020
WENT OUT, UNDRESSED AS HE WAS, AND TRIED TO SET THE BIRDS ON THE      TH01405030
PERCH; BUT NO SOONER HAD HE PLACED ONE ON IT THAN THE OTHER TUMBLED   TH01405040
OFF AGAIN.  WHEN HE HAD SPENT A LITTLE TIME THUS TO NO PURPOSE HE     TH01405050
CRIED OUT TO HER THAT THEY KEPT FALLING OFF THE PERCH, AND THAT HE    TH01405060
MUST LEAVE THEM AS THEY WERE.  BUT THIS SHE WOULD NOT HEAR OF; HE     TH01405070
MUST SET THEM ON THE PERCH OR HE COULD NOT RETURN TO HER.  BEING      TH01405080
ANXIOUS NOT TO VEX HER, THIS HE AGAIN TRIED TO DO.  BUT SO CONTRARY   TH01405090
AND PERVERSE WERE THE BIRDS THAT THEY FELL OFF AS FAST AS HE PUT      TH01405100
THEM ON.  AS HE NOW BEGAN TO FEEL COLD IN HIS UNDRESSED STATE HE      TH01405110
BEGGED AGAIN AND AGAIN THAT SHE WOULD ALLOW HIM TO LEAVE THEM AND     TH01405120
RETURN TO HER; BUT EACH TIME SHE MADE HIS RETURN CONDITIONAL UPON     TH01405130
HIS PERMANENTLY SETTING THE BIRDS ON THE PERCH, AND LAUGHED AT HIM    TH01405140
FOR HIS STUPIDITY IN NOT BEING ABLE TO  DO SO SIMPLE A THING.  BUT    TH01405150
DO WHAT HE WOULD THE BIRDS SLID OFF THEIR PERCH AS QUICKLY AS HE      TH01405160
PLACED THEM ON IT, AND DAWN BEGAN TO APPEAR BEFORE HE AT LAST         TH01405170
SUCCEEDED IN GETTING THEM TO REMAIN THERE.  GLAD THAT AT LENGTH HE    TH01405180
MIGHT NOW RETURN TO HER, HE EAGERLY RUSHED INTO THE HOUSE AS THE      TH01405190
FIRST BEAMS OF THE SUN SHOT ACROSS THE SKY.  HE FOUND THE YOUNG       TH01405200
WOMAN UP AND DRESSED, AND WHEN HE WOULD FAIN HAVE SPENT A LITTLE      TH01405210
WHILE WITH HER IN AMOROUS DALLIANCE SHE COLDLY BADE HIM HASTEN AWAY   TH01405220
BEFORE THE VILLAGE WAS ASTIR, AND HE WAS SEEN LEAVING HER HOUSE BY    TH01405230
THE ELDERS, AND THUS BRING DISGRACE UPON HIMSELF AND HER.  THIS       TH01405240
ARGUMENT APPEALED TO HIM SO STRONGLY THAT HE FORTHWITH CAUGHT UP      TH01405250
HIS CLOTHES, AND WITHOUT STOPPING TO PUT THEM ON RAN FROM THE HUT     TH01405260
TO THE VILLAGE, AND GOT HOME BEFORE HE HAD BEEN SEEN BY ANYONE.  IN   TH01405270
HIS HASTE HE HAD LEFT HIS BASKET OF ROOTS BEHIND HIM, WHICH WAS       TH01405280
JUST WHAT THE SHAMAN'S DAUGHTER HAD PLANNED FOR.  BUT SUCH AN         TH01405290
EXPERIENCE AS THE YOUTH HAD GONE THROUGH COULD NOT BE KEPT LONG TO    TH01405300
HIMSELF; AND BEFORE THE DAY WAS OVER HE HAD RELATED IT TO SEVERAL     TH01405310
OF HIS COMRADES, ONE OF WHOM, FIRED BY HIS ACCOUNT OF HER             TH01405320
ATTRACTIONS AND BEAUTY, DETERMINED TO PAY THE YOUNG WOMAN A VISIT     TH01405330
HIMSELF THAT SAME EVENING.  "YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED," SAID THE FIRST    TH01405340
YOUTH, "ANY BETTER THAN I DID; SHE IS NOT SO EASILY WON AS YOU        TH01405350
THINK."  "OH, WON'T I," RETORTED THE OTHER:  "I WILL CARRY SOME       TH01405360
STRING WITH ME AND TIE THE CREATURES TO THEIR PERCH."  SO WHEN        TH01405370
EVENING ARRIVED HE TOOK SOME STRING IN HIS CLOTHES AND A BASKET ON    TH01405380
HIS ARM WITH SOME ROOTS IN IT, AND PASSED BY THE YOUNG WIFE'S HOUSE   TH01405390
AS HIS COMRADE HAD DONE.  SHE CAME TO THE DOOR AND ASKED WHAT HE      TH01405400
HAD IN THE BASKET.  "I AM TAKING HOME SOME ROOTS FOR THE FEAST TO-    TH01405410
MORROW," SAID HE.  "OH, SELL THEM TO ME, WON'T YOU?" REQUESTED SHE;   TH01405420
"I WANT SOME ROOTS FOR MY BIRDS."  "WHAT BIRDS HAVE YOU GOT?"         TH01405430
QUESTIONED HE; "WE WANT ALL THE ANIMALS WE CAN GET FOR THE FEAST      TH01405440
TO-MORROW.  WON'T YOU EXCHANGE THEM FOR MY ROOTS?"  "I WILL SEE,"     TH01405450
SAID SHE.  "COME IN AND SHOW ME YOUR ROOTS."  HE ENTERED THE HOUSE    TH01405460
WITH HER, WHEN SHE SPEEDILY BEWITCHED HIM WITH HER CHARMS AND         TH01405470
BEAUTY, AND MADE HIM READY AND WILLING TO DO WHATEVER SHE BADE HIM.   TH01405480
HE SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO SPEND THE NIGHT AT HER HOUSE.  TO THIS SHE   TH01405490
PRETENDED TO ASSENT, AND WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO LIE DOWN, HAVING        TH01405500
DISROBED HIMSELF FOR THE NIGHT, A DISTURBANCE TAKING PLACE AS         TH01405510
BEFORE IN THE BIRD-HOUSE, SHE BEGGED HIM TO SLIP OUT QUICKLY AND      TH01405520
SET HER BIRDS ON THE PERCH FOR HER, DECLARING THEY WOULD GIVE HER     TH01405530
NO PEACE IF THEY WERE NOT PLACED ON THE PERCH.  THINKING HIMSELF A    TH01405540
MATCH FOR THE STUPIDITY OR PERVERSITY OF THE BIRDS, HE MADE NO        TH01405550
DEMUR TO THIS, AND AS HE THOUGHT HE WOULD BE RETURNING IN A MOMENT    TH01405560
OR SO HE DID NOT TROUBLE TO CLOTHE HIMSELF, BUT WENT JUST AS HE       TH01405570
STOOD.  HE EXPERIENCED JUST THE SAME DIFFICULTY AS HIS COMRADE HAD    TH01405580
DONE THE PREVIOUS NIGHT.  THE BIRDS WOULD NOT STAY ON THE PERCH;      TH01405590
AND WHEN HE TRIED TO TIE THEM WITH THE THONGS HE HAD BROUGHT HE       TH01405600
FOUND THAT THE TASK WAS NOT SO EASY AS HE HAD IMAGINED.  AGAIN AND    TH01405610
AGAIN HE THOUGHT HE HAD SECURELY FASTENED THEM, BUT JUST AS HE        TH01405620
TURNED TO LEAVE THE BIRDS SLIPPED EACH TIME FROM THE PERCH, AND SET   TH01405630
UP SUCH A CACKLING THAT HE WAS FAIN TO TRY AGAIN.  AT LAST HE         TH01405640
SUCCEEDED IN GETTING THEM TO REMAIN ON THE PERCH, BUT BY THIS TIME    TH01405650
THE MORNING WAS BREAKING, AND AS HE ENTERED THE HUT  THE SUN SHOWED   TH01405660
HIMSELF ON THE EDGE OF THE HORIZON, AND HE KNEW HE COULD SAFELY       TH01405670
LINGER NO LONGER.  MOREOVER, THE YOUNG WOMAN WAS NOW COLD AND         TH01405680
DISTANT TO HIM, AND REPULSED HIS ADVANCES, BIDDING HIM RETURN TO      TH01405690
THE VILLAGE BEFORE HE BROUGHT DISGRACE UPON THEM BOTH.  RESOLVING     TH01405700
THAT ON HIS NEXT VISIT TO HER HE WOULD NOT BE SO EASILY FOOLED, HE    TH01405710
CAUGHT UP HIS CLOTHES AND RAN HASTILY TO THE VILLAGE.  THE TALK OF    TH01405720
THE YOUNG MEN AMONG THEMSELVES SOON NOISED ABROAD THE FACT THAT THE   TH01405730
STRANGER ON THE EDGE OF THE VILLAGE POSSESSED A PAIR OF REMARKABLE    TH01405740
BIRDS.  THIS PRESENTLY REACHING THE EARS OF THE FATHER OF THE         TH01405750
BRIDE-ELECT, HE SENT A SPECIAL MESSENGER TO REQUEST THE YOUNG WOMAN   TH01405760
TO BE PRESENT AT THE FEAST AND EXHIBIT HER ODD PETS.  THIS WAS JUST   TH01405770
WHAT SHE HAD ALL ALONG BEEN WORKING FOR, AND READILY CONSENTED TO     TH01405780
BE PRESENT AND SHOW HER BIRDS.  ACCORDINGLY SHE CAME, AND STOOD       TH01405790
AMONG THOSE WHO HAD SOME TRICKS OR EXHIBITIONS TO MAKE; AND WHEN      TH01405800
THEY HAD GONE THROUGH THEIR PARTS SHE CAME FORWARD AND PLACED HER     TH01405810
TWO BIRDS ON A MAT IN FRONT OF HER HUSBAND AND THE CHIEF GUESTS.      TH01405820
HER HUSBAND SCARCELY NOTICED HER, AND CERTAINLY NO THOUGHT OF HIS     TH01405830
RELATION TO HER ENTERED HIS MIND.  WHEN SHE HAD SET THE BIRDS DOWN    TH01405840
SHE TOOK FROM A BASKET AT HER SIDE SOME OF THE ROOTS SHE HAD          TH01405850
SECURED FROM THE YOUTHS AND THREW THEM TO THE BIRDS.  THE MALE BIRD   TH01405860
INSTANTLY GOBBLED THEM ALL UP, DRIVING THE FEMALE AWAY; AT WHICH,     TH01405870
TO THE GREAT ASTONISHMENT OF ALL, THE HEN BIRD BEGAN TO SPEAK IN      TH01405880
HUMAN LANGUAGE AND UPBRAID AND REPROACH HER GREEDY SPOUSE FOR HIS     TH01405890
SELFISHNESS AND GLUTTONY. SAID SHE, "WHY WON'T YOU LET ME EAT OF      TH01405900
THE                                                                   TH01405901
ROOTS?  I DO NOT TREAT YOU LIKE THAT.  DON'T YOU REMEMBER HOW KIND    TH01405910
I WAS TO YOU WHEN MY FATHER WOULD HAVE KILLED YOU  BY LETTING YOU     TH01405920
WALK INTO THE HIDDEN FIRE?  AND THIS IS THE RETURN YOU MAKE TO ME]    TH01405930
I DID NOT THINK YOU COULD BE SO UNKIND AND FORGETFUL."  EVERYBODY     TH01405940
WONDERED WHAT THE BIRD MEANT BY SUCH STRANGE WORDS.  WHEN IT CEASED   TH01405950
SPEAKING THE YOUNG SHAMAN WAS SEEN TO LOOK PERPLEXED AND PUZZLED,     TH01405960
AS IF HE WERE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT YET CLEAR   TH01405970
TO HIS MIND.  THE YOUNG WOMAN NOW THREW THE BIRDS SOME MORE ROOTS,    TH01405980
WHEREUPON THE MALE BIRD DID AS BEFORE, DROVE THE OTHER AWAY, AND      TH01405990
ATE THE ROOTS HIMSELF.  AGAIN THE HEN BIRD REPROACHED HIM, SAYING,    TH01406000
"HOW CAN YOU TREAT ME SO UNKINDLY]  DON'T YOU REMEMBER WHAT I DID     TH01406010
FOR YOU WHEN MY FATHER CHANGED ME AND MY SISTER AND MOTHER INTO       TH01406020
TROUT AND YOU HAD TO DECLARE WHICH FISH WAS YOUR WIFE OR BE THROWN    TH01406030
TO THE FIERCE BEAST AND DEVOURED?"  HER WORDS, HOWEVER, MADE NO       TH01406040
IMPRESSION ON THE COCK, WHO EACH TIME THE YOUNG WOMAN THREW THEM      TH01406050
ROOTS DROVE HIS MATE OFF AND ATE THEM ALL UP HIMSELF.  BUT AS THE     TH01406060
HEN RECALLED TO THE MEMORY OF THE SELFISH COCK HER DEEDS OF PAST      TH01406070
KINDNESS ONE AFTER THE OTHER, WHICH CORRESPONDED EXACTLY TO THE       TH01406080
ACTS OF THE YOUNG SHAMAN'S LATELY FORSAKEN WIFE, HIS MEMORY BECAME    TH01406090
CLEARER AND CLEARER UNTIL IN THE LAST SCENE OF THIS LITTLE DOMESTIC   TH01406100
DRAMA OF THE BIRDS, WHEN THE HEN SAID, "DIDN'T I TELL YOU THAT YOU    TH01406110
WOULD FORGET AND FORSAKE ME IF YOU ALLOWED YOUR SISTERS AND PARENTS   TH01406120
TO KISS YOU BEFORE YOU RETURNED TO ME?"  THE FULL MEMORY OF THE       TH01406130
PAST SUDDENLY RUSHED TO HIS MIND, AND IN THE YOUNG WOMAN BEFORE HIM   TH01406140
EXHIBITING HER BIRDS HE RECOGNISED HIS FORSAKEN AND FORGOTTEN WIFE.   TH01406150
HE SPRANG UP WITH A GREAT CRY AND EMBRACED HER BEFORE THE WHOLE       TH01406160
ASSEMBLY, CALLING HER BY ALL THE DEAR NAMES HE COULD THINK OF.  HIS   TH01406170
ACTION CAUSED GREAT ASTONISHMENT TO THOSE PRESENT, BUT HE EXPLAINED   TH01406180
THAT THE STRANGER WAS HIS WIFE, AND TOLD THEM HOW HE HAD WON AND      TH01406190
LOST HER.  EVEN THE BRIDE-ELECT AND HER RELATIONS COULD NOT           TH01406200
COMPLAIN, AND HE WAS PERMITTED TO WITHDRAW FROM THE PROPOSED          TH01406210
MARRIAGE.  COMPENSATION IN THE FORM OF PRESENTS WAS MADE TO THE       TH01406220
FATHER OF THE DISAPPOINTED YOUNG WOMAN WHO HAD SO STRANGELY BEEN      TH01406230
ROBBED OF HER PROSPECTIVE HUSBAND, AND ANOTHER SUITOR WAS FOUND FOR   TH01406240
HER.                                                                  TH01406250
***THO-071***
          TH015 STORY OF THE ADVENTURES OF SNIKIA'P THE COYOTE, AND   TH01500010
          TH015 HIS SON N'TLIKCU'MTUM.                                TH01500020
     IN THE OLD,OLD DAYS SNIKIA'P LIVED ALL ALONE BY HIMSELF.  HE     TH01500030
HAD NEITHER WIFE NOR CHILDREN.  HE MUCH DESIRED A SON, AND BEING A    TH01500040
MEDICINE-MAN OF GREAT POWER IT WAS NOT DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO OBTAIN    TH01500050
HIS DESIRE.  ONE DAY HE GOT A LUMP OF PITCH, AND, WORKING IT IN HIS   TH01500060
HANDS FOR A WHILE, FASHIONED IT IN THE FORM OF A HUMAN BEING.         TH01500070
HAVING DONE THIS HE LAID IT ON THE GROUND AND STEPPED OVER IT THREE   TH01500080
TIMES, SAYING AT THE SAME TIME, "RISE UP."  AFTER THE THIRD TIME      TH01500090
THE EFFIGY ROSE UPON ITS FEET AND BECAME A LIVING BEING.  HE NOW      TH01500100
BIDS HIS SON TO BE EXEEDINGLY CAREFUL NEVER TO GO WHERE IT WAS HOT.   TH01500110
"HARM WILL COME TO YOU, MY SON," SAID HE, "IF YOU DO.  WHEN THE       TH01500120
WEATHER IS VERY WARM YOU MUST GO AND SWIM IN THE RIVER, AND WHEN IT   TH01500130
IS COOL YOU CAN SAFELY COME HOME AGAIN."  THE BOY, WHO STEADILY       TH01500140
GROWS, FOLLOWED HIS FATHER'S INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY FOR A TIME; BUT   TH01500150
AFTER A WHILE HE GETS TIRED OF PASSING THE BEST PART OF THE DAY IN    TH01500160
THE WATER.  SO ONE DAY HE FINDS A LARGE FLAT STONE ON THE BANK AND    TH01500170
LIES DOWN UPON IT IN THE SUN.  THE SUN'S HEAT SOON BEGINS TO ACT      TH01500180
UPON HIM, AND IN A SHORT TIME HE MELTS AWAY.  WHEN EVENING CAME AND   TH01500190
HE DID NOT RETURN AS USUAL, SNIKIA'P GOES OUT TO LOOK FOR HIM, AND    TH01500200
PRESENTLY DISCOVERS THE MELTED PITCH ON THE GROUND.  HE NOW           TH01500210
DETERMINES TO CREATE ANOTHER SON FOR HIMSELF WHO SHOULD NOT BE        TH01500220
SUBJECT TO THE DISADVANTAGES UNDER WHICH THE OTHER HAD LABOURED.      TH01500230
AS HE WAS THINKING OUT OF WHAT MATERIAL TO MAKE HIM THIS TIME, HIS    TH01500240
EYES FELL UPON A JADE BOULDER LYING ON THE BANK.  "OH," SAID HE,      TH01500250
"THAT IS A FINE MATERIAL.  I WILL MAKE A JADE SON."  SO HE TOOK THE   TH01500260
JADE BOULDER AND FASHIONED IT INTO THE FORM OF A BOY, GOING THROUGH   TH01500270
THE SAME CEREMONY OF STEPPING OVER IT THREE TIMES AS BEFORE.  WHEN    TH01500280
THE STONE SON WAS COME TO LIFE HE ADMONISHED HIM NEVER ON ANY         TH01500290
ACCOUNT TO GO NEAR THE WATER OR TRY TO SWIM IN THE RIVER, OR HE       TH01500300
WOULD SURELY SUFFER FOR IT.  THE JADE-LAD OBSERVED HIS COMMANDS FOR   TH01500310
SOME TIME, BUT BEING VERY HOT ONE DAY, AND THE WATER LOOKING COOL     TH01500320
AND TEMPTING, HE FORGOT HIS FATHER'S INJUNCTIONS AND PLUNGED INTO     TH01500330
THE RIVER TO BATHE.  IMMEDIATELY HE SANK TO THE BOTTOM AND WAS        TH01500340
DROWNED.  WHEN SNIKIA'P LEARNT THAT HIS STONE SON HAD DISOBEYED HIS   TH01500350
INJUNCTIONS AND WAS DROWNED, HE MADE YET ANOTHER SON FOR HIMSELF.     TH01500360
ON THIS OCCASION HE FASHIONED HIM FROM THE FIBROUS MATTER OF          TH01500370
CERTAIN VEGETABLES AND SHRUBS.  HE OBSERVED THE SAME CEREMONIES AS    TH01500380
BEFORE.  THIS TIME THE BOY COULD DO ANYTHING OR GO ANYWHERE WITHOUT   TH01500390
HARM.  WHEN THE BOY HAD GROWN INTO A BIG LAD, SNIKIA'P PROPOSED       TH01500400
THAT THEY SHOULD GO AND PAY A VISIT TO A GREAT TRIBE SOME WAY OFF.    TH01500410
THE PEOPLE OF THIS PLACE WERE CELEBRATED FOR THEIR SKILL AND POWER    TH01500420
IN                                                                    TH01500421
HUNTING AND FISHING, AND IN WOOD SPLITTING.  SAID SNIKIA'P TO HIS     TH01500430
SON, "MY MEDICINE INFORMS ME THAT THEY WILL TRY TO KILL US BY MEANS   TH01500440
OF A GREAT CONFLAGRATION THEY WILL BRING ABOUT.  YOU MUST THEREFORE   TH01500450
PRACTISE JUMPING UNTIL YOU ARE A GREAT JUMPER.  THEY WILL TRY TO      TH01500460
KILL YOU FIRST IN ANOTHER WAY.  THEY WILL GIVE YOU A FINE-LOOKING     TH01500470
WOMAN FOR WIFE, AND ALSO A SPEAR, AND SEND YOU  TO SPEAR SALMON.      TH01500480
WHEN YOU GO TO THE RIVER YOU WILL SEE SALMON WITH HAIR ON THEM, AND   TH01500490
PAINTED SALMON, AND ANIMAL SALMON WITH LEGS.  BE CAREFUL NOT TO       TH01500500
SPEAR ANY OF THESE.  SPEAR A GOOD EATING SALMON AND HOLD THIS RUSH    TH01500510
IN YOUR HAND ALL THE TIME," AND SNIKIA'P GAVE THE LAD A MAGIC RUSH.   TH01500520
"WHEN YOU HAVE SPEARED YOUR SALMON," HE CONTINUED, "HOLD ON TIGHT     TH01500530
TO YOUR SPEAR, AND YOU WILL BE PULLED INTO THE WATER.  DON'T BE       TH01500540
ALARMED AT THIS; YOU WILL NOT DROWN.  AS SOON AS YOU ARE IN THE       TH01500550
WATER OPEN THE RUSH I HAVE GIVEN YOU WITH YOUR FINGERS AND GET        TH01500560
INSIDE OF IT.  YOU WILL FIND THAT YOU CAN DO THIS, AND YOU WILL       TH01500570
THEN FLOAT DOWN THE RIVER.  IN A LITTLE WHILE YOU WILL DRIFT TO THE   TH01500580
BANK.  GET OUT THEN, AND YOU WILL SEE THE SALMON AGAIN.  USE YOUR     TH01500590
SPEAR AGAIN WHEN A GOOD SALMON PASSES YOU AND SPEAR TWO.  TAKE        TH01500600
THESE HOME WITH YOU.  WHEN YOU ARRIVE YOU WILL FIND THEM MAKING       TH01500610
PREPARATIONS TO KILL ME.  WHEN THEY SEE YOU THEY WILL DESIST."        TH01500620
     WHEN SNIKIA'P AND HIS SON ARRIVED AT THE VILLAGE OF THIS         TH01500630
TRIBE EVERYTHING HAPPENED AS SNIKIA'P HAD FORETOLD.  THE              TH01500640
BOY FOLLOWED HIS FATHER'S INSTRUCTIONS, DOING EXACTLY WHAT HE HAD     TH01500650
TOLD HIM.  ON GETTING BACK WITH THE FISH HE FINDS THE PEOPLE ABOUT    TH01500660
TO KILL HIS FATHER, NOT EXPECTING HIS RETURN, THINKING HE WOULD       TH01500670
FALL INTO THE SNARE THEY HAD SET FOR HIM AND BE DROWNED.  WHEN THEY   TH01500680
SEE HIM APPROACHING, THEY DESIST FROM THEIR ATTEMPT TO KILL HIS       TH01500690
FATHER AND PROPOSE THAT THEY SHOULD ALL GO HUNTING.  THIS THEY DO;    TH01500700
AND WHEN THEY ARE OUT THEY FIRE THE BUSH IN SEVERAL PLACES, SO THAT   TH01500710
SNIKIA'P AND HIS SON ARE SURROUNDED BY A GREAT RING OF FIRE.  THEY    TH01500720
ARE BOTH MUCH BURNT AND SCORCHED, AND ONLY MANAGE TO ESCAPE WITH      TH01500730
THEIR LIVES BY TAKING IMMENSE LEAPS OVER THE BURNING GRASS AND        TH01500740
TIMBER.  THE FIRE HAS SPREAD EVERYWHERE AND NO SPOT IS SAFE.  "WE     TH01500750
MUST FIND A TRAIL," SAID SNIKIA'P, "OR WE SHALL BE LOST."  AFTER      TH01500760
JUMPING ABOUT A GOOD DEAL THEY AT LAST COME OUT UPON A BROAD TRAIL.   TH01500770
THEY LIE DOWN ON THIS WITH THEIR FACES TO THE GROUND AND THE FIRE     TH01500780
PASSES BY THEM, HAVING NOTHING TO FEED UPON IN THE BEATEN PATH.       TH01500790
BUT THEY WERE MUCH SCORCHED BY THE HEAT, AND THE COYOTE HAS EVER      TH01500800
SINCE WORN A YELLOW SKIN IN CONSEQUENCE.  AFTER A TIME THEY GET UP    TH01500810
AND FOLLOW THE TRAIL, AND PRESENTLY COME UPON A STRANGE VILLAGE,      TH01500820
WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE KIND AND HOSPITABLE.  THE SON NOW MARRIES TWO    TH01500830
WIVES, THE DAUGHTER OF THE EAGLE AND THE DAUGHTER OF THE DUCK.  THE   TH01500840
FIRST HAD RED HAIR AND A RED FACE, AND THE OTHER HAD LIGHT HAIR AND   TH01500850
A WHITE FACE.  THE YOUTH NOW TRAVELS ABOUT A GOOD DEAL; HE IS ALSO    TH01500860
A SUCCESSFUL HUNTER.  HE GROWS RICH AND BECOMES THE POSSESSOR OF      TH01500870
MANY SHELL BEADS (STLAK'), OF A SPECIES OF THE DENTALIDAE, AND FINE   TH01500880
CLOTHES.  A SON IS BORN TO HIM BY HIS EAGLE WIFE.  ONE DAY HE GOES    TH01500890
OUT HUNTING WITH HIS FATHER AND HIS WIVES AND CHILD.  SINCE HE HAS    TH01500900
BEEN MARRIED HIS FATHER, WHO NOW DESIRES A WIFE, HAS ENVIED HIM       TH01500910
VERY MUCH AND CAST LONGING EYES TOWARDS HIS DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW.  AT     TH01500920
NIGHT THEY CAMP OUT, AND THE OLD MAN KINDLES A FIRE OF CEDAR WOOD.    TH01500930
THIS, AFTER THE MANNER OF CEDAR WOOD, SHOT OUT SO MANY SPARKS THAT    TH01500940
THE EAGLE-WIFE DREW BACK FROM THE FIRE TO ESCAPE THE SPARKS WHICH     TH01500950
FELL UPON HER DRESS.  THE DUCK-WIFE, ON THE CONTRARY, SAT ON, ONLY    TH01500960
PULLING UP HER LEGS.  IN SITTING THUS SHE EXPOSED THE LOWER PART OF   TH01500970
HER BODY AND LEGS TO HER FATHER-IN-LAW, SNIKIA'P.  FROM THIS TIME     TH01500980
HE SCHEMED TO DEPRIVE HIS SON OF HIS WIVES AND TAKE THEM FOR          TH01500990
HIMSELF.  HE THEREFORE CLIMBS A TREE, AND IN ITS TOPMOST BRANCHES     TH01501000
BUILDS A BIRD'S NEST, DEFAECATES IN IT, AND TRANSFORMS THE            TH01501010
EXCREMENT INTO YOUNG EAGLES.  THIS HE DID ON THE SECOND DAY OF THE    TH01501020
HUNTING, WHEN HIS SON WAS ABSENT.  HE HAD REMAINED AT THE CAMP FOR    TH01501030
THE PURPOSE.  WHEN THE SON RETURNS IN THE EVENING HE HEARS THE        TH01501040
CRIES OF THE EAGLETS AND LOOKS ROUND TO DISCOVER THE NEST.            TH01501050
SNIKIA'P NOW COMES FORWARD AND SAYS, "I DISCOVERED AN EAGLE'S NEST    TH01501060
IN THIS TALL FIR TO-DAY, AND BY THE SOUND OF THE BIRDS THEY MUST BE   TH01501070
ALMOST READY TO FLY.  IF I WERE YOU I SHOULD CLIMB THE TREE AND GET   TH01501080
THEM.  EAGLE'S FEATHERS WOULD LOOK WELL WITH YOUR OTHER ORNAMENTS."   TH01501090
NOW, AS EAGLE'S FEATHERS WERE A GREAT PRIZE, NOT EASY TO GET, THE     TH01501100
YOUTH DETERMINED TO FOLLOW HIS FATHER'S ADVICE AND CLIMB THE TREE     TH01501110
AND SECURE THE YOUNG BIRDS BEFORE THEY FLEW AWAY.  THE CRAFTY         TH01501120
FATHER WAS NOT ONLY DESIROUS OF SECURING HIS SON'S WIVES FOR          TH01501130
HIMSELF, BUT ALSO HIS HANDSOME ROBES, AND SO WHEN HIS SON WOULD       TH01501140
HAVE CLIMBED THE TREE AS HE STOOD IN HIS CLOTHES HE SUGGESTED THAT    TH01501150
HE SHOULD FIRST TAKE THEM OFF AND LEAVE THEM AT THE FOOT OF THE       TH01501160
TREE FOR FEAR OF INJURING THEM.  THE SON, SUSPECTING NO GUILE, DID    TH01501161
SO, AND CLIMBED THE TREE NAKED.  WHEN THE SON HAD CLIMBED A GOOD      TH01501170
WAY UP THE TREE THE FATHER BEGAN TO DRAW AND DISTORT HIS FACE,        TH01501180
SCREWING UP FIRST ONE EYE AND THEN THE OTHER.  THEREUPON THE TREE     TH01501190
BEGAN TO GROW UP - UP IT WENT INTO THE CLOUDS, CARRYING THE CLIMBER   TH01501200
WITH IT.  PRESENTLY, WHEN THE POINT SHOT THROUGH THE CLOUDS THEY      TH01501210
CLOSED UPON IT LIKE A VICE AND HELD IT FAST.  MEANWHILE THE SON HAD   TH01501220
REACHED THE NEST; BUT WHEN HE GOT THERE, INSTEAD OF YOUNG EAGLES,     TH01501230
HE FINDS ONLY HUMAN EXCREMENT.  HE NOW SEEKS TO RETURN, BUT FINDS     TH01501240
HIS WAY DOWN THE TREE BARRED BY THE CLOUDS.  HE CANNOT GET DOWN.      TH01501250
HE NOW PERCEIVES THAT HIS FATHER HAS DUPED HIM, AND HE SITS DOWN      TH01501260
AND                                                                   TH01501261
CRIES.  PRESENTLY HE GETS UP AND WALKS FORWARD.  HE CONTINUES         TH01501270
WALKING ALL THE REST OF THAT DAY TILL NIGHT COMES ON. HE NOW FEELS    TH01501280
COLD, FOR HE HAS  NO CLOTHES ON, BUT HE LIES DOWN AND COVERS HIS      TH01501290
BODY AS BEST HE MAY WITH HIS LONG HAIR.  THE NEXT DAY, AND FOR        TH01501300
SEVERAL FOLLOWING DAYS, HE WALKS ON TILL HE HEARS A SOUND OF          TH01501310
KNOCKING.  HE NOW LOOKS ABOUT HIM, AND THE SMELL OF  SMOKE STRIKES    TH01501320
ON HIS NOSTRILS.  PRESENTLY HE SPIES A LITTLE FARMHOUSE COVERED       TH01501330
WITH MATS.  WHEN HE GETS NEAR HE PEEPS IN AND SEES THERE TWO OLD      TH01501340
WOMEN WHO ARE BOTH BLIND.  HE NOW PERCEIVES THAT THE KNOCKING         TH01501350
PROCEEDS FROM THEM.  THEY ARE POUNDING UP FIR BRANCHES FOR FOOD.      TH01501360
ONE OF THEM PRESENTLY GATHERS UP THE PULP AND PASSES A PORTION OF     TH01501370
IT TO THE OTHER.  THE YOUTH INTERCEPTS THE FOOD AND EATS IT           TH01501380
HIMSELF.  THE OLD WOMAN WHO SHOULD HAVE GOT IT NOW BEGINS TO          TH01501390
GRUMBLE                                                               TH01501391
AT HER SISTER FOR NOT GIVING HER A SHARE OF THE FOOD.  "I DID GIVE    TH01501400
YOU YOUR SHARE," RETORTED THE OTHER.  "I PUT IT INTO YOUR HAND.  I    TH01501410
FELT YOU TAKE IT."  THE OTHER DECLARED SHE HADN'T GOT IT.  "WELL      TH01501420
HERE'S SOME MORE. HOLD OUT YOUR HAND AND BE CAREFUL TO TAKE IT THIS   TH01501430
TIME."  THE OTHER HELD OUT HER HAND, BUT THE YOUNG MAN INTERCEPTED    TH01501440
THE FOOD AGAIN, AND ATE IT HIMSELF.  THE OLD WOMAN WHO WAS BEING      TH01501450
THUS ROBBED NOW BEGAN TO GET ANGRY, AND UPBRAIDED HER SISTER FOR      TH01501460
SELFISHLY KEEPING ALL THE FOOD FOR HERSELF.  THE OTHER DEFENDED       TH01501470
HERSELF, AND DECLARED SHE HAD PASSED THE FOOD AND FELT HER TAKE IT.   TH01501480
"NOW, GIVE ME YOUR HAND ONCE MORE AND LET ME PUT IT IN THE PALM OF    TH01501490
IT," SAID SHE.  AGAIN DID THE YOUTH SEIZE THE FOOD, AND THE TWO OLD   TH01501500
WOMEN NOW BEGAN TO REVILE EACH OTHER.  PRESENTLY ONE OF THEM BEGAN    TH01501510
SNIFFING AND SMELLING, AS IF SHE SCENTED SOMETHING STRANGE.  SAID     TH01501520
SHE, "I SMELL N'TLIKCU'MTUM."  "HOW DO YOU KNOW IT IS                 TH01501530
N'TLIKCU'MTUM?"  SAID THE OTHER; "YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN HIM."           TH01501540
"WELL," ANSWERED THE FIRST, "THERE'S NOBODY BUT OURSELVES AND THE     TH01501550
SPIDER AND HIS WIFE IN THIS COUNTRY.  THEY ARE NOT HERE, AND YOU      TH01501560
SAY YOU DIDN'T GET THE FOOD I PUT INTO SOMEBODY'S HAND, SO IT MUST    TH01501570
BE N'TLIKCU'MTUM."  THE YOUTH NOW REVEALS HIMSELF AND SPEAKS TO THE   TH01501580
OLD WOMEN.  HE CHIDES THEM FOR QUARRELLING, BUT AS THEY HAVE DONE     TH01501590
HIM NO GREAT HARM, ONLY CALLED HIM N'TLIKCU'MTUM, HE WILL NOT PUT     TH01501600
AN END TO THEM OUTRIGHT, BUT WILL TRANSFORM THEM INTO SOMETHING       TH01501610
USEFUL.  TAKING ONE OF THEM BY THE NOSE, HE SAID, "YOU WILL BE GOOD   TH01501620
MEAT FOR THE HUNTER WHEN HE IS FAR FROM HOME AND BIGGER GAME IS       TH01501630
SCARCE," AND THEREWITH THREW HER TO ONE SIDE OF HIM AND SHE BECAME    TH01501640
A WILLOW-GROUSE.  HE THEN TOOK HOLD OF THE OTHER IN THE SAME WAY      TH01501650
AND THREW HER INTO A "SUGAR-TREE", AND SHE STRAIGHTWAY BECAME A       TH01501660
BLACK-GROUSE, OR TCUK-TCUKT, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE "BOOBY-GROUSE."    TH01501670
"YOU WILL BE OF SERVICE NOW TOO," SAID HE, "AND HUNTERS WILL EASILY   TH01501680
SNARE YOU AND PULL YOU OFF THE BRANCHES BY NOOSING YOU.  YOU WILL     TH01501690
BOTH OF YOU NOW BE MUCH HAPPIER BECAUSE YOU CAN BOTH SEE TO GATHER    TH01501700
AND EAT YOUR FOOD WHEN YOU ARE HUNGRY."  THUS WERE THE WILLOW- AND    TH01501710
BLACK-GROUSE BROUGHT INTO BEING.  HE NOW PROCEEDS ON HIS WAY, AND     TH01501720
SEEING SOME PRETTY FLOWERS GROWING BY THE SIDE HE PLUCKED ONE.  IT    TH01501730
CAME UP BY THE ROOT IN HIS HAND, LEAVING A SMALL HOLE IN THE          TH01501740
GROUND.  NOW AS THE CRUST OF THIS CLOUDLAND EARTH WAS VERY THIN       TH01501750
THIS HOLE WENT RIGHT THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE AND LET THE WIND UP.   TH01501760
IT RUSHED THROUGH WITH SOME FORCE, AND HE PUT HIS FOOT OVER THE       TH01501770
HOLE TO STOP IT UP.  FROM THIS POINT HE TRAVELLED ON, STILL IN HIS    TH01501780
NAKED STATE, TILL HE CAME TO SOME FOREST LAND, THE SIGHT OF WHICH     TH01501790
MUCH CHEERED HIM.  PRESENTLY HE SEES SOME SMOKE RISING IN THE AIR.    TH01501800
HE                                                                    TH01501801
HASTENS IN ITS DIRECTION, HOPING TO FIND SOMEBODY WHO WILL HELP       TH01501810
HIM.  ON GETTING NEARER HE PERCEIVES A KEEKWILEE-HOUSE BEFORE HIM.    TH01501820
HE APPROACHES IT QUIETLY AND PEERS DOWN THE SMOKE-HOLE, AND SEES AN   TH01501830
OLD MAN SITTING WITHIN AS NAKED AS HIMSELF, ENGAGED IN ROLLING        TH01501840
SPA'TZIN (ASCLEPIAS SPECIOSA) ON HIS THIGH INTO ROPE.  THIS OLD       TH01501850
MAN WAS SKA'KIT, THE SPIDER, WHOSE HOME IS IN THE CLOUDS.  ON         TH01501860
SEEING THE SHADOW CAUSED BY THE YOUTH HE LOOKED UP AND PERCEIVED      TH01501870
HIM.  AS SOON AS HIS EYES FELL UPON HIM HE BEGAN TO WEEP AND          TH01501880
LAMENT.  "O DEAR WIFE," SAID HE, "HERE IS OUR GRANDSON ALL NAKED      TH01501890
AND COLD.  BRING SOME BLANKETS AND SKINS FOR HIM."  TO THE YOUTH HE   TH01501900
CRIED OUT, "COME DOWN, DEAR GRAND-SON; I AM SO SORRY FOR YOU.  I      TH01501910
KNOW                                                                  TH01501911
HOW BADLY YOU HAVE BEEN TREATED BY YOUR FATHER."  THE YOUTH           TH01501920
DESCENDS, AND THEY COVER HIM WITH BLANKETS AND MAKE HIM LIE DOWN BY   TH01501930
THE FIRE AND GIVE HIM FOOD TO EAT.  NEXT MORNING THE GRANDSON RISES   TH01501940
EARLY AND GOES OUT TO BATHE IN THE STREAM.  AS HE LEAVES HE SEES      TH01501950
HIS GRANDFATHER, SKA'KIT, BUSILY SPINNING THE SPA'TZIN GRASS INTO     TH01501960
ROPE, COILS OF WHICH LAY ABOUT THE HOUSE.  AFTER SOME DAYS HAD        TH01501970
ELAPSED, AND HE HAD RECOVERED FROM THE FATIGUES OF HIS LONG JOURNEY   TH01501980
HE BEGAN TO GROW WEARY OF DOING NOTHING BESIDES WATCHING HIS          TH01501990
GRANDFATHER SPIN SPA'TZIN INTO ROPE.  SO HE SAID TO HIS               TH01502000
GRANDPARENTS, "HAVE YOU ANY GAME IN THIS COUNTRY?  I SHOULD LIKE TO   TH01502010
GO HUNTING."  "WE ALWAYS SNARE OUR GAME HERE," SAID THE               TH01502020
GRANDFATHER.  "I NEVER SHOOT, ALTHOUGH I HAVE AN ARROW."  "GIVE ME    TH01502030
YON ARROW, GRANDFATHER, I AM A GREAT HUNTER AND I WILL SHOOT YOU      TH01502040
LOTS OF DEER."  SKA'KIT GAVE HIM THE ARROW, AND THEREAFTER HE WENT    TH01502050
OUT HUNTING EVERY DAY.  ONE DAY, AS HE WAS  LEAVING, HE SAID TO HIS   TH01502070
GRANDFATHER, "WHY DO YOU SPIN SO MUCH SPA'TZIN?  YOU ARE ALWAYS       TH01502080
MAKING ROPE; WHAT DO YOU WANT SO MUCH FOR?"  "IT IS FOR YOUR SAKE I   TH01502090
SPIN SO MUCH," RESPONDED THE SPIDER.  "I AM GOING TO HELP YOU GET     TH01502100
BACK TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY AGAIN."  SAID THE YOUTH, "I AM HAPPY HERE    TH01502110
WITH YOU; I DON'T WISH TO LEAVE YOU."  "THAT IS QUITE RIGHT AND       TH01502120
PROPER FOR YOU TO DESIRE TO STAY WITH US," SAID SKA'KIT; "BUT THIS    TH01502130
IS NO COUNTRY FOR YOU.  FOR ME IT DOES NOT MATTER MUCH WHERE I        TH01502150
LIVE.  I CAN GO WHERE I WANT TO.  I CAN JUST STICK MY THREAD ON       TH01502160
ANYWHERE AND CLIMB UP OR DOWN AS I WISH, OR LET THE WIND CARRY ME     TH01502170
WHERE IT WILL.  BUT YOU CAN'T DO THIS , YOU SEE, AND YOU OUGHT TO     TH01502180
RETURN TO YOUR EAGLE-WIFE AND LITTLE SON.  THEY WANT YOU VERY MUCH,   TH01502190
AND ARE GRIEVING OVER YOUR ABSENCE.  I SHALL SOON HAVE ENOUGH ROPE    TH01502200
NOW FOR MY PURPOSE."  THE YOUTH SAID NO MORE, BUT THE NEXT TIME HE    TH01502210
WENT OUT HE PLUCKED FOUR HAIRS FROM THE LOWER PART OF HIS ABDOMEN     TH01502220
AND THREW THEM ON THE GROUND.  IMMEDIATELY THREE OR FOUR ACRES OF     TH01502230
THE LAND ADJOINING THE STREAM BECAME COVERED WITH FINE SPA'TZIN       TH01502240
GRASS.  WHEN HE RETURNED HOME HE ASKED HIS GRANDFATHER WHERE HE GOT   TH01502250
HIS SUPPLIES OF SPA'TZIN FROM.  "OH, WE HAVE TO GO A LONG WAY TO      TH01502260
GET IT," ANSWERED HE; "IT DOES NOT GROW HERE ABOUT."  "THAT'S ODD,"   TH01502270
SAID THE YOUTH, "I CERTAINLY THOUGHT I SAW A FINE TRACT OF IT  JUST   TH01502280
BEYOND THE STREAM.  WHEN YOU GO DOWN TO THE STREAM NEXT JUST SEE IF   TH01502290
I AM NOT RIGHT."  SKA'KIT WENT DOWN TO THE STREAM SHORTLY AFTER,      TH01502300
AND FOUND THE GRASS GROWING THERE AS HIS GRANDSON HAD SAID, AND AS    TH01502310
IT WAS UNUSUALLY FINE AND LONG HE NOW SOON FINISHED HIS ROPE.  WHEN   TH01502320
THIS WAS DONE HE BADE HIS WIFE BRING OUT THE GOAT-HAIR BLANKETS SHE   TH01502330
HAD WOVEN.  THE GRANDMOTHER FETCHED OUT FOUR DOZEN OF THESE.  "NOW    TH01502340
BRING THE DRIED MEAT AND FAT," SAID SKA'KIT.  AND SHE BROUGHT OUT     TH01502350
FOUR DOZEN PRIME PIECES.  HE THEN TOLD HER TO GET THE CRADLE-BASKET   TH01502360
SHE HAD MADE FOR THE OCCASION.  WHEN ALL LAY BEFORE THE SPIDER HE     TH01502370
SAID, "THE PACK WILL BE TOO BIG; WE MUST MAKE IT SMALLER.  SHUT       TH01502380
YOUR EYES BOTH OF YOU, AND DON'T OPEN THEM TILL I TELL YOU."  THEY    TH01502390
DID SO.  HE THEN CLOSED HIS OWN, AND WAVING HIS HAND OVER THE         TH01502400
BLANKETS AND MEAT THE FOUR DOZEN OF EACH WAS REDUCED APPARENTLY TO    TH01502410
TWO DOZEN EACH.  "IT IS STILL TOO BIG," SAID HE.  "SHUT YOUR EYES     TH01502420
AGAIN AND I WILL MAKE IT SMALLER STILL."  HE DID THE SAME AS BEFORE   TH01502430
AND THE TWO DOZEN BLANKETS AND PIECES OF MEAT WERE REDUCED TO THE     TH01502440
COMPASS OF TWO OF EACH KIND.  "NOW," SAID SPIDER TO HIS GRANDSON,     TH01502450
"I WILL TELL YOU WHAT WE INTEND TO DO.  WE ARE GOING TO PUT YOU AND   TH01502460
YOUR PACK IN THIS CRADLE, AND COVER IT UP AND LET YOU DOWN THROUGH    TH01502470
A HOLE BY THE SPA'TZIN ROPES TO  YOUR OWN COUNTRY AGAIN.  BUT YOU     TH01502480
MUST BE CAREFUL TO HEED MY INSTRUCTIONS AND DO EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE   TH01502490
TOLD, AND THEN ALL WILL GO WELL WITH YOU.  BETWEEN US AND YOUR        TH01502500
COUNTRY ARE THREE DIFFERENT ZONES OR LANDS THROUGH WHICH YOU MUST     TH01502510
PASS TO REACH YOUR OWN.  THE FIRST OF THESE IS THE LAND WHERE WE      TH01502520
NOW ARE.  THIS IS CLOUDLAND.  AFTER THAT COMES WATER-LAND.  THAT IS   TH01502530
WHERE THE RAIN COMES FROM.  NEXT TO THAT IS  FOG- OR MIST-LAND.       TH01502540
AFTER THAT COMES THE EARTH, YOUR COUNTRY.  NOW WHEN WE LET YOU DOWN   TH01502550
FROM THIS PLACE, AFTER YOU HAVE DESCENDED SOME DISTANCE YOU WILL      TH01502560
FEEL THE BASKET STOP.  YOU MUST ON NO ACCOUNT GET UP OR LOOK ABOUT    TH01502570
YOU.  LIE DOWN IN YOUR BASKET AND ROCK IT FROM SIDE TO SIDE.  IN A    TH01502580
LITTLE TIME YOU WILL BREAK THROUGH THE OBSTRUCTION AND DESCEND        TH01502590
AGAIN.  THIS WILL OCCUR IN YOUR DESCENT FOUR TIMES.  DO AS I HAVE     TH01502600
TOLD YOU EACH TIME.  AFTER THE FOURTH STOPPAGE YOU WILL FIND THAT     TH01502610
YOU DESCEND NO MORE.  OPEN YOUR BASKET THEN AND GET OUT, AND YOU      TH01502620
HAD                                                                   TH01502680
WILL FIND YOURSELF IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY.  WHEN YOU GET OUT PULL THE    TH01502630
ROPE FOUR TIMES, AND I SHALL THEN KNOW YOU HAVE LANDED ALL RIGHT,     TH01502640
AND WE WILL PULL UP THE BASKET AGAIN.  NOW GET INTO THE BASKET AND    TH01502650
LIE DOWN, AND WE WILL COVER YOU UP.  TAKE THIS SWORD WITH YOU,"       TH01502660
CONTINUED HE, "AS A PRESENT"; AND THE GRANDFATHER GAVE HIM A LONG     TH01502670
STONE SWORD.  THE YOUTH NOW GOT INTO THE BASKET, AND WHEN THEY        TH01502680
COVERED HIM UP THE OLD MAN LIFTED UP A LARGE STONE THAT LAY AT THE    TH01502690
BASE OF THE LADDER AND DISCLOSED A DEEP HOLE.  DOWN THIS SKA'KIT      TH01502700
AND HIS WIFE, STANDING ON EITHER SIDE OF THE HOLE, LET THE BASKET     TH01502710
CONTAINING N'TLIKCU'MTUM AND HIS PRESENTS BY THE SPA'TZIN ROPE.       TH01502720
WHEN THE BASKET HAD DESCENDED ABOUT A HALF-SCORE FEET IT STOPPED,     TH01502730
BEING BOUYED UP BY THE RESISTANCE OF THE WIND THAT BLEW UP THROUGH    TH01502740
THE HOLE.  FINDING THE BASKET WOULD NOT DESCEND, NOTWITHSTANDING      TH01502750
THE ROCKING OF N'TLIKCU'MTUM, SKA'KIT BADE HIS WIFE STOOP OVER THE    TH01502760
HOLE AND MAKE THE BASKET HEAVIER.  THE OLD WOMAN THEREUPON SQUATTED   TH01502770
DOWN OVER THE HOLE AND SCRATCHED HER THIGH AND LEG TILL THE BLOOD     TH01502780
RAN FREELY AND DROPPED DOWN UPON THE BASKET COVER, BUT BEFORE IT      TH01502790
REACHED THE BASKET IT WAS CHANGED INTO BIG FLAKES OF SNOW.  THIS SO   TH01502800
WEIGHTED THE BASKET THAT IT WAS ABLE TO OVERCOME THE RESISTANCE OF    TH01502810
THE WIND AND DESCEND AGAIN.  SKA'KIT AND HIS WIFE NOW COMMENCED TO    TH01502820
DANCE AND SING AS THEY LOWERED THE BASKET.  THE SONG WAS A            TH01502830
REPITITION OF THE FOLLOWING TERM, TZUKA'-THIQA, THUS UTTERED:         TH01502840
TZUKA'-THI-I-I-I-I-I-I-QA, TZUKA'-THI-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-QA, &C.           TH01502850
     IN THE MEANTIME THE YOUTH EXPERIENCED THE STOPPAGES HIS          TH01502860
GRANDFATHER HAD WARNED HIM OF, AND EACH TIME HE FELT THE BASKET       TH01502870
STOP HE ROLLED IT FROM SIDE TO SIDE AS HE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED.        TH01502890
AFTER THE FOURTH TIME, FINDING THE BASKET REMAINED STATIONARY, HE     TH01502900
THREW OPEN THE LID, AND ON LOOKING OUT FOUND HIMSELF IN A FINE        TH01502910
COUNTRY.  SO HE STEPS OUT AND PERCEIVES THAT THE BASKET HAD LANDED    TH01502920
ON A LARGE FLAT STONE, CLOSE BY WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS  LYTTON CREEK.   TH01502930
HE NOW PULLED THE ROPE FOUR TIMES IN SUCCESSION, AND THE BASKET IS    TH01502940
PRESENTLY WITHDRAWN TO THE UPPER REGIONS AGAIN.  HE NOW TAKES UP      TH01502950
HIS PACK, BUT FINDS IT  AND THE BIG STONE SWORD RATHER MUCH TO        TH01502960
CARRY AT ONCE.  HE DECIDES TO LEAVE HIS SWORD THERE WHERE HE          TH01502970
DESCENDED AND GET IT SOME OTHER TIME.  HE THRUSTS IT INTO THE TRUNK   TH01502980
OF A TREE THAT GREW NEAR THE SPOT TO HIDE IT, WHERE, AS THE OLD       TH01502990
INDIANS BELIEVE, IT MAY BE SEEN TO THIS DAY IN THE FORM OF A          TH01503000
PECULIAR KNOT THAT TRAVERSES THE WHOLE WIDTH OF THE TRUNK.  ON        TH01503010
LOOKING ABOUT HIM HE NOW SEES TRACKS OF MANY PEOPLE, AS IF A LARGE    TH01503020
PARTY HAD PASSED THAT WAY.  THESE HE FOLLOWS, AND PRESENTLY           TH01503030
PERCEIVES AT SOME DISTANCE BEFORE HIM TWO OLD WOMEN WHO ARE           TH01503040
SWINGING FIR BRANCHES FROM SIDE TO SIDE OF THEM AS THEY PROCEED       TH01503050
ALONG.  HE WONDERS WHY THEY ARE DOING THIS, AND ON OVERTAKING THEM    TH01503060
QUESTIONS THEM ABOUT IT.  THEY TELL HIM THEY DO IT TO MARK THEIR      TH01503070
SYMPATHY FOR A VERY SAD AND DISCONSOLATE YOUNG WIDOW WHO IS A         TH01503080
LITTLE WAY AHEAD OF THEM.  "WHY IS SHE SO DISCONSOLATE?" ASKS HE.     TH01503090
THEY ANSWER:  "SHE MOURNS CONTINUALLY FOR HER YOUNG HUSBAND WHO HAS   TH01503100
BEEN EVILLY TREATED BY HIS FATHER, WHO SENT HIM INTO CLOUDLAND,       TH01503110
FROM WHICH HE CANNOT RETURN."  "OH YES HE CAN, AND HAS]"  SAID HE.    TH01503120
"I AM THE YOUNG WOMAN'S HUSBAND, AND I HAVE JUST DESCENDED BY THE     TH01503130
HELP OF MY GRANDFATHER SKA'KIT.  LOOK AT ME AND YOU WILL SEE FOR      TH01503140
YOURSELVES."  "WE CAN'T SEE YOU," SAID THE OLD WOMEN.  "WHY?" SAID    TH01503150
HE.  "ARE YOU BLIND?"  "NO," ANSWERED THEY, "BUT WE CAN'T SEE YOU."   TH01503160
"LOOK ON YOUR RIGHT AND TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE THERE."  "WE CAN SEE     TH01503170
CIA'KUT" (THOMPSON RIVER), SAID THEY.  "TELL ME NOW, WHAT DO YOU      TH01503180
SEE ON YOUR LEFT," THEN DEMANDED HE.  SAID THEY, "WE SEE              TH01503190
N'TOKTI'AUK" (FRASER RIVER).  "YES, YOU CAN SEE," SAID HE.  "NOW      TH01503200
LOOK AT ME AGAIN."  AND WITH THAT HE WAVED HIS HANDS BEFORE THEIR     TH01503210
EYES AND BECAME IMMEDIATELY VISIBLE TO THEM, AND THEY KNEW HIM.       TH01503220
THEN SAID HE TO THEM, "YOU DID WRONG TO WALK AS YOU DID; I MUST       TH01503230
PUNISH YOU.  BUT AS YOU DID IT OUT OF SYMPATHY FOR MY WIFE YOUR       TH01503240
PUNISHMENT SHALL NOT BE SEVERE."  HE THEREUPON TRANSFORMED THEM       TH01503250
INTO MAGGOTS, AND  THEN PROCEEDED TO OVERTAKE HIS FIRST WIFE.  AS     TH01503260
HE APPROACHES, HIS LITTLE SON, WHO IS SITTING ON HIS MOTHER'S         TH01503270
SHOULDER, LOOKS BACK AND SEES HIM COMING.  HE CRIES OUT, "PAPA]       TH01503280
PAPA]"  THIS MAKES HIS MOTHER'S HEART ACHE AFRESH, AND SHE CHIDES     TH01503300
HIM AND BIDS HIM BE QUIET.  BUT THE CHILD STILL CRIES OUT IN A        TH01503310
JOYFUL TONE, "PAPA]"  THE MOTHER GETS ANGRY AND STRIKES THE CHILD     TH01503320
WITH A STICK SHE IS CARRYING IN HER HAND.  STILL THE CHILD CALLS      TH01503330
AGAIN, "PAPA]"  BY THIS TIME THE FATHER IS AT THE MOTHER'S SIDE,      TH01503340
AND TAKES HER BY THE ARM.  SHE DOES NOT LOOK ROUND TO SEE WHO IT IS   TH01503350
BUT CRIES OUT IN A SAD, WEARY WAY, "OH, LET ME ALONE]  LET ME         TH01503360
ALONE]  WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS WORRYING ME?"  "LOOK UP," SAID THE         TH01503370
HUSBAND; "I AM YOUR HUSBAND COME BACK TO YOU]"  RECOGNISING HIS       TH01503380
VOICE SHE LOOKS UP AND EMBRACES HIM WARMLY, AND THEY BOTH CRY FOR     TH01503390
JOY AT MEETING AGAIN.  THEY SIT DOWN TOGETHER, AND THE FATHER TAKES   TH01503400
HIS SON IN HIS ARMS AND PLAYS WITH HIM.  THEY HAVE CRIED AND RUBBED   TH01503410
THEIR FACES SO MUCH THAT THEY ARE QUITE SMEARED AND DIRTY.  TO        TH01503420
REMOVE THESE STAINS HE CAUSES BY HIS POWER A SPRING TO BUBBLE UP      TH01503430
WHERE THEY SAT.  AT THIS THEY WASH THEMSELVES.  THIS SPRING IS SAID   TH01503440
TO BE THE ONE CLOSE BY THE TRAIL THAT LEADS FROM LYTTON TO            TH01503450
BRITTA'NI, A SUMMER RESORT OF THE LYTTON TRIBE, ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE    TH01503460
MILES NORTH OF THE OLD CAMP  SITE, LYING IN A VERY BEAUTIFUL LITTLE   TH01503470
VALLEY BETWEEN THE THOMPSON AND THE FRASER.  ON THIS OCCASION IT      TH01503480
WOULD APPEAR THE WHOLE TRIBE HAD GONE TO THE VALLEY.  WHILE THEY      TH01503490
THUS SAT TALKING AND ENJOYING EACH OTHER'S COMPANY THE LARGER OF      TH01503500
THE TWO MAGGOTS, INTO WHICH THE TWO OLD WOMEN HAD BEEN TURNED,        TH01503510
PASSED                                                                TH01503511
BY.  THEY ENJOIN UPON HER STRICTLY NOT TO REVEAL HIS  PRESENCE TO     TH01503520
ANYONE IN THE CAMP.  SHE IS ONLY TO TELL THEIR SLAVE, LITTLE CROW     TH01503530
(CLOQ'), TO BUILD THEIR TENT SOMEWHAT APART FROM THE REST.  THE       TH01503540
SLAVE DID AS SHE WAS TOLD, AND AROUSED THE OTHER SLAVE, BIG CROW'S    TH01503550
(CA'HAQ) CURIOSITY.  CA'HAQ WAS A SERVANT TO THE SECOND WIFE, WHO     TH01503560
NOW LIVED WITH SNIKIA'P, HER FATHER-IN-LAW.                           TH01503570
     N'TLIKCU'MTUM AND HIS FAITHFUL WIFE DID NOT COME INTO CAMP       TH01503580
TILL IT WAS DARK, AND NO ONE WAS AWARE OF THE FORMER'S PRESENCE.      TH01503590
AFTER THEY HAD RETIRED BIG CROW CREPT UP TO THE TENT TO LISTEN.       TH01503600
NOW THE YOUNG WIFE HAD BEEN IN THE HABIT OF CRYING AND MOURNING       TH01503610
EVERY NIGHT FOR THE LOSS OF HER HUSBAND.  BIG CROW WAS AWARE OF       TH01503620
THIS, AND WONDERED WHY THE YOUNG WIFE WAS NOT CRYING AS USUAL.        TH01503630
SHE PEEPED INTO THE TENT AND NOTICED A  FINE WHITE BLANKET, WHICH     TH01503640
SEEMED TO COVER TWO PERSONS.  THIS FURTHER ROUSED HER CURIOSITY,      TH01503650
AND SHE VENTURED TO ENTER THE TENT VERY SOFTLY.  BUT THE WOMAN        TH01503660
HEARD HER, AND LOOKED UP AND SAID,"WHAT DO YOU WANT?"  CA'HAQ         TH01503670
ANSWERED:  "OH, I CAME IN TO SEE HOW YOU WERE."  "I AM ALL RIGHT,"    TH01503680
RESPONDED SHE IN A HAPPY TONE OF VOICE, WHOLLY UNLIKE HER USUAL       TH01503690
TONES.  THIS THE CROW NOTICED AT ONCE, AND ASKED, "IS ANYONE HERE     TH01503700
WITH YOU TO-NIGHT?"  "WHAT MAKES YOU ASK THAT QUESTION?"  QUERIED     TH01503710
HER MISTRESS.  ANSWERED CROW:  "TO JUDGE BY THE SOUND OF YOUR VOICE   TH01503720
YOU SEEM MUCH HAPPIER THAN USUAL."  "YOU ARE RIGHT, I AM HAPPIER,"    TH01503730
SAID THE YOUNG WIFE; "I HAVE REASON TO BE.  MY HUSBAND HAS COME       TH01503740
BACK TO ME,"  THE SLAVE  NOW BEGAN TO CRY FOR JOY AND SYMPATHY.       TH01503750
SAID THE YOUNG MAN, "YOU MUST NOT CRY LIKE THAT.  COME HERE TO ME."   TH01503760
CA'HAQ WENT OVER TO THE YOUNG MAN'S SIDE.  THE WIFE NOW ASKS HER IF   TH01503770
SHE HAD HAD HER SUPPER, AND, ON FINDING SHE HAD NOT, GAVE THE SLAVE   TH01503780
A GOOD SUPPER FROM THE MEAT HER HUSBAND HAD BROUGHT.  THE YOUNG MAN   TH01503790
THEN SAID SHE MIGHT TELL THE PEOPLE HE HAD RETURNED, BUT THEY WERE    TH01503800
NOT TO DISTURB HIM BY VISITING OR COMING NEAR HIM THAT NIGHT.  THE    TH01503810
CROW WAS DELIGHTED TO BE THE BEARER OF SUCH NEWS, AND SOON            TH01503820
COMMUNICATED THE FACT OF THE YOUNG MAN'S ARRIVAL TO ALL THE CAMP.     TH01503830
EVERYBODY EXPRESSES PLEASURE AT THE NEWS, AND THEY ARE ALL GLAD AND   TH01503840
DESIROUS OF SEEING HIM AND HEARING OF HIS ADVENTURES; BUT THEY        TH01503850
RESPECT HIS WISHES, AND LEAVE HIM ALONE WITH HIS FAITHFUL WIFE AND    TH01503860
CHILD FOR THAT NIGHT.                                                 TH01503870
     THE FATHER OF THE YOUTH, AMONG THE REST, HAD HEARD OF HIS        TH01503880
SON'S RETURN, AND EARLY NEXT MORNING CAME IN CRYING AND SNIVELLING.   TH01503890
THE SON TOOK NO NOTICE OF HIM.  THAT DAY HE GAVE A GREAT FEAST, TO    TH01503900
WHICH EVERYBODY WAS INVITED.  AFTER THEY HAD EATEN THEIR FILL OF      TH01503910
THE STORE OF MEAT AND FAT HE HAD BROUGHT WITH HIM, HE SHARED WITH     TH01503920
THEM THE BLANKETS HIS GRANDMOTHER HAD WOVEN AND PACKED UP FOR HIM.    TH01503930
HE CUT SEVERAL IN TWO SO THAT ALL MIGHT HAVE A SHARE.  THE NEXT DAY   TH01503940
HE WENT ON TO BRITTA'NI, AND BUILT THERE A LARGE CAMP.  HE WAS NOW    TH01503950
MADE A CHIEF, AND BECAME A GREAT MAN AMONG THEM.  ONE DAY WHEN HE     TH01503960
WAS OUT HUNTING WITH THE OTHERS, THE DESIRE CAME INTO HIS HEART  TO   TH01503970
PUNISH SNIKIA'P, HIS FATHER, FOR THE DECEPTION HE HAD PLAYED UPON     TH01503980
HIM.  NEXT DAY HE SAID TO HIS FATHER AND THE OTHERS, "I SHALL GO      TH01503990
OUT ALONE TO HUNT TO-DAY."  THEY AGREED, AND HE WENT OFF ALONE.  HE   TH01504000
PRESENTLY SHOT A DEER, AND DISEMBOWELLING IT MADE A ROPE FROM THE     TH01504010
GUTS.  THIS HE THEN TRANSFORMED INTO A WOOLLEN ROPE.  HE NOW PLACED   TH01504020
THE MEAT OF THE DEER ON HIS SHOULDERS AND RETURNED TOWARDS HOME.      TH01504030
WHEN HE REACHED THE STREAM THAT CROSSED HIS PATH HE TOOK HALF OF      TH01504040
THE MEAT AND TIED IT WITH THE ROPE HE HAD MADE TO A TREE THAT         TH01504050
OVER HUNG THE BROOK.  THE REST OF THE MEAT HE TOOK ON WITH HIM.  IN   TH01504060
THE EVENING HE INFORMED HIS FATHER THAT HE HAD LEFT HALF OF THE       TH01504070
DEER'S CARCASS SUSPENDED FROM A TREE BY THE BROOK, AND THAT HE        TH01504080
DESIRED HIM TO GO FOR IT IN THE MORNING.  "ALL RIGHT," SAID THE       TH01504090
FATHER.  ACCORDINGLY NEXT MORNING SNIKIA'P SET OFF TO BRING THE       TH01504100
MEAT HOME.  AS HE LEFT THE SON SHOUTED OUT TO HIM TO BE  VERY         TH01504110
CAREFUL OF THE ROPE THE MEAT WAS TIED WITH, AS HE PRIZED IT VERY      TH01504120
MUCH, AND DIDN'T WANT IT LOST OR BROKEN.  THE FATHER PROMISED TO BE   TH01504130
VERY                                                                  TH01504131
CAREFUL OF IT.  HE HAD NO DIFFICULTY IN FINDING THE MEAT, WHICH HE    TH01504150
TOOK DOWN FROM THE TREE AND SLUNG ACROSS HIS SHOULDERS; BUT AS HE     TH01504160
WAS CROSSING THE STREAM THE ROPE BROKE, AND THE MEAT AND ROPE FELL    TH01504170
INTO THE WATER TOGETHER.  THE OLD MAN IMMEDIATELY JUMPED INTO THE     TH01504180
STREAM TO SECURE THE ROPE.  HE DID NOT CARE SO MUCH ABOUT THE MEAT.   TH01504190
"I MUST NOT LET THE ROPE BE CARRIED AWAY," SAID HE, "OR MY SON WILL   TH01504200
BE GRIEVED AND ANGRY."  SO SAYING, HE CAUGHT HOLD OF IT; BUT AS HE    TH01504210
DID SO THE CURRENT SWEPT HIM OFF HIS LEGS, AND HE WAS CARRIED, ROPE   TH01504220
AND ALL, DOWN THE RUSHING STREAM TO THE THOMPSON, AND FROM THENCE     TH01504230
INTO THE FRASER AND FAR DOWN THAT RIVER.  HE WAS STOPPED AT LAST BY   TH01504240
A BARRIER OR WEIR, WHICH WAS BUILT ACROSS THE RIVER NEAR ITS MOUTH.   TH01504250
AS HE APPROACHED THE WEIR HE TRANSFORMED HIMSELF INTO A SMALL         TH01504260
SMOOTH BOARD.  NOW THIS WEIR WAS HELD BY FOUR WITCH SISTERS.  AS      TH01504270
SNIKIA'P FLOATED TOWARDS THE BARRIER IN THE FORM OF A PIECE OF WOOD.  TH01504280
THE YOUNGEST OF THE SISTERS, WHO HAD GONE TO SEE IF ANY DRIFT WOOD    TH01504290
HAD LODGED AGAINST THE WEIR, OBSERVED THE WOOD, WHICH WAS ABOUT       TH01504300
THIRTY INCHES LONG, AND THOUGHT IT WOULD DO WELL FOR A DISH, AND      TH01504310
STRAIGHTWAY FISHED IT OUT.  SHE TOOK IT HOME WITH HER, AND THE NEXT   TH01504320
TIME THEY COOKED A SALMON SHE LAID IT ON THE BOARD.  AS THEY WERE     TH01504330
EATING IT THE FISH SEEMED TO LAST THEM A VERY LITTLE WHILE, AND       TH01504350
WHEN IT HAD ALL GONE THEY WERE FAR FROM BEING SATISFIED.  "I          TH01504360
HAVEN'T HAD ENOUGH," SAID ONE.  "I DON'T SEEM TO HAVE EATEN ANY,"     TH01504370
SAID ANOTHER.  "WE WILL COOK ANOTHER FISH," SAID THE THIRD; "I CAN    TH01504380
EAT SOME MORE MYSELF."  SO ANOTHER SALMON WAS COOKED; BUT THIS        TH01504390
DISAPPEARED AS RAPIDLY AS THE FORMER ONE, AND THEY ARE STILL          TH01504400
FEELING HUNGRY.  SAID THE ELDEST OF THE SISTERS NOW, "I THINK THERE   TH01504410
IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS DISH.  I SHOULDN'T WONDER IF IT ISN'T    TH01504420
THAT SNIKIA'P THAT WAS DROWNED."  "THAT CAN'T BE," SAID ONE OF THE    TH01504430
OTHERS.  "HOW COULD HE TURN INTO A PIECE OF WOOD?"  "OH, HE IS A      TH01504440
VERY POWERFUL WIZARD," SAID THE ELDEST.  "LET US THROW IT AWAY        TH01504450
ANYHOW," SAID ANOTHER; "THROW IT INTO THE FIRE AND BURN IT."  THIS    TH01504460
WAS DONE, AND THE SEEMING PIECE OF WOOD BEGAN TO BURN.  AS SOON AS    TH01504470
THE FIRE BEGAN TO CONSUME IT THE BOARD BEGAN TO CRY LIKE A CHILD.     TH01504480
THIS AFFECTED THE YOUNGEST SISTER, WHO WANTED TO SAVE IT FROM THE     TH01504490
FIRE.  "NO, NO," SAID THE ELDEST; "LET IT BURN."  "I WANT TO SAVE     TH01504500
IT; IT MUST NOT BURN," DECLARED THE YOUNGEST.  AND SHE STRAIGHTWAY    TH01504510
TOOK IT OUT AND WASHED IT AND DRESSED ITS BURNS, WHICH SOON HEALED    TH01504520
UP.  THE PIECE OF WOOD NOW BECOMES A BABY BOY, WHO SOON GROWS UP      TH01504530
AND PLAYS ABOUT THE WEIR, AND OBSERVES ALL THAT THE SISTERS DO.       TH01504540
ONE DAY, WHEN HE HAD GROWN TO BE A BIG BOY, THE SISTERS ALL GO FOR    TH01504550
A WALK, LEAVING HIM BEHIND.  NOW THEY HAD FOUR BOXES IN THE HOUSE,    TH01504560
IN WHICH WERE STORED THE WIND, THE SMOKE, THE FLIES, AND THE WASPS.   TH01504570
THESE BOXES HAD NEVER BEEN OPENED IN THE CHILD'S PRESENCE, AND HE     TH01504580
WAS CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT WAS IN THEM, FOR HE HAD BEEN FORBIDDEN TO    TH01504590
GO NEAR OR TOUCH THEM.  ON THIS OCCASION THEY WARNED HIM NOT TO       TH01504600
TOUCH THE BOXES; BUT WHEN THEY HAD GONE, HIS CURIOSITY GOT THE        TH01504610
BETTER OF HIM, AND HE OPENED THE ONE CONTAINING THE SMOKE, WHICH      TH01504620
CAME OUT AND NEARLY CHOKED HIM.  THE SISTERS ARE SOON MADE AWARE OF   TH01504630
WHAT HAS HAPPENED, AND RUSH HOME QUICKLY, AND COLLECT THE SMOKE AND   TH01504640
RETURN IT TO THE BOX, SCOLDING HIM THE WHILE, AND TELLING HIM NOT     TH01504650
TO BE SO DISOBEDIENT AGAIN.  THE BOY PLEADED FORGETFULNESS, AND       TH01504660
PROMISED TO LET THE BOXES ALONE FOR THE FUTURE.  THE WOMEN SET OUT    TH01504670
AGAIN ON THEIR WALK.  WHEN THIS BOY, WHO HAD SNIKIA'P'S SOUL WITHIN   TH01504680
HIM, AND SNIKIA'P'S CUNNING AND EXPERIENCE, WAS LEFT ALONE THE        TH01504690
SECOND TIME, HE WENT OUT AND EXAMINED THE SALMON-WEIR.  HE            TH01504700
PERCEIVES THAT IT PREVENTS THE SALMON FROM GETTING HIGHER UP THE      TH01504710
RIVER.  THE SISTERS PRESENTLY RETURN, AND HE IS CALLED AWAY FOR       TH01504720
THAT TIME.  ONE DAY THEY SAY THEY ARE GOING OUT FOR THE MORNING.      TH01504730
THE BOY SAYS HE WANTS TO GO TOO, BUT THEY TELL HIM THEY CANNOT BE     TH01504740
BOTHERED WITH HIM; HE MUST STAY AT HOME AND LOOK AFTER THE PLACE.     TH01504750
AS SOON AS THE WOMEN HAVE GONE, SNIKIA'P OPENS ONE OF THE             TH01504760
"MEDICINE" BOXES, AND THE WIND ESCAPES AND A GALE ARISES.  HE THEN    TH01504770
OPENS THE OTHER THREE BOXES, AND LETS THEIR CONTENTS OUT ALSO.  HE    TH01504780
NOW PROCEEDS TO THE CENTRE OF THE WEIR, AND MAKES AN OPENING IN IT    TH01504790
THROUGH WHICH THE SALMON SWIM UP RIVER.  THE SISTERS SOON PERCEIVE    TH01504800
WHAT HAS HAPPENED, AND RUSH HOME.  THEY SET TO WORK TO GATHER THEIR   TH01504810
SCATTERED PROPERTY, BUT CAN ONLY SECURE SOME OF THE SMOKE AND         TH01504820
FLIES.  THE WIND GETS AWAY BEYOND THEIR POWER TO RECALL, AND THEY     TH01504830
LOSE IT ENTIRELY.  SNIKIA'P NOW CHANGES INTO AN OLD MAN AGAIN, AND    TH01504840
RUNS AWAY, FEELING HAPPY AND IN GOOD SPIRITS.  HE HAS LET THE         TH01504850
SALMON UP THE RIVER, AND THE PEOPLE ABOVE WILL BE ABLE TO GET THEM    TH01504860
NOW.  THERE IS ONLY ONE DRAWBACK TO HIS FEELINGS OF SATISFACTION -    TH01504870
THE SMOKE AND FLIES ARE TROUBLESOME, AND THE WASPS ARE VERY           TH01504880
ANNOYING.  HOWEVER, HE GOES UP RIVER, SHOUTING AND SINGING, AND IN    TH01504890
GOOD TIME GETS BACK TO THE CAMP AT BRITTA'NI.  AS HE ENTERS THE       TH01504900
CAMP HE SHOUTS TO THE PEOPLE TO COME AND SEE THE SALMON HE HAS        TH01504910
BROUGHT UP THE RIVER.  HE DOES NOT REMAIN THERE, BUT GOES UP THE      TH01504920
RIVER SHOUTING TO THE PEOPLE THAT HE HAS BROUGHT THE SALMON.  BY-     TH01504930
AND-BY HE GETS TIRED, AND WALKS QUIETLY AND SLOWLY.  HE PICKS SOME    TH01504940
GREEN BRANCHES AND CARRIES THEM OVER HIS SHOULDERS.  AS HE PASSES     TH01504950
THE VILLAGES ALONG THE RIVER HE ASKS THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WOULD       TH01504960
LIKE TO HAVE.  THEY ANSWER, "WE WANT SOME OF THE MOUNTAIN-SHEEP FAT   TH01504970
THAT GROWS ON THE NECK AND SMELLS NICE."  "CAN'T GIVE YOU THAT,"      TH01504980
REPLIED SNIKIA'P.  THEY THEN MENTION ANOTHER RARE LUXURY - THE BACK   TH01504990
OF A SALMON.  HE DECLARES THEY CAN HAVE ALL THEY WANT OF THAT, AND    TH01505000
BIDS THEM GO TO THE RIVER, AND THEY WILL FIND IT FULL OF SALMON.      TH01505010
HE ARRIVES IN TIME AT BRIDGE RIVER, WHERE HE MAKES A FALL TO STOP     TH01505020
THE SALMON FROM GOING FURTHER BY STEPPING TO AND FRO ACROSS THE       TH01505030
RIVER THREE TIMES.  BUT HE DOES NOT MAKE THE FALL HIGH ENOUGH, AND    TH01505040
MANY OF THE SALMON JUMP IT AND GET UP THE RIVER.  FROM THENCE HE      TH01505050
GOES UP THE NORTH FRASER, AND BRINGS THE STEEP BANKS OF THE RIVER     TH01505060
TOGETHER TO FORM A CANYON, SO THAT THE PEOPLE THERE CAN MORE          TH01505070
EASILY CATCH THE SALMON.  HE PRESENTLY CROSSES THE RIVER, AND         TH01505080
PASSES OVER INTO THE SHUSWAP COUNTRY. AT THIS TIME HE IS WEARING A    TH01505090
HANDSOME BUCKSKIN SHIRT.  HE WANDERS ALL ROUND THE COUNTRY, AND IN    TH01505100
TIME GETS BACK TO LYTTON.  NO ONE RECOGNISES HIM WHEN HE RETURNS,     TH01505110
HE IS SO ALTERED; AND HE KEEPS UP HIS DISGUISE BY SPEAKING A          TH01505120
STRANGE LANGUAGE AND PRETENDING IGNORANCE OF THE N'TLAKA'PAMUQ        TH01505130
TONGUE.  THE PEOPLE INQUIRE AMONG THEMSELVES WHO THERE IS THAT IS     TH01505140
ACQUAINTED WITH THE OTHER LANGUAGES OF THE COUNTRY.  SOMEONE SAYS     TH01505150
THAT PU'IYAUQ, AN OLD WOMAN, KNOWS SEVERAL TONGUES BESIDES HER OWN.   TH01505160
SHE IS SENT FOR TO SEE IF SHE CAN HOLD CONVERSE WITH THE STRANGER.    TH01505170
SHE BEGINS BY SPEAKING SK'QUAMIC.  SNIKIA'P SHAKES HIS HEAD AT        TH01505180
THIS.  SHE NOW TRIES HIM WITH THE YALE TONGUE.  AGAIN HE SHAKES HIS   TH01505190
HEAD.  SHE NEXT TRIES OKANAKAN, BUT WITH NO BETTER SUCCESS.  THEN     TH01505200
SHUSWAP, THEN LILLOET, THEN CARRIER; BUT HE SHAKES HIS HEAD AT ALL.   TH01505210
SHE KNOWS NO OTHERS, SO THE ATTEMPT AT COMMUNICATION FAILS.  THE      TH01505220
PEOPLE REGARD HIM AS A GREAT MEDICINE-MAN, AND WONDER IF HE WILL      TH01505230
HEAL A SICK WOMAN THEY HAVE AMONG THEM.  THEY TAKE HIM TO THE         TH01505240
WOMAN.  HE NODS HIS HEAD TO INDICATE THAT HE UNDERSTANDS THEIR        TH01505250
WISHES AND WILL DO AS THEY DESIRE.  HE BUILDS A SWEAT-HOUSE AND       TH01505260
PUTS THE WOMAN IN IT, AND MADE TO GO IN WITH HER HIMSELF.  BIG        TH01505270
CROW, WHO HAS BEEN OBSERVING ALL  THAT TOOK PLACE, IS SUSPICIOUS OF   TH01505280
THE MAN, AND WHEN SNIKIA'P WOULD HAVE ENTERED THE SWEAT-HOUSE ALONE   TH01505290
WITH THE WOMAN, SHE CALLED OUT TO THE OTHERS THAT HE WAS AN           TH01505300
IMPOSTER; THAT NO TRUE MEDICINE-MAN WOULD ENTER THE SWEAT-HOUSE       TH01505310
WITH HIS PATIENT.  BUT THE PEOPLE ARE ANGRY AT BIG CROW; BUT SHE      TH01505320
DECLARES SHE IS RIGHT, AND THAT HE ONLY WANTS TO ENTER THE SWEAT-     TH01505330
HOUSE WITH THE WOMAN FOR EVIL PURPOSES.  SHE GETS ANGRY BECAUSE       TH01505340
THEY SIDE WITH THE  STRANGER AGAINST HER, AND SHE TAKES A CLUB AND    TH01505350
HITS SNIKIA'P OVER THE HEAD WITH IT.  HE SCREAMS OUT AT THE ATTACK,   TH01505360
AND EVERYBODY RECOGNISES THE VOICE  OF SNIKIA'P, AND DISCOVERS THAT   TH01505370
HE HAS BEEN TRYING TO TRICK THEM.  THEY FALL UPON HIM AND BEAT HIM    TH01505380
WELL.  HE BEGS FOR MERCY, DECLARING THAT IF HE DID WRONG IN THE       TH01505390
PAST HE HAS ALSO WROUGHT MUCH GOOD FOR THEM BY BREAKING DOWN THE      TH01505400
WITCHES' BARRIER ACROSS THE RIVER AND LETTING THE SALMON THROUGH,     TH01505410
AND BY GIVING THEM THE COOL WIND WHICH, SINCE ITS ESCAPE FROM ITS     TH01505420
PRISON, HAD BLOWN UP RIVER CONTINUOUSLY.  THEY PRESENTLY ALLOW HIS    TH01505430
CLAIM FOR MERCY, AND LET HIM OFF WITHOUT FURTHER PUNISHMENT.  FROM    TH01505450
THIS TIME THE SALMON CAME UP THE RIVER REGULARLY, AND THE             TH01505460
PREVAILING WIND OF THE REGION IS AN UP-CURRENT BREEZE WHICH KEEPS     TH01505470
THE AIR COOL EVEN IN THE HOTTEST WEATHER.  THESE TWO BLESSINGS THE    TH01505480
OLD INDIANS BELIEVE WERE DUE TO SNIKIA'P THE COYOTE, WHOSE MEMORY     TH01505490
THEY KEEP ALIVE BY THIS AND OTHER STORIES OF HIM AND HIS DOINGS.      TH01505500
***THO-072***
          TH016 MATQ, OR THE FIRE MYTH.                               TH01600010
     LONG, LONG AGO THE INDIANS ON FRASER RIVER HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF   TH01600020
FIRE.  BEAVER, WHO TRAVELLED ABOUT A GOOD DEAL IN THE NIGHT           TH01600030
PROSPECTING THE RIVERS, LEARNT FROM SOME SOURCE THAT AWAY IN THE      TH01600040
FAR NORTH THERE LIVED A TRIBE WHO KNEW HOW TO MAKE FIRE.  HE          TH01600050
DETERMINED TO SEEK OUT THIS TRIBE AND STEAL SOME OF THEIR FIRE AND    TH01600060
BRING IT BACK TO THE 'STALO' (LOWER FRASER RIVER) INDIANS.  HE TOLD   TH01600070
HIS BROTHER EAGLE TO WAIT FOR HIM AT A CERTAIN POINT ON THE FRASER    TH01600080
WHILE HE WENT DOWN THE RIVER TO THE COAST TO TELL THE PEOPLE OF THE   TH01600090
SETTLEMENTS ALONG ITS BANKS THAT HE WAS GOING TO STEAL THE FIRE       TH01600100
FOR THEM IN THE FAR NORTH.  WHEN HE REACHED THE COAST HE MET A        TH01600110
LARGE TRIBE THERE.  HE BEGGED FROM THEM THE GIFT OF A PAIR OF         TH01600120
CLAMSHELLS IN WHICH TO STOW AWAY THE FIRE HE SHOULD STEAL.  THEY      TH01600130
GAVE HIM THE SHELLS AND HE THEN RETURNED TO HIS BROTHER, AND THE      TH01600140
TWO SET OUT TOGETHER FOR THE FAR NORTH.  'YOU GO THROUGH THE AIR,'    TH01600150
SAID BEAVER TO EAGLE, 'AND I WILL TRAVEL BY WATER.'  THEY CONTINUED   TH01600160
THEIR JOURNEY IN THIS WAY FOR MANY DAYS AND NIGHTS, BEAVER            TH01600170
TRAVELLING BY THE FRASER.  WHEN THEY ARRIVED NEAR THE VILLAGE OF      TH01600180
THE PEOPLE WHO POSSESSED THE FIRE, BEAVER CALLED HIS BROTHER TO HIM   TH01600190
AND TOLD HIM HIS PLAN OF ACTION.  'TO-NIGHT,' SAID HE, 'I WILL        TH01600200
BUILD A DAM ACROSS THE WATER, AND THEN BURROW FROM THE DAM ALONG      TH01600210
UNDER THE GROUND UNTIL I COME UP UNDER THE HOUSE WHERE THE FIRE IS    TH01600220
KEPT.  THEY WILL SPEAR ME SOONER OR LATER, AND TAKE ME TO THE         TH01600230
VILLAGE, BUT ALTHOUGH THEY WILL SPEAR ME THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO     TH01600240
KILL ME.  IN THE MEANTIME I SHALL BUILD MYSELF A HOUSE IN THE         TH01600250
RIVER, AND WHEN THEY SEE IT THEY WILL COME OUT AND SPEAR ME.  WHEN    TH01600260
THEY HAVE SPEARED ME THEY WILL TAKE ME TO THE HOUSE WHERE THE FIRE    TH01600270
IS KEPT TO SKIN ME.  I SHALL PUT THE CLAM SHELLS INSIDE MY SKIN,      TH01600280
WHEN THE KNIFE IS NEARLY THROUGH TO THE SHELL BENEATH I SHALL OPEN    TH01600290
MY EYE AND YOU WILL SEE A GREAT FLASH OF LIGHT IN THE SKY.  YOU       TH01600300
MUST BE CLOSE BY, AND WHEN YOU SEE THE FLASH YOU MUST FLY OVER THE    TH01600310
HOUSE AND ATTRACT THEIR ATTENTION.  THEY WILL LEAVE ME FOR A MOMENT   TH01600320
AND RUN OUT TO TRY AND SHOOT YOU.  WHEN THEY ARE GONE I SHALL SEIZE   TH01600330
THE OPPORTUNITY AND OPEN MY CLAM SHELL AND FILL IT WITH FIRE.  I      TH01600340
SHALL THEN CLEAR AWAY THE SOIL FROM ABOVE THE PASSAGE I HAVE MADE     TH01600350
FROM THE RIVER TO THE HOUSE, RUSH DOWN IT, AND COME OUT IN THE DEEP   TH01600360
WATER OF THE RIVER ABOVE THE DAM.'                                    TH01600370
     EAGLE APPROVED OF THE PLAN, AND PROMISED TO DO HIS SHARE         TH01600380
ACCORDING TO HIS BROTHER'S INSTRUCTIONS.  ALL THAT NIGHT BEAVER       TH01600390
WORKED AT HIS DAM AND THE PASSAGE.  BY MORNING ALL WAS READY.  WHEN   TH01600400
WHEN ONE OF THE WOMEN WENT DOWN TO THE STREAM TO FETCH HER WATER      TH01600410
NEXT MORNING SHE FOUND TO HER SURPRISE A LARGE LAKE WHERE BEFORE      TH01600420
WAS ONLY A SMALL STREAM.  SHE DROPPED HER PAIL AND RAN HOME, AND      TH01600430
TOLD THE PEOPLE THAT A BEAVER WAS IN THE STREAM.  EVERYBODY RUSHED    TH01600440
FOR HIS SPEAR, AND ALL MADE FOR THE STREAM.  SOMEONE SUGGESTED        TH01600450
BREAKING THE DAM AND CATCHING HIM IN THAT WAY.  THIS THEY DID; AND    TH01600460
WHEN THE WATER WAS GETTING LOW BEAVER CAME OUT OF HIS HOUSE AND       TH01600470
SWAM ABOUT AS IF TRYING TO GET AWAY.  HE PLAYED WITH THEM FOR A       TH01600480
LITTLE WHILE BEFORE HE WOULD PERMIT THEM TO SPEAR HIM.  FINALLY       TH01600490
THEY SPEARED HIM AND CARRIED HIM WITH GREAT REJOICINGS TO THE         TH01600500
HOUSE.  EVERYBODY NOW WANTED HIS TEETH, OR HIS TAIL, OR HIS CLAWS.    TH01600510
THEY PRESENTLY SET ABOUT SKINNING HIM, BUT AS THE POINT OF THE        TH01600520
KNIFE TOUCHED THE SHELL HIDDEN BENEATH THE SKIN OF HIS BREAST         TH01600530
BEAVER OPENED ONE EYE.  NOW, THE BOY WHO WAS HOLDING HIS LEG SAW      TH01600540
THE ACTION, AND TOLD THE OTHERS, WHO ONLY LAUGHED AT HIM.  JUST AT    TH01600550
THAT MOMENT EAGLE, WHO HAD SEEN THE SIGNAL, CAME SOARING OVER THE     TH01600560
HOUSE MAKING A GREAT NOISE, WHICH DIVERTED EVERYBODY'S ATTENTION      TH01600570
FROM BEAVER.  'AN EAGLE] AN EAGLE] SHOOT IT] KILL IT]' SHOUTED        TH01600580
EVERYBODY, AND ALL RAN FOR THEIR BOWS AND ARROWS EXCEPT THE BOY WHO   TH01600590
WAS HOLDING BEAVER'S LEG.                                             TH01600600
     THIS WAS THE MOMENT BEAVER HAD PLANNED FOR.  SHAKING HIMSELF     TH01600610
FREE FROM THE BOY'S HOLD HE TOOK OUT HIS CLAM SHELLS, QUICKLY         TH01600620
FILLED THEM WITH FIRE, AND BEFORE THE BOY HAD RECOVERED FROM HIS      TH01600630
ASTONISHMENT PLUNGED HEAD FOREMOST DOWN THE PASSAGE HOLE AND MADE     TH01600640
FOR THE RIVER.  THE BOY'S CRIES SPEEDILY BROUGHT THE PEOPLE TO HIM,   TH01600650
AND HE TOLD THEM WHAT HAD HAPPENED.  THEY NOW TRIED TO DIG OUT THE    TH01600660
HOLE DOWN WHICH BEAVER HAD DISAPPEARED, BUT THEY NO SOONER TRIED      TH01600670
THAN THE WATER RUSHED UP AND STOPPED THEM.  BEAVER REACHED THE        TH01600680
STREAM SAFELY, AND FROM THENCE MADE HIS WAY TO THE FRASER, WHERE HE   TH01600690
WAS JOINED BY HIS BROTHER EAGLE.  AS THEY RETURNED DOWN THE RIVER     TH01600700
BEAVER THREW FIRE ON ALL THE TREES THEY PASSED, BUT MOSTLY ON THE     TH01600710
COTTONWOOD TREES, AND THUS IT WAS THAT THE WOOD FROM THESE TREES      TH01600720
WAS THE BEST FOR MAKING FIRE WITH FROM THAT TIME ONWARD.  HE          TH01600730
CONTINUED TO DO THIS TILL HE HAD REACHED THE COAST AGAIN, AND ALL     TH01600740
HIS FIRE WAS GONE.  AFTER THIS HE ASSUMED A HUMAN FORM AND TAUGHT     TH01600750
THE INDIANS HOW TO MAKE FIRE BY MEANS OF THE DRILL WORKED BETWEEN     TH01600760
THE HANDS.  HE ALSO TAUGHT THEM HOW TO PRESERVE THE FIRE WHEN ONCE    TH01600770
SECURED IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER.  HE PROCURED A QUANTITY OF THE       TH01600780
INNER BARK OF THE CEDAR TREE AND MADE IT INTO A LONG ROPE.  THIS HE   TH01600790
THEN COVERED WITH THE BARK OF SOME OTHER TREES WHICH BURNT LESS       TH01600800
READILY.  WHEN ONE END OF THIS ROPE WAS LIGHTED IT WOULD CONTINUE     TH01600810
TO SMOULDER FOR SEVERAL DAYS, ACCORDING TO THE LENGTH OF THE ROPE.    TH01600820
WHEN THE INDIANS WERE TRAVELLING AND LIKELY TO BE AWAY FROM CAMP      TH01600830
SEVERAL DAYS THEY ALWAYS CARRIED ONE OF THESE FIRE-ROPES, CALLED BY   TH01600840
THEMSELVES PATLA'KAN, COILED ROUND THEIR SHOULDERS.                   TH01600850
     AFTER THIS GREAT GIFT TO THEM THE INDIANS THOUGHT VERY HIGHLY    TH01600860
OF BEAVER, AND HE WAS USUALLY CALLED BY THEM 'OUR HEAD BROTHER'       TH01600870
BECAUSE OF HIS WISDOM AND GOODNESS.                                   TH01600880
***THO-073***
          TH017 PAINTED BLANKET MYTH                                  TH01700010
     WHEN BEAVER HAD FINISHED HIS INSTRUCTIONS TO THE 'STALO'         TH01700020
INDIANS HE RETURNED TO THE THOMPSON RIVER, AND HEARING THERE THAT     TH01700030
A YOUND MEDICINE-MAN POSSESSED A REMARKABLE FIGURED BLANKET WHICH     TH01700040
HIS FATHER, A VERY GREAT AND WISE SHAMAN, HAD MADE FOR HIM, HE        TH01700050
DETERMINED TO SECURE THIS TREASURE FOR HIMSELF.  ACCORDINGLY HE AND   TH01700060
ALL THE PEOPLE OF HIS VILLAGE STARTED OFF TO FIND THE YOUNG           TH01700070
SHAMAN'S DWELLING.  AFTER TRAVELLING A GREAT WAY THEY FINALLY         TH01700080
DISCOVERED HIS HOME, AND HAVING TOLD HIM THE OBJECT OF THEIR          TH01700090
JOURNEY WAS TO SEE HIS WONDERFUL BLANKET, BEGGED TO BE ALLOWED TO     TH01700100
LOOK AT IT.  BUT THIS THE YOUNG SHAMAN WAS UNWILLING TO DO, KNOWING   TH01700110
THEY WOULD TAKE IT FROM HIM IF THEY ONCE SAW IT.  DISAPPOINTED BY     TH01700120
HIS REFUSAL TO SHOW IT, SOME OF THEM DETERMINED TO KILL HIM, AND      TH01700130
AFTERWARDS STEAL AND MAKE OFF WITH THE BLANKET.  THEIR DESIGNS WERE   TH01700140
REVEALED TO HIM IN A DREAM BY HIS GUARDIAN SPIRIT, AND HE RESOLVED    TH01700150
TO OUTWIT AND PUNISH THEM FOR THEIR EVIL INTENTIONS.  LEAVING HIS     TH01700160
HOUSE HE WENT AND CAMPED ON THE EDGE OF A STEEP PRECIPICE, TAKING     TH01700170
WITH HIM THE BLADDERS OF SEVERAL ANIMALS HE HAD LATELY KILLED, AND    TH01700180
WHICH HE SEEMS TO HAVE KEPT FOR THE PURPOSE.  HE ALSO TOOK WITH HIM   TH01700190
HIS SNOW-SHOES.  HE WETTED THE BLADDERS AND BLEW THEM OUT AND         TH01700200
SECURED THEIR MOUTHS.  HE HAD NOT BEEN SETTLED LONG WHEN SEVERAL      TH01700210
OF THE MEN CAME OVER TO HIM WITH THE INTENTION OF MURDERING HIM AND   TH01700220
THEN SECURING HIS MAGIC BLANKET FOR THEMSELVES.  BUT HE, KNOWING      TH01700230
THEIR INTENTIONS, WAS PREPARED FOR THEM.  TAKING HIS SNOW-SHOES AND   TH01700240
THE BLADDERS OF WIND, HE PLACED THEM UNDER HIS BLANKET IN SUCH A      TH01700250
MANNER AS TO MAKE THEM APPEAR LIKE A DOG AT HIS SIDE.  HE SAT WITH    TH01700260
HIS FACE TOWARDS THE PRECIPICE, BETWEEN HIM AND WHICH THERE WAS BUT   TH01700270
A NARROW STRIP OF GROUND.  IN THE DUSK THE EDGE OF THE PRECIPICE      TH01700280
WAS NOT DISCERNIBLE.  AS THE MEN APPROACHED HE CRIED OUT TO THEM      TH01700290
NOT TO COME TOO CLOSE TO HIM, AS HIS DOG WAS VERY SAVAGE AND          TH01700300
FIERCE.  THEY THEREFORE WENT AND SAT DOWN SOME LITTLE WAY FROM HIM,   TH01700310
JUST ON THE EDGE OF THE PRECIPICE WITH THEIR BACKS TOWARDS IT, AND    TH01700320
THEIR FACES TOWARDS HIM.  AS THEY SEATED THEMSELVES THE YOUNG         TH01700330
SHAMAN SHIFTED HIS SEAT SO THAT HE SAT UPON ONE OF THE BLADDERS,      TH01700340
FROM WHICH HE NOW PERMITTED THE WIND TO ESCAPE IN SUDDEN JERKS AND    TH01700350
GUSTS, WHICH MADE A NOISE LIKE THE ANGRY GROWLINGS OF A FIERCE DOG.   TH01700360
THE MEN GREW ALARMED; THE MORE SO AS HE NOW PUSHED FORWARD THE TOES   TH01700370
OF HIS SNOW-SHOES, WHICH TO THEM SEEMED THE DOG'S FORE-PAWS.  AT      TH01700380
THE SAME TIME THE YOUTH CRIED OUT, 'TAKE CARE NOW, TAKE CARE]  YOU    TH01700390
HAVE MADE MY DOG ANGRY AND DANGEROUS,' AND AT THE SAME MOMENT HE      TH01700400
PUSHED THE SNOW-SHOES FARTHER TOWARDS THEM.  IN THEIR FEAR OF THE     TH01700410
DOG THEY MOVED BACK A LITTLE, AND THE YOUNG SHAMAN MOVED WITH THEM    TH01700420
AS IF HE WERE TRYING TO RESTRAIN THE DOG.  OPENING A SECOND           TH01700430
BLADDER, AND PUSHING THE SNOW-SHOES AGAIN TOWARDS THEM, THE TWO       TH01700440
THINGS TOGETHER CAUSED THEM TO RETREAT STILL FARTHER UNTIL, ALL       TH01700450
UNKNOWN TO THEMSELVES, THEY SAT UPON THE VERY BRINK OF THE            TH01700460
PRECIPICE.  HE NOW OPENED THE THIRD BLADDER, WHICH MADE A HORRIBLE    TH01700470
NOISE AS THE WIND ESCAPED, AND AT THE SAME TIME PUSHED FORWARD THE    TH01700480
SNOW-SHOES AGAIN.  THINKING TO AVOID THE SUPPOSED DOG THEY ALL        TH01700490
MOVED BACKWARD, AND BEFORE THEY HAD REALISED THEIR DANGER WERE OVER   TH01700500
THE BRINK AND FALLING HEADLONG DOWN THE PRECIPICE, AT THE BOTTOM OF   TH01700510
WHICH THEY WERE DASHED TO PIECES.  THUS DID THE YOUNG SHAMAN OUTWIT   TH01700520
HIS WOULD-BE MURDERERS AND ROBBERS.  HE NOW DETERMINED TO RUN AWAY    TH01700530
AND HIDE HIMSELF FROM THE ANNOYING CURIOSITY OF THE REST OF THE       TH01700540
TRIBE; BUT BEFORE HE HAD GONE FAR BEAVER FOUND HIS TRAIL, AND LED     TH01700550
THE PEOPLE AFTER HIM.  THEY OVERTOOK HIM AT NIGHTFALL, WHEREUPON HE   TH01700560
CLIMBED A HIGH TREE. 'WELL,' SAID BEAVER, 'HE CANNOT GET AWAY FROM    TH01700570
US NOW.  LET US CAMP ROUND THE TREE, THEN WHEN HE DESCENDS IN THE     TH01700580
MORNING WE WILL ASK HIM AGAIN TO SHOW US HIS WONDERFUL BLANKET.'      TH01700590
     THEY MADE THEIR CAMP AT THE FOOT OF THE TREE, AND FELT SURE HE   TH01700600
COULD NOT GET AWAY WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE.  BUT BEFORE THE NIGHT     TH01700610
WAS HALF OVER THE YOUNG SHAMAN CALLED HIS MAGIC POWERS INTO PLAY      TH01700620
AND CAUSED THEM ALL TO FALL INTO A DEEP SLEEP.  BEAVER, WHO WAS       TH01700630
WATCHING, FELT THE SLEEP STEALING UPON HIS SENSES, AND RESISTED THE   TH01700640
SPELL FOR A LONG TIME; BUT THE SHAMAN WAS TOO POWERFUL FOR HIM, AND   TH01700650
HE, LIKE THE REST, AT LENGTH FELL INTO A PROFOUND SLUMBER.  AS SOON   TH01700660
AS BEAVER AND HIS PARTY WERE ASLEEP, THE YOUNG SHAMAN DESCENDED       TH01700670
FROM THE TREE AND CONTINUED HIS FLIGHT.  IT WAS LATE THE NEXT DAY     TH01700680
BEFORE THEY ALL AWOKE FROM THEIR MAGIC SLEEP, AND THEY WERE           TH01700690
SCARCELY SURPRISED TO FIND THAT THE YOUNG MAN HAD GONE.  BUT BEAVER   TH01700700
HAD NO INTENTION OF BEING BEATEN IN THIS WAY, AND ENCOURAGED THEM     TH01700710
TO TAKE UP THE TRAIL AND FOLLOW HIM AGAIN.  THEY TRAVELLED FAST,      TH01700720
AND OVERTOOK HIM JUST ABOUT NIGHTFALL.  AGAIN HE HID HIMSELF IN A     TH01700730
HIGH TREE, AND AGAIN THEY ENCAMPED AT ITS FOOT, DETERMINED NOT TO     TH01700740
GIVE WAY TO SLEEP THIS TIME.  BUT ONE BY ONE THEY ALL DROPPED OFF     TH01700750
TO SLEEP, AGAIN BEING WHOLLY UNABLE TO RESIST THE SHAMAN'S POWER,     TH01700760
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BEAVER.  THIS TIME HE WAS PROOF AGAINST THE     TH01700770
SPELL OF THE SHAMAN, WHO PRESENTLY BEGAN TO DESCEND THE TREE.  AS     TH01700780
HE REACHED THE GROUND HE SAW THAT BEAVER WAS WIDE AWAKE AND           TH01700790
WATCHING HIM.  FROM THIS HE PERCEIVED THAT HE MUST GIVE WAY, AS THE   TH01700800
MEDICINE OF BEAVER WAS STRONGER THAN HIS OWN.  HE THEREFORE           TH01700810
PRESENTED BEAVER WITH THE WONDERFUL BLANKET, AND WENT HIS WAY.        TH01700820
BEAVER NOW CAREFULLY EXAMINED THE BLANKET, AND FOUND IT TO BE         TH01700830
COVERED WITH PICTURES OF ALL KINDS OF UTENSILS AND WEAPONS.  THESE    TH01700840
PICTURES REPRESENTED THE ORIGINALS OF ALL THE ARTICLES USED BY THE    TH01700850
INDIANS, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE FISH SPEARS WHICH HAD BEEN GIVEN   TH01700860
TO THE THOMPSON INDIANS BY THEIR CULTURE HERO, BENIGN FACE.           TH01700870
     BEAVER NOW CUT THE BLANKET UP INTO PIECES ACCORDING TO THE       TH01700880
PATTERNS OF THE PAINTINGS UPON IT, SO THAT EACH PIECE REPRESENTED     TH01700890
IN OUTLINE THE FORM OF SOME TOOL, OR UTENSIL, OR WEAPON.  FROM        TH01700900
THESE PATTERNS, UNDER THE INSTRUCTION OF BEAVER, THE PEOPLE ARE       TH01700910
SAID TO HAVE MADE EVERYTHING THEY HAD IN USE IN THE WAY OF WEAPONS    TH01700920
OR TOOLS WHEN THE WHITES FIRST CAME IN CONTACT WITH THEM.             TH01700930
THROUGHOUT THIS ADVENTURE BEAVER HAD WORN A HUMAN FORM, BUT AFTER     TH01700940
HE HAD TAUGHT THE INDIANS HOW TO MAKE USEFUL THINGS FOR THEMSELVES    TH01700950
FROM THE PATTERNS ON THE MAGIC BLANKET, THE YOUNG SHAMAN              TH01700960
TRANSFORMED HIM INTO AN ANIMAL, UNDER WHICH GUISE HE IS STILL         TH01700970
RECOGNIZED BY THE WISE INDIANS.  THUS DID THE SHAMAN REVENGE          TH01700980
HIMSELF UPON HIS ADVERSARY.  BUT THIS ACT DID NOT SATISFY HIM FOR     TH01700990
THE LOSS OF HIS BLANKET AND POWER; HE WOULD REVENGE HIMSELF ALSO      TH01701000
UPON THE PEOPLE FOR WHOSE SAKE BEAVER HAD WON THE BLANKET FROM HIM.   TH01701010
UP TO THIS TIME THEY HAD NOT RETURNED HOME, BUT WHEN BEAVER WAS       TH01701020
TRANSFORMED INTO AN ANIMAL THEY BEGAN TO THINK OF DOING SO.           TH01701030
***THO-074***
          TH018 KOAKOE'LA, OR HUSBAND ROOT MYTH.                      TH01800010
     THEY HAD, HOWEVER, NO SOONER STARTED THAN THE YOUNG SHAMAN       TH01800020
CAUSED THEM TO BECOME BEWILDERED AND LOOSE THEIR WAY AND EACH         TH01800030
OTHER.  THEY WANDERED ABOUT LOOKING FOR THE PATH AND EACH OTHER FOR   TH01800040
DAYS, AND THOUGH THEY ALL GOT BACK EVENTUALLY, WITH THE EXCEPTION     TH01800050
OF ONE WOMAN, THEY SUFFERED MANY HARDSHIPS BY THE WAY.  THIS ONE      TH01800060
WOMAN COULD NOT FIND HER WAY BACK, AND HAD TO BUILD A SHELTER IN      TH01800070
THE WOODS AND SUPPORT HERSELF UPON ROOTS AND BERRIES AS BEST SHE      TH01800080
MIGHT.  AFTER SHE HAD LIVED SOME WHILE IN THIS LONELY STATE, AS SHE   TH01800090
COULD NOT GET A MAN FOR A HUSBAND, SHE DETERMINED TO TAKE FOR         TH01800100
HUSBAND A CERTAIN KIND OF ROOT.  THIS ROOT NOW GOES BY THE NAME       TH01800110
KOAKOE'LA, OR "HUSBAND ROOT".  BY THIS ROOT-HUSBAND SHE BECAME THE    TH01800120
MOTHER OF A MALE CHILD.  WHEN THE CHILD HAD GROWN INTO A STRONG       TH01800130
YOUTH HE ONE DAY ASKED HIS MOTHER WHERE HIS FATHER WAS.  THE WOMAN    TH01800140
WAS ASHAMED TO TELL HIM WHAT KIND OF A FATHER HE HAD HAD; SHE         TH01800150
DISSEMBLED THEREFORE, AND TOLD HIM THAT HIS FATHER HAD BEEN           TH01800160
DROWNED.  ON HEARING THIS THE YOUTH WENT TO THE RIVER AND             TH01800170
REPROACHED IT FOR DROWNING HIS PARENT.  THE RIVER DENIED THE CHARGE   TH01800180
DECLARING THAT HIS FATHER HAD NOT BEEN DROWNED.  UPON HEARING THIS    TH01800190
HE RETURNED TO HIS MOTHER, AND SAID, "MOTHER, YOU HAVE DECEIVED ME;   TH01800200
MY FATHER WAS NOT DROWNED.  WHY DON'T YOU TELL ME TRULY WHERE MY      TH01800210
FATHER IS?"  THE MOTHER STILL PREVARICATED, AND SAID, "YOUR FATHER    TH01800220
IS DEAD, MY SON; IT IS TRUE HE WAS NOT DROWNED; HE FELL FROM A        TH01800230
LOFTY TREE AND WAS KILLED AS HE WAS TRYING TO TAKE A HAWK'S NEST."    TH01800240
THE BOY, TO                                                           TH01800241
WHOM THE LANGUAGE OF ALL NATURE WAS FAMILIAR, NOW REPROACHED THE      TH01800250
TREES FOR THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER; BUT THEY ONE AND ALL DENIED IT.    TH01800260
HE RETURNED AGAIN A SECOND TIME TO HIS MOTHER, AND ENTREATED HER TO   TH01800270
TELL HIM THE TRUTH CONCERNING HIS FATHER, AND WHERE HE WAS.  THE      TH01800280
REQUEST WAS TOO EMBARRASSING FOR HIS MOTHER TO COMPLY WITH, SO SHE    TH01800290
PUT HIM OFF AGAIN BY DECLARING THAT HIS FATHER HAD FALLEN OVER A      TH01800300
PRECIPICE AND BROKEN HIS NECK.  BUT WHEN THE YOUTH TAXED THE          TH01800310
PRECIPICE WITH THE DEED IT INDIGNANTLY DENIED THE CHARGE.  AS HE      TH01800320
WAS RETURNING HOME HE FOUND HIS FEET CATCHING IN A CERTAIN KIND OF    TH01800330
ROOT, WHICH CONSTANTLY TRIPPED HIM UP.  AS THIS HAD NEVER HAPPENED    TH01800340
TO HIM BEFORE HE WONDERED WHAT IT MEANT.  WHEN HE GOT HOME HE SAID    TH01800350
TO HIS MOTHER, "MOTHER, I SEE YOU DO NOT INTEND TO SATISFY MY         TH01800360
LONGING                                                               TH01800361
TO KNOW WHO AND WHERE MY FATHER IS; YOU HAVE DECEIVED ME THESE        TH01800370
THREE TIMES.  I SHALL NOT ASK YOU AGAIN; BUT TELL ME, WHY DOES THIS   TH01800380
ROOT TRIP ME UP ALL THE TIME TO-DAY WHEN I WALK IN THE WOODS?"  AND   TH01800390
HE HELD A ROOT IN HIS HAND SIMILAR TO THAT WHICH HIS MOTHER HAD       TH01800400
TAKEN FOR HUSBAND.  THE MOTHER TURNED AWAY AND WOULD NOT ANSWER       TH01800410
HIM, THOUGH SHE PERCEIVED THAT THE KNOWLEDGE HE SOUGHT WOULD SOON     TH01800420
BE MADE KNOWN TO HIM.  HE NOW DETERMINED TO PREPARE HIMSELF TO        TH01800430
BECOME A SHAMAN.  HE THEREFORE LEFT HIS MOTHER AND LIVED APART BY     TH01800440
HIMSELF, AND FASTED AND EXERCISED HIS BODY TILL A SHAMAN'S DREAM      TH01800450
CAME TO HIM, AND WITH IT GREAT SHAMANISTIC POWER.  IN HIS DREAM HE    TH01800460
LEARNT ALSO THAT HE WAS THE SON OF A ROOT.  THIS KNOWLEDGE MADE       TH01800470
CLEAR TO HIM AT ONCE WHY HIS MOTHER HAD SOUGHT TO DECEIVE HIM ABOUT   TH01800480
HIS FATHER.  HE NOW DETERMINED TO SEEK OUT THE TRIBE TO WHICH HIS     TH01800490
MOTHER BELONGED.  IN THE COURSE OF HIS JOURNEY HE CAME ONE DAY UPON   TH01800500
A GREAT CONCOURSE OF PEOPLE WATCHING A GAME OF BALL.  THEY ASKED NO   TH01800510
QUESTIONS OF HIM AS HE JOINED THE PLAYERS; BUT WHEN HE PRESENTLY      TH01800520
STRUCK ONE OF HIS OPPONENTS' LEGS THEY GOT ANGRY AND MOCKED HIM,      TH01800530
CALLING HIM THE "SON OF A ROOT", AND FROM THIS TIME FORWARD HE WAS    TH01800540
KNOWN BY THE NAME KOAKOE'LA.  HE WAS SO STRUCK WITH SHAME AT THIS     TH01800550
TAUNT THAT HE COVERED HIS FACE WITH HIS HANDS.  SOME OF THE PEOPLE    TH01800560
ARE SORRY FOR HIM, AND TRY TO CHEER HIM UP.  BUT HE CANNOT ENDURE     TH01800570
THE THOUGHT OF HAVING HIS BIRTH THROWN IN HIS TEETH EVERY TIME ANY    TH01800580
LITTLE DISAGREEMENT OCCURS; SO HE GOES AWAY BY HIMSELF AGAIN AND      TH01800590
UNDERGOES A LONGER FAST AND TRAINING THAN BEFORE.  IN COURSE OF       TH01800600
TIME HE BECOMES A VERY GREAT AND POWERFUL SHAMAN WHOM EVERYBODY       TH01800610
FEARS AND RESPECTS, AND NO ONE AGAIN VENTURES TO REMIND HIM OF HIS    TH01800620
"KOAKOE'LA" DESCENT.  SOME TIME AFTER THIS HE MEETS THE HERO          TH01800630
SQOE'QTKOATLT AND HIS TWO BROTHERS.  EACH ENDEAVOURS TO TEST THE      TH01800640
OTHER'S POWERS; BUT FINDING THEY ARE EQUALLY STRONG AND INVINCIBLE,   TH01800650
THEY DESIST FROM THEIR EFFORTS AND BECOME GREAT FRIENDS.  THE         TH01800660
SHAMAN YOUTH, TO SHOW HIS POWERS, MADE WITH HIS FINGER THREE SMALL    TH01800670
HOLES IN THE ROCK, AND CAUSED THEM TO BECOME INSTANTLY FILLED WITH    TH01800680
A SAVOURY SOUP.  HE THEN GAVE SQOE'QTKOATLT'S TWO BROTHERS A SPOON    TH01800690
EACH, AND TOLD THEM TO EAT THE SOUP.  "THAT IS SOON DONE," SAID ONE   TH01800700
OF THEM; "IT IS BUT A SPOONFUL."  "WELL, TRY NOW," SAID KOAKOE'LA,    TH01800710
"AND SEE IF YOU CAN EAT IT IN A SPOONFUL."  LAUGHING, THEY BOTH       TH01800720
DIPPED THEIR SPOONS IN AND EMPTIED THE HOLES AT ONCE, BUT BEFORE      TH01800730
THEY HAD SWALLOWED THE SOUP THE HOLES WERE FULL AGAIN.  AND THIS      TH01800740
CONTINUED TILL EACH HAD TAKEN AS MUCH AS HE COULD EAT, YET THE        TH01800750
HOLES REMAINED FULL.  SQOE'QTKOATLT, WHO UNDERSTOOD THE TRICK,        TH01800760
LOOKED ON AND SMILED.  WHEN THEY COULD EAT NO MORE THE SHAMAN         TH01800770
LAUGHED AT THEM, AND BADE THEM CONTINUE AND PERSEVERE, AND PERHAPS    TH01800780
THEY WOULD EXHAUST HIS SUPPLY.  THEY SAID THEY COULD EAT NO MORE.     TH01800790
"OH YES YOU CAN," SAID THE SHAMAN; AND TAKING THEM IN HIS ARMS, HE    TH01800800
SHOOK THEM SO WELL THAT ON BEING PLACED ON THEIR FEET AGAIN THEY      TH01800810
FOUND THEY COULD EAT SOME MORE.  SO THEY ATTACKED THE HOLES OF SOUP   TH01800820
AGAIN; BUT EAT AS MUCH OR AS FAST AS THEY WOULD THE HOLES ALWAYS      TH01800830
REMAINED FULL.  THEY PRESENTLY CONFESSED THEMSELVES BEATEN, AND       TH01800840
GAVE UP THE CONTEST.  "AH," SAID THE SHAMAN, "YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO   TH01800850
DO IT.  IT IS QUITE SIMPLE.  WATCH ME."  AND DIPPING THE SPOON IN     TH01800860
EACH HOLE, HE EMPTIED THEM IN A MOMENT.                               TH01800870
***THO-075***
          TH019 OI'TCUT STORY.  (SHE BURNS HERSELF.)                  TH01900010
     ONCE UPON A TIME THE LOON WAS A VERY GREAT MAN IN HIS VILLAGE.   TH01900020
HE HAD A VERY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER WHOM HE KEPT SECLUDED IN THE         TH01900030
PRIVACY OF HIS KEEKWILEE-HOUSE.  SHE WAS PERMITTED TO LEAVE THE       TH01900040
HOUSE ONLY AT NIGHT OR VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING.  BESIDES THIS       TH01900050
BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER HE HAD A SON INTO WHOSE HEART CAME ONE DAY EVIL    TH01900060
THOUGHTS TOWARDS HIS SISTER.  ONE NIGHT WHEN ALL WERE ASLEEP, HE      TH01900070
CREPT TO HER BED AND LAY WITH HER IN HER SLEEP.  AS HE WAS ABOUT TO   TH01900080
LEAVE HER SHE AWOKE AND FOUND HIM AT HER SIDE.  AS THE HOUSE WAS IN   TH01900090
DARKNESS SHE COULD NOT TELL WHO HE WAS, AND PRESENTLY HE STOLE AWAY   TH01900100
ON HER SCOLDING HIM FOR HIS INTRUSION.  WHEN HE LEFT HER SIDE SHE     TH01900110
WATCHED THE SMOKE-HOLE TO SEE IF HE LEFT THE HOUSE, BUT SEEING NO     TH01900120
SHADOW AGAINST THE SKY SHE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HE WAS AN      TH01900130
INMATE OF THE HOUSE.  AS THERE WERE SEVERAL FAMILIES IN THE SAME      TH01900140
KEEKWILEE-HOUSE IT NEVER ENTERED HER MIND TO SUSPECT THAT THE         TH01900150
INTRUDER WAS HER OWN BROTHER.  AFTER A FEW WEEKS HAD ELAPSED THE      TH01900160
MAIDEN FOUND HERSELF WITH CHILD.  SHE WAS GREATLY DISTRESSED WHEN     TH01900170
SHE DISCOVERED HER CONDITION, THE MORE SO AS SHE KNEW NOT THE MAN     TH01900180
WHO HAD BROUGHT THIS TROUBLE AND DISGRACE UPON HER.  THE LEAST SHE    TH01900190
COULD DO BEFORE SHE TOLD HER PARENTS OF HER CONDITION WAS TO          TH01900200
DISCOVER HIS NAME.  SUSPECTING THAT HE WOULD SOONER OR LATER PAY      TH01900210
HER A SECOND VISIT SHE RESOLVED TO LAY A TRAP TO DISCOVER HIS         TH01900220
IDENTITY.  SHE THEREUPON BEGGED FROM HER MOTHER SOME PAINT OF TWO     TH01900230
COLOURS, BLACK AND RED.  "WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH PAINT?" SAID THE      TH01900240
MOTHER; "YOU CANNOT PAINT YOURSELF."  "I DON'T WISH TO PAINT          TH01900250
MYSELF," REPLIED THE GIRL.  "I NEED IT FOR SOME OTHER PURPOSE," AND   TH01900260
SHE TEASED AND WORRIED HER MOTHER TILL SHE GAVE HER WHAT SHE          TH01900270
WANTED.  BEFORE RETIRING THAT NIGHT SHE TOOK SOME GREASE AND MIXED    TH01900280
IT WITH THE PAINT, AFTER WHICH SHE COVERED THE INSIDES OF BOTH OF     TH01900290
HER HANDS WITH THE MIXTURE, RED ON ONE AND BLACK ON THE OTHER.        TH01900300
THUS SHE AWAITED THE NEXT VISIT OF HER BETRAYER.  ONE NIGHT HE        TH01900310
STOLE AGAIN TO HER COUCH AND LAY WITH HER AGAIN AS SHE SLEPT.  SHE    TH01900320
AWOKE EARLIER THIS TIME, AND BEFORE HE LEFT HER SHE ENDEAVOURED TO    TH01900330
MAKE HIM SPEAK TO HER, SO THAT SHE MIGHT DISCOVER HIS IDENTITY BY     TH01900340
THE SOUND OF HIS VOICE; BUT THIS HE WOULD NOT DO.  FINDING HE WOULD   TH01900350
NOT THUS BETRAY HIMSELF, AS HE SOUGHT TO LEAVE HER SHE MADE           TH01900360
PRETENCE TO DETAIN HIM BY PUTTING HER ARMS ABOUT HIM.  WHILE SHE      TH01900370
HELD HIM THUS FOR A MOMENT SHE IMPRESSED THE PALMS OF HER PAINT-      TH01900380
SMEARED HANDS FIRMLY UPON HIS SHOULDERS AND LEFT A CLEAR IMPRINT OF   TH01900390
THEM THERE IN RED AND BLACK.  HE NOW LEFT HER, ALL UNCONSCIOUS OF     TH01900400
THE TELL-TALE MARKS SHE HAD PLACED UPON HIM.  "IN THE MORNING,"       TH01900410
SAID SHE TO HERSELF, "I SHALL KNOW HIM BY THE PATTERN ON HIS          TH01900420
SHOULDERS."                                                           TH01900430
     NOW IT WAS CUSTOMARY FOR LOON TO CALL ALL THE YOUNG MEN OF HIS   TH01900440
HOUSEHOLD EARLY IN THE MORNING TO GO OUT TO SWIM, AND EXERCISE        TH01900450
THEMSELVES IN VARIOUS KINDS OF SPORTS.  AFTER THE YOUTHS HAD TAKEN    TH01900460
THEIR SWIM IN THE RIVER THEY WOULD PAINT THEMSELVES IN FANCIFUL       TH01900470
DESIGNS, AND THEN CONTEND TOGETHER IN RACING AND OTHER EXERCISES.     TH01900480
ON THIS PARTICULAR MORNING THE GIRL BEGGED SO HARD TO BE ALLOWED TO   TH01900490
GO OUT FOR ONCE AND SEE THE GAMES THAT AT LAST HER MOTHER             TH01900500
CONSENTED.  SHE BADE HER DAUGHTER PUT ON HER BEST ROBES.  THIS THE    TH01900510
GIRL DID, AND CLOTHED HERSELF IN A BEAUTIFUL SOFT ELK-HIDE DRESS,     TH01900520
WHICH WAS COVERED THROUGHOUT WITH HANDSOME BEADWORK.  ON PRESENTING   TH01900530
HERSELF TO THE NEIGHBOURS SHE WAS REGARDED WITH MUCH ASTONISHMENT     TH01900540
BY ALL, BUT SHE TOOK NO NOTICE OF ANY OF THEM, HER WHOLE ATTENTION    TH01900550
BEING GIVEN TO SCANNING THE BACKS OF THE YOUNG MEN BEFORE HER.  SHE   TH01900560
PASSED THEM ONE BY ONE IN SILENT REVIEW BEFORE HER, BUT COULD         TH01900570
DISCOVER ON THE SHOULDERS OF NONE OF THEM THE IMPRINT OF A PAIR OF    TH01900580
HUMAN HANDS IN RED AND BLACK.  SHE WAS PUZZLED, AS SHE KNEW VERY      TH01900590
WELL THAT THE PAINT COULD NOT BE WASHED OFF IN THE WATER.  SHE        TH01900600
NEVER THOUGHT TO LOOK AT HER BROTHER UNTIL PRESENTLY HE RAN CLOSE     TH01900610
BY HER AND EXPOSED HIS SHOULDERS TO HER GAZE.  IN A MOMENT HER EYE    TH01900620
CAUGHT THE IMPRESSION OF HER HANDS IN RED AND BLACK PAINT UPON HIS    TH01900630
BACK.                                                                 TH01900640
     AT FIRST SHE WOULD NOT BELIEVE HER SIGHT, BUT WHEN SHE COULD     TH01900650
DOUBT NO LONGER SHE GAVE A SHRIEK OF PAIN, AND PUTTING HER HANDS TO   TH01900660
HER FACE CRIED  ALOUD AND ROCKED HERSELF IN HER DISTRESS AND GRIEF.   TH01900670
THE BYSTANDERS THOUGHT THE BROTHER HAD ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK HER IN     TH01900680
THE FACE AS HE WAS PASSING, AND CHIDED HIM FOR HIS CARELESSNESS;      TH01900690
BUT SHE SAID NOTHING, ONLY SAT ROCKING HERSELF AND SOBBING.           TH01900700
PRESENTLY SHE GOT UP AND RETURNED TO THE HOUSE. ALL THAT DAY SHE      TH01900710
CRIED                                                                 TH01900711
AND WEPT FOR THE SHAME HER BROTHER HAD BROUGHT UPON HER AND HER       TH01900720
PARENTS.                                                              TH01900721
THAT SAME NIGHT HER BROTHER  STOLE AGAIN TO HER COUCH.  SHE WAS       TH01900730
AWAKE ON THIS OCCASION, AND REPULSED HIM, TELLING HIM SHE KNEW WHO    TH01900740
HE WAS, AND UPBRAIDED HIM FOR HIS SELFISHNESS AND THE WRONG HE HAD    TH01900750
DONE HER.  "HOW DO YOU KNOW I AM YOUR BROTHER?" SAID HE.  "YOUR       TH01900760
VOICE WOULD TELL ME NOW IF I DID NOT KNOW BEFORE," REPLIED SHE;       TH01900770
"BUT I DISCOVERED WHO YOU WERE THIS MORNING."  SHE THEN TOLD HIM      TH01900780
WHAT SHE HAD DONE ON HIS LAST VISIT TO HER, AND HOW SHE DISCOVERED    TH01900790
HIM THAT MORNING, AND ALSO THE CONDITION SHE WAS IN.  "HOW COULD      TH01900800
YOU BRING THIS SHAME UPON OUR FATHER?"  SHE CONTINUED.  "WHEN THE     TH01900810
PEOPLE KNOW THEY WILL POINT THE FINGER OF SCORN AT HIM,  AND HE       TH01900820
WILL BE DISHONOURED AMONG THEM; IT WILL KILL HIM WITH SHAME.  THERE   TH01900830
IS BUT ONE THING FOR US NOW TO DO.  WE MUST GO AWAY SOMEWHERE BY      TH01900840
OURSELVES AND NEVER COME BACK AGAIN, SO THAT NONE MAY KNOW THE        TH01900850
DISGRACE YOU HAVE BROUGHT UPON US.  LET US GO AWAY NOW AT ONCE        TH01900860
BEFORE IT IS                                                          TH01900861
LIGHT AND THE PEOPLE ARE STIRRING."  TO THIS THE BROTHER PRESENTLY    TH01900870
ASSENTED, AND THEY STOLE AWAY IN THE DARK TOGETHER.                   TH01900880
     AS THE GIRL LEFT HER FATHER'S KEEKWILEE-HOUSE SHE PULLED OFF     TH01900890
STRIPS OF THE BEADWORK OF HER DRESS, AND AS SHE WENT SHE HUNG BITS    TH01900900
OF IT ON THE BRANCHES OF THE TREES OR ON PROJECTING POINTS OF ROCK    TH01900910
EVERY TEN STEPS SHE TOOK.  THIS SHE CONTINUED TO DO UNTIL SHE HAD     TH01900920
STRIPPED AND HUNG UP ALL THE BEAD-WORK OF HER ROBE.  THEY HAD BEEN    TH01900930
JOURNEYING TEN DAYS BEFORE THIS HAPPENED THROUGH THE PATHLESS         TH01900940
FOREST.  WHEN SHE HAD HUNG THE LAST BIT SHE STOPPED AND SAID TO HER   TH01900950
BROTHER:  "WE WILL STAY HERE, WE HAVE GONE FAR ENOUGH NOW."  SO       TH01900960
THEY STOPPED THERE, AND HE BUILT A HOUSE FOR THEM.  AFTER A FEW       TH01900970
MONTHS HAD PASSED THE GIRL GAVE BIRTH TO A CHILD, A FINE, HEALTHY     TH01900980
BOY, WHO SPEEDILY GREW UP TO BE A STRONG YOUTH.  ONE DAY HE RAN       TH01900990
CRYING TO HIS MOTHER, ASKING HER WHY HE HAD NO GRANDMOTHER OR         TH01901000
GRANDFATHER.  THE POOR MOTHER'S HEART BLED AT THE CHILD'S QUESTION,   TH01901010
AS SHE TOLD HIM ALL HIS RELATIVES, SAVE HIS FATHER AND HERSELF,       TH01901020
WERE DEAD.  WHEN THE LAD HAD GROWN TO BE A STURDY YOUTH THE MOTHER    TH01901030
TOLD THE BROTHER IT WAS TIME FOR THEM TO MAKE THE FINAL               TH01901040
PREPARATIONS.  THEY HAD OFTEN TALKED TOGETHER IN THEIR LONLINESS,     TH01901050
AS THE CHILD WAS GROWING UP,  AS TO THE COURSE THEY WOULD PURSUE      TH01901060
WHEN HE HAD GROWN TO BE A BIG BOY, AND HE NOW TOOK HIS WEAPONS AND    TH01901070
WENT OUT TO HUNT.  THIS HE CONTINUED TO DO DAY AFTER DAY UNTIL HE     TH01901080
HAD BROUGHT HOME ENOUGH SKINS OF THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP AND GOAT FOR      TH01901090
HER TO WEAVE TWELVE LARGE BLANKETS FROM THEIR WOOL,  AND ALSO LAY     TH01901100
BY A NICE STORE OF DRIED MEAT AND KIDNEY-FAT. WHEN THEIR TASKS WERE   TH01901110
COMPLETED THE MOTHER CALLED THE LAD TO HER AND TOLD HIM THAT  SHE     TH01901120
HAD DECEIVED HIM WHEN SHE HAD SAID HE HAD NO OTHER RELATIVES BUT      TH01901130
HERSELF AND HIS FATHER.  "TEN DAYS' JOURNEY FROM HERE," SAID SHE,     TH01901140
"LIES THE  VILLAGE OF MY FATHER AND HIS TRIBE.  YOU ARE NOW BIG       TH01901150
ENOUGH TO MAKE THE JOURNEY THITHER ALONE, AND WE PROPOSE TO SEND      TH01901160
YOU TO SEE YOUR GRANDPARENTS."  "BUT WHY DON'T YOU COME TOO?"         TH01901170
QUESTIONED THE BOY.  THE  MOTHER FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO SATISFY HIM    TH01901180
ON THIS POINT, BUT HE PRESENTLY CONSENTED TO MAKE THE JOURNEY ALONE   TH01901190
AND COME BACK AND BRING THEM LATER.  "BUT HOW SHALL I FIND THE        TH01901200
WAY?"  SAID HE.  "THAT WILL NOT BE DIFFICULT," REPLIED THE MOTHER;    TH01901210
AND TAKING HIM TO THE EDGE OF THE FOREST SHE SHOWED HIM A BIT OF      TH01901220
BEAD-WORK HANGING FROM THE LOWER BRANCH OF A TREE.  "YOU SEE THIS     TH01901230
BEAD-WORK?" SAID SHE.  "WELL,EVERY TEN PACES ON YOUR WAY YOU WILL     TH01901240
FIND ANOTHER PIECE.  IF YOU LOOK OUT FOR THESE AND FOLLOW THE         TH01901250
COURSE THEY MARK, IN TEN DAYS YOU WILL COME TO YOUR GRANDFATHER'S     TH01901260
VILLAGE."  "BUT HOW SHALL I KNOW MY GRANDPARENTS WHEN I GET THERE?"   TH01901270
QUERIED THE YOUTH.  THE MOTHER ANSWERED:  "YOU HAVE AN UNCLE WHO      TH01901280
HAS BUT ONE EYE; WHEN YOU FIND HIM ALL WILL BE WELL."  SHE THEN       TH01901290
INSTRUCTED HIM IN MANY THINGS WHICH ONLY MEDICINE-MEN KNOW - HOW TO   TH01901300
MAKE HIMSELF INVISIBLE, AND MANY OTHER THINGS.  IN THE MEANTIME HIS   TH01901310
FATHER HAD BEEN BUSY STACKING A HUGE PILE OF PINE-LOGS IN THE         TH01901320
KEEKWILEE-HOUSE.  "WHY IS FATHER STACKING SO MUCH WOOD IN THE         TH01901330
HOUSE?"  ASKED THE BOY.  "WINTER IS NOT COMING ON.  WHY DO YOU WANT   TH01901340
SO MUCH WOOD NOW?"  THE MOTHER ANSWERED, "YOUR FATHER AND I HAVE A    TH01901350
USE FOR IT, MY SON; WE HAVE A GREAT TASK TO PERFORM WHEN YOU HAVE     TH01901360
GONE."  THE BOY WAS CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT THIS WAS, BUT HIS MOTHER     TH01901370
WOULD SAY NO MORE.  EVERYTHING BEING READY THE TIME NOW CAME FOR      TH01901380
THE BOY TO START.  HIS MOTHER MADE A PILE OF THE BLANKETS SHE HAD     TH01901390
WOVEN, IN WHICH SHE WRAPPED A LARGE SUPPLY OF THEIR DRIED MEAT AND    TH01901400
FAT, AND TOLD HER SON HE WAS TO TAKE THE BLANKETS AND MEAT TO HIS     TH01901410
GRANDPARENTS AS A PRESENT.  THE YOUTH PUT THE BUNDLE ON HIS           TH01901420
SHOULDERS, AND THOUGH IT WAS BULKY AND HEAVY HE FOUND NO              TH01901430
INCONVENIENCE FROM IT, AS HIS MOTHER HAD UTTERED "MEDICINE" WORDS     TH01901440
OVER IT, WHICH MADE IT LIGHT AND EASY TO CARRY.  HE NOW BADE THEM     TH01901450
GOOD-BYE AND SET OUT ON HIS LONG JOURNEY.  HIS PARENTS WATCHED HIM    TH01901460
GO, AND SHED MANY TEARS AS HE PASSED INTO THE FOREST OUT OF THEIR     TH01901470
SIGHT.  THEN TAKING EACH OTHER BY THE HAND THEY WENT BACK TOWARDS     TH01901480
THE HOUSE.  "COME BROTHER, OUR WORK IS NEARLY FINISHED; LET US        TH01901490
COMPLETE IT," SAID THE WOMAN.  WHEN THEY ENTERED THE HOUSE THEY LIT   TH01901500
A FIRE AT THE BASE OF THE PILE OF PINE-LOGS, AND, CLIMBING UPON THE   TH01901510
TOP TOGETHER, THEY LAY DOWN SIDE BY SIDE, HAND IN HAND.  IN A FEW     TH01901520
MOMENTS THE FLAMES FROM THE PITCH ENVELOPED THEM, AND IN A SHORT      TH01901530
WHILE THE PILE WAS CONSUMED, AND THEY WITH IT.                        TH01901540
     THUS HAD THEY PLANNED TO WIPE OUT THE DISGRACE WHICH HAD         TH01901550
DARKENED THEIR LIVES.                                                 TH01901560
     IN THE MEANTIME THE SON OF THE UNHAPPY PAIR HAD BEEN MAKING      TH01901570
HIS WAY THROUGH THE FOREST AS HIS MOTHER HAD DIRECTED HIM; WHEN,      TH01901580
COMING TO AN EMINENCE AND DISREGARDING HIS MOTHER'S INJUNCTIONS NOT   TH01901581
TO LOOK BACK AFTER HE HAD ONCE STARTED, HE CAST HIS EYES IN THE       TH01901590
DIRECTION OF HIS HOME, AND WAS STARTLED AND SHOCKED TO SEE FLAMES     TH01901600
AND SMOKE COMING FROM THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE.  CASTING DOWN HIS        TH01901610
BUNDLE WITHOUT A MOMENT'S CONSIDERATION, HE RAN BACK UPON HIS TRAIL   TH01901620
AS FAST AS HIS LEGS COULD CARRY HIM BUT HE ONLY ARRIVED IN TIME TO    TH01901630
SEE THE ROOF FALL IN.  THE HEAT WAS TOO GREAT FOR HIM TO GO NEAR      TH01901640
THE RUINS; HE COULD ONLY WATCH THE FLAMES CONSUME THE LAST TIMBERS    TH01901650
OF HIS HOME.  HE WONDERED WHAT HAD BECOME OF HIS PARENTS, AND         TH01901660
FEARED THEY HAD BEEN DESTROYED IN THE FIRE.  PRESENTLY HE GROPED      TH01901670
HIS WAY AMONG THE CHARRED REMAINS, AND SAW ENOUGH TO CONVINCE HIM     TH01901680
THAT HIS PARENTS HAD PERISHED.  HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND IT ALL, AND   TH01901690
SAT CRYING ALL THAT DAY AND THE FOLLOWING NIGHT.  DURING THE NIGHT    TH01901700
HE HAD A DREAM WHICH REVEALED TO HIM MANY THINGS.  HE LEARNT WHY      TH01901710
HIS PARENTS HAD LEFT THEIR HOME, AND THE PUNISHMENT THEY HAD          TH01901720
PLANNED FOR THEMSELVES, AND THAT THEY HAD DELIBERATELY BURNT          TH01901730
THEMSELVES TO DEATH IN EXPIATION OF HIS FATHER'S OFFENCE.  VERY SAD   TH01901740
AT HEART HE TURNED HIS BACK NEXT MORNING UPON THE ASHES OF HIS        TH01901750
PARENTS AND OLD HOME, AND ONCE MORE SET OUT ON HIS JOURNEY.           TH01901760
FINDING HIS PACK, HE CONTINUED HIS WAY THROUGH THE FOREST,            TH01901770
FOLLOWING THE GUIDING STRIPS OF BEAD-WORK, UNTIL AT LAST HE ARRIVED   TH01901780
AT THE VILLAGE OF HIS GRANDFATHER.  HE NOW RECALLED WHAT HIS MOTHER   TH01901790
HAD TOLD HIM ABOUT HIS ONE-EYED UNCLE, AND LOOKED ABOUT FOR SUCH A    TH01901800
PERSON.  HE SAW PRESENTLY A LITTLE OLD MAN BEFORE HIM, AND AS HE      TH01901810
APPROACHED HIM HE DEEMED IT WISE TO MAKE HIMSELF INVISIBLE FOR THE    TH01901820
TIME.  HE NOW SAW THAT THE LITTLE OLD FELLOW WAS SHOOTING ON THE      TH01901830
GROUND WITH HIS ARROWS.  HE SAW TOO THAT HE HAD BUT ONE EYE, AND      TH01901840
WISHING TO TEST WHETHER HE WAS HIS UNCLE OR NOT HE PLACED HIS FOOT    TH01901850
ON THE SPOT AT WHICH THE LITTLE OLD MAN WAS SHOOTING, AND CAUGHT      TH01901860
ONE OF HIS ARROWS BETWEEN HIS FIRST AND SECOND TOES.  WHEN THE        TH01901870
LITTLE FELLOW WENT TO GET HIS ARROWS HE COULD NOT DRAW THIS ONE       TH01901880
AWAY, AS THE YOUTH HELD IT TIGHT BETWEEN HIS TOES.  HE NOW SPOKE TO   TH01901890
THE LITTLE MAN, WHO WAS MUCH FRIGHTENED AT THE SOUND OF A VOICE SO    TH01901900
NEAR HIM WHEN HE COULD SEE NO ONE.  THE YOUTH TOLD HIM NOT TO FEAR;   TH01901910
THAT IT WAS HIS "MEDICINE" THAT PREVENTED HIM FROM SEEING WHO HE      TH01901920
WAS.  MAKING INQUIRIES HE SOON DISCOVERED THAT HIS GRANDPARENTS       TH01901930
WERE STILL ALIVE, AND THAT THE LITTLE MAN BEFORE HIM WAS HIS UNCLE.   TH01901940
WHEN HE TOLD HIM THAT HE WAS HIS NEPHEW HE WOULD NOT BELIEVE IT.      TH01901950
TO PROVE TO THE UNCLE THAT WHAT HE SAID WAS TRUE, HE ASKED HIM IF     TH01901960
HE COULD REMEMBER HOW HIS LOST SISTER USED TO SPEAK.  "OH YES,"       TH01901970
SAID HE; "I CAN REMEMBER QUITE WELL."  "WAS IT LIKE THIS?" SAID THE   TH01901980
YOUTH, AND HE IMITATED HIS MOTHER'S VOICE.  "YES, YES]"  SAID THE     TH01901990
UNCLE, "THAT IS HER VOICE."  "NOW LOOK AT ME," SAID THE NEPHEW,       TH01902000
"AND TELL ME IF I AM LIKE YOUR SISTER OR BROTHER."  AND AS HE SPOKE   TH01902010
HE MADE PASSES IN THE AIR WITH HIS LEFT HAND, AND BECAME              TH01902020
IMMEDIATELY VISIBLE TO HIS UNCLE, WHO KNEW HIM AT ONCE TO BE REALLY   TH01902030
HIS NEPHEW FROM HIS LIKENESS TO HIS LOST BROTHER AND SISTER.  THE     TH01902040
LAD THEN TOLD THE STORY OF HIS MOTHER'S AND FATHER'S LIFE, AND THE    TH01902050
REASON OF THEIR MYSTERIOUS DEPARTURE FROM THE VILLAGE, AND BADE HIM   TH01902060
GO TO TELL HIS GRANDMOTHER PRIVATELY THAT HE HAD COME.  "BUT SHE      TH01902070
WILL NOT BELIEVE ME," SAID THE UNCLE, "AND WILL BE ANGRY WITH ME      TH01902080
FOR TRYING TO FOOL HER."  "STAY THEN," SAID THE YOUTH; "I WILL GIVE   TH01902090
YOU SOME PROOFS OF MY PRESENCE TO SHOW HER, AND THEN SHE WILL NOT     TH01902100
DOUBT YOU.  TELL ME, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOUR EYE?"  "I AM        TH01902110
BLIND IN IT; I WAS BORN SO," REPLIED THE LITTLE UNCLE.  "WELL,"       TH01902120
ANSWERED THE YOUTH, "I WILL GIVE YOU SIGHT IN IT WITH MY "POWER",     TH01902130
AND YOU CAN THEN SHOW IT TO MY GRANDMOTHER IF SHE DOUBTS YOUR         TH01902140
WORD."  WITH THAT THE NEPHEW PASSED HIS HAND OVER HIS UNCLE'S EYE     TH01902150
FOUR TIMES, AND THE LATTER'S BLIND EYE WAS MADE WHOLE, AND HE SAW     TH01902160
WITH IT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE.  FULL OF WONDER AND           TH01902170
ADMIRATION FOR HIS NEPHEW'S POWER, HE RAN OFF TO TELL HIS MOTHER.     TH01902180
WHEN HE FIRST WHISPERED THE TIDINGS IN HER EAR SHE WAS ANGRY WITH     TH01902190
HIM FOR ATTEMPTING TO FOOL HER, AS SHE THOUGHT, BUT WHEN HE SHOWED    TH01902200
HER HIS BLIND EYE RESTORED SHE COULD NO LONGER DISBELIEVE HIM.        TH01902210
IMMEDIATELY SHE RAN OUT TO FIND HER DAUGHTER'S SON, AND WAS MUCH      TH01902220
DELIGHTED TO FIND SO COMELY A YOUTH CLAIMING HER AS HIS               TH01902230
GRANDMOTHER.  WHEN SHE QUESTIONED HIM CONCERNING HIS PARENTS HE       TH01902240
REPEATED THE STORY OF THEIR LIVES AS HE HAD TOLD HIS UNCLE, AND AS    TH01902250
IT HAD BEEN REVEALED TO HIM AFTER THEIR DEATH.  THE OLD WOMAN WEPT    TH01902260
AS SHE LISTENED TO THE TRAGIC END OF HER CHILDREN.  WHEN THE          TH01902270
GRANDFATHER WAS MADE AWARE OF HIS GRANDSON'S ARRIVAL, AND HAD ALSO    TH01902280
HEARD THE ACCOUNT OF HIS LOST CHILDREN'S DEATH, HE CALLED ALL THE     TH01902290
VILLAGE TOGETHER AND INFORMED THEM OF THE YOUTH'S ARRIVAL AND THE     TH01902300
EVENTS WHICH LED TO HIS PARENTS' VOLUNTARY DEATH.  MEANTIME THE OLD   TH01902310
LADY BADE THE GIRLS CLEAN UP THE HOUSE AND STREW CLEAN FIR BRANCHES   TH01902320
ON THE FLOOR IN HONOUR OF HER GRANDSON'S COMING.  WHEN HE ENTERED     TH01902321
THE HOUSE HE UNDID HIS PACK AND PRESENTED HIS GRANDMOTHER WITH HIS    TH01902330
PARENTS' PRESENTS.  THE OLD WOMAN SPREAD OUT THE TWELVE BEAUTIFUL     TH01902340
BLANKETS, AND SET THE MEAT AND FAT READY AT HAND FOR THE FEAST        TH01902350
WHICH THE CHIEF NOW PROCLAIMED.  THE WHOLE VILLAGE NOW CAME           TH01902360
TOGETHER TO SEE THE YOUTH AND THE PRESENTS HE HAD BROUGHT HIS         TH01902370
GRANDPARENTS.  DURING THE FEAST THE STORY OF HIS MOTHER'S AND         TH01902380
FATHER'S LIFE WAS RETOLD AGAIN, AND THEIR SAD END DREW TEARS FROM     TH01902390
ALL THE WOMEN PRESENT.  AT THE CLOSE OF THE FEAST THE GRANDMOTHER     TH01902400
TOLD HER NEIGHBOURS THAT THEY WOULD SEE HER GRANDSON NO MORE, AS      TH01902410
SHE INTENDED TO KEEP HIM SECLUDED AS SHE HAD  HIS MOTHER; WHICH       TH01902420
THING SHE DID, AND THE LAD NEVER LEFT THE KEEKWILEE-HOUSE EXCEPT AT   TH01902430
NIGHT WHEN ALL THE VILLAGE WAS ASLEEP, OR EARLY IN THE MORNING        TH01902440
BEFORE THEY HAD ARISEN.                                               TH01902450
     NOW IT HAPPENED THAT WHEN THE PEOPLE HAD BEEN INVITED TO THE     TH01902460
FEAST TWO OLD WITCH-WOMEN HAD BEEN OVERLOOKED, AS THEIR DWELLING      TH01902470
WAS SOMEWHAT APART FROM THE OTHERS; AND WHEN THEY HEARD LATER OF      TH01902480
THE OCCURENCE THEY WERE ANGRY, THE MORE PARTICULARLY AS THEY WERE     TH01902490
VERY CURIOUS TO SEE THE BOY.  THEY DETERMINED TO BE REVENGED FOR      TH01902500
THE SLIGHT, AND TO SEE THE YOUTH AT THE SAME TIME WHOSE ADVENT HAD    TH01902510
BEEN A NINE DAYS' WONDER IN THE VILLAGE.  SO ONE DAY THEY TOOK SOME   TH01902520
HUMAN ORDURE, AND MIXING IT WITH EARTH FASHIONED IT IN THE FORM OF    TH01902530
BIRDS.  BY THEIR WITCH-POWER THEY THEN TRANSFORMED THESE CLAY         TH01902540
EFFIGIES INTO REAL LIVE BIRDS OF BEAUTIFUL AND ATTRACTIVE PLUMAGE.    TH01902550
THEY HAD NOT LONG COMPLETED THEIR TASK WHEN THE LITTLE UNCLE          TH01902560
CHANCED TO COME THAT WAY, AND SEEING THE PRETTY STRANGE BIRDS HE      TH01902570
MUCH DESIRED TO SECURE THEM FOR HIMSELF.  HAVING HIS BOW AND ARROWS   TH01902580
WITH HIM HE TRIED TO SHOOT THEM.  HE STRUCK THEM AGAIN AND AGAIN,     TH01902590
BUT COULD NOT KILL THEM.  THE MOST THAT HE DID WAS TO KNOCK A FEW     TH01902600
FEATHERS OUT OF THEM.  "AH]"  SAID HE TO HIMSELF, "I WISH MY NEPHEW   TH01902610
WERE HERE; HE WOULD BE ABLE TO KILL THEM ALL RIGHT."  AND SO SAYING   TH01902620
HE GATHERED UP THE BRILLIANT FEATHERS TO TAKE HOME TO SHOW HIM AND    TH01902630
HIS MOTHER.  CALLING HIS MOTHER'S ATTENTION TO THE BEAUTY OF THE      TH01902640
FEATHERS, AND TELLING HER OF HIS ILL SUCCESS WITH HIS SHOOTING, HE    TH01902650
BEGGED HER TO LET HIS NEPHEW COME OUT FOR A LITTLE WHILE TO SHOOT     TH01902660
THE BIRDS FOR HIM.  THE OLD MOTHER WOULD NOT AT FIRST HEAR OF IT,     TH01902670
BUT ON THE NEPHEW HIMSELF EXPRESSING AN EARNEST WISH TO GO OUT WITH   TH01902680
HIS UNCLE TO SECURE THE BIRDS, SHE PRESENTLY GAVE WAY, AND            TH01902690
PERMITTED THE TWO TO GO OFF TOGETHER.  THE YOUTH EASILY SHOT AND      TH01902700
KILLED THE BIRDS.  TO CARRY THEM HOME HE PUT THEM INSIDE THE BREAST   TH01902710
OF HIS SHIRT NEXT HIS SKIN.  WHILE THE SHOOTING HAD BEEN GOING ON     TH01902720
THE TWO SPITEFUL OLD WITCH-WOMEN HAD TAKEN A GOOD LOOK AT HIM, AND    TH01902730
SO WON THEIR DESIRE.                                                  TH01902740
    AS THEY WERE RETURNING HOME THE YOUTH COMPLAINED OF AN UNPLEASANT TH01902750
ODOUR.  "WHAT IS THIS NASTY SMELL?"  SAID HE.  "WHERE CAN IT COME     TH01902760
FROM? HAVE YOU NOT STEPPED ON SOMETHING NASTY, UNCLE?" BUT AS HE      TH01902770
SPOKE HE FELT SOMETHING WET AND COLD AGAINST HIS SKIN UNDER HIS       TH01902780
SHIRT.  PULLING OPEN HIS SHIRT, HE SAW INSIDE, WHERE A FEW MOMENTS    TH01902790
BEFORE HE HAD PLACED THE BEAUTIFUL BIRDS, NOW NEITHER BIRDS OR        TH01902800
FEATHERS, BUT THE NASTY MATERIAL FROM WHICH THEY HAD BEEN MADE BY     TH01902810
THE WITCHES.  PERCEIVING HE HAD BEEN TRICKED, AND HORRIBLY            TH01902820
DISGUSTED, HE CAST HIS GARMENTS ASIDE AND PLUNGED INTO THE RIVER TO   TH01902830
CLEANSE HIMSELF, BIDDING HIS UNCLE AT THE SAME TIME FETCH HIM SOME    TH01902840
CLEAN GARMENTS.  AFTER HE HAD WASHED HIMSELF AND PUT ON CLEAN         TH01902850
CLOTHES, HE FELT SO MORTIFIED AND ASHAMED THAT HE DETERMINED TO       TH01902860
LEAVE THE SPOT AND GO AND LIVE BY HIMSELF IN THE WOODS.  HE           TH01902870
INFORMED HIS UNCLE OF  HIS INTENTION, AND INVITED HIM TO ACCOMPANY    TH01902880
HIM.  THE LITTLE MAN, WHO HAD GROWN VERY FOND OF HIS NEPHEW, WAS      TH01902890
ONLY TOO DELIGHTED TO GO WITH HIM, AND SO THEY SET OUT TOGETHER.      TH01902900
THEY LIVED ALONE IN THE FOREST FOR SEVERAL YEARS, TILL THE YOUTH      TH01902910
HAD COME TO MATURE MANHOOD, WHEN A RESTLESS SPIRIT CAME OVER HIM.     TH01902920
AT LAST HE SAID TO HIS UNCLE, "I AM GOING TO LOOK FOR A WIFE FOR      TH01902930
MYSELF.  I KNOW OF TWO BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN CLOUDLAND.  I SHALL GO      TH01902940
AND GET THEM FOR WIVES."  HE THEREUPON SHOT A LARGE MOUNTAIN EAGLE,   TH01902950
AND CAREFULLY SKINNING IT, HE DRIED AND PREPARED THE SKIN, LEAVING    TH01902960
THE FEATHERS AND WINGS ON.  WHEN HE HAD FINISHED IT HE PUT IT ON      TH01902970
HIMSELF AND ATTEMPTED TO FLY.  AS HE MOUNTED INTO THE AIR HIS UNCLE   TH01902980
CRIED OUT TO  HIM NOT TO FLY AWAY AND LEAVE HIM ALL ALONE.  "DON'T    TH01902990
BE AFRAID LITTLE UNCLE,"  ANSWERED HE; "I AM NOT GOING AWAY YET.  I   TH01903000
AM ONLY PRACTISING."  WHEN HE HAD PRACTISED ENOUGH HE RETURNED TO     TH01903010
HIS UNCLE AGAIN, WHO BEGGED HIM NOT TO FLY OFF AND LEAVE HIM.         TH01903020
"VERY WELL," ANSWERED THE YOUNG MAN, "I CAN TAKE YOU WITH ME, BUT     TH01903030
ONLY ON ONE CONDITION.  YOU MUST PROMISE TO KEEP YOUR EYES SHUT       TH01903040
TIGHT ALL THE TIME WE ARE IN THE AIR.  IF YOU OPEN THEM WE SHALL      TH01903050
FALL TO THE GROUND."  THE UNCLE READILY GAVE THE PROMISE.  THE        TH01903060
NEPHEW THEN TOOK HIM IN HIS ARMS AND SOARED ALOFT WITH HIM.  THEY     TH01903070
HAD NOT, HOWEVER, GONE FAR WHEN THE UNCLE FELT A GREAT CURIOSITY TO   TH01903080
SEE WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE DOWN ON THE EARTH, AND FORGETTING HIS         TH01903090
PROMISE                                                               TH01903091
OPENED HIS EYES.  IMMEDIATELY THEY DESCENDED RAPIDLY TO THE GROUND.   TH01903100
"O UNCLE, YOU BROKE YOUR PROMISE, I KNOW," SAID THE NEPHEW; "YOU      TH01903110
MUST HAVE OPENED YOUR EYES.  NOW IF YOU DO THAT WE CAN NEVER GET      TH01903120
UP."  THE LITTLE MAN WAS VERY SORRY, AND PROMISED NOT TO OPEN HIS     TH01903130
EYES AGAIN.  THEY STARTED A SECOND TIME, BUT THEY HAD NOT GOT VERY    TH01903140
FAR UP BEFORE THE DESIRE  TO OPEN HIS EYES WAS TOO STRONG FOR THE     TH01903150
UNCLE TO RESIST.  AS SOON AS HE  OPENED THEM THEY RETURNED TO THE     TH01903160
GROUND AS BEFORE.  THE NEPHEW, FINDING  HE COULD NOT TRUST HIS        TH01903170
UNCLE, TOLD HIM HE MUST LEAVE HIM BEHIND.  "BUT," SAID HE, "I WILL    TH01903180
CHANGE YOU INTO WHATEVER ANIMAL OR BIRD YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE WHILE    TH01903190
I AM AWAY."  THE LITTLE MAN THOUGHT FOR A MOMENT, AND THEN SAID HE    TH01903200
WOULD PREFER TO BE A LITTLE DUCK AND SPORT IN THE LAKE.  THE NEPHEW   TH01903210
THEREUPON TURNED HIM INTO A LITTLE RED-EYED DUCK.  "WHEN WILL YOU     TH01903220
RETURN TO ME NEPHEW?" ASKED THE UNCLE.  "WHEN YOU SEE THE CLOUDS IN   TH01903230
THE SKY GET VERY RED YOU WILL KNOW I AM COMING. THAT SHALL BE MY      TH01903240
SIGN," REPLIED THE NEPHEW.  HAVING THUS DISPOSED OF HIS UNCLE HE      TH01903250
NOW FLEW OFF.  THE LITTLE DUCK WATCHED HIM TILL HE COULD SEE HIM NO   TH01903260
LONGER, AND THEN BEGAN TO DISPORT HIMSELF AFTER THE MANNER OF HIS     TH01903270
KIND IN THE WATER.  MEANWHILE THE NEPHEW FLEW INTO THE CLOUDS, AND    TH01903280
AFTER SOME LITTLE TIME CAME TO A SMALL ISLAND THERE.  ALIGHTING ON    TH01903290
A TREE, HE STOOD FOR A MOMENT TO SURVEY THE PROSPECT.  AT NO GREAT    TH01903300
DISTANCE FROM HIM HE PERCEIVED A HOUSE OUT OF WHICH A BEAUTIFUL       TH01903310
YOUNG WOMAN WAS NOW COMING.  HE WATCHED HER AS SHE MADE HER WAY TO    TH01903320
A LAKE AT THE FOOT OF THE TREE ON WHICH HE WAS RESTING.  ON NEARING   TH01903330
THE LAKE THE MAIDEN CAST ASIDE THE BEAUTIFUL ROBE SHE WAS WEARING,    TH01903340
AND WHICH RESEMBLED THE DRESS OF A MAGPIE, AND STOOD NAKED, ALL       TH01903350
UNCONSCIOUS THAT A MAN'S GAZE WAS UPON HER.  SHE APPROACHED THE       TH01903360
LAKE AND                                                              TH01903361
WAS ABOUT TO PLUNGE IN FOR A SWIM WHEN SHE CAUGHT SIGHT OF THE        TH01903370
REFLECTION IN THE WATER BELOW HER OF THE EAGLE IN THE TREE ABOVE      TH01903380
HER HEAD.  IN A MOMENT SHE WAS OVERCOME WITH SHAME, AND KNEW THAT     TH01903390
THE SEEMING EAGLE WAS REALLY A MAN IN DISGUISE WHO HAD LOOKED         TH01903400
UNHINDERED UPON HER NAKEDNESS.  IMMEDIATELY SHE DREW HER LONG HAIR    TH01903410
ABOUT HER AND CROUCHED DOWN IN CONFUSION ON THE EDGE OF THE BANK.     TH01903420
THE YOUTH LOOKED ON, BUT UTTERED NO WORD.  PRESENTLY THE MAID CAST    TH01903430
HER EYES UPWARD TOWARDS HIM, AND ADDRESSED HIM IN THESE WORDS:  "I    TH01903440
KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT A BIRD, BUT A MAN DISGUISED AS ONE.  YOU HAVE   TH01903450
LOOKED UPON ME IN MY NAKEDNESS AND BROUGHT SHAME UPON ME.  I MUST     TH01903460
NOW BECOME YOUR WIFE.  BUT I HAVE A SISTER; YOU MUST SEE HER TOO."    TH01903470
AND WITH THAT SHE SPRANG TOWARDS HER DRESS, DREW IT HASTILY ABOUT     TH01903480
HER, AND RUSHED HOME.  ON ARRIVING THERE SHE THREW HERSELF ON HER     TH01903490
BED, SOBBING AND CRYING, AND WOULD MAKE NO REPLY TO HER SISTER WHEN   TH01903500
SHE SOUGHT TO LEARN THE CAUSE OF HER TROUBLE AND GRIEF.  FINDING IT   TH01903510
VAIN TO ATTEMPT TO GET AN ANSWER TO HER QUERIES, SHE TOOK THE WATER   TH01903520
BUCKET IN HER HAND AND WENT OFF TO THE LAKE TO GET SOME WATER, AND    TH01903530
TO SEE IF SHE COULD DISCOVER WHY HER SISTER HAD RETURNED SO QUICKLY   TH01903540
AND WHAT HAD CAUSED HER TROUBLE.  SHE WAS ROBED AS A KINGFISHER IS    TH01903550
ROBED, AND ON GETTING NEAR THE LAKE SHE ALSO THREW OFF HER DRESS      TH01903560
AND MADE TO PLUNGE INTO THE WATER TO BATHE, BUT WAS LIKEWISE          TH01903570
ARRESTED IN THE ACT OF DOING SO BY THE IMAGE OF THE EAGLE IN THE      TH01903580
WATER BENEATH HER.  BUT, UNLIKE HER SISTER, SHE WAS NOT OVERCOME      TH01903590
WITH SHAME  AT BEING CAUGHT NAKED.  SHE ADDRESSED THE DISGUISED       TH01903600
YOUNG MAN THUS:  "OH, NOW I SEE WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH MY YOUNG      TH01903610
SISTER.  WELL, SHE MUST BE YOUR WIFE NOW; BUT NOT SHE ONLY, YOU       TH01903620
MUST ALSO MARRY ME.  COME DOWN FROM THE TREE AND CAST ASIDE YOUR      TH01903630
DISGUISE." THE YOUNG MAN DESCENDED FROM THE TREE, CAST OFF HIS        TH01903640
EAGLE-SKIN, AND HUNG IT UPON A BRANCH CLOSE BY.  MEANWHILE, THE       TH01903650
WOMAN HAD PUT HER ROBE ON AGAIN AND FILLED HER PAIL WITH WATER.       TH01903660
TOGETHER THEY WALKED TO THE SISTERS' HOUSE, AND HE BECAME HUSBAND     TH01903670
TO THEM BOTH.  HE LIVED THUS WITH THEM FOR SOME TIME, AND EACH OF     TH01903680
HIS WIVES GAVE BIRTH TO A SON.  THEY WERE NOW FIVE IN ALL, AND ONE    TH01903690
DAY THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO HIS TWO WIVES, "WE ARE GETTING TOO MANY     TH01903700
FOR THIS SMALL PLACE; LET US RETURN TO EARTH AGAIN AND GO BACK TO     TH01903710
MY OLD GRANDFATHER, THE LOON."  THE WIVES CONSENTING, HE ONCE MORE    TH01903720
DONNED HIS EAGLE-SKIN, AND TAKING A WIFE UNDER EACH ARM, AND A        TH01903730
CHILD TIED TO EACH OF HIS LEGS, HE DESCENDED THUS FROM CLOUD          TH01903740
ISLAND.                                                               TH01903750
     WHILE HE HAD BEEN ABSENT THE LITTLE DUCK UNCLE HAD EACH DAY      TH01903760
WATCHED FOR SIGNS OF HIS NEPHEW'S RETURN.  ONE DAY HE WAS GLADDENED   TH01903770
BY                                                                    TH01903771
SEEING MANY RED CLOUDS IN THE SKY.  "NOW," SAID HE TO HIMSELF, "I     TH01903780
SHALL SEE MY NEPHEW ONCE MORE."  HE KEPT HIS LITTLE RED EYES ON THE   TH01903790
CLOUDS, AND PRESENTLY SAW HIS NEPHEW APPROACHING THE SPOT WHERE HE    TH01903800
WAS.  IN A FEW MOMENTS MORE HE ALIGHTED, AND PRESENTED HIS WIVES TO   TH01903810
HIS UNCLE.  "NOW," SAID HE, "WILL YOU COME HOME WITH US?"  BUT THE    TH01903820
LITTLE UNCLE FELT A PAIN AT HIS HEART, FOR HE HAD PERCEIVED THAT      TH01903830
HIS NEPHEW'S AFFECTIONS WERE NO LONGER HIS OWN AS IN THE FORMER       TH01903840
DAYS.  HE NOW HAD CHILDREN AND WIVES TO LOVE AND CARE FOR.  SO THE    TH01903850
LITTLE MAN ANSWERED, "NO, NEPHEW; I WILL REMAIN HERE.  YOU DO NOT     TH01903860
NEED ME ANY LONGER; YOU HAVE YOUR WIVES AND  CHILDREN NOW."  "VERY    TH01903870
WELL," REPLIED THE NEPHEW, "DO JUST AS YOU LIKE."  SO THE UNCLE       TH01903880
REMAINED ON THE LAKE AS A DUCK, AND BECAME THE PROGENITOR OF ALL      TH01903890
THE LITTLE RED-EYED DUCKS NOW IN THE COUNTRY.                         TH01903900
     BIDDING THE UNCLE GOOD-BYE, THE YOUNG MAN TOOK HIS WIVES AND     TH01903910
CHILDREN, AND DIRECTED HIS WAY TO HIS GRANDFATHER'S VILLAGE.  WHEN    TH01903920
THEY ARRIVED THERE WAS GREAT REJOICING ONCE MORE.  THE OLD LOON AND   TH01903930
HIS WIFE WERE STILL ALIVE, AND ENCOURAGED THEIR GRANDSON TO SETTLE    TH01903940
DOWN WITH THEM.  THIS HE DID, AND HIS DESCENDENTS IN COURSE OF TIME   TH01903940
BECAME A GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIBE.                                    TH01903960
***THO-076***
          TH020 SNU'YA C'PITA'KOETL, OR BEAVER STORY.                 TH02000010
     A LONG TIME AGO BEAVER LIVED ALL ALONE IN HIS KEEKWILEE-HOUSE    TH02000020
JUST BELOW THE VILLAGE OF SPUZZUM.  HE HAD TWO SISTERS, THE MOUSE     TH02000030
AND THE BUSH-RAT.  THEY LIVED TOGETHER AT SWIMP, AND THE FROG LIVED   TH02000040
WITH THEM.  BOTH SISTERS HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN.  ONE DAY SNU'YA GOT    TH02000050
OUT HIS CANOE AND CROSSED THE RIVER TO SPUZZUM LATE IN THE EVENING.   TH02000060
HE WENT ON TO SWIMP AND VISITED THE HOUSE OF HIS SISTERS.  WHEN       TH02000070
SNU'YA SAW THE FROG, WHOSE ARMS FROM THE ELBOWS TO THE WRISTS WERE    TH02000080
ADORNED WITH BRACELETS, HE ADMIRED HER MUCH.  SHE CAME AND SAT DOWN   TH02000090
BY THE FIRE, HOLDING HERSELF SO THAT HER BRACELETS MIGHT BE EASILY    TH02000100
SEEN.  SNU'YA PRESENTLY TELLS HIS SISTERS THAT HE WOULD LIKE THE      TH02000110
FROG FOR HIS WIFE.  HE SAT AT THE FIRE TILL IT HAD BURNT ITSELF OUT   TH02000120
AND ALL WAS IN DARKNESS.  THE OTHERS HAD ALL RETIRED EARLIER.  WHEN   TH02000130
IT IS DARK SNU'YA CRAWLS OVER TO THE FROG'S SLEEPING PLACE AND        TH02000140
PULLS HER BLANKET.  "WHAT DO YOU WANT?  WHO ARE YOU?"  SAID THE       TH02000150
FROG.  SNU'YA SAYS NOTHING BUT PULLS THE FROG'S FOOT.  THE FROG       TH02000160
CRIES OUT AGAIN, "WHO ARE YOU, AND WHAT DO YOU WANT?"  SNU'YA NOW     TH02000170
REVEALS HIMSELF, AND THE FROG SAYS AGAIN, "WHAT DO YOU WANT?"  "I     TH02000180
WANT YOU TO BECOME MY WIFE," SAID HE.  THE ONLY ANSWER THE FROG       TH02000190
GAVE WAS TO LIFT HER FOOT AND KICK SNU'YA IN THE FACE.  HE DOES NOT   TH02000200
MIND THIS IN THE LEAST; HE SIMPLY FALLS ON HIS BACK AND LAUGHS.  HE   TH02000210
PULLS HER BY THE FOOT A SECOND TIME, AND SHE KICKS HIM AWAY AGAIN.    TH02000220
AGAIN SNU'YA LAUGHS AND TELLS HER HE DOES NOT MIND HER KICKING, AND   TH02000230
INTENDS TO MAKE HER HIS WIFE.  THE FROG NOW REMARKS THAT SHE DOES     TH02000240
NOT DESIRE HIM FOR HER HUSBAND.  "YOU ARE NOT THE KIND OF MAN I       TH02000250
WANT," SAID SHE.  "DO YOU THINK I LIKE A ROUND, BIG-BELLIED, BIG-     TH02000260
HEADED CREATURE LIKE YOU FOR HUSBAND?"  SNU'YA ONLY LAUGHS AT THIS.   TH02000270
THIS MAKES THE FROG ANGRY, AND SHE BEGINS TO REVILE HIM IN BITTER     TH02000280
LANGUAGE.  STILL SNU'YA DOES NOT MIND.  BUT PRESENTLY, FINDING HE     TH02000290
CAN MAKE NO IMPRESSION UPON HER, HE GAVE UP HIS EFFORTS AND LEFT      TH02000300
HER, AND WENT OVER TO HIS SISTER THE MOUSE, AND TOLD HER TO TAKE      TH02000310
HER CHILDREN AND GO WITH THEM TO THE HILL NEAR BY.  "THERE IS A       TH02000320
CAVE THERE," SAID HE; "IT WILL HOLD YOU ALL NICELY."  HE THEN GOES    TH02000330
TO HIS OTHER SISTER, THE BUSH-RAT, AND BIDS HER DO THE SAME.  THE     TH02000340
MOUSE SISTER NOW WISHES TO KNOW WHY SHE SHOULD GO IN THE NIGHT.       TH02000350
"WOULD NOT THE MORNING DO?"  SAID SHE.  SNU'YA TELLS HER THAT THE     TH02000360
FROG HAS SHAMED AND SCORNED AND INSULTED HIM.  BUSH-RAT THEN ASKS     TH02000370
WHAT HE IS GOING TO DO WHEN THEY ARE GONE.  "OH," SAID HE, "I AM      TH02000380
GOING TO HAVE SOME FUN ALL TO MYSELF, AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO BE      TH02000390
PRESENT."  THIS IS ALL THEY CAN GET FROM HIM.  HOWEVER, THEY BOTH     TH02000400
GET UP, ROLL UP THEIR BLANKETS AND MATS, AND LEAVE HIM ALONE WITH     TH02000410
THE FROG-WOMAN.  THE FROG HAS NOT SPOKEN A WORD WHILE THIS            TH02000420
CONVERSATION WAS GOING ON.  AS SOON AS HIS SISTERS AND THEIR          TH02000430
FAMILIES HAVE GONE SNU'YA BEGINS TO DANCE AND WHISTLE.  WHEN HE       TH02000440
WHISTLES THE FROG GETS VERY ANGRY, CALLING HIM MANY OBJECTIONABLE     TH02000450
NAMES, AND BIDDING HIM GO AND LEAVE HER TO SLEEP IN  PEACE.  SNU'YA   TH02000460
PAYS NO ATTENTION WHATEVER TO HER, BUT CONTINUES TO WHISTLE AND       TH02000470
DANCE MORE VIGOROUSLY THAN EVER.  IT WAS A RAIN-SONG THAT HE WAS      TH02000480
WHISTLING CALLED TLAZMIU'QTCIN. "TLAZ-PE-E-E-E-E-E-E-E'-UQ-TCIN,"     TH02000490
"TLAZ-PE-E-E-E-E-E-E-E'-UQ-TCIN," "TLAZ-PE-E-E-E-E-E-E-E'-UQ-TCIN,"   TH02000500
SANG SNU'YA, AND PRESENTLY THE RAIN BEGAN TO FALL GENTLY.  BUT AS     TH02000510
THE SONG CONTINUED AND SNU'YA DANCED FASTER AND FASTER IT FELL        TH02000520
HARDER AND HARDER UNTIL IT DESCENDED IN SHEETS, NO SUCH RAIN EVER     TH02000530
HAVING BEEN SEEN BEFORE.  IN A SHORT TIME THE CREEK NEAR THE HOUSE    TH02000540
BEGAN TO RISE AND ROLL THE ROCK ABOUT WITH A THUNDEROUS NOISE.        TH02000550
SOON THE WATER OVERFLOWS AND SPREADS ITSELF EVERYWHERE.  IT ENTERS    TH02000560
THE KEEKWILEE-HOUSE, AND SOON SNU'YA IS SWIMMING ABOUT AND BEATING    TH02000570
TIME TO HIS SONG WITH HIS TAIL ON THE WATER.  THE FROG'S BED BEGINS   TH02000580
TO GET WET:  SHE GETS UP AND RAISES IT HIGHER.  IN A LITTLE WHILE     TH02000590
THE WATER IS UP TO IT AGAIN.  A SECOND TIME SHE RAISES IT.  BUT NOW   TH02000600
SNU'YA KNOCKS A HOLE IN THE WALL WITH HIS TAIL, AND THE FLOOD POURS   TH02000610
IN UPON THEM.  SNU'YA NOW SWIMS HOME ACROSS THE RIVER.  THE DAY NOW   TH02000620
BEGINS TO BREAK.  HE GETS INTO HIS CANOE AND PADDLES MERRILY AWAY,    TH02000630
STILL WHISTLING THE RAIN SONG.  IN THE MEANTIME THE FROG IS           TH02000640
FLOATING ABOUT ON HER BED-BOARD, AND IS CARRIED TO THE MOUTH OF THE   TH02000650
CREEK, CALLING ALOUD FOR HELP.  SHE PRESENTLY PERCEIVES SNU'YA        TH02000660
PADDLING BY IN HIS CANOE, AND CALLS OUT TO HIM TO COME AND SAVE HER   TH02000670
TELLING HIM SHE WILL TAKE HIM FOR HUSBAND.  TO ALL HER ENTREATIES     TH02000680
SNU'YA REPLIES, "WHAT DO YOU WANT?"  AND WHISTLES AWAY.  THE FROG     TH02000690
IMPLORES HIM TO BRING HIS CANOE OVER AND SAVE HER.  "OH, COME AND     TH02000700
TAKE ME INTO YOUR CANOE AND I WILL BE YOUR WIFE," CRIED SHE.          TH02000710
SNU'YA ANSWERS BACK, "USE YOUR OWN STOMACH FOR A BOAT.  I'LL NOT      TH02000720
TROUBLE MYSELF ABOUT YOU."  THE FROG STILL CONTINUES TO BESEECH HIM   TH02000730
TO DELIVER HER, CALLING HIM BY ALL THE ENDEARING TERMS SHE CAN        TH02000740
UTTER.  THE EDDIES WHIRL HER ABOUT AND GREATLY ALARM HER.  SNU'YA     TH02000750
NOW BEGINS TO MOCK HER.  "OH, YOU COULD NOT BE MY WIFE.  YOU SURELY   TH02000760
COULD NOT MARRY A ROUND-HEADED, BIG-BELLIED, SHORT-LEGGED,FLAT-TAILED TH02000770
CREATURE                                                              TH02000771
LIKE ME," SAID HE, REPEATING THE ILL NAMES SHE HAD SO DISDAINFULLY    TH02000780
CALLED HIM BY A LITTLE TIME BEFORE.  THE CURRENT SOON CARRIES HER     TH02000790
PAST HIM OUT INTO THE GREAT FRASER, DOWN WHICH SHE FLOATS TILL SHE    TH02000800
COMES TO A SPOT ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE MILES ABOVE YALE CALLED            TH02000810
NU'KSAKOUM.  THUS DID SNU'YA REVENGE HIMSELF UPON THE DISDAINFUL      TH02000820
FROG FOR REFUSING TO ACCEPT HIM AS HER HUSBAND.                       TH02000830
***THO-077***
          TH021 STORY OF SNIKIA'P, QAI'NON, TZALA'S, AND SPATC.       TH02100010
     ONCE UPON A TIME SNIKIA'P, QAI'NON, TZALA'S, AND SPATC LIVED     TH02100020
IN THE SAME LOCALITY, EACH IN HIS OWN KEEKWILEE-HOUSE.  SNIKIA'P      TH02100030
BEING ONE DAY WITHOUT ANY FOOD IN HIS HOUSE, BETHOUGHT HIM THAT IT    TH02100040
WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO PAY A NEIGHBOURLY VISIT TO THE HOUSE OF       TH02100050
QAI'NON.  ON REACHING QAI'NON'S KEEKWILEE-HOUSE HE LOOKED DOWN THE    TH02100060
SMOKE-HOLE AND ACCOSTED HIM.  QAI'NON REPLIED IN A FRIENDLY MANNER,   TH02100070
AND BADE HIS VISITOR COME IN.  SNIKIA'P CLAMBERED DOWN.  SAID HE,     TH02100080
AS HE TOOK A SEAT NEAR THE FIRE, "I WAS FEELING VERY LONESOME THIS    TH02100090
MORNING, AND THOUGHT I SHOULD LIKE TO COME OVER AND HAVE A            TH02100100
NEIGHBOURLY CHAT WITH YOU."  "I AM TRUELY DELIGHTED TO SEE YOU,"      TH02100110
RESPONDED QAI'NON; "I AM ALWAYS GLAD TO SEE A FRIEND DROP IN FOR A    TH02100120
CHAT."  SNIKIA'P NOW BEGAN TO LOOK ABOUT HIM, AND PERCEIVED THAT      TH02100130
THE HOUSE WAS WELL STOCKED WITH LOTS OF DRIED DEER-FLESH.             TH02100140
PRESENTLY, AFTER THEY HAD CHATTED AWHILE, QAI'NON SAID, "YOU MUST     TH02100150
HAVE SOME DINNER BEFORE YOU GO AWAY."  LOOKING TOWARDS HIS STORES     TH02100160
OF DRIED MEAT, HE SAID, "I CAN'T OFFER YOU THIS DRIED STUFF; I        TH02100170
SHOULD LIKE YOU TO HAVE SOME FRESH MEAT.  JUST STAY A MOMENT, AND     TH02100180
LET ME RUN OUT TO MY DEER-TRAP AND SEE IF THERE IS ANYTHING IN IT.    TH02100190
I OUGHT TO FIND A DEER THERE."  AND WITH THAT QAI'NON HASTENED TO     TH02100200
GO TO THE TRAP.  SNIKIA'P, AS SOON AS HE HAD GONE OUT, CLIMBED UP     TH02100210
THE NOTCHED POLE AND OBSERVED WITH MUCH CURIOSITY AND INTEREST        TH02100220
QAI'NON GO TOWARDS HIS DEER-TRAP, WHICH WAS NOT FAR FROM THE HOUSE.   TH02100230
HE SAW HIM PAUSE THERE A MOMENT TO INSPECT THE TRAP, WHICH HELD NO    TH02100240
DEER, AND THEN PASS ON TO THE WOOD BEYOND.  PRESENTLY A BIG BUCK      TH02100250
SPRANG UP IN QAI'NON'S PATH.  THE DEER TOOK NO NOTICE OF QAI'NON,     TH02100260
WHO NOW BEGAN TO REVILE IT IN INSULTING LANGUAGE.  AT FIRST THE       TH02100270
BUCK PAID NO ATTENTION TO THE REMARKS OF QAI'NON, BUT PRESENTLY HIS   TH02100280
LANGUAGE BECAME SO BAD THAT HE GREW ANGRY AND RAN AT QAI'NON TO       TH02100290
PUNISH HIM.  THIS WAS JUST WHAT QAI'NON WANTED, AND AS THE ANGRY      TH02100300
DEER APPROACHED HIM HE TURNED AND RAN TOWARDS THE SNARE, KEEPING      TH02100310
JUST A FEW FEET IN FRONT OF HIS PURSUER.  WHEN HE WAS CLOSE TO THE    TH02100320
TRAP HE OPENED HIS WINGS AND SHOT THROUGH THE OPENING IN A            TH02100330
TWINKLING.  THE DEER, NOT PERCEIVING THE SNARE, BLINDLY FOLLOWED,     TH02100340
AND WAS CAUGHT BY THE NOOSE, AND THUS FELL A VICTIM TO QAI'NON'S      TH02100350
CUNNING.  QAI'NON NOW TOOK HIS KNIFE AND CUT THE DEER'S THROAT TO     TH02100360
BLEED HIM.  HE THEN QUICKLY SKINNED HIM, CUT OFF A LARGE PIECE OF     TH02100370
THE MEAT, AND RETURNED TO THE HOUSE WITH IT.  "AH," SAID SNIKIA'P,    TH02100380
WHEN QAI'NON CAME NEAR, "I SEE YOU HUNT YOUR GAME JUST AS I DO.  I    TH02100390
ALWAYS CATCH MY DEER THAT WAY."  QAI'NON WAS SURPRISED TO HEAR        TH02100400
SNIKIA'P SAY THIS, BEING UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT HE HIMSELF WAS     TH02100410
THE ONLY PERSON WHO HUNTED IN THIS WAY.  HE SAID NOTHING, HOWEVER,    TH02100420
BUT HASTENED TO COOK SOME OF THE VENISON.  WHEN THE FOOD WAS READY    TH02100430
SNIKIA'P ATE VERY HEARTILY, BEING VERY HUNGRY, BUT COULD NOT EAT      TH02100440
ALL THAT HAD BEEN PREPARED.  WISHING VERY MUCH TO TAKE SOME HOME      TH02100450
WITH HIM, HE SAID TO QAI'NON:  "I THINK I WILL BORROW YOUR MAT AND    TH02100460
TAKE HOME SOME OF THIS COOKED MEAT FOR MY SUPPER; IT WILL SAVE ME     TH02100470
COOKING TONIGHT."  THE OTHER WAS QUITE WILLING, AND READILY LOANED    TH02100480
HIM THE MAT.  SNIKIA'P WRAPPED UP ALL THAT WAS LEFT FROM THEIR MEAL   TH02100490
AND NOW TOOK HIS DEPARTURE, SAYING AS HE WENT, "YOU MUST COME AND     TH02100500
PAY ME A VISIT SOON, AND THEN YOU CAN GET THE MAT.  I LIKE TO HAVE    TH02100510
A VISIT FROM MY FRIENDS."  THE DAY FOLLOWING QAI'NON THOUGHT HE       TH02100520
WOULD RETURN SNIKIA'P'S VISIT.  APPROACHING HIS HOUSE, HE SHOUTED     TH02100530
DOWN THE SMOKE-HOLE, "GOOD DAY, FRIEND; I HAVE TAKEN YOU AT YOUR      TH02100540
WORD, AND AM COME TO HAVE A LITTLE CHAT WITH YOU."  "OH, COME IN,     TH02100550
DEAR FRIEND," SAID UNCTUOUS SNIKIA'P, "I AM TRUELY DELIGHTED TO SEE   TH02100560
YOU."  BUT EVEN AS HE SPOKE HE FELT IN HIS HEART THAT HE WOULD MUCH   TH02100570
RATHER HIS VISITOR HAD REMAINED AT HOME; AND HE WONDERED WHAT HE      TH02100580
SHOULD DO FOR A DINNER, HAVING NOTHING IN THE HOUSE.  HOWEVER, HE     TH02100590
PUT ON AN AIR OF WELCOME, AND ENTERTAINED HIS VISITOR TILL DINNER-    TH02100600
TIME CAME.  SAID HE THEN TO QAI'NON, "IT IS TIME I WAS LOOKING        TH02100610
AFTER THE DINNER; YOU MUST STAY AND EAT SOME WITH ME."  TO THIS       TH02100620
QAI'NON AGREED RATHER MORE READILY THAN  SNIKIA'P DESIRED.  "I MUST   TH02100630
GET YOU SOME FRESH MEAT," HE CONTINUED.  "I WILL RUN OUT AND SEE IF   TH02100640
THERE IS A DEER IN MY TRAP."  SNIKIA'P NOW WENT OUT AND LOOKED AT     TH02100650
HIS DEER-TRAP, WHICH HE HAD CONSTRUCTED AFTER THE PLAN OF             TH02100660
QAI'NON'S.  THERE WAS NOTHING IN IT.  HE HAD NOT REALLY EXPECTED TO   TH02100670
FIND ANYTHING, BUT HE KNEW QAI'NON WAS OBSERVING HIM, SO HE           TH02100680
FOLLOWED THE COURSE HE HAD SEEN QAI'NON DO.  HE NOW WENT INTO THE     TH02100690
WOOD, AND PRESENTLY, TO HIS SURPRISE, CAME UPON A FINE BUCK.  THE     TH02100700
BUCK LOOKED SCORNFULLY AT HIM FOR A MOMENT, BUT OTHERWISE TOOK NO     TH02100710
NOTICE OF HIM.  SNIKIA'P, REMEMBERING WHAT QAI'NON HAD DONE, BEGAN    TH02100720
TO CALL THE BUCK ILL NAMES.  FOR SOME TIME THE BUCK IGNORED HIS       TH02100730
PRESENCE, BUT PRESENTLY HIS LANGUAGE BECAME TOO BAD, AND THE DEER     TH02100740
RAN AT HIM WITH ANTLERS DOWN TO PUNISH HIM.  SNIKIA'P TURNED TAIL,    TH02100750
AND RAN AS FAST AS HIS LEGS WOULD CARRY HIM IN THE DIRECTION OF THE   TH02100760
TRAP, WITH THE BUCK CLOSE BEHIND HIM.  WHEN HE GOT CLOSE TO THE       TH02100770
TRAP HE MADE A LEAP TO GO THROUGH, AS HE HAD SEEN QAI'NON DO, BUT     TH02100780
HE FAILED IN HIS ATTEMPT, AND STUCK FAST IN THE MIDDLE, BEING         TH02100790
UNABLE TO GET THROUGH OR GO BACK.  THE INFURIATED BUCK NOW TOOK HIS   TH02100800
REVENGE, AND PRODDED POOR SNIKIA'P WITH HIS SHARP ANTLERS IN HIS      TH02100810
REAR.  SNIKIA'P HOWLED WITH AGONY, AND CALLED UPON QAI'NON TO         TH02100820
RELIEVE AND HELP HIM.  QAI'NON NOW CAME FORWARD, KILLED THE DEER,     TH02100830
AND RELIEVED SNIKIA'P FROM THE SNARE.  "YOU SHOULD NOT HUNT IN THIS   TH02100840
WAY," SAID HE TO POOR CRESTFALLEN SNIKIA'P; "YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND    TH02100850
THE TRICK.  I WOULD ADVISE YOU TO STICK TO YOUR OWN MODE OF HUNTING   TH02100860
AND NOT COPY ANYBODY ELSE'S."  QAI'NON NOW COOKED SOME OF THE DEER    TH02100870
FOR THEM, AND AFTER THE MEAL BADE HIS FRIEND GOOD-DAY, AND RETURNED   TH02100880
TO HIS OWN HOUSE.  IT TOOK SNIKIA'P SOME TIME TO RECOVER FROM THE     TH02100890
WOUNDS INFLICTED UPON HIM BY THE ANGRY DEER; BUT BY THE TIME HE HAD   TH02100900
CONSUMED THE REMAINS OF THE DEER'S CARCASE HE WAS ABLE TO GET ABOUT   TH02100910
AGAIN.  HAVING MET WITH NO LUCK IN HIS HUNTING, AND BEING VERY        TH02100920
HUNGRY, HE SAID TO HIMSELF ONE DAY, "I THINK I WILL GO AND SEE        TH02100930
TZALA'S TO-DAY; MAYBE I CAN GET A DINNER FROM HIM.  HE SET OFF ON     TH02100940
HIS VISIT, AND PRESENTLY CAME TO TZALA'S HOUSE.  "GOOD DAY,           TH02100950
NEIGHBOUR TZALA'S; HOW ARE YOU FEELING TO-DAY?"  SAID HE, AS HE       TH02100960
LOOKED DOWN THE SMOKE HOLE.  "IS THAT YOU, FRIEND SNIKIA'P?"  SAID    TH02100970
TZALA'S VERY CORDIALLY.  "COME DOWN AND HAVE A CHAT."  SNIKIA'P       TH02100980
DESCENDED.  SAYS HE, "I WAS FEELING LONELY THIS MORNING, AND          TH02100990
THOUGHT I WOULD COME OVER AND SEE HOW YOU WERE GETTING ON, AND HAVE   TH02101000
A FRIENDLY CHAT WITH YOU."  "I AM VERY GLAD YOU CAME," AMIABLY        TH02101010
RESPONDED TZALA'S, AND THEY CHATTED AWAY TOGETHER TILL DINNER-TIME.   TH02101020
TZALA'S NOW SAID, "YOU MUST HAVE SOME DINNER BEFORE YOU GO; BUT I     TH02101030
CAN'T LET YOU EAT THIS DRIED FISH, AND HE POINTED TO THE STORES OF    TH02101040
DRIED FISH THAT HUNG IN ABUNDANCE FROM THE RAFTERS OF HIS HOUSE.      TH02101050
"I'LL JUST RUN OUT FOR A MINUTE, AND SEE IF I CAN'T FIND SOME FRESH   TH02101060
FISH IN MY TRAPS."  TZALA'S THUS SAYING, WENT DOWN TO THE RIVER,      TH02101070
WHICH WAS AT THE TIME COVERED WITH A THICK SHEET OF ICE.  EVERY       TH02101080
HERE AND THERE, HOWEVER, SMALL OPENINGS APPEARED IN THE ICE.          TH02101090
PAUSING FOR A MOMENT ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER OVER ONE OF THESE       TH02101100
TZALA'S TOOK A LONG BREATH, DIVED DOWNWARDS, AND SHOT THROUGH THE     TH02101110
HOLE.  HE REAPPEARED IN A SHORT TIME, WITH A LONG STRING OF FINE      TH02101120
FISH.  SNIKIA'P HAD OBSERVED THE ACTION, AND AS TZALA'S RETURNED,     TH02101130
REMARKED, "I SEE YOU CATCH YOUR FISH AS I DO.  I ALWAYS DIVE FOR      TH02101140
THEM THAT WAY MYSELF."  "OH, INDEED," SAID TZALA'S THE DIVER; "I      TH02101150
WAS NOT AWARE OF THAT.  I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO FISHED IN    TH02101160
THAT WAY."  TZALA'S SAID NO MORE, BUT  SPEEDILY PREPARED THE FISH.    TH02101170
SNIKIA'P ATE VERY HEARTILY, BUT SOME OF THE FISH WERE LEFT OVER.      TH02101180
THESE HE COVETED FOR HIMSELF.  SAID HE PRESENTLY, "IF YOU WILL LEND   TH02101190
ME THE MAT, I THINK I WILL TAKE A BIT OF THIS FISH HOME FOR MY        TH02101200
SUPPER                                                                TH02101201
WITH ME; IT WILL SAVE ME COOKING TO-NIGHT."  TZALA'S MADE NO          TH02101210
OBJECTION, AND SNIKIA'P BUNDLED THE WHOLE UP IN THE MAT, AND THEN     TH02101220
BADE HIS FRIEND GOOD-BYE.  "YOU MUST COME AND SEE ME SHORTLY," SAID   TH02101230
HE AS HE LEFT; "I LIKE MY FRIENDS TO PAY ME A VISIT SOMETIMES."       TH02101240
TZALA'S PROMISED TO MAKE AN EARLY CALL.                               TH02101250
     NEXT DAY TZALA'S DETERMINED TO REDEEM HIS PROMISE AND PAY        TH02101260
SNIKIA'P A VISIT AND BRING HOME HIS MAT.  WHEN HE ARRIVED AT          TH02101270
SNIKIA'P'S HOUSE SNIKIA'P WAS A LITTLE SURPRISED TO SEE HIM APPEAR    TH02101280
SO SOON, AND WAS NOT TOO WELL PLEASED; BUT HE MADE PRETENCE TO BE     TH02101290
OVERJOYED AT HIS VISIT, AND DID HIS BEST TO ENTERTAIN HIS VISITOR     TH02101300
TILL DINNER-TIME CAME.  SEEING THAT TZALA'S WAS INTENDING TO STAY     TH02101310
TO DINNER, HE THOUGHT HE MUST DO SOMETHING TO PREPARE IT.  SO HE      TH02101320
PRESENTLY OBSERVED, "YOU WILL STAY AND HAVE SOME DINNER WITH ME.  I   TH02101330
WAS JUST GOING DOWN TO THE RIVER TO LOOK AT MY TRAPS WHEN YOU CAME.   TH02101340
I'LL JUST RUN DOWN NOW AND SEE WHAT IS IN THEM."  SO SAYING HE RAN    TH02101350
DOWN TO THE RIVER'S EDGE.  TZALA'S WATCHED HIM GO, AND LOOKED ON      TH02101360
WITH SOME CURIOSITY.  WHEN SNIKIA'P GOT TO THE RIVER HE STOOD A       TH02101370
MOMENT ON THE BANK AS HE HAD SEEN TZALA'S THE DIVER DO, THEN TOOK A   TH02101380
DEEP BREATH AND PLUNGED HEADFOREMOST INTO THE NEAREST VENT-HOLE.      TH02101390
BUT HE HAD MISCALCULATED ONCE MORE, THE HOLE WAS NOT BIG ENOUGH TO    TH02101400
LET HIS BODY THROUGH.  THE FORCE OF HIS PLUNGE HAD CARRIED HIS HEAD   TH02101410
AND SHOULDERS THROUGH, BUT THEN HE HAD STUCK FAST AND COULD NOW       TH02101420
NEITHER GET UP NOR DOWN.  HE WAS THUS IN SERIOUS DANGER OF DROWNING   TH02101430
AND WRIGGLED AND TWISTED HIS BODY FRANTICALLY TO FREE HIMSELF.  HAD   TH02101440
NOT TZALA'S BEEN LOOKING ON AND SEEN THE DILEMMA INTO WHICH HE HAD    TH02101450
GOT HIMSELF, AND HASTENED DOWN AND RELEASED HIM, HE WOULD ASSUREDLY   TH02101460
HAVE BEEN DROWNED.  WHEN THE GOOD-NATURED DIVER HAD GOT HIM OUT OF    TH02101470
THE HOLE AND HAD BOUND UP THE CUTS HE HAD RECEIVED IN HIS STRUGGLES   TH02101480
HE EXPOSTULATED WITH HIM FOR ATTEMPTING TO COPY HIS METHODS OF        TH02101490
FISHING.  "IT'S ALL VERY WELL FOR ME TO DIVE DOWN THROUGH THE ICE -   TH02101500
IT'S MY TRADE; BUT YOU SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT ANY SUCH A THING. YOU       TH02101510
WILL                                                                  TH02101511
SURELY GET INTO TROUBLE SOME DAY IF YOU INTERFERE WITH OTHER          TH02101520
PEOPLE'S BUSINESS."  SO SAYING HE PLUNGED INTO THE RIVER AND          TH02101530
PRESENTLY RETURNED WITH A STRING OF FINE FISH.  THESE HE THEN         TH02101540
COOKED, AND TOGETHER THEY MADE A HEARTY MEAL.  AFTER DINNER HE TOOK   TH02101550
HIS MAT AND RETURNED TO HIS OWN HOUSE.  THE FISH THAT WERE LEFT       TH02101560
OVER LASTED SNIKIA'P FOR SOME LITTLE TIME, AFTER WHICH HE WAS AGAIN   TH02101570
WITHOUT FOOD FOR DAYS , AND WAS VERY HUNGRY.  THIS TIME HE            TH02101580
BETHOUGHT HIM HE WOULD PAY SPATC THE BEAR A VISIT.  REACHING          TH02101590
SPATC'S HOUSE HE ACCOSTED HIM AS HE HAD THE OTHERS, AND WAS INVITED   TH02101600
IN BY THE BEAR, WHO PRESENTLY, WHEN DINNER-TIME CAME, BROUGHT OUT     TH02101610
SOME BERRIES ON A DISH AND PUT THEM DOWN BEFORE THE FIRE.  HE THEN    TH02101620
WASHED HIS FOREPAWS, SAT DOWN CLOSE TO THE FIRE, AND HELD THEM OVER   TH02101630
THE DISH CLOSE TO THE FLAME.  IN A LITTLE WHILE THE BEAR'S CLAWS      TH02101640
BEGAN TO DRIP WITH LIQUID FAT, WHICH HE CAUGHT IN THE DISH            TH02101650
CONTAINING THE BERRIES.  WHEN HE HAD THUS SECURED WHAT HE THOUGHT A   TH02101660
SUFFICIENT QUANTITY OF FAT HE SET THE DISH BETWEEN HIMSELF AND        TH02101670
SNIKIA'P, AND TOGETHER THEY MADE A HEARTY MEAL.  THEY DID NOT EAT     TH02101680
IT ALL, HOWEVER, AND SNIKIA'P SAID HE WOULD TAKE WHAT WAS LEFT HOME   TH02101690
WITH HIM IF SPATC WOULD LEND HIM THE DISH.  TO THIS THE BEAR AGREED   TH02101700
AND ALSO PROMISED TO PAY SNIKIA'P A VISIT AT HIS HOUSE VERY           TH02101710
SHORTLY.  NOW, WHILE SPATC HAD BEEN DRAWING THE FAT FROM HIS PAWS,    TH02101720
SNIKIA'P LOOKED ON FOR A MOMENT AND THEN OBSERVED THAT HE WAS IN      TH02101730
THE HABIT OF GETTING HIS GREASE IN THE SAME WAY.  SPATC LOOKED AS     TH02101740
IF HE DID NOT BELIEVE HIM, BUT SAID NOTHING.  SNIKIA'P PRESENTLY      TH02101750
TOOK HIS LEAVE, CARRYING THE REMAINS OF THEIR DINNER HOME WITH HIM    TH02101760
IN THE BEAR'S DISH.  THE VERY NEXT DAY SPATC TOOK IT INTO HIS HEAD    TH02101770
TO RETURN SNIKIA'P'S VISIT AND GET BACK HIS DISH.  SO JUST BEFORE     TH02101780
DINNER-TIME HE DROPPED IN ON SNIKIA'P.  THE LATTER MADE A GREAT       TH02101790
SHOW OF WELCOMING HIM, AND PRESENTLY, WHEN DINNER-TIME CAME, GOT UP   TH02101800
TO GET THE DINNER.  HAVING NO BERRIES, HE PUT THE EMPTY DISH BEFORE   TH02101810
THE FIRE AS HE HAD SEEN SPATC DO, THEN WASHED HIS PAWS, AND,          TH02101820
SEATING HIMSELF BEFORE THE FIRE, HELD THEM TOWARDS THE FLAMES.  IN    TH02101830
A VERY LITTLE WHILE THE HEAT BEGAN TO TRY HIM AND HIS PAWS BEGAN TO   TH02101840
SMART; BUT HE WOULD NOT LET SPATC SEE IT, AND CONTINUED TO HOLD       TH02101850
THEM BEFORE THE FIRE. PRESENTLY THE PAIN MADE HIM GROAN AND WRITHE.   TH02101860
"WHAT IS THE MATTER?"  SAID SPATC, WHO HAD BEEN CLOSELY OBSERVING     TH02101870
HIM.  ANSWERED SNIKIA'P, "THE GREASE DOES NOT RUN FREELY THIS     ,   TH02101880
MORNING, AND I FEEL THE HEAT A LITTLE."  "YOU DO NOT PUT THEM CLOSE   TH02101890
ENOUGH TO THE FIRE," REPLIED SPATC.  SNIKIA'P PUT HIS PAWS STILL      TH02101900
CLOSER TO THE FIRE, AND KEPT THEM THERE TILL THE PAIN MADE HIM HOWL   TH02101910
WITH AGONY.  SPATC, IN THE MEANTIME, SMILED GRIMLY, AND WHEN          TH02101920
SNIKIA'P WOULD HAVE GIVEN UP HE GRASPED HIS PAWS IN HIS OWN AND       TH02101930
HELD THEM BEFORE THE FIRE TILL POOR SNIKIA'P'S FLESH WAS BURNT AND    TH02101940
HIS MUSCLES DRAWN AND TWISTED BY THE GREAT HEAT, SAYING AS HE DID     TH02101950
SO, "LET ME HOLD YOUR PAWS FOR YOU, DEAR FRIEND."  WHEN HE THOUGHT    TH02101960
SNIKIA'P HAD BEEN SUFFICIENTLY PUNISHED FOR HIS HUMBUGGING AND        TH02101970
INSINCERITY HE LET HIM GO, AND PICKING UP HIS DISH WENT OFF HOME,     TH02101980
LEAVING SNIKIA'P IN A SAD AND DISABLED CONDITION.  IT WAS SOME TIME   TH02101990
BEFORE HIS PAWS HEALED UP, AND EVEN THEN THEY WERE NOT AS BEFORE.     TH02102000
THE CORDS AND MUSCLES HAD BEEN SO SEVERELY SCORCHED THAT THEY         TH02102010
REMAINED CONTRACTED, AND HE COULD NEVER AGAIN STRETCH OUT HIS PAWS AS TH02102020
BEFORE.                                                               TH02102030
     THUS WAS SNIKIA'P THE IMPOSTER PUNISHED BY SPATC, AND THUS IT    TH02102040
IS THAT THE COYOTE'S PAWS ARE CONTRACTED AND BENT TO THIS VERY DAY.   TH02102050
***THO-078***
          TH022 STORY OF HA'NNI'S WIFE AND THE REVENGE OF HER SON.    TH02200010
     A LONG TIME AGO THERE LIVED AT TL'K'UMTCIN (LYTTON) A CHIEF      TH02200020
WHO HAD AN ONLY DAUGHTER WHO WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL.  THE GIRL LED A      TH02200030
VERY SECLUDED LIFE, NEVER BEING PERMITTED TO MIX WITH THE OTHER       TH02200040
GIRLS OR LEAVE THE HOUSE EXCEPT AT NIGHT.  THE MAID GETS VERY TIRED   TH02200050
OF THIS DREARY KIND OF LIFE, AND ONE DAY BEGS HER MOTHER TO ALLOW     TH02200060
HER TO GO OUT AND BATHE IN THE RIVER.  THE MOTHER AT LENGTH           TH02200070
CONSENTS TO HER GOING.  SHE CHOOSES A SECLUDED SPOT ON THE RIVER'S    TH02200080
BANK, DISROBES THERE, AND ENTERS THE WATER AND SWIMS ABOUT.  AS SHE   TH02200090
WAS THUS ENGAGED THE YOUNG MEN OF THE SALMON TRIBE CAME UP THE        TH02200100
RIVER.  THEY CAME WITH THE INTENTION OF SEEKING HER IN MARRIAGE, SO   TH02200110
RENOWNED HAD SHE BECOME ON ACCOUNT OF HER BEAUTY.  FOUR OF HER        TH02200120
SALMON SUITORS CAME UP IN THEIR CANOE.  THREE OF THESE WERE NAMED     TH02200130
RESPEVTIVELY KOIE'YA (SPRING SALMON), SWAAS ("SOCKEYE" SALMON), AND   TH02200140
HA'NNI (HUMP-BACK SALMON).  THEY HAPPENED TO LAND JUST WHERE THE      TH02200150
GIRL WAS BATHING.  AT FIRST SHE DID NOT SEE THEM, BUT PRESENTLY,      TH02200160
WHEN THEY HAD LANDED AND SHE WAS ABOUT TO COME OUT OF THE WATER,      TH02200170
SHE CAUGHT SIGHT OF THEM.  BEING NAKED, SHE FEELS ABASHED AND         TH02200180
ASHAMED, AND SITS DOWN IN THE WATER TO HIDE HER PERSON, AND ASKS      TH02200190
THEM TO GIVE HER HER CLOTHES.  THE SALMON REPLY THAT THEY HAVE COME   TH02200200
TO TAKE HER AWAY.  THEY GIVE HER THE CLOTHES AND TAKE HER AWAY WITH   TH02200210
THEM TO THE COAST WITHOUT FURTHER CEREMONY.  THEY CAST LOTS WHOSE     TH02200220
WIFE OF THEM SHE SHALL BE, AND HA'NNI THE HUMPBACK SALMON GETS HER.   TH02200230
SHE BECOMES HIS WIFE, AND A SON IS BORN TO THEM.  IN THE MEANTIME     TH02200240
THE PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF THE GIRL MAKE DILIGENT SEARCH AND          TH02200250
INQUIRIES FOR HER EVERYWHERE, BUT CAN HEAR NOTHING OF HER.  THEY      TH02200260
SUPPOSE SHE HAS BEEN DROWNED.  THE FOLLOWING YEAR THE HUMPBACK        TH02200270
SALMON HUSBAND, ACCOMPANIED BY ALL THE OTHER FISH, CANOED UP THE      TH02200280
RIVER TO THE GIRL'S OLD HOME AT LYTTON.  AS THEY NEARED THE PLACE     TH02200290
TWO LITTLE RIVER FISH, THE TCOKTCI' AND THE NI'NEKTCIN, HASTENED ON   TH02200300
BEFORE AND TOLD THE PARENTS THAT THEIR DAUGHTER WAS RETURNING WITH    TH02200310
THE COAST FISH.  EVERYBODY IS DELIGHTED TO HEAR THE NEWS, AND THE     TH02200320
PEOPLE PAINT THEIR FACES WHITE AND RED TO SHOW THEIR JOY.  THE NEWS   TH02200330
OF HER ARRIVAL SOON SPREADS FAR AND WIDE, AND THE PEOPLE OF           TH02200340
NICOLA HEARD OF IT AMONG THE REST.  NOW AT THIS PLACE THERE WERE      TH02200350
MANY NOTABLE MEN.  FOUR OF THESE, NAMED RESPECTIVELY KOI'EKIN         TH02200360
(WOLVERINE), N'QOENI'KEN (BADGER?), QUA'KQOC (MARTEN), AND TCITC'Q    TH02200370
(WEASEL), DETERMINED TO GO DOWN TO LYTTON AND CARRY THE GIRL OFF.     TH02200380
THEY ARRIVED DURING THE NIGHT.  WHEN THEY GOT THERE A GREAT           TH02200390
GAMBLING BOUT WAS GOING ON IN THE KEEKWILEE-HOUSE OF THE FATHER OF    TH02200400
THE GIRL.  ALL THE FISH PEOPLE WERE THERE, AS WELL AS THE CHIEF'S     TH02200410
OWN FRIENDS.  A BIG FIRE HAD BEEN BUILT TO LIGHT UP THE HOUSE, THAT   TH02200420
EVERYBODY MIGHT WATCH THE GAME.  THE LARGE CROWD OF PEOPLE AND THE    TH02200430
BIG FIRE MADE THE HOUSE VERY WARM.  THE DAUGHTER BEGINS TO FEEL THE   TH02200440
HEAT VERY TRYING.  PRESENTLY SHE CAN STAND IT NO LONGER, AND ASKS     TH02200450
TO BE ALLOWED TO GO OUT AND GET SOME FRESH AIR.  SHE IS PERMITTED     TH02200460
TO PASS, AND CLIMBS THE NOTCHED POLE THAT LED THROUGH THE SMOKE-      TH02200470
HOLE.  THE FOUR NICOLA MEN ARE JUST OUTSIDE, AND HAVE OBSERVED ALL    TH02200480
THAT TOOK PLACE.  THEY SEE THE GIRL CLIMBING THE POLE BELOW THEM,     TH02200490
AND WHEN HER HEAD APPEARS AT THE OPENING TCITC'Q THE WEASEL MAKES A   TH02200500
JUMP, AND PASSES THROUGH HER MOUTH INTO HER STOMACH.  THE GIRL IS     TH02200510
UNCONSCIOUS OF WHAT HAS TAKEN PLACE, SHE ONLY SUDDENLY FEELS SICK.    TH02200520
WHEN HER HEAD IS OUT OF THE SMOKE-HOLE QUA'KQOC THE MARTEN LEAPS      TH02200530
INTO HER MOUTH AND PASSES INTO HER STOMACH.  THE GIRL AT THIS FEELS   TH02200540
AS IF SHE WERE HALF DEAD, AND HASTENS TO GET OUTSIDE.  BUT WHEN SHE   TH02200550
IS PARTLY OUT N'QOENI'KEN THE BADGER MAKES A LEAP, AND PASSES ALSO    TH02200560
INTO HER STOMACH.  SHE IS FAINTING NOW AS SHE STEPS OUT FROM THE      TH02200570
HOLE; AND WHEN KOI'EKIN THE WOLVERINE FOLLOWS HIS FELLOWS AND         TH02200580
JUMPS INTO HER STOMACH SHE FALLS DOWN DEAD.  A LITTLE LATER, WHEN     TH02200590
THE OTHERS COME OUT, THEY FIND HER LYING DEAD ON THE GROUND.          TH02200600
EVERYBODY IS IN GREAT DISTRESS, AND THE GREATEST MEDICINE-MAN OF      TH02200610
THE DISTRICT IS CALLED IN TO SEE IF HE CAN RESTORE HER TO LIFE        TH02200620
AGAIN.  HE PERFORMS A GREAT DANCE, BUT ALL TO NO PURPOSE.  THE        TH02200630
YOUNG WOMAN REMAINS DEAD.  OTHER MEDICINE-MEN NOW TRY THEIR SKILL,    TH02200640
BUT WITH NO BETTER SUCCESS.  THEY DESIST FROM THEIR EFFORTS TO        TH02200650
RESTORE HER, AND NEXT DAY THEY BURY HER.  THE PARTY NOW BREAKS UP,    TH02200660
EVERYBODY BEING VERY SAD.  THE SALMON AND COAST FISH RETURN HOME      TH02200670
AGAIN. THE NIGHT FOLLOWING, THE NICOLA CHIEFS, WHO HAD CAUSED HER     TH02200680
DEATH IN THE WAY RELATED, NOW RESTORE HER TO LIFE, AND RETURN WITH    TH02200690
HER TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY.  HERE THE YOUNG WOMAN LIVES WITH THEM.      TH02200700
IN COURSE OF TIME A RUMOUR OF HER PRESENCE AMONG THE NICOLA TRIBE     TH02200710
REACHES HER OWN PEOPLE.  WORD IS SENT ALL ROUND TO ALL THE CAMPS      TH02200720
AND TO ALL THE FISH PEOPLE OF THE COAST.  A MEETING IS CONVENED AT    TH02200730
WHICH WAR IS DECLARED BY THE FISH TRIBE AGAINST THE NICOLA PEOPLE,    TH02200740
WHO ARE ALL MEMBERS OF THE ANIMAL TRIBE.  ALL THE COAST FISH, WITH    TH02200750
HO'ATL THE STURGEON AT THEIR HEAD, SWARM UP THE FRASER TO NICOLA.     TH02200760
IN SUCH NUMBERS DID THEY COME THAT THE UPPER RIVER WAS TOO NARROW     TH02200770
AND CONFINED TO HOLD THEM ALL.  A FIERCE BATTLE NOW TAKES PLACE       TH02200780
BETWEEN THE FISH OF THE COAST AND THE ANIMALS OF NICOLA.  THE         TH02200790
ANIMALS CAME IN FROM ALL PARTS TO HELP THEIR FRIENDS AT NICOLA, AND   TH02200800
AFTER A BLOODY CONFLICT THE FISH ARE BEATEN, AND GREAT NUMBERS OF     TH02200810
THEM ARE KILLED.  THOSE THAT ESCAPED FROM THE FIGHT ARE FOLLOWED BY   TH02200820
THE VICTORIOUS ANIMALS, AND NOT ONE OF THEM, EXCEPT THE MIGHTY        TH02200830
ARMOURED STURGEON, ESCAPES TO GET BACK TO THE COAST AGAIN.  EVEN      TH02200840
THE GREAT STURGEON IS OFTEN HARDPRESSED, AND OBLIGED TO USE           TH02200850
STRATEGY TO GET AWAY FROM HIS PURSUERS.  IT IS TO HIS EFFORTS TO      TH02200860
THUS ESCAPE THAT THE WINDS AND TURNS AND ANGLES IN THE FRASER ARE     TH02200870
DUE.  HE CAUSED THEM TO APPEAR WHEN HIS PURSUERS WERE GETTING TOO     TH02200880
NEAR AND EMBARRASSING HIM.                                            TH02200890
     WHEN THE STURGEON CHIEF GETS BACK TO THE COAST, THE SON OF THE   TH02200900
CAPTURED WOMAN IS MUCH GRIEVED TO HEAR OF THE DISASTER WHICH HAS      TH02200910
BEFALLEN HIS TRIBE, AND HE DETERMINES TO AVENGE THE SLAUGHTER OF      TH02200920
HIS FRIENDS WHEN OLDER.  HE THEREUPON UNDERGOES A COURSE OF           TH02200930
DISCIPLINE AND EXCERCISE TO FIT HIMSELF TO BECOME A POWERFUL          TH02200940
MEDICINE MAN.  IN COURSE OF TIME HE ACQUIRES GREAT POWER.  HE NOW     TH02200950
DETERMINED TO TAKE HIS REVENGE UPON THE NICOLA MEN.  HE GOES UP THE   TH02200960
RIVER, AND IN TIME GETS TO NICOLA.  WHEN HE ARRIVES HE GOES TO        TH02200970
WHERE HIS MOTHER IS.  SHE DOES NOT RECOGNISE HIM IN THE TALL AND      TH02200980
HANDSOME MAN BEFORE HER.  THE PEOPLE ARE MUCH SURPRISED AT THE        TH02200990
VISIT OF THE STRANGER, BUT TREAT HIM HOSPITABLY.  THEY INQUIRE FROM   TH02201000
WHAT DIRECTION HE COMES.  HE ANSWERS:  "FROM BELOW."  THE GRIZZLY,    TH02201010
THE BLACK-BEAR, THE BADGER, THE WOLVERINE, THE WEASEL, THE WOLF,      TH02201020
AND THE COYOTE SUGGEST THAT THEY SHALL HOLD A GREAT DANCE AND TEST    TH02201030
THEIR MEDICINE POWERS AGAINST THAT OF THE STRANGER.  HE AGREES, AND   TH02201040
THAT SAME NIGHT A GREAT MEDICINE DANCE IS HELD.  THEY FIRST LET THE   TH02201050
FIRE OUT, AND THEN THEY BEGAN THE CONTEST , ONE BY ONE.  THE BLACK-    TH0220106
BEAR OPENS THE DANCE, BUT HE IS A FAILURE.  THE OTHERS FOLLOW IN      TH02201070
DUE ORDER, BUT NONE OF THEM IS ABLE TO DO ANYTHING VERY WONDERFUL     TH02201080
TILL SNIKIA'P THE COYOTE COMES FORWARD.  SNIKIA'P HAS POWER OVER      TH02201090
THE NORTH WIND, AND CAN SUMMON IT AT HIS WILL.  WHEN HE BEGINS TO     TH02201100
DANCE THE WIND BEGINS TO RISE.  AS HE PROCEEDS AND HIS DANCING        TH02201110
QUICKENS, THE WIND INCREASES IN FORCE AND VOLUME, TILL PRESENTLY      TH02201120
THE VERY LADDER IS SHAKING AND THE SNOW IS FALLLING FAST. THIS DANCE  TH02201130
IS CONSIDERED A GREAT SUCCESS BY HIS COMPANIONS.  WHEN HE  STOPS,     TH02201140
THE WIND AND SNOWS STOP TOO.  IT IS NOW THE STRANGER'S TURN.          TH02201150
BEFORE HE BEGINS HE GOES TO HIS MOTHER AND TELLS HER SHE MUST GO      TH02201160
OUTSIDE.  SHE LEAVES THE KEEKWILEE-HOUSE.  AS SOON AS SHE IS GONE     TH02201170
HE BEGINS HIS DANCE, SINGING AS HE DANCES A FIRE SONG: "O'I, O'I,     TH02201180
O'I, O'I," &C.  SPARKS NOW BEGAN TO FLY ABOUT, AND PRESENTLY SHEETS   TH02201190
OF FLAME APPEAR, AND IN A SHORT TIME THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE, AND        TH02201200
EVERYONE IS MUCH FRIGHTENED.  THE STRANGER STOPS AND UTTERS THE       TH02201210
WORD AHO'SA, AND THE FIRE DISAPPEARS. SNIKIA'P NOW DANCES A SECOND    TH02201220
TIME, AND AGAIN THE COLD NORTH WIND AND THE SNOW APPEAR.  HA'NNI'S    TH02201230
SON EXHIBITS HIS POWER AGAIN IN LIKE MANNER, AND IS FOLLOWED A        TH02201240
THIRD TIME BY SNIKIA'P.  THE YOUNG MAN NOW FINDS THAT HE HAS THE      TH02201250
STRONGEST MEDICINE, AND PREPARES TO CARRY OUT HIS SCHEME OF           TH02201260
REVENGE.  HE COMMENCES TO DANCE A THIRD TIME.  THIS TIME HE SINGS     TH02201270
HIS FIRE SONG LOUDER, AND DANCES MORE RAPIDLY.  SOON THE FLAMES       TH02201280
SPREAD EVERYWHERE.  THEY BURN THE HOUSE AND THE PEOPLE, AND WHEN      TH02201290
EVERYTHING IS WELL ON FIRE HE GIVES A GREAT JUMP, AND LEAPS OUT       TH02201300
THROUGH THE SMOKE-HOLE.  EVERYBODY IS DESTROYED BY THE FIRE, AND      TH02201310
THE SLAUGHTER OF HIS TRIBE IS THUS AVENGED.  HE NOW RETURNS TO THE    TH02201320
COAST, TAKING HIS MOTHER BACK WITH HIM.                               TH02201330
     THE N'TLAKA'PAMUQ INDIANS ACCOUNT FOR THE PRESENCE OF THE FISH   TH02201340
IN THE RIVERS UP COUNTRY BY SAYING THAT WHEN THE NICOLA ANIMALS       TH02201350
KILLED THE COAST FISH THE SPAWN OF MANY OF THE LATTER WAS LEFT IN     TH02201360
THE STREAMS, WHICH LATER DEVELOPED INTO FISH.  ONE OF THE EFFECTS,    TH02201370
THOUGH, OF THE GREAT LICKING THE FISH GOT IS SEEN, THEY BELIEVE, IN   TH02201380
THE FORM OF THE DESCENDANTS OF SOME OF THEM.  FOR INSTANCE, THE       TH02201390
FLAT-HEADED RIVER-COD IS SAID TO HAVE INHERITED HIS FLAT HEAD FROM    TH02201400
HIS ANCESTOR, WHO WAS KILLED BY A A GREAT BLOW, WHICH KNOCKED HIS     TH02201410
HEAD FLAT.                                                            TH02201420
***THO-079***
          TH023 MYTH OF SKAUKW AND KWAIETEK; OR, THE ORIGIN OF        TH02300010
          TH023 DAYLIGHT                                              TH02300020
     VERY LONG AGO IN THE ANCIENT DAYS IT WAS ALWAYS DARK, THE        TH02300030
DAYLIGHT BEING THEN SHUT UP IN A BOX AND CAREFULLY STOWED AWAY IN THE TH02300040
DWELLING OF KWAIETEK, THE SEA-GULL, WHO ALONE POSSESSED IT.  THIS     TH02300050
CONDITION OF THINGS HAD GONE ON FOR A LONG TIME WHEN SKAUKW, THE      TH02300060
RAVEN, DETERMINED TO MAKE HIS BROTHER, KWAIETEK, SHARE HIS PRECIOUS   TH02300070
TREASURE WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD.  SO ONE DAY HE MADE SOME         TH02300080
TORCHES, AND, LIGHTING SOME, WENT DOWN TO THE BEACH AND SOUGHT,       TH02300090
WHEN THE TIDE WAS OUT, FOR SKWATSAI (SEA-URCHIN'S EGGS).  HAVING      TH02300100
FOUND AS MANY AS HE REQUIRED, HE TOOK THEM HOME, AND, AFTER EATING    TH02300110
THE CONTENTS, PLACED THE EMPTY SHELLS WITH THEIR SPINES STILL         TH02300120
ATTACHED TO THEM ON A PLATTER.  STEALTHILY TAKING THESE TO            TH02300130
KWAIETEK'S HOUSE, HE SPREAD THEM OVER HIS DOORSTEP, SO THAT HE        TH02300140
COULD NOT COME OUT WITHOUT TREADING UPON THEM AND RUNNING THE         TH02300150
SPINES INTO HIS FEET.  NEXT MORNING WHEN SEA-GULL CAME OUT OF HIS     TH02300160
DWELLING, HE TROD UPON THE SHELLS AND RAN SEVERAL OF THE SHARP        TH02300170
SPINES INTO HIS NAKED FEET, WHICH MADE THEM SO SORE THAT HE WAS       TH02300180
OBLIGED TO KEEP INDOORS AND NURSE THEM.  LATER ON IN THE DAY RAVEN    TH02300190
CAME ALONG OSTENSIBLY TO PAY A FRIENDLY VISIT, BUT REALLY TO SEE      TH02300200
HOW FAR HIS STRATAGEM FOR PROCURING THE SKWAIL OR DAYLIGHT HAD BEEN   TH02300210
SUCCESSFUL.  HE FOUND SEA-GULL LAID UP, UNABLE TO WALK.  'WHAT IS     TH02300220
THE MATTER, BROTHER KWAIETEK?'  SAID RAVEN.--'OH,' RESPONDED HE, 'I   TH02300230
THINK SOME OF YOUR CHILDREN MUST HAVE BEEN PLAYING ON MY DOORSTEP     TH02300240
LAST NIGHT AND LEFT SOME SEA-EGGS THERE; FOR THIS MORNING, AS I WAS   TH02300250
LEAVING THE HOUSE, I TROD UPON SOME, AND THE SPINES MUST HAVE         TH02300260
PIERCED MY FEET, AND NOW THEY ARE SO SORE AND SWOLLEN IN              TH02300270
CONSEQUENCE THAT I CANNOT PUT THEM TO THE GROUND WITHOUT PAIN.'--     TH02300280
'LET ME LOOK AT THEM,' SAID SKAUKW; 'PERHAPS I CAN FIND THE SPINES    TH02300290
AND TAKE THEM OUT FOR YOU,'  SO SAYING, HE TOOK HOLD OF ONE OF HIS    TH02300300
BROTHER'S FEET AND PRETENDED TO TAKE OUT THE SEA-URCHIN'S SPINES      TH02300310
WITH HIS STONE KNIFE.  HE DUG THE INSTRUMENT IN SO ROUGHLY AND GAVE   TH02300320
SEA-GULL SO MUCH PAIN, THAT THE LATTER CRIED OUT IN HIS AGONY.  'AM   TH02300330
I HURTING YOU?'  QUESTIONED RAVEN.  'IT IS SO DARK I CANNOT           TH02300340
PROPERLY SEE WHAT I AM DOING.  OPEN YOUR SKWAIL-BOX A LITTLE AND I    TH02300350
SHALL BE ABLE TO SEE BETTER.'  SEA-GULL DID AS THE OTHER SUGGESTED,   TH02300360
AND SLIGHTLY OPENED THE LID OF THE BOX IN WHICH HE KEPT THE           TH02300370
DAYLIGHT.  SKAUKW CONTINUED, HOWEVER, TO HACK AWAY AT HIS FOOT        TH02300380
UNDER PRETENCE OF TAKING THE SPINES OUT, AND PRESENTLY SEA-GULL       TH02300390
CRIED OUT AGAIN.  'IT IS YOUR OWN FAULT IF I HURT YOU,' SAID RAVEN.   TH02300400
'WHY DON'T YOU GIVE ME MORE LIGHT?  HERE, LET ME HAVE THE BOX.'       TH02300410
HIS BROTHER GAVE HIM THE BOX, CAUTIONING HIM THE WHILE TO BE          TH02300420
CAREFUL AND NOT OPEN THE LID TOO WIDE.  'ALL RIGHT,' SAID RAVEN;      TH02300430
AND HE OPENED THE LID ABOUT HALF-WAY.  THEN HE MADE AS IF TO          TH02300440
CONTINUE HIS OPERATION ON KWAIETEK'S FOOT, BUT AS SOON AS HE TURNED   TH02300450
ROUND HE SWIFTLY THREW THE LID OF THE BOX WIDE OPEN, AND ALL THE      TH02300460
DAYLIGHT RUSHED OUT AT ONCE AND SPREAD ITSELF ALL OVER THE WORLD,     TH02300470
AND COULD NEVER BE GATHERED IN AGAIN.  WHEN KWAIETEK PERCEIVED WHAT   TH02300480
SKAUKW HAD DONE, AND THAT HIS PRECIOUS SKWAIL WAS GONE FROM HIM, HE   TH02300490
WAS GREATLY DISTRESSED, AND CRIED AND WEPT BITTERLY, AND WOULD NOT    TH02300500
BE COMFORTED.                                                         TH02300510
     THUS IT IS THAT THE SEA-GULLS TO THIS DAY NEVER CEASE TO UTTER   TH02300520
THEIR PLAINTIVE CRY OF K'N-NI---NI--K'N-NI---I.                       TH02300530
***THO-080***
          TH024 MYTH OF THE MAN WHO BROUGHT HIS WIFE FROM THE         TH02400010
          TH024 LAND OF THE DEPARTED                                  TH02400020
     ONCE A MAN MARRIED A WOMAN WHOM HE DEEPLY LOVED.  THEY HAD       TH02400030
LIVED TOGETHER ABOUT A YEAR WHEN THE WOMAN BECAME ILL, AND SHORTLY    TH02400040
AFTERWARDS DIED.  WHEN HE HAD PUT HER CORPSE AWAY, HE WENT A LONG     TH02400050
WAY OFF INTO THE MOUNTAINS TO SEEK SUPERNATURAL POWERS.  HE BATHED    TH02400060
REGULARLY EVERY DAY THROUGH FOUR SUMMERS AND FOUR WINTERS.  WHEN HE   TH02400070
HAD THUS DONE HE ATTAINED WHAT HE SOUGHT.  HE COULD EASILY SEE THE    TH02400080
SHADES OF THE DEPARTED, AND EVEN FOLLOW THE TRAILS THEY MADE.  HE     TH02400090
SOUGHT AND FOUND THE TRAIL HIS WIFE'S GHOST HAD MADE ON HER WAY TO    TH02400100
THE LAND OF THE DEPARTED.                                             TH02400110
     HE FOLLOWED IT DAY AFTER DAY FOR MANY DAYS.  AT LAST HE CAME     TH02400120
TO A SETTLEMENT WHERE THERE WAS A LONG-HOUSE.  PRESENTLY GOING IN     TH02400130
HE SAW THE CHIEF SITTING THERE ALONE.  HE CALLED OUT AND ASKED HIM    TH02400140
WHAT HE WANTED, AND WHAT HE WAS DOING IN THE LAND OF THE DEPARTED.    TH02400150
'YOU ARE NOT A DEAD PERSON, ONLY THE DEAD LIVE HERE; WHY HAVE YOU     TH02400160
COME?'                                                                TH02400170
     THE YOUNG MAN REPLIED, 'I AM SEEKING FOR MY DECEASED WIFE.  I    TH02400180
LOVE HER GREATLY, AND SHE LEFT ME TOO SOON; I WANT TO LIVE WITH HER   TH02400190
AGAIN.'  THE CHIEF FELT SORRY FOR HIM AND PROMISED TO HELP HIM, IF    TH02400200
HE WOULD DO AS HE TOLD HIM.  THE YOUNG MAN  THANKED HIM, AND          TH02400210
PROMISED TO COMPLY WITH ALL HIS WISHES.  THEN THE CHIEF TOOK HIM      TH02400220
AND WASHED HIM WITH A CERTAIN MYSTIC 'MEDICINE,' AND THEN             TH02400230
INSTRUCTED HIM ON THIS WISE:  'YOU MUST NOW HIDE YOURSELF, AND IF     TH02400240
YOU SEE YOUR WIFE, WHEN MY PEOPLE COME HOME, YOU MUST BE VERY         TH02400250
CAREFUL NOT TO LET HER SEE YOU, OR ATTEMPT TO GRASP OR TOUCH HER.     TH02400260
IF YOU DO, EVERYBODY WILL IMMEDIATELY DISAPPEAR, AND YOUR WIFE WILL   TH02400270
DISSOLVE IN YOUR ARMS.'  THE YOUTH PROMISED NOT TO LET THE DEAD       TH02400280
PEOPLE SEE HIM AND NOT TO TOUCH HIS WIFE.  AS IT WAS NOW DUSK, AND    TH02400290
THE CHIEF WAS MOMENTARILY EXPECTING HIS PEOPLE TO COME HOME, HE       TH02400300
BADE HIM HIDE HIMSELF.  THIS THE YOUTH DID, AND PRESENTLY SAW A       TH02400310
GREAT CONCOURSE OF PEOPLE APPROACHING.  WHEN THE FIRST ONE ENTERED    TH02400320
THE HOUSE, HE BEGAN TO SNIFF, AND SAID, 'I SMELL A LIVING PERSON.'    TH02400330
--'NONSENSE,' SAID THE CHIEF, 'THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE; ONLY THE DEAD CAN   TH02400340
COME HERE.'  THIS SATISFIED THE SPIRITS, AND THEY ALL ENTERED THE     TH02400350
BUILDING.  NOW, ALL ROUND THE SIDES THEREOF WERE PLANTED SWING-       TH02400360
POLES FOR HANGING CRADLES UPON, AND AS SOON AS THE PEOPLE WERE        TH02400370
COME IN, THE WOMEN HUNG UP ON THESE POLES THE CRADLES THEY WERE       TH02400380
CARRYING.                                                             TH02400390
     THEY NOW BEGAN TO DANCE, AND AFTER THEY HAD KEPT THIS UP FOR     TH02400400
SOME TIME, THEY MARCHED IN SINGLE FILE ROUND THE HOUSE FOUR TIMES.    TH02400410
THE YOUTH SAW HIS WIFE IN THE LINE AS THEY MARCHED PAST THE SPOT      TH02400420
WHERE HE WAS HIDING, AND WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY RESTRAINED HIS         TH02400430
DESIRE TO SPRING FORTH AND TAKE HER IN HIS ARMS.  NEXT MORNING AT     TH02400440
SUNRISE THE SPIRIT-PEOPLE ALL DISAPPEARED.                            TH02400450
     WHEN THEY WERE GONE, THE CHIEF SPENT THE DAY IN WASHING AND      TH02400460
CLEANSING HIS VISITOR WITH STRONG 'MEDICINE.'  WHEN THE SECOND        TH02400470
NIGHT FELL HE HID THE YOUNG MAN AGAIN, AND WARNED HIM NOT TO BE       TH02400480
SEEN OF THE SPIRITS OR TO TOUCH HIS WIFE.  PRESENTLY THE SPIRIT-      TH02400490
PEOPLE ARRIVED, AND, AS ON THE NIGHT BEFORE, THEY BEGAN TO SNIFF AS   TH02400500
THEY ENTER THE HOUSE, AND SOME CRY OUT THAT THEY SMELL A LIVING       TH02400510
PERSON.  THE CHIEF AGAIN TELLS THE  THEY ARE MISTAKEN, THAT NO        TH02400520
LIVING PERSON COULD POSSIBLY BE THERE.  THEN THEY ALL ENTER, AND      TH02400530
THE CRADLES ARE HUNG UP, AND THE DANCING BEGINS.  WHEN THIS IS        TH02400540
DONE, THEY MARCH AS BEFORE IN SINGLE FILE ALL ROUND THE BUILDING.     TH02400550
AGAIN THE YOUNG MAN WITH DIFFICULTY RESTRAINED HIMSELF FROM           TH02400560
SPRINGING OUT UPON HIS WIFE, SO STRONG WAS HIS DESIRE TO HOLD HER     TH02400570
IN HIS ARMS; BUT REMEMBERING HIS PROMISE TO THE CHIEF, AND THE        TH02400580
CONSEQUENCES THAT WOULD FOLLOW HIS ACTION, HE KEPT HIMSELF HIDDEN.    TH02400590
NEXT DAY THE CHIEF WASHED THE YOUTH AGAIN IN HIS MEDICINE, AND WHEN   TH02400600
THE SPIRITS RETURNED THAT EVENING THEY ENTERED WITHOUT HESITATION     TH02400610
OR REMARK.  WHEN THEY WERE MARCHING ROUND THE HOUSE THAT NIGHT, THE   TH02400620
DESIRE TO TAKE HIS WIFE IN HIS ARMS WAS TOO STRONG FOR THE YOUNG      TH02400630
MAN TO RESIST, AND AS SHE PASSED BY HIM, HE SPRANG OUT AND CAUGHT     TH02400640
HER.  NO SOONER HAD HE DONE SO THAN SHE AND ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE      TH02400650
DISAPPEARED, BABIES AND CRADLES AND ALL; AND HE WAS LEFT GRASPING     TH02400660
NOTHING BUT THE EMPTY AIR.  THE CHIEF CHID HIM FOR HIS LACK OF        TH02400670
SELF-RESTRAINT, AND TOLD HIM HE SHOULD HAVE WAITED ONE NIGHT          TH02400680
LONGER.  NEXT DAY HE WASHED HIM IN THE MEDICINE AGAIN, AND IN THE     TH02400690
EVENING THE SPIRIT-PEOPLE RETURNED AND ENTERED THE HOUSE AS USUAL.    TH02400700
AGAIN THEY DANCED AND MARCHED ROUND.  WHEN THEY HAD JUST COMPLETED    TH02400710
THE FOURTH ROUND, THE YOUNG MAN, ACTING ON THE ADVICE OF THE CHIEF,   TH02400720
SPRANG OUT AND SEIZED HIS WIFE, AND THIS TIME SHE REMAINED IN HIS     TH02400730
ARMS, NOR DID ANY OF THE OTHER SPIRIT-PEOPLE DISAPPEAR.  THE CHIEF    TH02400740
IMMEDIATELY THREW SOME OF HIS MEDICINE UPON THE MAN AND HIS WIFE,     TH02400750
AND THIS ENABLED THEM TO REMAIN TOGETHER.  NEXT DAY THE WIFE STAYED   TH02400760
BEHIND WITH HER HUSBAND WHEN THE OTHERS WENT OUT.  DURING THE DAY     TH02400770
THE CHIEF SPOKE ON THIS WISE TO THE MAN:  'TO-MORROW YOUR WIFE WILL   TH02400780
BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BEGIN THE JOURNEY BACK TO THE LIVING WORLD WITH   TH02400790
YOU, BUT IF YOU WISH TO GET HOME AGAIN WITH HER, YOU MUST BE          TH02400800
CAREFUL TO FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS.  YOU MUST ON NO ACCOUNT SEEK TO    TH02400810
ENJOY YOUR MARITAL RIGHTS, YOU MUST NOT EVEN LIE NEAR HER.  CAMP      TH02400820
EARLY EACH DAY, AND LIGHT A BIG FIRE BEFORE SUNSET, AND KEEP IT       TH02400830
BURNING WELL ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT; AND YOU SLEEP ON ONE SIDE OF IT   TH02400840
AND LET HER SLEEP ON THE OTHER.'                                      TH02400850
     NEXT DAY HE SENT THEM AWAY, AND GAVE THEM A GREAT QUANTITY OF    TH02400860
PROVISIONS FOR THEIR JOURNEY, AND MANY BLANKETS AND SKINS, AND TWO    TH02400870
HORSES TO CARRY THEM.                                                 TH02400880
     TOWARDS EVENING THE MAN PITCHED HIS CAMP, LAID IN A LARGE        TH02400890
QUANTITY OF WOOD, AND LIT A BIG FIRE; AND AFTER THEY HAD EATEN,       TH02400900
THEY LAID DOWN TO SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE    TH02400910
FIRE AS THE CHIEF HAD ADVISED.                                        TH02400920
     NEXT MORNING THEY FOUND THEIR PROVISIONS AND OTHER GIFTS HAD     TH02400930
BEEN DOUBLED IN THE NIGHT, AND THEY NOW HAD FOUR HORSES, AND TWICE    TH02400940
THEIR FORMER QUANTITY OF EVERYTHING ELSE.  THIS THEY PACKED ON THE    TH02400950
SPARE HORSES AND SET OFF AGAIN.  FOR MANY DAYS THEY THUS TRAVELLED,   TH02400960
EACH NIGHT MAKING A BIG FIRE AND LYING ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF IT.  AS   TH02400970
EACH NEW DAY BROKE, THEY FOUND TWO ADDITIONAL HORSES AMONG THE        TH02400980
OTHERS, AND NEW POSSESSIONS ENOUGH TO MAKE THEM BIG PACKS.  AFTER A   TH02400990
LONG TIME HAD ELAPSED, AND THEY HAD COME FAR, THEY NEARED THEIR       TH02401000
HOME, AND CAMPED ONE DAY'S JOURNEY OUT ON A WIDE STRETCH OF PRAIRIE   TH02401010
-LAND.  BY THIS TIME THEIR HORSES HAD MULTIPLIED SUFFICIENTLY TO      TH02401020
NEARLY FILL THE WHOLE PRAIRE, AND ALL WERE WELL LADEN WITH STORES     TH02401030
OF FOOD AND SKINS AND BLANKETS.  THE PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE, ON        TH02401040
PERCEIVING NEXT MORNING THIS GREAT COMPANY OF HORSES, SENT TWO        TH02401050
YOUNG MEN OUT TO SEE WHAT IT MEANT, AND TO LEARN WHO WAS COMING.      TH02401060
WHEN THEY CAME UP WITH THE MAN AND HIS WIFE, THEY ASK WHO HE IS,      TH02401070
AND WHERE HE IS GOING.  HE TELLS THEM HE IS THE MAN WHO FORMERLY      TH02401080
LOST HIS WIFE, AND WENT TO SEEK HER IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD.  THEY    TH02401090
HURRY BACK AND TELL THE CHIEF WHO HE IS.                              TH02401100
     HE ASKS, 'HAS HE GOT HIS WIFE WITH HIM?'--'OH YES,' THEY         TH02401110
REPLY; 'WE SAW HER WITH HIM.'  BY THE TIME THEY REACHED THE           TH02401120
VILLAGE, A SIMILAR PERIOD TO THAT WHICH HE HAD SPENT IN LOOKING FOR   TH02401130
HIS WIFE HAD ELAPSED, AND SHE WAS NOW GROWN STRONG AGAIN, AND         TH02401140
ACCUSTOMED TO THE CONTACT OF LIVING PEOPLE, SO THERE WAS NO LONGER    TH02400150
ANY NEED TO KEEP APART, AND THEREAFTER HE LIVED WITH HER AS BEFORE    TH02401160
HER DEATH.  HE WAS NOW A WEALTHY MAN, AND GAVE MANY FEASTS.           TH02401161
     NOT LONG AFTER HIS RETURN, A SECOND MAN LOST HIS WIFE.  AFTER    TH02401170
HE HAD PUT THE CORPSE AWAY, HE CAME TO THE FIRST MAN, AND ASKED HIM   TH02401180
HOW HE HAD RECOVERED HIS WIFE.  HE RELATED THE WHOLE CIRCUMSTANCE,    TH02401190
KEEPING NOTHING BACK; WHEREUPON THE OTHER DETERMINED TO SET OUT AND   TH02401200
TRAIN FOR SUPERNATURAL POWERS IN LIKE MANNER.  HE DID SO, AND AT      TH02401210
THE END OF THE FOURTH YEAR, SET OFF ON HIS DECEASED WIFE'S SPIRIT-    TH02401220
TRAIL.  IN COURSE OF TIME HE ARRIVED AT THE VILLAGE OF THE GHOSTS,    TH02401230
AND WAS TREATED BY THE CHIEF AS THE OTHER HAD BEEN.  ON THE FIFTH     TH02401240
DAY HIS WIFE BEING RESTORED TO HIM, HE SET OFF HOMEWARDS WITH HER,    TH02401250
AND DULY FOLLOWED THE CHIEF'S INSTRUCTIONS UNTIL HE REACHED HIS       TH02401260
LAST CAMPING-PLACE ON THE PRAIRIE JUST OUTSIDE THE VILLAGE.  AS       TH02401270
WITH THE OTHER MAN, SO IT HAD BEEN WITH HIM; HIS HORSES AND HIS       TH02401280
PROVISIONS AND OTHER BELONGINGS HAD MULTIPLIED ON THE JOURNEY, AND    TH02401290
HE, TOO, NOW POSSESSED GREAT WEALTH.  BUT ON THIS LAST NIGHT HE       TH02401300
FAILED TO OBSERVE THE INSTRUCTIONS THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN HIM.  HIS      TH02401310
LOVE FOR HIS WIFE WAS TOO STRONG FOR HIM.  WHEN HE AWOKE NEXT         TH02401320
MORNING HE FOUND HIMSELF LYING ALL ALONE ON THE BARE GROUND, WITH     TH02401330
NO SIGN OF WIFE OR HORSES, OR OTHER POSSESSIONS TO BE SEEN            TH02401340
ANYWHERE.  THUS DID HE SUFFER FOR HIS LACK OF SELF-RESTRAINT.         TH02401350
          FOLK-TALES OF SALISHAN TRIBES
          THOMPSON TALES, BY JAMES A. TEIT
          COYOTE TALES
***THO-081***
          THE ORIGIN OF DEATH.   (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)                 TH02500010
     COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING, AND CAME TO RAVEN, A BAD, SELFISH         TH02500020
CHIEF, WHO WANTED TO MAKE EVERYTHING DIFFICULT FOR OTHER PEOPLE,      TH02500030
AND EASY FOR HIMSELF. HE WANTED THE GAME FOR HIMSELF, WANTED LONG     TH02500040
WINTERS, AND HE DID NOT WANT MAN TO BE IMMORTAL. COYOTE QUESTIONED    TH02500050
HIM AS TO WHY HE WANTED PEOPLE TO DIE. HE SAID, "IF PEOPLE WERE       TH02500060
IMMORTAL, THERE WOULD BE TOO MANY. LET THEM BECOME SICK AND DIE."     TH02500070
COYOTE SAID, "WHY SHOULD THEY DIE? DEATH WILL INTRODUCE SORROW        TH02500080
INTO THE WORLD, AND SORROW IS VERY HARD. IF THEY DIE, WHAT WILL       TH02500090
BECOME OF THEM? WHERE WILL THEY GO? LET THEM BE SICK, BUT NOT DIE."   TH02500100
RAVEN SAID, "NO, THEY MUST DIE. I DO NOT WISH OUR ENEMIES TO LIVE     TH02500110
FOREVER. IF THE PEOPLE SHOULD BECOME TOO NUMEROUS, THERE WOULD BE     TH02500120
NO FOOD, AND THEY WOULD BE HUNGRY. IT IS BETTER FOR THEM TO DIE."     TH02500130
RAVEN'S PEOPLE SUPPORTED THEIR CHIEF, AND CLAMORED FOR THE PEOPLE     TH02500140
TO DIE. RAVEN, CROW, FLY, MAGGOT, AND MANY OTHERS WANTED PEOPLE TO    TH02500150
DIE, SO THAT THEY MIGHT FEED ON CORPSES. COYOTE SAID, "LET PEOPLE     TH02500160
DIE FOR A WHILE, AND THEN COME TO LIFE AGAIN. LET DEATH BE LIKE       TH02500170
SLEEP." RAVEN SAID, "NO, IF THEY DIE, LET THEM DIE FOR GOOD, AND LET  TH02500180
THEIR BODIES ROT." AT LAST COYOTE AGREED, AND SAID, "WELL, IT IS      TH02500190
ORDAINED THAT PEOPLE SHALL DIE WHEN THEIR TIME HAS COME. THEIR        TH02500200
BODIES SHALL BE BURIED, AND THEIR SOULS SHALL GO TO THE SPIRIT-LAND;  TH02500210
BUT THIS WILL ONLY BE UNTIL THE WORLD CHANGES AGAIN, WHEN THEY WILL   TH02500220
DIE NO MORE."                                                         TH02500230
     SHORTLY AFTER THAT, RAVEN'S DAUGHTER BECAME SICK AND DIED. SHE   TH02500240
WAS THE FIRST TO DIE. RAVEN TRIED TO RESTORE HER TO LIFE, BUT         TH02500250
FAILED. THEN HE WEPT BECAUSE OF HIS DAUGHTER. HE WENT TO COYOTE,      TH02500260
AND SAID, "LET US CHANGE WHAT WE SAID BEFORE. DO NOT LET PEOPLE       TH02500270
DIE AND REMAIN DEAD FOREVER. LET US CHANGE IT]" COYOTE ANSWERED,      TH02500280
"NO, IT IS SETTLED NOW, AND CANNOT BE ALTERED." THUS IT HAPPENS       TH02500290
THAT PEOPLE DIE AND ARE BURIED.                                       TH02500300
***THO-082***
          COYOTE STEALS FIRE.   (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)                  TH02600010
     FROM THE TOP OF A MOUNTAIN COYOTE SAW A LIGHT FAR AWAY TO THE    TH02600020
SOUTH. HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT IT WAS. HE DEFECATED, AND QUESTIONED HIS  TH02600030
EXCREMENTS. THEY SAID, "THAT IS FIRE." HE MADE UP HIS MIND TO GO      TH02600040
AND GET IT. MANY PEOPLE ACCOMPANIED HIM. FOX, WOLF, ANTELOPE, AND     TH02600050
ALL THE GOOD RUNNERS WENT WITH HIM. AFTER TRAVELLING A LONG           TH02600060
DISTANCE, THEY REACHED THE HOUSE OF THE FIRE PEOPLE. THEY TOLD THEM,  TH02600070
"WE HAVE COME TO VISIT YOU, TO DANCE, TO PLAY, AND TO GAMBLE." THEY   TH02600080
PREPARED FOR A DANCE THAT NIGHT. COYOTE MADE A HEAD-DRESS OF PITCHY   TH02600090
YELLOW-PINE SHAVINGS, WITH LONG FRINGES OF DRY CEDAR-BARK REACHING    TH02600100
TO THE GROUND. THE FIRE PEOPLE DANCED FIRST. THE FIRE WAS VERY LOW.   TH02600110
THEN COYOTE AND HIS PEOPLE DANCED IN A CIRCLE AROUND THE FIRE. THEY   TH02600120
COMPLAINED THAT THEY COULD NOT SEE. THEN THE FIRE PEOPLE MADE A       TH02600130
LARGE FIRE. COYOTE COMPLAINED FOUR TIMES, AND FINALLY THEY LET THE    TH02600140
FIRE BLAZE UP HIGH. COYOTE'S PEOPLE PRETENDED TO BE VERY HOT, AND     TH02600150
WENT OUT TO COOL THEMSELVES. THEY TOOK UP POSITIONS FOR RUNNING.      TH02600160
ONLY COYOTE WAS LEFT. HE DANCED ABOUT WILDLY UNTIL HIS HEAD-DRESS     TH02600170
TOOK FIRE. HE PRETENDED TO BE AFRAID, AND REQUESTED THE FIRE          TH02600180
PEOPLE TO PUT IT OUT. THEY WARNED HIM NOT TO DANCE SO CLOSE TO THE    TH02600190
FIRE. WHEN NEAR THE DOOR, HE SWUNG THE LONG FRINGES OF HIS            TH02600200
HEAD-DRESS ACROSS THE FIRE, AND RAN OUT. THE FIRE PEOPLE PERSUED      TH02600210
HIM. HE GAVE HIS HEAD-BAND TO ANTELOPE, WHO RAN AND PASSED IT ON      TH02600220
TO THE NEXT RUNNER. THUS THEY CARRIED IT IN RELAYS. THE FIRE PEOPLE   TH02600230
CAUGHT UP WITH THE ANIMALS, AND KILLED THEM ONE BY ONE. ONLY COYOTE   TH02600240
WAS LEFT. THEY NEARLY CAUGHT UP WITH HIM; BUT HE RAN BEHIND A TREE,   TH02600250
AND GAVE THE FIRE TO IT. THEN HE CHANGED HIMSELF INTO DUNG. THE       TH02600260
FIRE PEOPLE LOOKED FOR HIS TRACKS, LOOKED UP THE TREE, AND EXAMINED   TH02600270
THE EXCREMENTS. THEY COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING. THEY CAUSED THE WIND    TH02600280
TO RISE, AND THE BURNING FRAGMENTS OF BARK THAT HAD FALLEN HERE AND   TH02600290
THERE SET FIRE TO THE GRASS. THEY SAID, "COYOTE WILL NOW BURN UP."    TH02600300
A HEAVY SMOKE AROSE, AND COYOTE ESCAPED. THE FIRE SPREAD ALL OVER     TH02600310
THE COUNTRY, AND BURNED UP MANY PEOPLE. COYOTE CAUSED A HEAVY         TH02600320
RAINFALL AND A FLOOD, WHICH PUT OUT THE FIRE. AFTER THIS THE FIRE     TH02600330
WAS IN THE TREES, AND GRASS AND TREES COULD BE USED FOR MAKING        TH02600340
FIRE. FOR THIS REASON DRY CEDAR-BARK CARRIES FIRE, AND CAN BE USED    TH02600350
FOR SLOW-MATCHES. FOR THIS REASON, ALSO, PITCH-WOOD IGNITES EASILY,   TH02600360
AND IS USED FOR STARTING FIRES. SINCE THEN THERE HAVE BEEN SMOKE      TH02600370
AND FIRE IN THE WORLD, AND THE TWO ARE INSEPARABLE. SMOKE IS          TH02600380
ALWAYS A SIGN OF FIRE, AND WIND MAKES FIRE BLAZE UP. FOR THIS         TH02600390
REASON PEOPLE BLOW ON FIRE.                                           TH02600400
***THO-083***
          COYOTE AND ELK.   (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)                      TH02700010
     AFTER COYOTE HAD INTRODUCED THE SALMON, MADE FISHING-UTENSILS,   TH02700020
AND SHOWN THE PEOPLE HOW TO FISH, PREPARE, AND CURE SALMON, HE WENT   TH02700030
TO ANOTHER COUNTRY. THE PEOPLE THERE DID NOT KNOW HOW TO HUNT. THEY   TH02700040
TRIED, BUT OBTAINED VERY LITTLE GAME, BECAUSE THE ANIMALS WERE        TH02700050
AFRAID OF THEM. THEY USED CLUBS AND STONES FOR KILLING THEM; AND AS   TH02700060
THE DEER AND OTHER GAME RUN FAST AND JUMP FAR, THEY HAD GREAT         TH02700070
DIFFICULTY IN KILLING ANYTHING. THE GAME-ANIMALS, EVEN THE DEER,      TH02700080
WERE NOT AFRAID OF THE PEOPLE, AND OFTEN CHASED THEM. SOME KINDS OF   TH02700090
GAME EVEN HUNTED AND ATE PEOPLE.                                      TH02700100
     ONE DAY COYOTE MET SOME PEOPLE RUNNING. HE ASKED THEM WHY        TH02700110
THEY WERE RUNNING. THEY SAID, "ELK IS HUNTING US. HE WILL KILL AND    TH02700120
EAT US." COYOTE SAID, "WHY DON'T YOU KILL HIM?" THEY ANSWERED,        TH02700130
"WE ARE AFRAID. HE IS MORE POWERFUL THAN WE ARE." COYOTE WENT ON,     TH02700140
AND SOON MET A BULL ELK. HE ASKED HIM WHERE HE WAS GOING; AND HE      TH02700150
SAID, "I AM HUNTING FOR MY WIVES." COYOTE ASKED HIM, "DO YOU KILL     TH02700160
PEOPLE?" AND HE ANSWERED, "YES, SOMETIMES." COYOTE TRANSFORMED        TH02700170
HIM INTO A COMMON ELK, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH PEOPLE SHALL HUNT AND      TH02700180
KILL YOU." THEN COYOTE TAUGHT THE PEOPLE HOW TO MAKE BOWS AND         TH02700190
ARROWS; HOW TO HUNT, CUT UP, AND CURE MEAT; AND HOW TO DRESS          TH02700200
SKINS. AFTER THIS THEY HUNTED DEER AND OTHER GAME.                    TH02700210
***THO-084***
          COYOTE AND DEER.   (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)                     TH02800010
     COYOTE (OR SOME OTHER BEING) SAID, "DEER WILL BE GAME AND        TH02800020
FOOD FOR THE INDIANS. THERE WILL BE DEER AS LONG AS THERE ARE         TH02800030
INDIANS. IF THE INDIANS DISAPPEAR, SO WILL THE DEER." IT WAS          TH02800040
ORDAINED THIS WAY. THE DEER WERE ALWAYS ANIMALS. THEY WERE CREATED    TH02800050
AS GAME, AND FOOD FOR PEOPLE. THEY WERE HUNTED BY THE ANCIENTS,       TH02800060
AND CONTINUE TO BE HUNTED BY THE INDIANS OF THE PRESENT DAY. SINCE    TH02800070
THEY ARE MERE GAME-ANIMALS, THEY COULD NOT ACT AS THE ANCIENTS        TH02800080
DID, AND THERE ARE NO TALES TELLING OF THEM AS HUMAN BEINGS.          TH02800090
***THO-085***
          COYOTE, FOX, AND THE SUN PEOPLE.  (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)      TH02900010
     COYOTE AND FOX (OR WOLF) WERE TRAVELLING. THEY WENT NEAR THE     TH02900020
SUN'S HOUSE. THERE THEY SAW A BAG HANGING FROM THE END OF A POLE.     TH02900030
THEY ASKED EACH OTHER, "WHAT IS IN THAT BAG?" NEITHER COULD TELL.     TH02900040
FOX SMOKED HIS PIPE, AND QUESTIONED IT. THE PIPE ANSWERED,            TH02900050
"SUN-RAYS." COYOTE DEFECATED, AND QUESTIONED HIS EXCREMENTS. THEY     TH02900060
ANSWERED, "HOT WIND." NOW, THEY DISPUTED AS TO WHO WAS RIGHT. FOX     TH02900070
TOLD COYOTE TO PULL DOWN THE BAG. COYOTE TRIED IN VAIN TO REACH       TH02900080
IT. THEN HE TRIED TO PUSH OVER THE POLE. HE JUMPED AT IT, AND TRIED   TH02900090
TO PERFORATE IT WITH THE END OF HIS ARROW-FLAKER. FINALLY HE          TH02900100
SUCCEEDED IN PIERCING IT AT THE BOTTOM, AND MADE A SMALL HOLE.        TH02900110
SOMETHING BRIGHT CAME OUT. FOX SAID, "THAT MUST BE A SUN-RAY; PULL    TH02900120
IT DOWN]" COYOTE TOOK HOLD OF IT, AND BURNED HIS HAND. FOX SAID,      TH02900130
"I WILL SHOOT IT." HE HIT THE BAG WITH A LARGE-POINTED ARROW AND      TH02900140
BURST IT. THEN THE HOT WIND AND THE SUN-RAYS CAME OUT AND MADE A      TH02900150
GREAT NOISE. COYOTE AND FOX RAN AWAY. THE PEOPLE IN THE LODGE         TH02900160
HEARD THE NOISE WHEN THE BAG BURST. THEY RAN OUT, AND PURSUED         TH02900170
COYOTE AND FOX. WHEN THESE WERE NEARLY OVERTAKEN, THEY TURNED         TH02900180
AROUND, AND THREATENED TO SHOOT THE SUN PEOPLE. THE LATTER AT         TH02900190
ONCE BECAME AFRAID, AND RAN BACK.                                     TH02900200
***THO-086***
          COYOTE TEACHES PEOPLE TO MATE  (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)         TH03000010
     COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING, AND CAME TO A COUNTRY WHERE LIVED         TH03000020
MEN AND WOMEN WHO KNEW NOT HOW TO PROPAGATE. HE SHOWED THEM           TH03000030
HOW TO MATE. THE WOMEN WOULD NOT LET HIM GO UNTIL HE WAS THOROUGHLY   TH03000040
FATIGUED. THEN HE RAN AWAY, AND THEY CHASED HIM. AFTER THAT THE       TH03000050
WOMEN OF THAT COUNTRY BORE CHILDREN.                                  TH03000060
***THO-087***
          COYOTE AND THE MARMOTS  (FROM UPPER UTA'MQT AND NICOLA      TH03100010
          VALLEY)                                                     TH03100020
     COYOTE CAME TO A PASS IN THE MOUNTAINS (SOME SAY ON UPPER        TH03100030
SALMON RIVER) INHABITED BY TWO MARMOTS, WHO SAT ONE ON EACH SIDE      TH03100040
BEHIND ROCKS. WHEN PEOPLE PASSED THROUGH, THEY CLASHED THE ROCKS      TH03100050
TOGETHER AND KILLED THEM. NOTHING COULD PASS THROUGH EXCEPT THE       TH03100060
WIND. COYOTE HEARD THEM, AND DETERMINED TO PASS THROUGH. WHEN HE      TH03100070
WAS IN THE MIDDLE, THE ROCKS BEGAN TO SHUT; BUT HE PLACED HIS         TH03100080
ARROW-FLAKER OF ANTLER ACROSS, AND THEY COULD NOT SHUT. HE            TH03100090
TRANSFORMED THE MARMOTS INTO ANIMALS, AND THE ROCKS INTO STATIONARY   TH03100100
CLIFFS. THERE IS A NARROW PASSAGE BETWEEN TWO CLIFFS, THROUGH         TH03100110
WHICH THE TRAIL PASSES NOW.                                           TH03100120
***THO-088***
          COYOTE IS ATTACKED BY COMB AND AWL  (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)    TH03200010
     COYOTE CAME TO AN UNDERGROUND LODGE, WHICH HE ENTERED. HE        TH03200020
SAW NO ONE INSIDE; BUT EVERYTHING LOOKED IN ORDER, AS IF PEOPLE       TH03200030
LIVED THERE. HE SAW MANY NICE THINGS IN THE HOUSE, -- BOWS AND        TH03200040
ARROWS, QUIVERS, WAR-CLUBS, BASKETS, AND BAGS. HE PICKED UP A         TH03200050
NICE COMB AND EXAMINED IT. HE THOUGHT HE WOULD TAKE IT. AS HE         TH03200060
TURNED AROUND TO GO AWAY, HE HEARD PEOPLE MURMURING. HE LOOKED        TH03200070
AROUND, BUT SAW NOTHING. HE PROCEEDED TO CLIMB THE LADDER. THEN       TH03200080
THE COMB SCRATCHED AND COMBED HIM VIOLENTLY. COYOTE SAID, "STOP]      TH03200090
I WILL PUT YOU BACK." THEN HE THOUGHT HE WOULD TAKE AN AWL. AGAIN     TH03200100
HE HEARD PEOPLE MURMURING; AND AS HE STARTED TO RUN AWAY, THE AWL     TH03200110
PIERCED HIM. HE PUT IT DOWN IN SURPRISE. THEN HE TOOK A PAIR OF       TH03200120
FINE STONES FOR SMOOTHING ARROWS, AND THE SAME HAPPENED. THE          TH03200130
STONES ATTACKED HIM, JUMPING UP AND DOWN, AND SCRATCHING OFF          TH03200140
HIS SKIN. LASTLY HE TOOK A STONE HAMMER, AND IT HIT HIM SO HARD       TH03200150
ON THE HEAD THAT HE WAS STUNNED. THEN HE RAN AWAY. HE WAS ANGRY,      TH03200160
AND CRIED OUT, "YOU SHALL NO LONGER BE PEOPLE AND HAVE POWER TO       TH03200170
ATTACK: HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE MERE TOOLS AND SLAVES OF PEOPLE."     TH03200180
***THO-089***
          COYOTE AND THE GEESE  (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)                  TH03300010
     COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING THROUGH A COUNTRY OF LAKES AND SWAMPS.     TH03300020
HE SAW A LARGE FLOCK OF GEESE FLYING OVERHEAD, AND WISHED HE COULD    TH03300030
KILL AND EAT THEM. HE CUT A CLUB OF WOOD, AND WHISTLED. THEY HALTED,  TH03300040
AND CIRCLED AROUND. HE CLAPPED HIS HANDS, AND THEY ALL FELL DOWN.     TH03300050
HE RAN AMONG THEM AND CLUBBED THEM; BUT THEY MERELY CACKLED,          TH03300060
LAUGHED, AND FLAPPED THEIR WINGS. IN THE NOISE AND CONFUSION, COYOTE  TH03300070
COULD NOT SEE WHERE HE WAS HITTING. THE WINGS CAUSED A STRONG         TH03300080
WIND; AND, AS THEY ROSE, COYOTE WAS TAKEN OFF HIS FEET. HE WAS        TH03300090
CARRIED ALONG BY THEM. HE CAUGHT AT THE SWAMP-GRASS TOPS, THEN AT     TH03300100
THE WILLOW-BUSH TOPS, THEN AT THE TREE TOPS, BUT COULD NOT HOLD ON.   TH03300110
HE WAS CARRIED AWAY TO A POINT ABOVE THE MIDDLE OF A NEAR-BY SWAMP,   TH03300120
WHERE HE DROPPED HEAD FIRST INTO THE MUD, AND COULD NOT EXTRICATE     TH03300130
HIMSELF. THE MOSQUITOES, FLIES, AND INSECTS BIT HIS LEGS AND HIS      TH03300140
BACKSIDE AND CRAWLED INTO HIM. AT LAST FOX CAME ALONG AND PULLED      TH03300150
HIM OUT.                                                              TH03300160
***THO-090***
          COYOTE, FOX, AND THE EGG-GATHERERS  (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)    TH03400010
     COYOTE AND FOX HAD COOKED SOME FAT MEAT, AND, AFTER EATING,      TH03400020
FELL SOUND ASLEEP. SOME WOMEN WHO FOUND THEM ASLEEP THOUGHT THEY      TH03400030
WOULD HAVE SOME FUN WITH THEM. THEY TICKLED THEIR SCROTA WITH         TH03400040
FEATHERS, BUT THE TWO SLEPT ON. THEN THEY CHANGED THEIR NOSES. WHEN   TH03400050
THE TWO AWOKE, THEY LAUGHED AT EACH OTHER, BUT NEITHER THOUGHT HIS    TH03400060
OWN FACE HAD ALSO BEEN CHANGED. THEY WERE THIRSTY BECAUSE THEY HAD    TH03400070
EATEN SO MUCH FAT: THEREFORE THEY WENT DOWN TO A LAKE TO DRINK. WHEN  TH03400080
THEY SAW BY THEIR REFLECTIONS HOW UGLY THEY HAD BECOME, THEY          TH03400090
QUARRELED, EACH BLAMING THE OTHER FOR BEING THE CAUSE OF HIS          TH03400100
CHANGED APPEARANCE. THEY HEARD PEOPLE LAUGHING. THEN THEY KNEW THAT   TH03400110
A TRICK HAD BEEN PLAYED ON THEM. THEY FOLLOWED THE TRACKS OF THE      TH03400120
WOMEN, AND SAW THEM BUSY GATHERING DUCKS' EGGS IN A SWAMP.            TH03400130
(THE FOLLOWING PART OF THE TALE CORRESPONDS TO THE STORY TOLD IN      TH03400140
TEIT, JE 8:310.)                                                      TH03400150
***THO-091***
          COYOTE AND HIS GUESTS  (FROM SPENCES BRIDGE)                TH03500010
     ONCE UPON A TIME COYOTE VISITED KINGFISHER. SINCE KINGFISHER     TH03500020
HAD NO FOOD, HE WENT OUT, CARRYING A WITHE. HE CLIMBED A TREE,        TH03500030
UTTERED THE KINGFISHER'S CRY, AND DIVED THROUGH A HOLE IN THE ICE.    TH03500040
SOON HE EMERGED, CARRYING A FISH. HE REPEATED THIS FOUR TIMES. HE     TH03500050
STRUNG THE FISH ON THE WITHE, RETURNED TO THE LODGE, AND COOKED       TH03500060
THEM FOR COYOTE, WHO ATE UNTIL HE WAS SATIATED. ON LEAVING, COYOTE    TH03500070
INVITED KINGFISHER TO VISIT HIM. WHEN KINGFISHER ENTERED COYOTE'S     TH03500080
HOUSE, HE SAW NOTHING TO EAT. COYOTE WENT OUT, AND KINGFISHER         TH03500090
WATCHED HIM. COYOTE CUT A WILLOW WITHE ON WHICH TO CARRY THE FISH.    TH03500100
HE FITTED TO HIS NOSE A LONG PIECE OF PITCH-WOOD, WHICH WAS TO        TH03500110
SERVE AS A BEAK. HE CLIMBED A TREE OVERHANGING A SHALLOW HOLE FROM    TH03500120
WHICH HE USED TO DRAW WATER. HE UTTERED THE KINGFISHER'S CRY AND      TH03500130
DIVED DOWN INTO THE HOLE. HE BROKE HIS NOSE AND HIS HEAD IN THE       TH03500140
HOLE. KINGFISHER LAUGHED AT THE BUNGLING COYOTE. THEN HE CAUGHT       TH03500150
SOME FISH FOR HIM, SO THAT THEY MIGHT EAT.                            TH03500160
***THO-092***
          COYOTE AND HIS ELK WIFE  (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)               TH03600010
     COYOTE HAD BEEN TRAVELLING ABOUT SOMEWHERE TO THE SOUTH,         TH03600020
WHERE HE HAD MET ELK CHIEF, WHO GAVE HIM ONE OF HIS DAUGHTERS TO      TH03600030
WIFE. HE TOLD HIM, "IF YOU ARE HUNGRY, YOU MAY TAKE A BITE OF MEAT    TH03600040
FROM YOUR WIFE'S RUMP, WHICH WILL HEAL OVER EACH TIME. HOWEVER, YOU   TH03600050
MUST NOT BITE HER BEFORE FOUR NIGHTS HAVE PASSED, AND AFTER THAT      TH03600060
NOT MORE THAN ONCE A DAY." COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING NORTH, AND HAD       TH03600070
REACHED THE NICOLA COUNTRY. HE HUNTED ON THE WAY, BUT COULD GET       TH03600080
NO GAME: THEREFORE HE WAS HUNGRY. HE SAID, "WHY SHOULD I HAVE AN      TH03600090
ELK WIFE AND NOT EAT HER? WHY SHOULD I WAIT WHEN I AM HUNGRY?" HE     TH03600100
SNAPPED AT HIS WIFE, BUT SHE RAN AWAY. HE FOLLOWED, AND COAXED HER    TH03600110
BACK. IN THE EVENING, WHEN THEY CAMPED, HE JUMPED AT HIS WIFE AND     TH03600120
BIT HER. SHE RAN AWAY AND BECAME AN ELK, THAT LIVED IN THE NICOLA     TH03600130
COUNTRY. COYOTE WENT ON ALONE, AND CAME TO THE THOMPSON RIVER. EVER   TH03600140
SINCE THAT TIME ELKS HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS IN THE NICOLA COUNTRY.        TH03600150
***THO-093***
          COYOTE AND THE BERRY-PICKERS  (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)          TH03700010
     ONCE COYOTE CHANGED HIMSELF INTO A BABY. SOME WOMEN WHO WERE     TH03700020
PICKING BERRIES NEAR BY HEARD HIM CRYING. THEY SAID, "SOME WOMAN      TH03700030
MUST HAVE BEEN PICKING BERRIES HERE, AND HAS FORGOTTEN HER CHILD;     TH03700040
LET US TAKE IT HOME]" THEY CAMPED ON THE WAY HOME, AND PUT THE        TH03700050
CHILD BETWEEN THEM TO KEEP IT WARM. IN THE MORNING THE BABY WAS       TH03700060
GONE, AND THEY FELT ITCHY. THEY ALSO FELT THEIR BELLIES WET. THEY     TH03700070
EXAMINED THEMSELVES, AND FOUND SOME COYOTE HAIRS. THEY BEGAN TO       TH03700080
SWELL; AND WHEN THEY REACHED HOME, AND WERE JUST IN THE ENTRANCE      TH03700090
TO THEIR LODGES, THEY GAVE BIRTH TO CHILDREN.                         TH03700100
***THO-094***
          COYOTE DIGS ROOTS  (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)                     TH03800010
     COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING, AND CAME TO A COUNTRY WHERE MANY          TH03800020
TATU'EN ROOTS GREW. HE WAS HUNGRY, AND COULD FIND NO GAME, NOR COULD  TH03800030
HE SEE ANY LODGES OR PEOPLE. HE CUT A STICK TO SERVE AS A             TH03800040
ROOT-DIGGER, AND SAID, "I WILL DIG SOME ROOTS AND EAT THEM." HE       TH03800050
SAW A LARGE ONE, AND DUG IT OUT. WIND RUSHED UP THROUGH THE HOLE,     TH03800060
AND HE COULD SEE PEOPLE WALKING WAY DOWN BELOW. HE PUT THE PLANT      TH03800070
BACK AGAIN. HE DUG ANOTHER ONE, AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED. HE       TH03800080
MUST HAVE BEEN IN THE SKY COUNTRY, AND THESE ROOTS WERE STARS.        TH03800090
***THO-095***
          FOX STEALS COYOTE'S FOOD  (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)              TH03900010
     COYOTE KILLED SOME YOUNG GROUND-SQUIRRELS, AND MADE A HOLE IN    TH03900020
WHICH TO BAKE THEM. HE STOOD WAITING FOR THEM TO BE DONE. HE          TH03900030
NOTICED A ROCK NEAR BY, AND THOUGHT, "I AM TIRED OF STANDING; WHY     TH03900040
SHOULD I NOT SIT DOWN?" HE SAT DOWN. AGAIN HE FELT TIRED, AND SAID,   TH03900050
"THIS ROCK FEELS SOFT AND COMFORTABLE; WHY SHOULD I NOT RECLINE ON    TH03900060
IT?" HE LEANED BACK AND FELL ASLEEP. WHEN HE WOKE UP, HE SAW FOX      TH03900070
EATING THE SQUIRRELS. HE TRIED TO GET UP, BUT THE ROCK HELD HIM.      TH03900080
HE SAID, "LEAVE SOME FOR ME, BROTHER FOX]" BUT FOX ATE ALL THE        TH03900090
SQUIRRELS, AND WENT AWAY. AFTER A LONG TIME, COYOTE WAS RELEASED,     TH03900100
AND GAVE CHASE TO FOX. HE FOUND HIM SLEEPING IN SOME TALL GRASS. HE   TH03900110
SET FIRE TO THE GRASS. COYOTE THOUGHT HE HAD KILLED HIM, BUT FOX      TH03900120
ESCAPED IN THE SMOKE. HIS SKIN WAS SCORCHED. SINCE THEN THE FOX HAS   TH03900130
BEEN OF A REDDISH COLOR. THE STONE ON WHICH COYOTE LAY MAY STILL      TH03900140
BE SEEN IN THE LOWER NICOLA VALLEY. THE CENTRAL PART IS HOLLOWED      TH03900150
OUT, AND THERE IS JUST ENOUGH ROOM IN THE CAVITY FOR A PERSON TO      TH03900160
RECLINE. THE MARK OF COYOTE'S SEAT IS ON A STONE NEAR BY, AND ON      TH03900170
ANOTHER STONE ARE THE MARKS OF HIS FEET WHERE HE STOOD. IT IS NOT     TH03900180
KNOWN WHO RELEASED COYOTE. SOME SAY FOX MADE THE STONE SEIZE          TH03900190
COYOTE, AND AFTERWARDS RELEASE HIM. SOME SAY THAT THE STONE DID       TH03900200
NOT ACTUALLY SEIZE COYOTE, BUT THAT FOX CAUSED COYOTE TO STICK TO     TH03900210
IT.                                                                   TH03900220
***THO-096***
          FOX STEALS COYOTE'S FOOD                                    TH04000010
     COYOTE AND FOX WERE HALF-BROTHERS (OR COUSINS). THEY OFTEN       TH04000020
PLAYED TRICKS ON EACH OTHER. ONCE COYOTE HAD FOUND A CARCASS (OR      TH04000030
HAD KILLED SOME GAME), WHICH HE BEGAN TO COOK IN A PIT. WHILE HE      TH04000040
WAS WAITING UNDER A BRANCHY TREE FOR THE MEAT TO BE DONE, HE FELL     TH04000050
ASLEEP. FOX CAME ALONG AND CAUSED THE TREE TO FALL ON COYOTE, WHO     TH04000060
COULD NOT GET AWAY FOR A TIME. WHILE HE WAS IMPRISONED, HE SAW FOX    TH04000070
EATING THE MEAT, AND BEGGED HIM TO LEAVE SOME; BUT FOX ATE IT ALL     TH04000080
BEFORE COYOTE COULD GET AWAY.                                         TH04000090
***THO-097***
          COYOTE WEARS FOX'S RATTLE                                   TH04100010
     ANOTHER TIME FOX FASTENED A RATTLE TO HIS TAIL, AND COYOTE       TH04100020
WANTED TO GET IT. FOX TOLD HIM IT WAS DANGEROUS, AND THAT ONLY HE     TH04100030
HIMSELF COULD WEAR IT; BUT COYOTE PERSISTED, SO FOX FASTENED IT TO    TH04100040
COYOTE'S TAIL, AND WARNED HIM NOT TO GO THROUGH ANY BRUSH, IN         TH04100050
ORDER TO LEARN WHY THIS HAD BEEN FORBIDDEN. COYOTE WALKED THROUGH     TH04100060
BUSHES AND STRIPPED THE RATTLE FROM HIS TAIL. HE FELT SOMETHING       TH04100070
PULLING AT HIS BACKSIDE, AND DISCOVERED THAT THE RATTLE HAD CAUGHT    TH04100080
IN THE BUSHES AND WAS PULLING OUT HIS ENTRAILS. HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT  TH04100090
TO DO, AND FAINTED. FOX CAME ALONG, TOOK AWAY THE RATTLE, AND PUT     TH04100100
BACK COYOTE'S ENTRAILS. THEN HE KICKED COYOTE, WHO AWOKE, AND         TH04100110
BELIEVED THAT HE HAD BEEN ASLEEP.                                     TH04100120
***THO-098***
          COYOTE AND THE WOODPECKERS  (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)            TH04200010
     COYOTE WAS CAUGHT IN A CAVE, AND CALLED ON ALL ANIMALS AND       TH04200020
BIRDS FOR AID. THEY TRIED TO RELEASE HIM, BUT FAILED. FINALLY HE      TH04200030
CALLED ON THE WOODPECKERS. ONE OF THEM STRUCK THE ROCK AND CRACKED    TH04200040
IT; THE SECOND WIDENED THE CRACK; THE THIRD ONE WIDENED IT STILL      TH04200050
MORE; AND FINALLY THE RED-HEADED WOODPECKER SPLIT IT OPEN, SO THAT    TH04200060
COYOTE WAS ABLE TO GET OUT. SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT COYOTE WAS CAUGHT    TH04200070
IN A HOLLOW TREE, AND THAT THE WOODPECKERS PECKED A HOLE AND TOOK     TH04200080
HIM OUT. SOME ADD THAT THEY PULLED HIM OUT BY THE TAIL.               TH04200090
***THO-099***
          THE MOSQUITOES                                              TH04300010
     FORMERLY MOSQUITOES WERE VERY LARGE, FIERCE, AND ATE PEOPLE.     TH04300020
MOSQUITO AND HIS WIFE LIVED IN A HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE TIMBER,     TH04300030
NEAR A SWAMP. THEY HUNTED PEOPLE, AND KILLED THEM BY SUCKING THEIR    TH04300040
BLOOD. MOSQUITO HUNTED ONLY WOMEN, AND HIS WIFE HUNTED ONLY MEN.      TH04300050
THEY PREFERRED THE BLOOD FROM THE PRIVATES OF PEOPLE. COYOTE OR       TH04300060
SOME OTHER TRANSFORMER TURNED THEM INTO MOSQUITOES, SAYING,           TH04300070
"HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE SMALL INSECTS, AND SHALL FREQUENT SWAMPS     TH04300080
AND WOODS. YOU SHALL BE ABLE TO SUCK A LITTLE BLOOD ONLY. YOU SHALL   TH04300090
NOT HAVE POWER TO KILL PEOPLE."                                       TH04300100
***THO-100***
          THE CANNIBAL WHO USED AN ELK AS A DECOY                     TH04400010
     COYOTE (OR SOME OTHER TRANSFORMER) WAS TRAVELLING, AND CAME      TH04400020
TO A PLACE WHERE A CANNIBAL LIVED IN A LARGE HOLLOW TREE. HE USED     TH04400030
AS A DECOY A STUFFED ELK-SKIN, WHICH HE KEPT WITHIN ARROW RANGE ON    TH04400040
AN OPEN FLAT NEAR A LAKE-SHORE. WHEN A HUNTER STALKED THE ELK, THE    TH04400050
CANNIBAL SHOT AND ATE HIM. MANY BONES AND SKULLS WERE AROUND THE      TH04400060
BASE OF THE TREE. COYOTE DEFECATED, AND MADE HIS EXCREMENTS WHISTLE.  TH04400070
WHEN THE CANNIBAL LOOKED OUT OF THE TOP OF THE TREE, THINKING THAT    TH04400080
SOME ONE WAS THERE, COYOTE ENTERED THE TREE AND SHOT THE CANNIBAL,    TH04400090
WHOM HE HIT IN THE ANUS.                                              TH04400100
***THO-101***
          COYOTE STEALS SWEAT-HOUSE-MAN'S BLANKET                     TH04500010
     COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING, AND CAME TO A CREEK, WHERE HE SAW A       TH04500020
SWEAT-HOUSE COVERED WITH A NICE BLANKET. HE LISTENED, BUT HEARD       TH04500030
NOTHING EXCEPT THE NOISE SOMETIMES MADE BY HOT STONES. HE LIFTED UP   TH04500040
A CORNER OF THE BLANKET AND LOOKED IN. HE DID NOT SEE ANY ONE. HE     TH04500050
THOUGHT, "I WILL TAKE THIS BLANKET," AND WENT OFF WITH IT. WHEN HE    TH04500060
HAD GONE SOME DISTANCE, HE HEARD A NOISE BEHIND. HE LOOKED, BUT SAW   TH04500070
NOTHING. THE NOISE CAME NEARER, AND AT LAST BECAME SO TERRIBLE THAT   TH04500080
COYOTE STARTED TO RUN. ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT SEE ANYTHING, HE FELT      TH04500090
SOME ONE STRIKING HIS LEGS. SOMETHING KNOCKED HIM DOWN, PICKED HIM    TH04500100
UP AGAIN, STRUCK HIS HEAD, AND BLINDED HIM. HE SEEMED TO BE TORN TO   TH04500110
PIECES, AND WAS ROLLED ABOUT UNTIL HE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS. IT WAS      TH04500120
SWEAT-HOUSE-MAN, OR THE WIND, WHO HAD COME TO PUNISH COYOTE. WHEN     TH04500130
COYOTE WOKE UP, HE FOUND HIMSELF IN THE MIDDLE OF A SWAMP, BRUISED    TH04500140
AND BLEEDING, STUNG BY MOSQUITOES, AND HIS CLOTHES ALL TORN. HIS      TH04500150
EYES AND BODY WERE SWOLLEN, AND SMARTING FROM MOSQUITO-BITES. THE     TH04500160
SAND-FLIES HAD CRAWLED INTO HIS MOUTH, NOSE, EARS, AND ANUS, AND      TH04500170
INFESTED HIS HAIR. HE EXTRICATED HIMSELF WITH DIFFICULTY, AND AFTER   TH04500180
SOME TIRESOME TRAVELLING IN THE MUD HE CAME OUT OF THE SWAMP.  THE    TH04500190
BLANKET WENT BACK TO SWEAT-HOUSE-MAN.                                 TH04500200
***THO-102***
          COYOTE-BERRIES                                              TH04600010
     THE VARIETY OF SERVICE-BERRIES CALLED SNIKIEPU'PSA  IS SAID BY   TH04600020
SOME TO BE SO CALLED BECAUSE COYOTE WAS FOND OF EATING THEM. HE       TH04600030
THOUGHT THEY WERE THE BEST KIND, WHEREAS THEY ARE ABOUT THE WORST     TH04600040
KIND OF BERRIES.                                                      TH04600050
***THO-103***
          COYOTE AND THE ROLLING BOWLDER   (FROM UPPER UTA'MQT AND    TH04700010
          NICOLA VALLEY)                                              TH04700020
     COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING SOMEWHERE IN THE UPPER UTA'MQT COUNTRY,    TH04700030
AND CAME TO A SIDE-HILL WHERE THERE WERE BOWLDERS AT THE FOOT OF A    TH04700040
CLIFF. BELOW, THE SIDE-HILL WAS SMOOTH. A BOWLDER LIVED HERE, THAT    TH04700050
KILLED PEOPLE BY ROLLING ON THEM. COYOTE DID NOT KNOW WHICH ONE IT    TH04700060
WAS, AND QUESTIONED HIS EXCREMENTS. THEY TOLD HIM. THE BOWLDER WAS    TH04700070
A LONG DISTANCE ABOVE HIM. WHEN HE WAS BELOW IT, HE HEARD A NOISE,    TH04700080
AND SAW IT COMING. HE STUCK HIS DOUBLE-HEADED ARROW-FLAKER INTO THE   TH04700090
GROUND WITH ONE END POINTING UPHILL. WHEN THE BOWLDER HIT THE POINT,  TH04700100
IT BROKE INTO FRAGMENTS. AT THIS PLACE THERE IS A PATCH OF SHARP      TH04700110
FRAGMENTS OF WHITE ROCK. HE SAID, "HENCEFORTH BOWLDERS SHALL NOT      TH04700120
KILL PEOPLE BY ROLLING DOWNHILL. PEOPLE SHALL BE ABLE TO GET OUT OF   TH04700130
THEIR WAY."                                                           TH04700140
***THO-104***
          COYOTE AND THE RABBITS    (FROM SPENCES BRIDGE)             TH04800010
     COYOTE HAD BEEN CARRIED BY A FLOOD A LONG WAY DOWNSTREAM, AND    TH04800020
CAME TO A LOW COUNTRY WHICH WAS FULL OF BRUSH. HE DRIFTED ASHORE      TH04800030
EXHAUSTED, AND CONCEALED HIMSELF UNDER A FALLEN LOG. ALL AROUND HE    TH04800040
SAW MUCH FALLEN TIMBER AND LOW BRUSH, AND MANY RABBITS IN THE         TH04800050
BUSHES. HE WAS VERY HUNGRY, AND MUCH DESIRED TO CATCH SOME RABBITS.   TH04800060
THEY SAW HIM AND APPROACHED HIM. THEY CALLED ONE ANOTHER, AND A       TH04800070
LARGE NUMBER CAME. COYOTE PRETENDED TO BE DEAD. SOON THEY RECOGNIZED  TH04800080
HIM, AND SAID, "OH, IT IS COYOTE] HE IS DEAD]" THEN THEY WERE VERY    TH04800090
GLAD, AND BEGAN TO DANCE. THAT NIGHT THEY SANG AND DANCED, PASSING    TH04800100
CLOSE BY COYOTE. THEY MADE FUN OF HIM AND REJOICED AT HIS DEATH.      TH04800110
SUDDENLY HE OPENED HIS EYES, JUMPED UP, AND CLUBBED A NUMBER OF THEM. TH04800120
***THO-105***
          THE SISTERS WHO MARRIED COYOTE AND LYNX   (FROM SPENCES     TH04900010
          BRIDGE)                                                     TH04900020
     WHEN COYOTE MADE COLD WEATHER, AND RAN AHEAD WITH HIS HOUSE ON   TH04900030
HIS BACK TO INTERCEPT THE TWO SISTERS, THEY SAW THE LODGE WITH        TH04900040
SMOKE ISSUING FROM IT, AND SAID, "SOME ONE LIVES THERE; WE WILL GO    TH04900050
AND WARM OURSELVES." COYOTE GAVE THEM FAT TO EAT ON A BARK PLATTER.   TH04900060
THE ELDER SISTER THOUGHT IT DID NOT LOOK EXACTLY LIKE FAT, AND        TH04900070
ADVISED HER YOUNGER SISTER NOT TO EAT IT; BUT THE LATTER, WHO WAS     TH04900080
VERY HUNGRY, TASTED IT. THE ELDER SISTER THREW SOME OF THE FAT INTO   TH04900090
THE FIRE, AND SAW THAT IT CRACKED AND DID NOT BURN LIKE REAL FAT:     TH04900100
THEREFORE SHE REFUSED TO EAT IT. AFTER RECEIVING INSTRUCTIONS FROM    TH04900110
COYOTE AS TO THE DIRECTION OF THEIR GRANDMOTHER, MOUNTAIN-SHEEP,      TH04900120
THEY DEPARTED. WHEN THEY HAD GONE A SHORT DISTANCE, COYOTE CALLED     TH04900130
AFTER THEM, "IF THE CHILD IS A BOY, SAVE IT] IF IT IS A GIRL, HANG    TH04900140
IT UP ON A TREE AND LEAVE IT]" THE ELDER SISTER THOUGHT THIS WAS A    TH04900150
STRANGE THING TO SAY, AND AT ONCE CONCLUDED THAT HER YOUNGER SISTER   TH04900160
WAS PREGNANT, BECAUSE SHE HAD EATEN THE FAT. SHE SAID TO HER, "LET    TH04900170
US JUMP FOUR TIMES]" THEY JUMPED FOUR TIMES, AND THEN THE YOUNGER     TH04900180
SISTER GAVE BIRTH TO A BOY. THE FAT THAT SHE HAD EATEN WAS COYOTE'S   TH04900190
DRIED SEMEN. AGAIN COYOTE PUT DOWN HIS HOUSE AHEAD OF THEM, AND       TH04900200
PRODUCED COLD WEATHER. THE SISTERS WENT IN TO WARM THEMSELVES.        TH04900210
COYOTE MADE HIMSELF LOOK LIKE ANOTHER MAN, BUT THE ELDER SISTER       TH04900220
RECOGNIZED HIM. WHEN COYOTE OFFERED THEM FAT, SHE THREW BOTH DISH     TH04900230
AND FAT INTO THE FIRE AND REVILED COYOTE. THE YOUNGER SISTER AND HER  TH04900240
BABY REMAINED WITH COYOTE; WHILE THE ELDER SISTER WNNT ON, CARRYING   TH04900250
HER BASKET AND ROOT-DIGGER.                                           TH04900260
     WHEN THE GIRL CAME NEAR TO WHERE HER GRANDMOTHER LIVED, SHE      TH04900270
HEARD THE SOUND OF SOME ONE ADZING, AND SOON SHE SAW HER GRANDMOTHER  TH04900280
SPLITTING WOOD. SHE SAT DOWN ON THE END OF THE LOG AT WHICH HER       TH04900290
GRANDMOTHER WAS WORKING. WHEN THE OLD WOMAN NOTICED THAT THE LOG      TH04900300
TIPPED UP, SHE LOOKED UP AND RECOGNIZED HER GRAND-DAUGHTER. SHE HID   TH04900310
HER IN HER HOME, AND DID NOT ALLOW ANY OF THE YOUNG MEN TO SEE HER.   TH04900320
AFTER A WHILE, HOWEVER, THE PEOPLE LEARNED THAT MOUNTAIN-SHEEP'S      TH04900330
GRAND-DAUGHTER WAS HIDDEN IN HER HOUSE. THE YOUND MEN WANTED TO       TH04900340
MARRY HER. THE OLD WOMAN TOLD THE MEN THAT THE WINNER OF A RACE       TH04900350
SHOULD HAVE HER. THE MEN WERE MUCH ELATED AT THE PROSPECT, AND MADE   TH04900360
GREAT PREPARATIONS FOR THE RACE, WHICH WAS TO BE RUN OVER A ROUGH     TH04900370
PIECE OF COUNTRY. THEY DID NOT KNOW THAT THE GIRL'S GRANDMOTHER WAS   TH04900380
GOING TO RUN TOO. WHEN THE RUNNERS HAD ALL STARTED, THE OLD WOMAN     TH04900390
OVERTOOK THEM. SHE WON THE RACE WITH EASE, AND KEPT THE GIRL.         TH04900400
MOUNTAIN-SHEEP CAN BEAT ANY ANIMAL IN RUNNING IN A BROKEN COUNTRY.    TH04900410
THE YOUNG MEN WERE ANGRY, BECAUSE THE OLD WOMAN HAD DECEIVED THEM,    TH04900420
AND LYNX MADE UP HIS MIND TO POSSESS THE GIRL. (HERE FOLLOWS THE      TH04900430
INDICENT OF THE LYNX SPITTING ON THE GIRL.)                           TH04900440
***THO-106***
          THE COYOTE PEOPLE                                           TH05000010
     COYOTE MARRIED A WOMAN, AND HAD MANY CHILDREN BY HER. FROM       TH05000020
THESE CHILDREN ARE DESCENDED THE SALISH TRIBES. THE THOMPSON ARE THE  TH05000030
DESCENDANTS OF ONE; THE SHUSWAP, OF ANOTHER; OKANAGON AND LILLOOET,   TH05000040
OF OTHERS. THEREFORE THE LANGUAGES OF THESE TRIBES ARE RELATED. THE   TH05000050
CHILCOTIN AND CARRIERS MUST BE OF DIFFERENT PARENTAGE. SOME SAY THEY  TH05000060
ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF DEER OR BIRD PEOPLE. THE LOWER FRASER AND      TH05000070
COAST PEOPLE ARE ALSO DIFFERENT. ON ACCOUNT OF THIS STORY THE         TH05000080
THOMPSON AND SHUSWAP ARE OFTEN CALLED "COYOTE PEOPLE" IN STORIES.     TH05000090
***THO-107***
          OLD-COYOTE AND THE COYOTE PEOPLE  (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)      TH05100010
     OLD-COYOTE (HE IS CALLED "UNCLE COYOTE" BY SOME) WAS THE         TH05100020
ANCESTOR OF ALL THE INDIANS. HE HAD MANY WIVES. FROM SOME ARE         TH05100030
DESCENDED THE THOMPSON, FROM OTHERS THE OKANAGON, FROM STILL OTHERS   TH05100040
THE SHUSWAP. ONE OF HIS SONS (PROBABLY NTLI'KISENTEM) HAD TWO WIVES,  TH05100050
LU'LA AND TCE'XA (VARIETIES OF DUCKS). THE LATTER HAD A SIMPLE-MINDED TH05100060
SISTER, THE FROG, WHO ACTED AS HER SERVANT. SHE FOLLOWED HER          TH05100070
WHEREVER SHE WENT. LIKE COYOTE HIMSELF, MANY OF HIS SONS HAD          TH05100080
MAGICAL POWERS. MANY OF THEM LEFT DESCENDANTS. AS COYOTE TRAVELLED    TH05100090
OVER A LARGE PART OF THE WORLD, HE LEFT CHILDREN IN MANY PLACES.      TH05100100
THE SALISH, KALISPEL, NEZ PERCES, YAKIMA, AND BLACKFEET, AND ALL THE  TH05100110
INTERIOR TRIBES, HAVE SPRUNG FROM COYOTE'S CHILDREN. BECAUSE THESE    TH05100120
TRIBES SPRANG FROM COYOTE, THEY ARE CALLED "COYOTE PEOPLE."           TH05100130
     SOME SAY THAT THE PEOPLE WERE NOT ACTUALLY DESCENDANTS OF        TH05100140
COYOTE, BUT THAT HE WAS THEIR CHIEF. THE DESCENDANTS OF COYOTE        TH05100150
SPREAD OVER THE COUNTRY, AND OCCUPIED MANY PARTS THAT WERE NOT        TH05100160
FORMERLY INHABITED. AT ONE TIME THEY ALL SPOKE THE SAME LANGUAGE. IT  TH05100170
WAS LIKE SHUSWAP. SOME OF THEM WERE BAD PEOPLE, BUT MOST OF THEM      TH05100180
WERE GOOD. SOME OF THEM SETTLED IN THE THOMPSON VALLEY AND IN THE     TH05100190
SURROUNDING COUNTRY. AT A LATER DATE OLD-ONE SEPARATED THE GOOD       TH05100200
PEOPLE FROM THE BAD. HE TRANSFORMED ALL THE BAD ONES INTO COYOTES.    TH05100210
THE GOOD ONES HE LED FORTH, AND MADE THEM SETTLE AT DIFFERENT         TH05100220
PLACES, WIDELY APART. AFTERWARDS, WHEN THE PEOPLE MET, THEY SPOKE     TH05100230
DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. FOR THIS REASON COYOTES ABOUND IN THE REGION     TH05100240
INHABITED BY OLD-COYOTE'S DESCENDANTS, AND IN THE COUNTRY OVER WHICH  TH05100250
HE TRAVELLED, BUT NOWHERE ELSE.                                       TH05100260
***THO-108***
          COYOTE AND THE FLOOD                                        TH05200010
     COYOTE WAS LIVING SOMEWHERE IN THE INTERIOR. HE WAS A CHIEF      TH05200020
AND FATHER OF THE PEOPLE. NO ONE KNOWS WHENCE HE CAME. FOR SOME       TH05200030
REASON A FLOOD CAME, AND COVERED THE WHOLE COUNTRY EXCEPT THE TOPS    TH05200040
OF THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS. SOME SAY THE FLOOD CAME TO PUT OUT A        TH05200050
GREAT FIRE WHICH RAGED IN THE WORLD. OTHERS SAY IT WAS MADE TO        TH05200060
CLEAN THE EARTH. MANY PEOPLE AND ANIMALS WERE DROWNED. SOME FLED      TH05200070
TO THE HIGH MOUNTAINS, BUT THE FLOOD ROSE SO RAPIDLY THAT THEY WERE   TH05200080
OVERTAKEN. SOME REACHED THE TOPS AND WERE SAVED. SOME DRIFTED ABOUT   TH05200090
ON LOGS. NO ONE KNEW HOW TO MAKE CANOES. ONLY COYOTE MADE A CANOE     TH05200100
OF HORSE-TAILS OR GRASS. HE AND SOME OF HIS FRIENDS EMBARKED IN IT.   TH05200110
THEY DRIFTED FOR MANY DAYS, AND AT LAST STRUCK A MOUNTAIN ON THE      TH05200120
SOUTH SIDE OF THE THOMPSON RIVER, CALLED ZOKE'SKI.  THE FLOOD         TH05200130
RECEDED RAPIDLY. COYOTE DESCENDED TO THE THOMPSON RIVER, AND FOR A    TH05200140
TIME TOOK UP HIS ABODE THERE. ON LEAVING HIS CANOE, HE TRANSFORMED    TH05200150
IT INTO STONE. IT MAY STILL BE SEEN NEAR THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN.     TH05200160
IT IS ABOUT THIRTY FEET LONG, AND THERE WERE FIGURES OF THREE         TH05200170
PERSONS IN IT. IT IS SAID THAT SOME OF THESE HAVE NOW DISAPPEARED.    TH05200180
THE WATER-MARKS OF THIS FLOOD MAY BE SEEN ON SOME PARTS OF THE        TH05200190
MOUNTAINS. OWING TO THE FLOOD, WATER AND FISH ARE NOW FOUND ALL       TH05200200
OVER THE MOUNTAINS. BEFORE THE FLOOD THE COUNTRY WAS DRY, AND THERE   TH05200210
WERE NO LAKES ABOVE THE LEVEL OF THE LOW VALLEYS. THE SURVIVORS OF    TH05200220
THE FLOOD ARE THE ANCESTORS OF THE VARIOUS TRIBES. SOME OF THE        TH05200230
PEOPLE FROM COYOTE'S CANOE SETTLED HERE AND THERE, -- AT LYTTON, AT   TH05200240
NICOLA, AND OTHER PLACES.                                             TH05200250
***THO-109***
          SESULIA'N AND SEKU'LIA  (FROM SPENCES BRIDGE)               TH05300010
     TWO TRANSFORMERS, SESULIA'N AND SEKU'LIA, CAME DOWN THE FRASER   TH05300020
RIVER FROM THE SHUSWAP COUNTRY. THEY WERE GOOD MEN, AND TAUGHT THE    TH05300030
PEOPLE MANY ARTS. THEY TRANSFORMED THOSE WHO WERE PROUD, WHILE THEY   TH05300040
HELPED THOSE WHO WERE GRATEFUL FOR ADVICE AND INSTRUCTION. THEY       TH05300050
REACHED STYNE CREEK  AT DUSK. A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WERE LIVING IN AN    TH05300060
UNDERGROUND LODGE JUST NORTH OF THE CREEK, AND THEIR DOGS BEGAN TO    TH05300070
HOWL  WHEN THE TRANSFORMERS APPROACHED. A MAN WENT OUT TO SEE WHO     TH05300080
WAS COMING. WHEN HE SAW THE TRANSFORMERS, HE MADE FUN OF THEM.        TH05300090
THEREFORE THEY TRANSFORMED HIM, THE HOUSE, AND THE PEOPLE INTO STONE. TH05300100
     WHEN LEAVING THIS SESULIA'N LEFT THE MARK OF HIS RIGHT FOOT ON   TH05300110
A STONE, AND A LITTLE FARTHER DOWN THE RIVER SEKU'LIA LEFT THE MARK   TH05300120
OF HIS LEFT FOOT. BOTH THESE IMPRESSIONS OF HUMAN FEET MAY STILL BE   TH05300130
SEEN IN THE WOODS NEAR STYNE.                                         TH05300140
     THE TRANSFORMERS TAUGHT PEOPLE HOW TO MAKE TOOLS AND             TH05300150
IMPLEMENTS. THEY CARRIED PATTERNS DRAWN ON HIDE OF EVERY OBJECT THAT  TH05300160
PEOPLE USE. THEY TAUGHT PEOPLE HOW TO MAKE FIRE-DRILLS, HOW TO COOK,  TH05300170
HOW TO WORK STONE, FLAKE ARROW-HEADS AND SPEARS, HOW TO MAKE          TH05300180
KNIVES AND HARPOONS.                                                  TH05300190
     WHEN THEY REACHED THE FRASER CANYON, NEAR SPUZZUM, THEY SAW      TH05300200
THAT THE RIVER WAS FULL OF SALMON, WHICH WERE ASCENDING THE STREAM.   TH05300210
ACROSS THE RIVER THEY SAW A MAN TRYING TO CATCH SALMON. HE HAD A      TH05300220
LONG ROPE OF CEDAR-BARK FASTENED AROUND THE WAIST OF A BOY WHOM HE    TH05300230
LOWERED DOWN OVER THE CLIFF TO THE RIVER, WHERE THE BOY TRIED TO      TH05300240
CATCH THE SALMON WITH HIS HANDS. THEY WATCHED, AND SAW THAT HE WAS    TH05300250
UNABLE TO CATCH ANY. AFTER A WHILE THE MAN PULLED THE BOY UP, AND     TH05300260
THE TWO SAT DOWN ON THE GROUND TO REST. THE MAN THOUGHT, "IF ONLY     TH05300270
SOMEBODY WOULD TEACH US HOW TO CATCH THESE FISH] THEN WE SHOULD       TH05300280
HAVE PLENTY TO EAT." THE TRANSFORMERS HELD UP THEIR HANDS ABOVE       TH05300290
THEIR HEADS, THE PALMS TURNED TOWARDS THE MAN, AND AT ONCE HE SAW     TH05300300
THEM AND UNDERSTOOD THEM. ONE OF THE TRANSFORMERS HELD UP A PATTERN,  TH05300310
AND AT ONCE THE MAN UNDERSTOOD IT AND COPIED IT. IT REPRESENTED       TH05300320
BARK TWINE, AND HE AT ONCE MADE SOME TWINE. THEN THE TRANSFORMER      TH05300330
HELF UP ANOTHER PATTERN, AND THE MAN UNDERSTOOD IT. HE MADE A         TH05300340
BAG-NET. THE TRANSFORMER HELD UP ANOTHER PATTERN, AND THE MAN KNEW    TH05300350
AT ONCE HOW TO MAKE THE HOOP FOR HIS DIP-NET. WHEN THE NET WAS        TH05300360
FINISHED, HE WONDERED WHAT HE WAS TO DO WITH IT. THE TRANSFORMER      TH05300370
SHOWED HIM HOW TO CATCH SALMON AND HOW TO COOK AND CURE IT.           TH05300380
     THE TRANSFORMERS WENT ON TO THE BOUNDARY OF THE LOWER FRASER     TH05300390
TRIBE, AND RETURNED UP THE RIVER TO THE THOMPSON TRIBE. LATER ON      TH05300400
THEY LEFT THE COUNTRY AND DISAPPEARED. IT IS SAID THAT THEY           TH05300410
TRAVELLED THROUGH OTHER COUNTRIES TO THE EAST, TEACHING THE PEOPLE    TH05300420
THEIR ARTS. IT IS BELIEVED THEY WILL ACCOMPANY COYOTE WHEN HE         TH05300430
RETURNS. THEN THERE WILL BE GREAT CHANGES ON THE EARTH, AND MANY      TH05300440
PEOPLE WILL DIE. EVERYTHING THAT IS EVIL WILL BE DESTROYED.           TH05300450
***THO-110***
          QWA'QTQWETL AND KOKWE'LA  (FROM THE UPPER AND LOWER         TH05400010
          THOMPSON INDIANS)                                           TH05400020
     THE STORY BEGINS WITH THE TALE OF THE BLACK AND GRIZZLY BEARS.   TH05400030
THE FISHER WAS THE HUSBAND OF THE BEAR WOMEN, AND THEY ALL LIVED IN   TH05400040
BOTANI VALLEY. AFTER KILLING THE GRIZZLY CUBS, THE BLACK BEAR CUBS    TH05400050
ESCAPED TO LYTTON, AND WERE TAKEN ACROSS BY THEIR GRANDFATHER         TH05400060
KWONE'KWA TO THE WEST SIDE OF FRASER RIVER. THE STURGEON TOOK THE     TH05400070
LAST BITE OUT OF THE PURSUING GRIZZLY BEAR. THE BLACK BEAR CUBS       TH05400080
DISAPPEARED, AND ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE GONE TO THE LILLOOET COUNTRY.   TH05400090
AFTERWARDS THEY ATTAINED MAGICAL POWERS AND TRAVELLED ALL OVER THE    TH05400100
WORLD. THEY BECAME KNOWN AS "THE QWA'QTQWETL  BROTHERS" (FROM THE     TH05400110
NAME OF THE YOUNGEST ONE), INSTEAD OF "THE BLACK BEAR CHILDREN."      TH05400120
QWA'QTQWETL, THE YOUNGEST ONE, WAS ALWAYS CARRIED BY HIS BROTHERS     TH05400130
ON THEIR BACKS; ACCORDING TO OTHERS, IN A BASKET.  THEY MUST HAVE     TH05400140
GONE DOWN FROM THE LILLOOET COUNTRY TO THE COAST BY WAY OF THE        TH05400150
LOWER FRASER RIVER; FOR THEY CAME INTO THE THOMPSON COUNTRY FROM THE  TH05400160
COAST, AND TRAVELLED UP RIVER.                                        TH05400170
     AT THIS TIME THERE LIVED IN THE THOMPSON COUNTRY A MAN           TH05400180
GENERALLY CALLED "KOKWE'LA," OR "KOKWE'LA'S SON."   HE WAS ALSO A     TH05400190
TRANSFORMER, ENDOWED WITH MAGIC. LIKE THE QWA'QTQWETL, HE ORIGINATED  TH05400200
IN THE INTERIOR. HE WAS A NATIVE OF BOTANI VALLEY. HE WAS ANGRY       TH05400210
WITH HIS MOTHER BECAUSE SHE HAD NOT TOLD HIM TRULY WHO HIS FATHER     TH05400220
WAS. AFTER HE HAD QUESTIONED IN VAIN TREES, STONES, AND WATER, A      TH05400230
BIRD TOLD HIM. THEN HE QUESTIONED THE KOKWE'LA-ROOT, WHICH CONFIRMED  TH05400240
WHAT THE BIRD HAD SAID. AS A WARNING TO LIARS, HE TRANSFORMED HIS     TH05400250
MOTHER INTO A STONE, WHICH MAY BE SEEN NEAR LYTTON. HE SAID,          TH05400260
"HENCEFORTH WOMEN MAY NOT HAVE INTERCOURSE WITH ROOTS, NOR BEAR       TH05400270
CHILDREN TO THEM." HE LEFT HIS COUNTRY, AND, AFTER TRAVELLING         TH05400280
EASTWARD AND NORTHWARD AMONG THE SHUSWAP AND OTHER TRIBES, HE         TH05400290
CAME DOWN THE FRASER RIVER AS FAR AS NKAI'A,  WHERE HE MET THE        TH05400300
QWA'QTQWETL BROTHERS ON HIS WAY UP THE RIVER. THEY TRIED TO           TH05400310
TRANSFORM HIM, BUT WITHOUT SUCCESS. HE ALSO TRIED HIS POWERS IN VAIN  TH05400320
ON QWA'QTQWETL. THEN THEY SAID TO ONE ANOTHER, "WE ARE OF EQUAL       TH05400330
POWER; LET US CAMP TOGETHER]" THEIR CAMPING-PLACE MAY STILL BE SEEN   TH05400340
IN THE SHAPE OF A LARGE FLAT ROCK. SINCE HE HAD NO WATER, KOKWE'LA    TH05400350
DROVE HIS STAFF INTO THE GROUND; AND WHEN HE WITHDREW IT, WATER       TH05400360
CAME OUT, AND RUNS UNTIL THIS DAY. EACH OF THE FOUR MEN CARRIED       TH05400370
DIMINUTIVE KETTLES OF BASKETRY FOR COOKING, A SMALL PACK OF FOOD,     TH05400380
AND VERY SMALL SPOONS OF SHEEP'S-HORN. ALL OF THESE BECAME LARGE      TH05400390
WHENEVER THEY DESIRED TO USE THEM. THEIR FOOD WAS INEXHAUSTIBLE.      TH05400400
     (HERE FOLLOWS THE INCIDENT OF THE SOUP, AS RELATED IN A          TH05400410
PREVIOUS PUBLICATION. ) QWA'QTQWETL SAID TO HIS BROTHERS, "WATCH ME   TH05400420
FINISHING HIS SOUP AT ONE SPOONFUL." WHEN HE FAILED, KOKWE'LA         TH05400430
SCRAPED THE SOUP UP WITH ONE SWEEP OF HIS THUMB, AND LEFT THE         TH05400440
BASKET COMPLETELY EMPTY.                                              TH05400450
     BEFORE THEY PARTED, QWA'QTQWETL AND KOKWE'LA AGREED THAT THEY    TH05400460
WOULD TRAVEL IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.         TH05400470
KOKWE'LA THEN DESCENDED THE FRASER RIVER AND REACHED THE WEST END OF  TH05400480
THE EARTH AT SOME PLACE NEAR THE OCEAN. THERE HE SAT DOWN AND         TH05400490
DISAPPEARED. HE ASSUMED THE NAME SESUWELIA'N,  AND WILL REMAIN IN     TH05400500
THE WEST UNTIL THE TIME COMES FOR THE DEAD TO RETURN, WHEN HE WILL    TH05400510
RE-APPEAR WITH COYOTE AND ACT AS A CHIEF AND JUDGE.                   TH05400520
     QWA'QTQWETL AND HIS BROTHERS TRAVELLED UP THE THOMPSON RIVER,    TH05400530
AND CONTINUED THEIR JOURNEY EASTWARDS UNTIL THEY REACHED THE END OF   TH05400540
THE LAND IN THAT DIRECTION, NEAR THE OTHER OCEAN. THE YOUNGEST        TH05400550
BROTHER SAID TO THE ELDER ONES, "OUR WORK IS DONE, NOW I SHALL        TH05400560
TRANSFORM YOU." THEY WENT HUNTING A BEAR UP IN THE SKY; AND HE        TH05400570
TRANSFORMED THEM, THEIR DOG, AND BEAR INTO THE GROUP OF STARS         TH05400580
KNOWN AS THE GRIZZLY BEAR.   THEN HE ASSUMED THE NAME CEKWO'LIATC,    TH05400590
AND TOOK HIS POSITION AT THE EAST END OF THE EARTH. HE ALSO WILL      TH05400600
RETURN TO ACT AS CHIEF, JUDGE, AND TRANSFORMER WHEN THE EARTH IS      TH05400610
SUFFICIENTLY OLD, AND THE TIME COMES FOR THE GREAT CHANGE.            TH05400620
     HIS BROTHERS WERE ONLY SLIGHTLY GIFTED WITH MAGIC, AND           TH05400630
TRAVELLED WITH HIM RATHER AS HELPERS AND COMPANIONS. ON THEIR WAY     TH05400640
UP THE THOMPSON RIVER THEY WROUGHT AT LEAST THREE TRANSFORMATIONS     TH05400650
BETWEEN LYTTON AND SPENCES BRIDGE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE RIVER, --  TH05400660
THE FIRST AT A PLACE A LITTLE EAST OF THOMPSON STATION, WHERE THEY    TH05400670
MET A YOUNG WOMAN  WHO WAYLAID MEN. SHE WAS A SNAKE WOMAN, WHO        TH05400680
CALLED ON ALL MALE PASSERS-BY AND MADE LOVE TO THEM. WHEN THEY        TH05400690
SUCCUMBED TO HER ENTICEMENT, HER VAGINA CLOSED, AND SEVERED OR        TH05400700
CRUSHED THEIR GENITAL ORGANS, AND THUS KILLED THEM. QWA'QTQWETL       TH05400710
SAID HE WOULD OVERCOME HER. HIS BROTHER TRIED TO DISSUADE HIM,        TH05400720
SAYING, "YOU WILL SURELY BE KILLED." THE BROTHERS FOUND THE WOMAN     TH05400730
LYING NEAR THE TRAIL WITH HER LEGS APART, AS WAS HER CUSTOM.          TH05400740
QWA'QTQWETL INSERTED HIS ARROW-FLAKER CROSSWISW IN HER VAGINA, AND    TH05400750
THUS PREVENTED THE PARTS FROM CLOSING. HE TRANSFORMED HER INTO A      TH05400760
ROCK, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH NO PRIVATES OF WOMEN SHALL HAVE THE POWER   TH05400770
TO DESTROY MEN." THIS ROCK IS THERE YET.                              TH05400780
     A SECOND TRANSFORMATION OCCURRED AT A PLACE CALLED "GAPING" OR   TH05400790
"OPEN-MOUTH," NEAR DRYNOCH. HERE LIVED A HUGE HORSE  WHICH CAUGHT     TH05400800
PEOPLE WITH ITS MOUTH. IT PLACED ITS OPEN MOUTH ON THE TRAIL, AND     TH05400810
PEOPLE WALKED IN. IT CLOSED IT, AND THEY COULD NOT GET OUT.           TH05400820
QWA'QTQWETL PLACED HIS ARROW-FLAKER  ON END IN THE CREATURE'S         TH05400830
MOUTH, SO THAT IT COULD NOT BE CLOSED. AFTER HE HAD THUS KILLED ITS   TH05400840
POWER, HE TRANSFORMED IT INTO A STONE, WHICH MAY STILL BE SEEN AT     TH05400850
THAT PLACE. HE SAID, "HENCEFORTH HORSES SHALL NOT SWALLOW PEOPLE, BUT TH05400860
SHALL BE THEIR FRIENDS, AND BE USED BY MAN."                          TH05400870
     A THIRD TRANSFORMATION TOOK PLACE NEAR MUD SLIDE. (HERE FOLLOWS  TH05400880
THE INCIDENT OF QWA'QTQWETL'S TRANSFORMATION INTO A FISH, AND THE     TH05400890
CAPTURE OF THE COPPER HARPOON-POINT. ) THE MYSTERY, OR CANNIBAL, OF   TH05400900
THIS PLACE, AND HIS UNDERGROUND LODGE, WERE TRANSFORMED INTO A        TH05400910
STONE, WHICH MAY BE SEEN THERE ABOVE THE OLD INDIAN TRAIL. AS THE     TH05400920
MAN'S WIFE HAD SPOKEN KINDLY TO THEM, AND HAD WARNED THEM AGAINST     TH05400930
HER HUSBAND, THEY TRANSFORMED HER INTO AN ANIMAL, AND NOT INTO A      TH05400940
STONE. QWA'QTQWETL THREW HER TOWARD THE SIDE-HILLS OF BOTANI          TH05400950
VALLEY, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE A SHORT-TAILED MOUSE, AND    TH05400960
YOUR FOOD SHALL BE ROOTS. AT THE PLACE WHERE I PUT YOU THESE WILL     TH05400970
BE IN GREAT ABUNDANCE."                                               TH05400980
     A LITTLE ABOVE THIS PLACE THEY CAME TO A LARGE UNDERGROUND       TH05400990
LODGE INHABITED BY COYOTE PEOPLE. QWA'QTQWETL TRANSFORMED THEM INTO   TH05401000
ROCKS. AT THAT PLACE IS A LARGE, DEEP, CIRCULAR DEPRESSION IN THE     TH05401010
GROUND, WITH BOWLDERS IN IT. THE LATTER ARE THE TRANSFORMED COYOTE    TH05401020
PEOPLE.                                                               TH05401030
     THE NEXT INCIDENT WAS THE QUARREL BETWEEN THE BROTHERS           TH05401040
REGARDING THEIR RESPECTIVE POWERS. THEY WERE GOING TO SEPARATE, AND   TH05401050
THE ELDEST BROTHER WAS GOING TO TAKE THE SECOND BROTHER ALONG. THEY   TH05401060
LEFT QWA'QTQWETL IN BED BY THE CAMP-FIRE. WHEN THEY HAD GONE SOME     TH05401070
DISTANCE, QWA'QTQWETL CAUSED A FLOOD BY THROWING HIS BEAVER-SKIN      TH05401080
HEAD-BAND INTO THE FIRE.  THIS HAPPENED ABOUT ONE MILE BELOW          TH05401090
SPENCES BRIDGE.                                                       TH05401100
     WHEN THEY REACHED THE MOUTH OF THE NICOLA RIVER, THE BROTHERS    TH05401110
DESIRED SOME TSO'LA FISH TO EAT. QWA'QTQWETL CAUGHT A LARGE FAT ONE;  TH05401120
AND AFTER THEY HAD EATEN IT, HE THREW THE BONES INTO THE THOMPSON     TH05401130
RIVER, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH THIS FISH SHALL FREQUENT THIS RIVER, AND   TH05401140
BE ABUNDANT AT THIS PLACE." THIS IS THE REASON WHY THE RIVER NEAR     TH05401150
SPENCES BRIDGE IS NOW A FAMOUS TSO'LA-GROUND.                         TH05401160
     NEXT THEY TRAVELLED SOME FORTY OF FIFTY MILES UP THE NICOLA      TH05401170
VALLEY. THEY TRANSFORMED INTO STONES A HUNTING-PARTY OF BAD PEOPLE    TH05401180
WHO WERE GOING UP A HILLSIDE, ONE BEHIND THE OTHER. THEY MAY NOW BE   TH05401190
SEEN AS A LONG ROW OF BOWLDERS ON THE SIDE-HILL.                      TH05401200
     ABOVE THIS PLACE, ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE RIVER, NEAR           TH05401210
NAI'EK,  THEY TRANSFORMED A WAR-PARTY. THE WARRIORS MAY NOW BE SEEN   TH05401220
AS PINNACLES OF CLAY IN A BLUFF AT THIS PLACE.  THEY ALSO HAD A       TH05401230
CONTEST WITH COYOTE, AND TRANSFORMED HIS SEAT, OR BED, INTO STONE.    TH05401240
COYOTE TRANSFORMED THEIR TRACKS INTO STONE, WHICH MAY ALL BE SEEN     TH05401250
THERE AT THE PRESENT DAY.                                             TH05401260
     WHILE TRAVELLING IN THE NICOLA VALLEY, THE BROTHERS DESIRED      TH05401270
BEAVER-TAILS TO EAT,  BUT THEY DID NOT KNOW HOW TO CATCH THE          TH05401280
BEAVER. QWA'QTQWETL DRANK THE BEAVER-LAKE DRY, AND CLUBBED THE        TH05401290
BEAVERS. HE THREW THEIR BONES INTO THE WATER, AND THEY BECAME         TH05401300
BEAVERS. HE SAID, "HENCEFORTH BEAVERS SHALL BE PLENTIFUL IN THIS      TH05401310
COUNTRY." IN THE UPPER NICOLA VALLEY THE BROTHERS DESIRED TO EAT      TH05401320
ELK-MEAT, BUT THEY DID NOT KNOW HOW TO HUNT ELK. QWA'QTQWETL          TH05401330
CHANGED HIMSELF INTO A FLY, ENTERED A BULL-ELK'S ANUS, AND KILLED     TH05401340
HIM. AFTER THEY HAD EATEN, HE THREW THE BONES IN FOUR DIRECTIONS,     TH05401350
SAYING, "HENCEFORTH ELK SHALL BE ABUNDANT IN THIS REGION."            TH05401360
     THEN THE BROTHERS RETURNED TO SPENCES BRIDGE AND PROCEEDED UP    TH05401370
THE THOMPSON RIVER. IN SEVERAL PLACES BETWEEN SPENCES BRIDGE AND      TH05401380
ASHCROFT THEY HAD CONTESTS WITH COYOTE PEOPLE. HERE ARE RELATED THE   TH05401390
INCIDENTS OF TRANSFORMATION INTO STONE OF COYOTE'S SWEAT-HOUSE (TWO   TH05401400
MILES ABOVE SPENCES BRIDGE), OF COYOTE'S AND HIS WIFE'S PRIVATES,     TH05401410
AND OF HER BASKET (FIVE MILES ABOVE SPENCES BRIDGE), AND OF COYOTE'S  TH05401420
FISH-WEIR, INTO ISLANDS AND BARS SIX MILES ABOVE SPENCES BRIDGE.      TH05401430
     AT BLACK CANYON, BELOW ASHCROFT,  A LARGE DARK ANIMAL, OR        TH05401440
BUFFALO, BLOCKED THE RIVER, AND EVERYTHING THAT CAME DOWNSTREAM WAS   TH05401450
SWALLOWED BY HIM. THE WATER PASSED INTO HIS MOUTH AND OUT OF HIS      TH05401460
ANUS. HE HAD KILLED MANY PEOPLE. QWA'QTQWETL TRANSFORMED HIMSELF      TH05401470
INTO A SMALL PIECE OF DRIFTWOOD, FLOATED INTO THE MOUTH OF THE        TH05401480
MONSTER, CUT OFF HIS HEART, AND KILLED HIM. HE SAID, "HENCEFORTH      TH05401490
THERE SHALL ONLY BE A CANYON AT THIS PLACE."                          TH05401500
     THEN THEY PROCEEDED UP THE BONAPARTE RIVER. SOMEWHERE NEAR       TH05401510
CACHE CREEK, ON AN OPEN FLAT, GREW A LARGE TREE WITH SPREADING        TH05401520
BRANCHES. IT HAD A NICE ODOR, AND ITS SHADE WAS COOL. THIS MYSTERY    TH05401530
TREE CAUSED HOT WEATHER, IN ORDER TO INDUCE PEOPLE TO SEEK ITS        TH05401540
SHADE. THE ODOR PUT THEM TO SLEEP; AND THEN THE TREE WOULD FALL       TH05401550
OVER ON THEM, AND CRUSH THEM TO DEATH. QWA'QTQWETL LAY DOWN UNDER     TH05401560
THE TREE, AND PRETENDED TO SLEEP. WHEN THE TREE BEGAN TO FALL ON HIM, TH05401570
HE PLACED HIS ARROW-FLAKER ON THE GROUND POINT UP, AND THE TREE       TH05401580
COULD DESCEND NO FARTHER. HE SAID, "HENCEFORTH TREES SHALL NOT HAVE   TH05401590
THE POWER OF FALLING ON PEOPLE, EXCEPT BY ACCIDENT."                  TH05401600
     NEXT THEY WENT UP HAT CREEK. (HERE FOLLOWS THE INCIDENT OF       TH05401610
PUSHING THE HEADS AGAINST THE ROCK. )                                 TH05401620
     IN MARBLE CANYON THEY TRANSFORMED THE CANNIBALS EAGLE AND        TH05401630
SKUNK.                                                                TH05401640
     IN LA FONTAINE THEY BURNED COYOTE'S WOODEN WIFE, AND             TH05401650
QWA'QTQWETL MADE TWO WIVES FOR HIM OUT OF COTTONWOOD AND ALDER        TH05401660
TREES, AND BLEW BREATH INTO THEM, THUS TRANSFORMING THEM INTO         TH05401670
PEOPLE.                                                               TH05401680
     THEN THEY CROSSED PAVILION MOUNTAIN, WHERE THEY TRANSFORMED      TH05401690
THREE OR FOUR WITCHES INTO STONE WHILE THEY WERE DANCING FOR THE      TH05401700
PURPOSE OF OVERCOMING QWA'QTQWETL.                                    TH05401710
     THERE THEY ALSO CHANGED COYOTE'S PENIS INTO STONE. IT MAY BE     TH05401720
SEEN STICKING OUT ON THE SOUTH EDGE OF THE MOUNTAIN AS AN ISOLATED    TH05401730
PEAK.                                                                 TH05401740
     AFTER TRAVELLING THROUGH THE UPPER SHUSWAP COUNTRY, THEY WENT    TH05401750
EAST TO THE KUTENAI AND CREE COUNTRIES, AND DISAPPEARED. AT SOME      TH05401760
PLACE IN THE SHUSWAP COUNTRY NOT FAR FROM THE UPPER LIMITS OF THE     TH05401770
THOMPSON TRIBE, THEY CAME TO THE HOUSE OF THE ROCK-RABBIT.  HIS       TH05401780
DWELLING WAS OF STONE. WHEN PEOPLE ENTERED, HE CAUSED THE ENTRANCE    TH05401790
TO CLOSE ON THEM BY SHOUTING, "SKI'P]" ("PINCH]") THE BONES OF MANY   TH05401800
PEOPLE LAY AROUND OUTSIDE THE HOUSE. QWA'QTQWETL ENTERED THE HOUSE,   TH05401810
PLACED HIS ARROW-FLAKER CROSSWAYS IN THE ENTRANCE, AND PREVENTED IT   TH05401820
FROM CLOSING. HE THREW ROCK-RABBIT OUT AMONG THE ROCKS OF A LARGE     TH05401830
SLIDE, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE A MERE ROCK-RABBIT, AND LIVE  TH05401840
AMONG THE ROCKS. THE ENTRANCE OF YOUR HOUSE SHALL NO LONGER CLOSE     TH05401850
WHEN YOU SHOUT 'SKI'P]'"                                              TH05401860
     THE INCIDENT OF THE MAN WHO CUT OPEN HIS WIVES WHEN THEY WERE    TH05401870
ABOUT TO GIVE BIRTH OCCURRED IN THE CANYON OF THE FRASER, BELOW       TH05401880
LYTTON.                                                               TH05401890
     IN SEVERAL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY THE MARKS OF THE BROTHERS'       TH05401900
FEET MAY STILL BE SEEN.                                               TH05401910
***THO-111***
          THE WIND-MAN  (FROM THE UPPER UTA'MQT)                      TH05500010
     IN THE OPEN COUNTRY LIVED A MAN WHO KILLED PEOPLE. HE COULD      TH05500020
NOT WALK; BUT WHEN THE WIND BLEW, HE COULD TRAVEL FAST, FOR HE        TH05500030
BOUNCED ALONG LIKE A BALL. HE HAD A LARGE HEAD, LARGE EYES, LARGE     TH05500040
MOUTH, SMALL WITHERED ARMS AND LEGS,  AND A HOLLOW ROUND BODY. HE     TH05500050
KNOCKED DOWN ANYTHING THAT CAME IN HIS WAY.                           TH05500060
***THO-112***
          MOURNING-DOVE  (FROM NICOLA VALLEY)                         TH05600010
     A STORY RELATING TO THE ORIGIN OF THE CRY OF THE MOURNING-DOVE   TH05600020
WAS TOLD BY THE OLD PEOPLE. DOVE WAS A WOMAN, AND HAD CHILDREN.       TH05600030
BERRIES AND FAMINE WERE MENTIONED IN THE STORY. ALL THE DETAILS       TH05600040
HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN.                                                  TH05600050
***THO-113***
          SEA-GULL                                                    TH05700010
     A STORY USED TO BE TOLD OF SEA-GULL. IT GAVE THE REASON WHY      TH05700020
THE GULL GOES UP RIVERS. THE STORY IS NOW FORGOTTEN. IT IS SAID       TH05700030
THAT GULL CAME AHEAD OF THE SALMON, AND TOLD THE PEOPLE OF THEIR      TH05700040
COMING.                                                               TH05700050
***THO-114***
          SUN-FIRE                                                    TH05800010
     LONG AGO, BEFORE BEAVER AND EAGLE STOLE THE FIRE, AND BEFORE     TH05800020
THERE WAS ANY FIRE IN WOOD, THE PEOPLE COULD NOT MAKE FIRE. WHEN      TH05800030
THEY WERE VERY COLD, THEY SENT MESSENGERS TO THE SUN TO PROCURE       TH05800040
FIRE. THESE HAD TO TRAVEL A LONG DISTANCE. WHEN THE FIRE THAT THE     TH05800050
MESSENGERS CARRIED WAS USED UP, AND THEY WANTED MORE, THEY SENT FOR   TH05800060
SOME MORE. SOME SAY THEY CARRIED THE FIRE BETWEEN SHELLS, OR          TH05800070
ENCLOSED IN SOME OTHER WAY. THE FIRE BROUGHT FROM THE SUN GAVE A      TH05800080
STRONG HEAT. SOME MEN ARE SAID TO HAVE HAD THE POWER OF BRINGING      TH05800090
DOWN SUN-HEAT AND FIRE WITHOUT HAVING TO GO TO THE SUN FOR IT. THEY   TH05800100
DREW DOWN THE SUNBEAMS.                                               TH05800110
***THO-115***
          THE HOT-WIND PEOPLE AND THE COLD-WIND PEOPLE                TH05900010
     THE CHINOOK-WIND PEOPLE LIVED IN THE SOUTH, IN THE TIMBERED      TH05900020
MOUNTAINS. THE COLD-WIND PEOPLE LIVED IN THE NORTH, IN THE BARE,      TH05900030
SNOWY MOUNTAINS. BETWEEN THEM LIVED THE INDIANS, WHO HAD NO POWER     TH05900040
OVER THE WINDS. THE CHINOOK-WIND PEOPLE WERE FRIENDLY WITH THE        TH05900050
INDIANS, AND TRAVELLED AMONG THEM. THE COLD-WIND PEOPLE NEVER         TH05900060
VISITED THEM. THEREFORE THERE WAS VERY LITTLE COLD IN THE INDIAN      TH05900070
COUNTRY. THE CHINOOK-WIND'S SON WENT NORTH, AND MARRIED A DAUGHTER    TH05900080
OF THE COLD-WIND PEOPLE, AND INTRODUCED COLD BY BRINGING HER BACK     TH05900090
TO HIS HOME. THE ANNUAL VISITS OF HER PEOPLE TO SEE HER BROUGHT ON    TH05900100
THE WINTER SEASONS. BEFORE THAT, THE COLD-WIND CHIEF NEVER CAME       TH05900110
OUT OF HIS HOUSE. HE ALWAYS REMAINED INSIDE. THEREFORE THERE WAS      TH05900120
NO SEVERELY COLD WEATHER. ALL THE COLD-WIND PEOPLE REMAINED IN        TH05900130
THEIR OWN COUNTRY. THEIR HOUSES WERE MADE OF ICE. ONLY WHEN THEY      TH05900140
WALKED ABOUT OUTSIDE DID IT BECOME COLD. WHEN THEY OPENED THE DOORS   TH05900150
OF THEIR HOUSES, COLD WINDS BLEW OUT, AND IT BECAME SOMEWHAT COLD.    TH05900160
THEY NEVER KEPT THEIR DOORS OPEN FOR VERY LONG. THUS IT WAS LONG      TH05900170
AGO, BEFORE THE CHINOOK-WIND'S SON MARRIED.                           TH05900180
***THO-116***
          KWESKAPI'NEK                                                TH06000010
     KWESKAPI'NEK WAS A WOMAN WHO LIVED AT LYTTON. SHE WAS            TH06000020
CONSIDERED A CHIEFTAINESS AND MOTHER OF THE PEOPLE. SOME THOMPSON     TH06000030
AND OKANAGON PEOPLE ARE BELIEVED TO BE DESCENDED FROM HER. A CHIEF    TH06000040
CAME FROM THE SOUTH OR EAST AND TOOK HER AWAY OR MARRIED HER. SOME    TH06000050
SAY HE WAS THE SUN. SHE WEPT MUCH, BECAUSE SHE SAID SHE WAS ABOUT     TH06000060
TO LEAVE HER CHILDREN AND LIVE IN A STRANGE COUNTRY. SHE WANTED       TH06000070
TO MAKE PROVISION FOR HER CHILDREN, AND LEAVE THEM A TOKEN WHEREBY    TH06000080
THEY WOULD REMEMBER HER. THEREFORE SHE FILLED HER BASKET WITH EDIBLE  TH06000090
ROOTS. SHE REPAIRED TO BETA'NI (OR BOTA'NI), AND EMPTIED HER          TH06000100
BASKET, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH ROOTS WILL GROW IN ABUNDANCE IN THIS      TH06000110
PLACE; AND MY CHILDREN SHALL REPAIR HERE TO DIG THEM." THEREFORE      TH06000120
ALMOST ALL KINDS OF EDIBLE ROOTS NOW GROW THERE. IF SHE HAD HAD       TH06000130
CAMAS AND BITTER-ROOT IN HER BASKET, THESE PLANTS ALSO WOULD NOW      TH06000140
BE ABUNDANT THERE. (THERE WAS A LONG STORY ABOUT THIS WOMAN           TH06000150
FORMERLY, BUT IT HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN.)                                 TH06000160
***THO-117***
          THE BUSH-TAILED RAT  (FROM THE UPPER THOMPSON AND LYTTON)   TH06100010
     IT WAS WINTER, AND MANY PEOPLE WERE LIVING IN A LARGE            TH06100020
UNDERGROUND LODGE, AND MANY OTHERS WERE LIVING IN NUMEROUS MAT        TH06100030
LODGES NEAR BY. THE PEOPLE WERE LOSING THEIR FOOD-SUPPLIES, BUT NO    TH06100040
ONE KNEW WHO WAS STEALING THEM. MANY CHILDREN OF ALL AGES HAD BEEN    TH06100050
STOLEN. THE THEFTS HAPPENED EVERY WINTER WHEN THE PEOPLE HAD CAMPED   TH06100060
THERE, AND CONTINUED UNTIL SPRING. ONE NIGHT AN OLD WOMAN COULD       TH06100070
NOT SLEEP. SHE HEARD SOME ONE ENTER THE LODGE, RUN AROUND THE HOUSE,  TH06100080
AND THEN GO UP THE LADDER AND VANISH. ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING IT     TH06100090
WAS NOTICED THAT A NUMBER OF THINGS HAD BEEN STOLEN. THE WOMAN        TH06100100
INFORMED THE PEOPLE, WHO IN THE FOLLOWING NIGHT LAY DOWN UNDRESSED    TH06100110
BUT ARMED. ABOUT MIDNIGHT SOME ONE CAME DOWN THE LADDER AND BEGAN     TH06100120
TO PICK UP FOOD AND OTHER THINGS, WHICH HE PUT INTO A SACK. THEY      TH06100130
RECOGNIZED HIM AS BUSH-TAILED RAT. WHEN HE WENT OUT, ALL THE PEOPLE   TH06100140
FOLLOWED HIM. HE WENT TO HIS HOUSE, WHICH WAS LOCATED BETWEEN THE     TH06100150
ROCKS, AND CALLED TO THE DOOR, "I'LI'QA]" THEN IT OPENED. HE          TH06100160
ENTERED WITH HIS LOAD, AND CALLED "TLA'QI'PA]"  AND IT SHUT. THEN     TH06100170
A MAN WHO FOLLOWED CLOSE ON HIS HEELS JUMPED FORWARD AND PLACED A     TH06100180
LARGE THUNDER ARROW-HEAD CROSSWAYS IN THE ENTRANCE, PREVENTING THE    TH06100190
SHUTTING OF THE DOOR. NOW THE PEOPLE WENT IN AND DISCOVERED THEIR     TH06100200
PROPERTY AND THEIR CHILDREN THAT HAD BEEN LOST FOR YEARS. SOME OF     TH06100210
THE CHILDREN WHO HAD BEEN YOUNG WHEN THEY WERE TAKEN, WERE NOW        TH06100220
GROWN UP. THERE WERE PILES OF ORNAMENTS, CLOTHES, AND FOOD. THEY      TH06100230
ATTACKED RAT AND CRUSHED HIM. THEY THREW HIM OUTSIDE AMONG THE        TH06100240
ROCKS. THEY TRANSFORMED HIM, AND SAID, "HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE A     TH06100250
RAT, AND SHALL STEAL ONLY A LITTLE AT A TIME. YOU SHALL EAT           TH06100260
ROSE-BERRIES AND PRICKLY-PEARS, AND ROLL THEM TO YOUR HOUSE. YOU      TH06100270
SHALL GATHER STICKS, AND BUILD YOUR HOUSE AMONG ROCKS. YOUR           TH06100280
EXCREMENT SHALL BE VALUABLE AS MEDICINE."                             TH06100290
***THO-118***
          MARTEN AND FISHER                                           TH06200010
     MARTEN AND HIS ELDER BROTHER FISHER LIVED TOGETHER IN AN         TH06200020
UNDERGROUND LODGE. FISHER WENT HUNTING, WHILE MARTEN KEPT HOUSE.      TH06200030
ONE DAY FISHER SAID TO MARTEN, "IF ANY BIRD ALIGHTS ON TOP OF THE     TH06200040
HOUSE-LADDER, DO NOT SHOOT AT IT." THAT DAY, WHEN FISHER WAS          TH06200050
HUNTING, RED-HEADED-WOODPECKER CAME AND SAT ON THE LADDER. MARTEN     TH06200060
SHOT AT IT, AND MISSED. HE WENT OUT TO SEARCH FOR HIS ARROW, AND      TH06200070
AT LAST CAME TO WHAT SEEMED THE END OF A LADDER OF AN UNDERGROUND     TH06200080
LODGE. HIS ARROW HAD HIT IT. HE WENT UP TO IT, AND SAW THE ENTRANCE   TH06200090
TO A LODGE. WHILE HE WAS PULLING OUT HIS ARROW, HE WAS PUSHED FROM    TH06200100
BEHIND, AND FELL DOWN THE HOLE. RED-HEADED-WOODPECKER, IN THE         TH06200110
SHAPE OF A WOMAN, DESCENDED BEHIND HIM, AND TOOK HER PLACE NEAR       TH06200120
THE FOOT OF THE LADDER, ON THE SIDE OF THE FIRE OPPOSITE MARTEN.      TH06200130
SHE BUILT A LARGE FIRE. THEN SHE BROUGHT OUT SOME FAT FROM THE        TH06200140
BACK OF A DEER, AND HANDED IT IN A BARK DISH TO MARTEN ACROSS THE     TH06200150
FIRE. AS HE WAS TAKING HOLD OF IT, SHE CAUGHT HIS HANDS, AND PULLED   TH06200160
HIM FACE DOWN INTO THE FIRE, WHERE HE WAS BADLY BURNED. SHE PICKED    TH06200170
HIM UP AND THREW HIM OUT. HE CRAWLED BACK TO HIS LODGE, WHERE HE      TH06200180
LAY DOWN ON SOME MATS AND COVERED HIMSELF UP. FISHER CAME HOME,       TH06200190
AND SAID, "XWE'HWE,  TAKE DOWN MY STAFF. WHERE ARE YOU? TAKE DOWN     TH06200200
MY MEAT." MARTEN SIMPLY REPEATED FISHER'S WORDS. FISHER THREW DOWN    TH06200210
HIS STAFF AND PACK, AND ENTERED. HE KNEW AT ONCE WHAT HAD HAPPENED,   TH06200220
AND CHARGED MARTEN WITH DISOBEDIENCE. MARTEN RELATED WHAT HAD         TH06200230
HAPPENED. THEN FISHER TRIED TO CURE HIS BROTHER. HE TOOK PIECES OF    TH06200240
HIS PACK-STRAP (OR ROBE) OF MARTEN-SKIN, SPIT ON THEM, AND COVERED    TH06200250
THOSE PARTS OF MARTEN'S FACE AND BODY FROM WHICH THE SKIN HAD         TH06200260
FALLEN OFF. HE COULD NOT MAKE HIM AS GOOD-LOOKING AS HE HAD BEEN      TH06200270
BEFORE, NOR COULD HE SMOOTH OUT THE SKIN OF HIS FACE. THIS IS THE     TH06200280
REASON OF THE PECULIAR APPEARANCE OF THE MARTEN OF THE PRESENT DAY.   TH06200290
ON THE NEXT MORNING, WHILE FISHER WAS STILL THERE, RED-HEADED-        TH06200300
WOODPECKER PERCHED ON THE LADDER; AND FISHER SHOT HIS ARROW AT IT,    TH06200310
WOUNDING IT. HE SHOT A SECOND ARROW, WHICH HIT IT, BUT THE BIRD DID   TH06200320
NOT FALL. FISHER SAID TO MARTEN, "THAT IS THE WAY TO SHOOT." HE WENT  TH06200330
UP TO GET THE BIRD; BUT, AS SOON AS HE TOUCHED IT, IT TURNED INTO     TH06200340
EXCREMENTS. FISHER LEFT MARTEN, AND WENT TO RED-HEADED-WOODPECKER'S   TH06200350
LODGE. ON ENTERING, HE TOOK A POSITION OPPOSITE HER. SHE PASSED       TH06200360
HIM SOME DEER-FAT, AND TRIED TO PULL HIM INTO THE FIRE; BUT HE        TH06200370
JUMPED OVER IT, KNOCKED DOWN THE WOMAN, FELL ON HER, AND TOUCHED      TH06200380
HER PRIVATES. THEN HE RETURNED TO MARTEN. HE SAID TO HIM, "A WOMAN    TH06200390
WILL ARRIVE TO-MORROW, YOUR SISTER-IN-LAW. YOU MUST TREAT HER WELL.   TH06200400
YOU MUST GIVE HER OF THE BEST FOOD TO EAT. PICK OUT THE BEST SKINS    TH06200410
FROM THE PILE THAT YOU HAVE DRESSED, AND MAKE CLOTHES FOR HER, --     TH06200420
MOCCASINS, LEGGINGS, DRESS, AND ROBE."                                TH06200430
     FISHER WENT HUNTING; AND WHILE HE WAS AWAY, THE WOMAN CAME.      TH06200440
MARTEN GAVE HER THE LOWER PARTS OF DEER-LEGS, WHICH SHE COULD NOT     TH06200450
CHEW, AND CLOTHES WHICH WERE TOO SMALL AND MADE OF HALF-DRESSED       TH06200460
SKIN. HE MOISTENED THE SKIN, AND SHE MANAGED TO PUT ON THE DRESS;     TH06200470
BUT SOON THE SKIN DRIED AND SHRUNK, SO THAT SHE SUFFERED PAIN AND     TH06200480
FELT VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. SHE WAS CRYING WHEN FISHER RETURNED. HE      TH06200490
WAS ANGRY AT MARTEN, AND COMPELLED HIM TO GIVE HER CLOTHES MADE OF    TH06200500
THE BEST SKINS. IN DUE TIME THE WOMAN BORE A SON, WHO GREW RAPIDLY.   TH06200510
     FISHER WARNED MARTEN NEVER TO LET THE WOMAN GO FOR WATER. WHEN   TH06200520
WATER WAS REQUIRED, MARTEN WAS TO DRAW IT HIMSELF. ONE DAY MARTEN     TH06200530
DISREGARDED HIS BROTHER'S COMMAND AND SENT THE WOMAN AND HER BOY TO   TH06200540
THE WATERING-PLACE. WHEN SHE WAS DRAWING WATER, A KING-SALMON JUMPED  TH06200550
NEAR BY. SHE SAID, "WHAT A FINE-LOOKING FISH] I WISH I HAD A          TH06200560
HUSBAND AS GOOD-LOOKING AS HE]" ALMOST IMMEDIATELY A MAN TOUCHED      TH06200570
HER ON THE SHOULDER, AND SAID, "I AM THAT FISH. YOU HAVE CHOSEN ME    TH06200580
FOR YOUR HUSBAND. YOU ARE MY WIFE, AND MUST ACCOMPANY ME." HE TOOK    TH06200590
HER AWAY, AND LEFT THE BOY THERE. THE BOY RETURNED TO THE LODGE,      TH06200600
AND TOLD HIS FATHER WHAT HAD HAPPENED. FISHER SCOLDED MARTEN FOR HIS  TH06200610
DISOBEDIENCE, AND SAID, "HOW CAN I FIND MY WIFE?" HIS SON REPLIED,    TH06200620
"I SHALL FIND MY MOTHER. I SHALL SEARCH FOR HER EVERYWHERE." HE       TH06200630
CHANGED HIMSELF INTO A FLY. IN THIS SHAPE HE FOUND HIS MOTHER,        TH06200640
RETURNED, AND TOLD HIS FATHER WHERE SHE WAS. THREE TIMES FISHER AND   TH06200650
MARTEN LEFT THE HOUSE FOR THE RESCUE OF THE WOMAN; BUT, ALTHOUGH      TH06200660
THEY HAD CHANGED THE BOY'S TOYS ON EACH OCCASION, HE CRIED SO MUCH    TH06200670
THAT THEY HAD TO RETURN. THE FOURTH TIME THEY MADE A TOY FAWN, AND    TH06200680
GAVE HIM A SMALL BOW AND BLUNT ARROWS TO SHOOT AT IT. THIS SO         TH06200690
AMUSED HIM THAT HE NEVER CRIED. AFTER WATCHING HIM FOR A TIME AND     TH06200700
SEEING THAT HE DID NOT CRY, THEY STARTED OFF. IN A BARK CANOE THEY    TH06200710
PADDLED ACROSS THE LAKE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE FISHER. HERE THEY       TH06200720
SAW TWO FISH GIRLS WHO HAD A DUGOUT CANOE AND WERE CARRYING DRIED     TH06200730
FISH FROM A CACHE TO THEIR CANOE.                                     TH06200740
     (FROM HERE ON, THE STORY IS THE SAME AS THAT COLLECTED BY        TH06200750
HILL-TOUT FROM THE OKANAGON, BEGINNING WITH THE SIXTH LINE FROM THE   TH06200760
BOTTOM OF PAGE 159, AND CONTINUING TO THE END, WITH THE FOLLOWING     TH06200770
VERY SLIGHT VARIATIONS:) THEY TOOK THE BOYS BY THEIR NOSES, AND       TH06200780
SHOOK THEM OUT OF THEIR SKINS, INTO WHICH THEY ENTERED.               TH06200790
     FISHER AND MARTEN HAD MADE ARRANGEMENTS WITH RAT AND MOUSE TO    TH06200800
GNAW HOLES THROUGH THE BOTTOMS OF THE FISH PEOPLE'S CANOES. THEY      TH06200810
DID SO; AND, WHEN THE FISH PEOPLE WENT TO LAUNCH A CANOE, THEY FOUND  TH06200820
A HOLE IN IT. THUS THEY LAUNCHED ONE AFTER ANOTHER, AND LOST MUCH     TH06200830
TIME. THE LAST CANOE THEY LAUNCHED WAS SOUND, AND IN IT THEY GAVE     TH06200840
CHASE.                                                                TH06200850
     IN THE MORNING THE PEOPLE FOUND THE SKINS OF THE TWO FISH BOYS   TH06200860
LYING ALONGSIDE THE HEADLESS BODY OF THEIR CHIEF, KING-SALMON.        TH06200870
     AFTER TURTLE AND FROG HAD RECOVERED THE HEAD, THEY BROUGHT IT    TH06200880
HOME IN THE CANOE, AND PUT IT BACK ON KING-SALMON'S BODY. HE THEN     TH06200890
CAME TO LIFE AGAIN, AND WAS A MAN AS BEFORE. FISHER AND MARTEN        TH06200900
REACHED HOME WITH THE WOMAN.                                          TH06200910
***THO-119***
          THE BALD-HEADED EAGLE  (FROM THE UPPER THOMPSON AND UPPER   TH06300010
          UTA'MQT)                                                    TH06300020
     THIS STORY IS THE SAME AS TEIT JE 8:345 (NO. 66), WITH THE       TH06300030
FOLLOWING VARIATIONS: --                                              TH06300040
     THE BALD-HEADED EAGLE MET THE GIRL AT A STREAM, AND TRANSFORMED  TH06300050
HIS PENIS INTO A LOG, ON WHICH SHE CROSSED. AT THE END HE STOPPED     TH06300060
HER FROM PASSING UNTIL SHE CALLED HIM HUSBAND. HE SAID, "WHY DID      TH06300070
YOU NOT SAY THAT BEFORE? YOU WERE ALREADY MY WIFE, FOR YOU HAVE       TH06300080
WALKED ON MY PENIS."  ON HER WAY TO SEE HER RELATIVES SHE PASSED      TH06300090
THE BATTLEFIELD OF THE BIRDS, AND BALD-HEAD'S SKULL AND BODY WERE     TH06300100
STILL LYING THERE. THE HEAD LOOKED OLD AND DECAYED. SHE URINATED ON   TH06300110
IT. AFTER A TIME SHE NOTICED SOMETHING LIKE A WHITE STONE FOLLOWING   TH06300120
HER. SHE TRIED TO GET AWAY, BUT IT FOLLOWED HER. SHE WENT UPHILL,     TH06300130
BUT STILL IT WAS GAINING ON HER. SHE RAN TO A STREAM WHERE CRANE      TH06300140
LIVED. SHE CALLED, "GRANDFATHER, TAKE ME ACROSS]" HE PUT HIS LEG      TH06300150
ACROSS THE STREAM, AND SHE CROSSED ON IT. SHE SAID TO HIM, "THROW     TH06300160
INTO THE WATER THAT THING THAT FOLLOWS ME." IT ROLLED ALONG UNTIL     TH06300170
IT CAME TO THE MIDDLE OF CRANE'S LEG. THEN HE TURNED HIS LEG, AND     TH06300180
IT FELL INTO THE WATER. THE WOMAN THOUGHT IT WOULD BE CARRIED AWAY    TH06300190
BY THE CURRENT, BUT IT ROLLED OVER THE SURFACE OF THE WATER, AND      TH06300200
CONTINUED THE PURSUIT. IT WAS NOW CLOSE TO HER, AND SHE WAS           TH06300210
EXHAUSTED. SHE RAN TOWARDS A TREE, INTENDING TO CLIMB IT; BUT THE     TH06300220
HEAD OVERTOOK HER BEFORE SHE COULD REACH THE TREE, AND ENTERED        TH06300230
HER PRIVATES.  BEFORE SHE REACHED HER PEOPLE'S HOUSE, SHE GAVE        TH06300240
BIRTH TO TWO EGGS WHICH BORE THE IMAGE OF AN EAGLE'S FACE. THEY       TH06300250
ROLLED AFTER HER WHEREVER WHE WENT. HER SISTERS KILLED THEM BY        TH06300260
THROWING THEM INTO THE FIRE, WHERE THEY BURST. THEY PULLED            TH06300270
BALD-HEAD'S SKULL OUT OF THE YOUNG WOMAN. IT DID NOT BURN; ONLY       TH06300280
THE EYES BURST. THEY CUT IT INTO PIECES, WHICH THEY BURNED BY         TH06300290
PLACING THEM UNDER THE ASHES. THEN IT DISAPPEARED.                    TH06300300
***THO-120***
          THE FLEA                                                    TH06400010
     FLEA WAS LAZY, AND KNOWN TO BE A THIEF, RUNNER, AND JUMPER,      TH06400020
ALTHOUGH HE WAS CLUB-FOOTED. HE LIVED IN A LODGE BY HIMSELF, BUT      TH06400030
NEAR BY WERE A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE AND LODGES. HE WAS TOO LAZY TO  TH06400040
GATHER WOOD, AND SOON HAD NO FUEL. HE STOLE WOOD FROM HIS NEIGHBORS,  TH06400050
WHO HAD MUCH WOOD GATHERED NEAR THEIR HOUSES. ALTHOUGH THEY           TH06400060
WATCHED, THEY COULD NOT CATCH THE THIEF. ONE VERY DARK NIGHT FLEA     TH06400070
WENT TO STEAL WOOD, STUMBLED OVER A FAGOT, AND FELL AGAINST THE       TH06400080
WOOD-PILE, THUS MAKING A NOISE. THE SWIFTEST RUNNERS, WHO WERE IN     TH06400090
READINESS, RAN OUT, AND OVERTOOK HIM AS HE WAS ABOUT TO REACH HIS     TH06400100
HOUSE. THEY THRASHED HIM SOUNDLY.                                     TH06400110
***THO-121***
          LYNX AND DEER   (A FRAGMENT)                                TH06500010
     LYNX WAS HUNTING RABBITS, AND SAW SOME DEER IN A HOLLOW. HE      TH06500020
THOUGHT HOW NICE IT WOULD BE TO EAT SOME FAT DEER-MEAT, AS IT WAS     TH06500030
SO MUCH BETTER THAN RABBIT-MEAT. THE SNOW WAS DEEP, AND HE KNEW       TH06500040
THAT HE COULD NOT RUN THE DEER DOWN. THEREFORE HE RESOLVED TO TRY     TH06500050
STRATEGY. HE KNEADED SOME SNOW IN HIS HANDS AND SET IT ROLLING DOWN   TH06500060
THE SLOPE. THE DEER WERE STARTLED AND ABOUT TO RUN AWAY; BUT WHEN     TH06500070
THEY SAW THAT IT WAS SNOW WHICH HAD ROLLED DOWN THE BANK, THEY KEPT   TH06500080
ON BROWSING. LYNX REPEATED THIS MANY TIMES, AND THE DEER BECAME       TH06500090
QUITE ACCUSTOMED TO THE SNOW ROLLING DOWN THE BANK. LYNX MADE         TH06500100
LARGER AND LARGER SNOWBALLS. FINALLY HE DREW HIMSELF TOGETHER SO AS   TH06500110
TO BE QUITE ROUND, AND ROLLED DOWN HIMSELF. WHEN HE ARRIVED AT THE    TH06500120
BOTTOM, HE WAS COVERED WITH SNOW. HE ROLLED CLOSE TO THE DEER, WHO    TH06500130
LOOKED UP. AS HE DID NOT MOVE ANY MORE, THEY THOUGHT THAT HE WAS      TH06500140
JUST ANOTHER SNOWBALL, TURNED THEIR BACKS, AND CONTINUED TO BROWSE.   TH06500150
THEN LYNX JUMPED ON THE NEAREST ONE AND KILLED IT. THE LYNX           TH06500160
OCCASIONALLY GETS DEER IN THIS MANNER.                                TH06500170
***THO-122***
          ELK AND ANTELOPE   (A FRAGMENT)                             TH06600010
     THE PEOPLE USED TO TELL A STORY OF A RACE BETWEEN ELK AND        TH06600020
ANTELOPE, BUT IT SEEMS TO BE FORGOTTEN NOW. AS THEY WERE STILL        TH06600030
RACING, THEY WERE TRANSFORMED INTO STARS. THE TWO STARS WHICH WE      TH06600040
CALL "RACERS" OR "RUNNERS" ARE ELK AND ANTELOPE.                      TH06600050
***THO-123***
          OWL AND NTSAA'Z                                             TH06700010
     ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A LITTLE BOY WHO ALWAYS CRIED. HIS    TH06700020
PARENTS TRIED TO FRIGHTEN HIM BY SAYING, "THE OWL WILL HEAR YOU AND   TH06700030
TAKE YOU AWAY. HE WILL PUT YOU IN HIS BASKET, WHICH IS FULL OF        TH06700040
SNAKES." ONE NIGHT HE CRIED MORE THAN USUAL, AND HIS PARENTS, BEING   TH06700050
MUCH ANNOYED, SAID, "OWL, COME AND TAKE HIM]" AFTER A WHILE HE        TH06700060
BECAME QUIET, AND HIS PARENTS SAID, "OUR CHILD IS NOW VERY QUIET."    TH06700070
THEY WERE GLAD. HE HAD NOT BECOME QUIET, HOWEVER, FOR OWL HAD         TH06700080
ENTERED THE LODGE QUIETLY, AND IN THE DARK PUT THE BOY IN HIS         TH06700090
BASKET AND CARRIED HIM OFF. HE TOOK HIM TO HIS HOUSE AND REARED HIM.  TH06700100
HE MADE HIM WASH IN THE CREEK, AND THE BOY GREW VERY RAPIDLY. HE      TH06700110
GREW AS MUCH IN ONE DAY AS HE WOULD HAVE GROWN IN A YEAR UNDER        TH06700120
ORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES. HIS PARENTS COULD FIND NO TRACE OF HIM,       TH06700130
AND GAVE HIM UP FOR LOST. THEY THOUGHT OWL HAD TAKEN HIM, BUT THEY    TH06700140
DID NOT KNOW WHERE TO SEARCH FOR HIM.                                 TH06700150
     IN A SHORT TIME THE BOY HAD GROWN TO BE A YOUNG MAN, AND OWL     TH06700160
HAD TAUGHT HIM HOW TO HUNT AND SHOOT. EVERY DAY THEY HUNTED. OWL      TH06700170
DROVE THE GAME, AND THE LAD SAT DOWN AT A CERTAIN PLACE TO SHOOT      TH06700180
THE ANIMALS AS THEY CAME UP. OWL CARRIED THE MEAT AWAY, AND GAVE      TH06700190
THE LAD VERY LITTLE TO EAT.                                           TH06700200
     ONE MORNING, WHEN WASHING HIMSELF, HE SAW A LODGE ACROSS THE     TH06700210
CREEK. HE WENT THERE, AND FOUND THAT CROW AND HIS WIFE LIVED THERE.   TH06700220
CROW SAID TO HIM, "OWL TREATS YOU BADLY. HE STARVES YOU." HE          TH06700230
ANSWERED, "YES, I AM HUNGRY ALL THE TIME." CROW SAID, "YOUR           TH06700240
GRANDMOTHER WILL FEED YOU." CROW-WOMAN GAVE HIM SOME FOOD TO EAT.     TH06700250
     ON THE FOLLOWING DAY HE HUNTED WITH OWL AGAIN. HE WAS AT A       TH06700260
DEER-TRAIL ON THE TOP OF A RIDGE. OWL WAS DRIVING THE DEER, AND       TH06700270
SHOUTED, "GO TO MY SLAVE, GO TO MY SLAVE]" THE LAD HEARD HIM, AND     TH06700280
BECAME ANGRY. HE SAID, "NOT ONLY DOES HE STARVE ME, BUT HE ALSO       TH06700290
CALLS ME HIS SLAVE." HE HURRIED BACK TO THE HOUSE, MADE A BIG FIRE,   TH06700300
TOOK DOWN OWL'S HEART, AND THREW IT INTO THE FIRE. OWL ALWAYS LEFT    TH06700310
HIS HEART HANGING IN THE HOUSE. HE WAS STILL DRIVING DEER, WHEN HE    TH06700320
FELT A PAIN AT HIS HEART. THE PAIN BECAME SEVERER, AS HIS HEART WAS   TH06700330
BURNING. HE HASTENED HOME, AND FELL DOWN DEAD AT THE LODGE DOOR AT    TH06700340
THE VERY MOMENT WHEN HIS HEART WAS CONSUMED. THE LAD WENT TO CROW'S   TH06700350
LODGE, AND TOLD HIM THAT HE HAD KILLED OWL.                           TH06700360
     CROW QUESTIONED HIM: "HAVE YOU ANY GRANDMOTHER? HAVE YOU ANY     TH06700370
MOTHER? HAVE YOU ANY ELDER SISTER? HAVE YOU ANY YOUNGER SISTER?" HE   TH06700380
ANSWERED THAT HE HAD. CROW ASKED HIM, "HAVE YOU ANY TOY DRIED SALMON? TH06700390
HAVE YOU ANY TOY DRIED BERRIES? HAVE YOU ANY TOY SALMON-OIL? HAVE     TH06700400
YOU ANY TOY DEER-FAT?" HE ANSWERED THAT HE HAD. CROW SAID, "SHALL     TH06700410
I GO AND GET THEM?" AND THE BOY ANSWERED, "VERY WELL."                TH06700420
     THEN CROW FLEW AWAY, AND ARRIVED AT THE CELLAR OF THE LAD'S      TH06700440
MOTHER. SHE WAS INSIDE, TAKING OUT SOME DRIED FISH, AND HER           TH06700450
DAUGHTER WAS SITTING ON THE TOP OF THE CELLAR. CROW SAID TO THE       TH06700460
GIRL, "I HAVE COME TO GET THE TOY DRIED SALMON OF YOUR ELDER          TH06700470
BROTHER." THE GIRL SPOKE TO HER MOTHER, SAYING, "CROW IS HERE,        TH06700480
ASKING FOR THE TOY DRIED SALMON OF  MY ELDER BROTHER." THEN THE       TH06700490
MOTHER CRIED, SAYING, "YOU OUGHT NOT TO SPEAK THAT WAY." THE GIRL     TH06700500
REMONSTRATED, SAYING THAT SHE WAS SPEAKING THE TRUTH: THEREFORE THE   TH06700510
WOMAN CAME OUT, AND ASKED CROW WHERE HER SON WAS. SHE MADE UP A       TH06700520
PACK FOR CROW, WHO SAID, "NOW, WATCH WHERE I GO] WHERE I END MY       TH06700530
FLIGHT, THERE YOU WILL SEE A PILLAR OF SMOKE. I LIVE THERE WITH       TH06700540
YOUR SON." THEY WATCHED CROW, AND LOST SIGHT OF HIM IN THE DISTANCE.  TH06700550
CROW CAME SUCCESSIVELY FOR ALL THE TOY FOOD BELONGING TO THE LAD.     TH06700560
THE LONGEST-SIGHTED AMONG THE PEOPLE WATCHED HIS FLIGHT, BUT NONE     TH06700570
COULD SEE WHERE HE STOPPED. THE FOURTH TIME THEY ASKED THE SKA'KUK    TH06700580
TO WATCH FROM THE TOP OF AN UNDERGROUND LODGE. SKA'KUK FOLLOWED       TH06700590
CROW'S FLIGHT, AND DISCOVERED A PILLAR OF SMOKE. THEN HE FELL IN A    TH06700600
SWOON, BECAUSE OF THE STRAIN OF LOOKING SO FAR. THE PEOPLE REVIVED    TH06700610
HIM WITH COLD WATER. THEN HE TOLD THEM WHERE CROW HAD GONE.           TH06700620
     THEN THE LAD'S MOTHER AND SISTER SET OUT TO FIND HIM, AND AT     TH06700630
LAST REACHED THE PLACE WHERE HE WAS. HE RETURNED WITH THEM; AND       TH06700640
WHEN PASSING A LAKE ON THE WAY HOME, HE SAID HE WOULD BATHE IN THE    TH06700650
LAKE, BECAUSE HE FELT HOT. THEY TRIED TO DISSUADE HIM, BUT HE         TH06700660
PERSISTED. HE BATHED AND DIVED. WHEN HE CAME UP AGAIN, HE HAD         TH06700670
BECOME A LOON. HE SAID TO HIS SISTER, "DO NOT WORRY. I AM GOING TO    TH06700680
STAY HERE. IF YOU LONG FOR ME, COME HERE AND CALL ME." THE WOMEN      TH06700690
WENT HOME. AFTER SOME TIME HIS SISTER WENT TO SEE HIM, AND CALLED     TH06700700
HIM FROM THE LAKE-SHORE. HE WAS GLAD TO SEE HER. HE CAME OUT OF THE   TH06700710
WATER AND SAT BESIDE HER. WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT TO RETURN, HE GAVE HER   TH06700720
A PRESENT OF MANY FINE SHELLS, AND ALSO HIS NECK-RING OF DENTALIA,    TH06700730
WHICH HE TOOK FROM HIS OWN NECK AND PUT AROUND HERS. HE TOLD HER      TH06700740
NOT TO SHOW THE SHELLS TO ANY ONE. A WOMAN IN THE CAMP SAW THE        TH06700750
NECKLACE AND THE SHELLS, AND SURMISED WHERE THEY HAD COME FROM.       TH06700760
     THE WOMAN SAID TO THE GIRL, "LET US GO AND SEE YOUR BROTHER]"    TH06700770
SHE HAD PREPARED FOUR KINDS OF MEDICINE FROM HERBS, AND CARRIED THE   TH06700780
DECOCTION WITH HER. WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT THE LAKE, SHE HID HERSELF,   TH06700790
WHILE THE GIRL CALLED HER BROTHER. HE CAME OUT OF THE WATER, AND      TH06700800
LOOKED VERY HANDSOME. HE WAS COVERED WITH SHELLS. SHE ASKED HIM TO    TH06700810
COME UP AND SIT BY HER. HE DID THIS, ALTHOUGH SHE WAS FAR FROM THE    TH06700820
SHORE. SHE SAID, "SIT CLOSE TO ME, BROTHER]" WHEN HE SAT BY HER       TH06700830
SIDE, SHE THREW BOTH ARMS AROUND HIM, AND THE WOMAN THREW THE         TH06700840
MEDICINE ON HIM. THEN HE GRADUALLY ASSUMED HUMAN FORM.                TH06700850
     THEN HE JOURNEYED WITH THEM UNTIL THEY PASSED THE LODGE OF       TH06700860
NTSAA'Z. THEN HE SAID, "I AM GOING IN TO WARM MYSELF." THEY TRIED     TH06700870
TO DISSUADE HIM, AND SAID, "IT IS BAD IN THERE. NTSAA'Z HAS A BAD     TH06700880
SMELL. NO ONE EVER GOES IN THERE." HE PERSISTED AND WENT, WHILE       TH06700890
THE WOMEN WENT HOME. WHEN HE HAD ENTERED THE LODGE, HE TOOK NTSAA'Z   TH06700900
BY THE NOSE, AND SHOOK HIM SO HARD THAT HIS BODY FELL OUT OF THE      TH06700910
SKIN. THEN HE ENTERED THE SKIN, AND BECAME NTSAA'Z. THE YOUNG WOMAN   TH06700920
WHO HAD THROWN THE MEDICINE ON HIM WAS WOOED BY ALL THE YOUNG MEN     TH06700930
OF THE TRIBE, BUT SHE REFUSED THEM ALL. FINALLY HER RELATIVES SAID    TH06700940
TO HER, "WHO IS GOING TO BE YOUR HUSBAND? YOU ARE NOT SATISFIED       TH06700950
WITH ANY ONE. GO AND TAKE NTSAA'Z FOR YOUR HUSBAND." THEY INTENDED    TH06700960
TO SHAME HER, BUT SHE TOOK THEM AT THEIR WORD, PICKED UP A MAT,       TH06700970
AND LEFT THE HOUSE. WHEN SHE RETURNED CARRYING NTSAA'Z WRAPPED UP     TH06700980
IN THE MAT, THE PEOPLE LAUGHED, AND THE YOUNG MEN JEERED AT HER.      TH06700990
SHE CARRIED HIM INTO THE HOUSE, AND PLACED HIM ON THE BEST MAT.       TH06701000
THE PEOPLE CRIED, "DON'T BRING HIM IN HERE, HE STINKS TOO MUCH]"      TH06701010
THAT NIGHT HER RELATIVES THOUGHT TO SHAME HER STILL MORE. THEY SAID,  TH06701020
"LET OUR SON-IN-LAW CUT WOOD FOR US TO-MORROW. GIVE HIM A HAMMER      TH06701030
AND CHISEL." EARLY THE FOLLOWING MORNING THE YOUNG WOMAN WENT UP      TH06701040
THE HILLS, CARRYING HER HUSBAND WRAPPED IN A MAT. WHEN SHE OPENED     TH06701050
THE MAT, HE CAME OUT OF HIS SKIN, RAN TO FOUR DRY TREES AND KICKED    TH06701060
THEM DOWN. THEN HE MADE THE WOOD CUT AND SPLIT ITSELF, AND ASSUME     TH06701070
THE DIMENSIONS OF FOUR SHORT BRANCHES, WHICH THE WOMAN CARRIED ON     TH06701080
TOP OF HER PACK. WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT THE VILLAGE, SHE PUT HER        TH06701090
HUSBAND DOWN, AND THREW THE STICKS ON THE GROUND. THEY RESUMED        TH06701100
THEIR ORIGINAL SIZE, AND THERE WAS WOOD ENOUGH TO FILL FOUR           TH06701110
UNDERGROUND LODGES. SHE THREW THE WOOD DOWN INTO THE LODGES. IN ONE   TH06701120
LODGE MOON WAS SITTING NEAR THE FIRE. THE PEOPLE TOLD HIM TO MOVE     TH06701130
AWAY, BUT HE WAS TOO SLOW. HE HAD VERY LARGE TESTICLES. A PIECE OF    TH06701140
WOOD CAME DOWN AND HIT THEM. THE WOMAN FILLED THE FOUR HOUSES,        TH06701150
PILING THE WOOD OVER THE PEOPLE WHO HAD NOT GONE OUT. THE YOUNG MEN   TH06701160
SAID, "THE WOOD WAS CUT BY THIS WOMAN HERSELF. SHE MUST HAVE GREAT    TH06701170
MAGIC POWER." THEN THE GIRL'S FATHER SAID, "MAKE SNOWSHOES FOR OUR    TH06701180
SON-IN-LAW, THAT HE MAY HUNT TO-MORROW." SOME MEN MADE SNOWSHOES,     TH06701190
AND SOON FINISHED THEM. THEY MADE A FINE PAIR, AND, AFTER TYING       TH06701200
EAGLE-FEATHERS TO THE HEELS, THEY HUNG THEM UP ON THE POST NEAR       TH06701210
WHERE NTSAA'Z LAY. THEY DID SO IN MOCKERY OF HIM. DURING THE NIGHT    TH06701220
HE PUT THEM ON, RAN AROUND THE HOUSES IN THE SNOW, CAME BACK, AND     TH06701230
HUNG THEM UP AGAIN. ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING THE PEOPLE SAW THE       TH06701240
TRACKS, THE WONDERFUL RUNNING, AND THE LEAPS THAT HAD BEEN MADE.      TH06701250
THEY ASKED WHO HAD BEEN USING NTSAA'Z'S SNOWSHOES. SOME SAID IN       TH06701260
MOCKERY THAT HE HIMSELF MUST HAVE USED THEM. RAVEN AND COYOTE SAID    TH06701270
THEY HAD DONE IT, BUT NO ONE BELIEVED THEM. THE PEOPLE STARTED TO     TH06701280
HUNT, NTSAA'Z BEING CARRIED BY HIS WIFE. ALL THE HUNTERS PASSED       TH06701290
THEM. WHEN THEY WERE OUT OF SIGHT, NTSAA'Z CAME OUT OF HIS SKIN,      TH06701300
RAN AHEAD OF THEM, GATHERED UP ALL THE DEER, DROVE THEM INTO A DEEP   TH06701310
GULCH, AND KILLED THEM. THE HUNTERS FOUND NO GAME, AND RETURNED       TH06701320
EMPTY-HANDED. WHILE NTSAA'Z WAS OFF DRIVING GAME, HIS WIFE MADE A     TH06701330
FIRE, AND BURNED UP HIS SKIN. HE CAME BACK AT ONCE, BUT WAS TOO       TH06701340
LATE. HE TRIED TO GATHER UP THE BURNT PIECES, BUT COULD NOT DO SO.    TH06701350
HE RAKED THE FIRE, BUT THE WHOLE SKIN WAS BURNT. HE WAS NOW A         TH06701360
HANDSOME MAN, AND EVERY ONE ENVIED HIS WIFE. HE WAS A GREAT HUNTER.   TH06701370
THE PEOPLE CARRIED IN HIS GAME, AND HE FED THEM.                      TH06701380
***THO-124***
          THE DOG AND THE GIRL  (FROM THE UPPER UTA'MQT AND UPPER     TH06800010
          THOMPSON)                                                   TH06800020
     THIS VERSION IS LIKE NO. 16 IN TEIT, MAFLS 6, WITH THE           TH06800030
FOLLOWING VARIATIONS AND ADDITIONS: --                                TH06800040
     ONE OF THE GIRL'S REJECTED SUITORS TRANSFORMED HIMSELF IN THE    TH06800050
DAYTIME INTO A DOG,  IN ORDER TO PUT THE GIRL TO SHAME. THE GIRL      TH06800060
HAD FOUR PUPS, -- THREE MALE AND ONE FEMALE (ACCORDING TO A RARER     TH06800070
VERSION, ONE MALE AND ONE FEMALE). SHE CONTINUED TO LIVE IN THE       TH06800080
DESERTED VILLAGE. HER HUSBAND JOINED HER IN HUMAN FORM, AND HUNTED    TH06800090
GAME. THE WOMAN COVERED A STUMP WITH HER ROBE TO DECEIVE THE          TH06800100
CHILDREN, AND LEFT HER TORCH BURNING. WHEN THE MEDICINE WAS THROWN    TH06800110
ON THE PUPS, AND THEIR SKINS WERE BURNED, THE GIRL ESCAPED, AND       TH06800120
REMAINED A DOG. ACCORDING TO SOME VERSIONS, ONLY MEDICINE WAS THROWN  TH06800130
ON THEM. (IN A UTA'MQT VERSION IT IS SAID THAT THE SKINS WERE         TH06800140
BURNED, BUT NO MEDICINE IS MENTIONED). THEY STAID IN THE DESERTED     TH06800150
VILLAGE FOUR YEARS, AND THEN THE PEOPLE CAME BACK. (ACCORDING TO      TH06800160
THE UTA'MQT VERSION, THE CROW VISITED HER, AND WAS GIVEN FAT, WHICH   TH06800170
SHE CARRIED HOME. THUS THE PEOPLE LEARNED THAT THE DESERTED WOMAN     TH06800180
WAS WELL OFF.)  THE PEOPLE WERE STARVING, AND COULD FIND NO GAME.     TH06800190
IN A VERSION IN WHICH THE WOMAN HAS ONLY TWO CHILDREN, THE BOY IS     TH06800200
WARNED AGAINST BEATING HIS SISTER, WHO IS A DOG, AND ALWAYS EATS      TH06800210
HIS GAME. HE DISOBEYS, AND SHE TURNS INTO A PLOVER, CURLEW, OR        TH06800220
SIMILAR BIRD; AND LATER HE TURNS INTO A CHICKADEE.                    TH06800230
***THO-125***
          THE GIRL WHO MARRIED THE CROW                               TH06900010
     A GIRL BELONGING TO A VILLAGE OF FOUR UNDERGROUND LODGES NEAR    TH06900020
LYTTON REFUSED ALL SUITORS WHO HAD COME FROM SPENCES BRIDGE, NICOLA,  TH06900030
KAMLOOPS, AND LILLOOET, ALTHOUGH THEY BROUGHT AS MARRIAGE GIFTS       TH06900040
ROBES, DENTALIA, AND OTHER VALUABLES. HER PARENTS AND THE CHIEF OF    TH06900050
THE VILLAGE WERE ANGRY WITH HER FOR REFUSING SO MANY GOOD SUITORS.    TH06900060
THEREFORE SHE BECAME SAD, AND WOULD HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE HAD NOT    TH06900070
HER BROTHERS TALKED KINDLY WITH HER.                                  TH06900080
     ONE MORNING, WHEN SHE HAD GONE TO THE RIVER TO BATHE AND TO      TH06900090
DRAW WATER FOR THE HOUSE, SHE THOUGHT, "I WISH A MAN FROM FAR AWAY    TH06900100
WOULD COME AND TAKE ME]"                                              TH06900110
     CROW-MAN, WHO LIVED AT THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER, HEARD HER. HE     TH06900120
SAID, "A PRETTY GIRL FAR AWAY WANTS A HUSBAND. I WISH I COULD GO TO   TH06900130
HER]" AT ONCE A MAN APPEARED TO HIM, AND SAID, "I WILL HELP YOU, IF   TH06900140
YOU WILL DO AS I DIRECT YOU.  YOU MUST SHUT YOUR EYES AND PRAY TO     TH06900150
ME, AND I SHALL GRANT YOUR DESIRE. NOW, BEGIN]" CROW-MAN KNELT        TH06900160
DOWN, AND PRAYED THAT HE MIGHT BE ENABLED TO GO TO THE GIRL. HIS      TH06900170
EYES CLOSED WHILE HE WAS PRAYING. THEN HIS HELPER TOLD HIM TO OPEN    TH06900180
HIS EYES AND LOOK AT HIMSELF. HE SAW THAT HE HAD BEEN TRANSFORMED     TH06900190
INTO A CROW, WITH WINGS, AND WITH BLACK FEATHERS ALL OVER HIS BODY.   TH06900200
HE WAS AFRAID, AND REMAINED SILENT. HIS HELPER TOLD HIM THAT HE       TH06900210
WOULD NOT BE A CROW ALWAYS, BUT ONLY FOR THE JOURNEY TO THE GIRL.     TH06900220
HE SAID,"NOW, FLY UP THE RIVER] AND EARLY IN THE MORNING YOU WILL     TH06900230
SEE A GIRL BATHING NEAR FOUR UNDERGROUND LODGES. SHE IS THE WIFE      TH06900240
THAT YOU DESIRE."                                                     TH06900250
     IT WAS SPRINGTIME, WHEN CROWS COME UP THE RIVER. THREE MORNINGS  TH06900260
THE GIRL HAD REPEATED HER SUPPLICATION FOR A HUSBAND. EARLY THE       TH06900270
FOURTH MORNING SHE WENT TO THE ACCUSTOMED PLACE, PUT DOWN HER BARK    TH06900280
WATERBASKETS, TOOK OFF HER CLOTHES, AND WENT TO BATHE. SHE HAD JUST   TH06900290
MADE HER SUPPLICATION, WHEN A CROW CAME UP THE RIVER, AND PASSED      TH06900300
CLOSE TO HER HEAD. SHE CALLED HIM NASTY NAMES, AND SAID, "WHY DO      TH06900310
YOU FLY SO CLOSE TO MY HEAD, YOU BLACK UGLY BIRD? YOU WILL BLIND ME   TH06900320
WITH THE DIRT OF YOUR FEET." IT WAS CROW-MAN, WHO WAS ACTING UNDER    TH06900330
THE INSTRUCTIONS OF HIS HELPER. HE FLEW PAST OUT OF SIGHT, ALIGHTED   TH06900340
ON THE GROUND, SHUT HIS EYES, AND PRAYED. WHEN HE OPENED HIS EYES,    TH06900350
HE WAS A MAN AGAIN. HE WALKED BACK TO WHERE THE GIRL WAS WASHING      TH06900360
HERSELF IN THE WATER, AND SAT DOWN ON HER CLOTHES. PRESENTLY SHE      TH06900370
SAW HIM, AND ASKED HIM TO LEAVE. SHE PLEADED WITH HIM TO GO AWAY,     TH06900380
BUT HE PAID NO HEED. WHEN SHE HAD ASKED HIM FOUR TIMES, HE REPLIED,   TH06900390
"IF YOU WILL BECOME MY WIFE, I WILL RELEASE YOUR CLOTHES." SHE        TH06900400
ASSENTED, SAYING, "YOU MUST BE MY HUSBAND, FOR YOU HAVE SEEN MY       TH06900410
NAKED BODY." CROW-MAN SHUT HIS EYES AND PRAYED. WHEN HE OPENED THEM   TH06900420
AGAIN, A LARGE BEAVER-SKIN ROBE WAS THERE, AND A DUGOUT CEDAR CANOE.  TH06900430
HE GAVE THE ROBE TO HIS WIFE. THEY EMBARKED IN THE CANOE AND WENT     TH06900440
DOWNSTREAM.                                                           TH06900450
     AS THE GIRL DID NOT RETURN, THE PEOPLE LOOKED FOR HER. THEY      TH06900460
FOUND HER CLOTHES AND THE WATER-BASKETS, AND THOUGHT THAT SHE HAD     TH06900470
DROWNED HERSELF.                                                      TH06900480
     SHE LIVED IN HER HUSBAND'S COUNTRY FOR A WHILE, AND BORE A SON   TH06900490
TO HIM. WHEN THE BOY WAS GROWING UP, HE WISHED TO SEE HIS             TH06900500
GRANDPARENTS. EVERY DAY HE ASKED FOR THEM. FINALLY HIS PARENTS        TH06900510
DETERMINED TO TAKE HIM TO SEE THEM. THEY WENT UP THE RIVER IN A       TH06900520
CANOE LOADED WITH PRESENTS OF MANY KINDS, AND EVENTUALLY REACHED      TH06900530
LYTTON. THEY MOORED THEIR CANOE AT THE WATERING-PLACE. THE WEATHER    TH06900540
WAS WARM, AND THE WOMAN'S PARENTS WERE LIVING IN A MAT TENT. HER      TH06900550
YOUNGER SISTER CAME DOWN TO DRAW WATER, AND DISCOVERED THEM. SHE      TH06900560
WENT BACK WITH THE NEWS; AND THE PARENTS CLEANED THEIR HOUSE, AND     TH06900570
MADE READY TO RECEIVE THEIR SON-IN-LAW. HE GAVE HIS FATHER-IN-LAW     TH06900580
ALL THE PRESENTS, AND THE PEOPLE DANCED TO WELCOME THEM. HE MADE UP   TH06900590
HIS MIND TO LIVE THERE, AND BECAME AN ADOPTED MEMBER OF THE TRIBE.    TH06900600
***THO-126***
          COYOTE AND BUFFALO                                          TH07000010
     THIS IS LIKE THE UTA'MQT STORY OF COYOTE AND ELK, BUT WITH THE   TH07000020
FOLLOWING DIFFERENCES: --                                             TH07000030
     COYOTE TRAVELLED EAST AND REACHED THE BUFFALO COUNTRY. HE SAW    TH07000040
THE SKELETON OF A BUFFALO LYING IN THE GRASS. HE ASKED IT WHY IT      TH07000050
WAS THERE AND HOW IT DIED. THERE WAS NO RESPONSE. HE EXAMINED THE     TH07000060
BONES, AND SAID, "POOR FELLOW] HE HAS BEEN DEAD A LONG TIME. HE       TH07000070
CANNOT SPEAK OR COME TO LIFE AGAIN. HE IS REALLY DEAD." HE URINATED   TH07000080
ON THE SKULL, AND THEN LEFT. WHEN HE HAD BEEN GONE SOME TIME, HE      TH07000090
HEARD A NOISE BEHIND HIM. HE THOUGHT, "THAT IS WIND. A STORM IS       TH07000100
COMING ON." HE HEARD THE NOISE MORE DISTINCTLY, AND IT SOUNDED LIKE   TH07000110
A BUFFALO OR ELK RUNNING. HE LOOKED BACK AND SAW A BUFFALO COMING     TH07000120
FULL SPEED FOR HIM. HE RAN TO A HILL WHICH HAD TREES AND ROCKS ON     TH07000130
ITS TOP. HE RAN BETWEEN THE ROCKS, AND BUFFALO HAD TO RUN AROUND. HE  TH07000140
WAS TOO LARGE TO PASS THROUGH. AGAIN BUFFALO CAUGHT UP WITH HIM.      TH07000150
COYOTE HID UNDER A LARGE BOWLDER, BUT BUFFALO TURNED IT OVER WITH     TH07000160
HIS HORNS. COYOTE CLIMBED A PINE-TREE, BUT BUFFALO UPROOTED IT.       TH07000170
WHEN IT WAS ABOUT TO FALL, COYOTE JUMPED ON TOP OF A TALL, STEEP      TH07000180
ROCK. BUFFALO ATTACKED THE ROCK AND SPLIT IT. COYOTE WAS AFRAID,      TH07000190
AND THOUGHT HE WOULD BLUFF BUFFALO. HE SAID, "IF YOU DO NOT DESIST,   TH07000200
I WILL SHOOT YOU." BUFFALO PERSISTED. COYOTE SHOT HIS ARROWS,  BUT    TH07000210
THEY DID NOT PENETRATE THE THICK NECK AND HEAD OF BUFFALO. COYOTE     TH07000220
WANTED TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH HIM. HE SAID, "FRIEND, WHY DO YOU CHASE   TH07000230
ME? WHY DO YOU WANT TO KILL ME?" BUFFALO ANSWERED, "BECAUSE I WAS     TH07000240
SLEEPING PEACEFULLY, AND YOU URINATED ON MY HEAD. I WAS DEAD, AND     TH07000250
YOU INSULTED ME." COYOTE ASKED HIM HOW HE CAME TO DIE; AND HE SAID,   TH07000260
"I BECAME OLD, AND MY HORNS BECAME DULL. THEN MY RIVAL KILLED ME      TH07000270
AND TOOK MY WIVES." COYOTE SAID, "LET US SMOKE, LET US BE FRIENDS]    TH07000280
I CAN HELP YOU IF YOU SPARE ME. I CAN HELP YOU TO KILL YOUR RIVAL     TH07000290
AND GET BACK YOUR WIVES." BUFFALO REPLIED, "DO YOU SPEAK THE TRUTH?"  TH07000300
AND COYOTE ANSWERED, "I DO." THEN BUFFALO DESISTED FROM BUTTING THE   TH07000310
ROCK, AND HE AND COYOTE BECAME FRIENDS. THEY TRAINED THEMSELVES FOR   TH07000320
WAR. COYOTE SHARPENED BUFFALO'S HORNS,  AND MADE HORNS OF             TH07000330
PITCH-WOOD FOR HIMSELF. THEY REACHED THE PLACE WHERE BUFFALO'S RIVAL  TH07000340
DWELT. BUFFALO SAID, "YOU SEE MY RIVAL AND HIS HOUSE AND HIS WIVES,   TH07000350
ALSO MY WIVES." HE POINTED OUT ALL OF THEM. HE SAID TO COYOTE, "MY    TH07000360
RIVAL IS VERY STRONG. IF YOU SEE HIM GETTING THE BETTER OF ME, YOU    TH07000370
MUST COME TO MY AID." COYOTE HID HIMSELF IN THE GRASS NEAR BY, AND    TH07000380
BUFFALO WENT ALONE TO FIGHT HIS RIVAL. COYOTE SAID, "YOU NEED HAVE    TH07000390
NO FEAR. THE HORNS I HAVE MADE FOR YOU WILL KILL OUR ENEMY."          TH07000400
BUFFALO ENGAGED IN BATTLE WITH HIS RIVAL; AND AS SOON AS THEY         TH07000410
CLOSED, COYOTE SANG HIS WAR-CHANT. HE SANG, "THESE HORNS WILL ENTER   TH07000420
HIS BELLY. OUR HORNS WILL CONQUER. MY HORNS CAN SLAY HIM. MY          TH07000430
PITCH-WOOD HORNS ARE THE BEST." BUFFALO RIPPED UP HIS RIVAL AND       TH07000440
KILLED HIM. THEN COYOTE RAN OUT, JOINED BUFFALO, AND SANG A SONG OF   TH07000450
VICTORY. THEY SCALPED THEIR ENEMY AND TOOK POSSESSION OF HIS HOUSE    TH07000460
AND OF ALL HIS BELONGINGS. NOW BUFFALO HAD ALL HIS ENEMY'S WIVES,     TH07000470
AND GOT BACK HIS OWN WIVES. HE WAS GLAD; AND WHEN COYOTE WAS GOING    TH07000480
TO RETURN TO HIS OWN COUNTRY, HE GAVE HIM ONE OF HIS WIVES. HE        TH07000490
SAID, "YOU MUST TREAT HER WELL, OR SHE WILL LEAVE YOU." SHE WAS A     TH07000500
LARGE DARK WOMAN. (THE STORY ENDS WITH THE WOMAN LEAVING COYOTE IN    TH07000510
THE SAME WAY AND FOR THE SAME REASON AS IN THE UTA'MQT STORY. IF HE   TH07000520
HAD BROUGHT HIS WIFE HOME, THERE MIGHT NOW BE BUFFALO IN THIS         TH07000530
COUNTRY. HE BROUGHT HER ONLY TO THE BORDERS OF THE NICOLA COUNTRY.)   TH07000540
***THO-127***
          WOLVERENE AND THE ELK SKULL   (A FRAGMENT)                  TH07100010
     SOME ONE HAD KILLED AN ELK, AND THE ANIMALS OR BIRDS HAD EATEN   TH07100020
ALL THE FLESH AND SCATTERED THE BONES. WOLVERENE CAME ALONG AND       TH07100030
DISCOVERED THE BONES. HE WAS VERY HUNGRY. HE LOOKED THEM ALL OVER,    TH07100040
BUT COULD FIND NOTHING ON THEM TO EAT. THEN HE NOTICED THE SKULL      TH07100050
LYING HALF CONCEALED IN THE GRASS. HE FOUND THAT IT HAD BEEN PICKED   TH07100060
CLEAN. ONLY THE BRAINS REMAINED INSIDE. HE WISHED VERY MUCH TO EAT    TH07100070
THE BRAINS, AND SQUEEZED HIS HEAD INTO THE SKULL. AFTER HE HAD        TH07100080
LICKED OUT THE BRAINS HE FOUND THAT HE COULD NOT GET HIS HEAD OUT     TH07100090
AGAIN. HE TRAVELLED ABOUT, BEING UNABLE TO SEE AND TO EAT. WHEN HE    TH07100100
TRAVELLED THROUGH THE WOODS, THE ANTLERS HIT THE TREES AND THUS       TH07100110
MADE HIM SORE. HE SAID, "I SHALL DIE IF PEOPLE DO NOT FIND ME, AND    TH07100120
NOBODY WILL SEE ME IN THE WOODS." HE CAME TO A BUSHY PART OF THE      TH07100130
COUNTRY. THE WILLOWS WERE SO THICK THERE, THAT HE BECAME EXHAUSTED    TH07100140
FROM DRAGGING THE ANTLERS THROUGH THEM. AT LAST HE REACHED AN OPEN    TH07100150
GRASSY COUNTRY. THE GRASS DID NOT IMPEDE HIM AND DID NOT MAKE HIM     TH07100160
SORE. HERE HE COULD BE SEEN A LONG WAYS OFF. HE TRAVELLED ABOUT IN    TH07100170
THE OPEN COUNTRY, AND BECAME VERY POOR AND WEAK. AT LAST A PARTY      TH07100180
OF INDIANS WHO WERE HUNTING SAW HIM. THEY WATCHED HIM. SOME ONE SAID  TH07100190
IT WAS AN ELK; AND OTHERS SAID IT WAS NOT, BECAUSE ITS BODY WAS VERY  TH07100200
LOW AND NEAR THE GROUND. THEY APPROACHED, AND SAW THAT IT WAS         TH07100210
WOLVERENE WITH HIS HEAD IN AN ELK'S SKULL. THEY BROKE THE SKULL AND   TH07100220
RELEASED HIM. SOME SAY THEY KILLED HIM AND THEN TOOK OFF THE SKULL.   TH07100230
***THO-128***
          WOLVERENE, AND ELK'S SKULL  (FROM THE NICOLA VALLEY)        TH07200010
     SOME PEOPLE WERE HUNTING ELK IN HIGHLAND VALLEY. WHEN NEAR       TH07200020
KOKWELA'NTEN, THEY SAW AN ELK-SKULL WITH LARGE ANTLERS MOVING ALONG   TH07200030
THE GROUND. THEY DID NOT SEE ANY LIVING BEING. SOME OF THEM WERE      TH07200040
AFRAID, AND WOULD NOT GO NEAR. TWO MEN, HOWEVER, MORE COURAGEOUS      TH07200050
THAN THE OTHERS, FOLLOWED THE SKULL, AND DISCOVERED THAT A            TH07200060
WOLVERENE HAD PUSHED HIS HEAD INTO THE SKULL AND COULD NOT GET IT     TH07200070
OUT. HE WAS THIN, FOR HE COULD NOT EAT. HE COULD NOT SEE WHERE HE     TH07200080
WAS GOING, AND RAN INTO THEM. THE INDIANS KILLED HIM, AND LEFT THE    TH07200090
SKULL. THE HAIR WAS WORN OFF AROUND HIS HEAD.                         TH07200100
***THO-129***
          NKE'KAUMSTEM                                                TH07300010
     A BOY WAS VERY QUARRELSOME. ONCE WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE ENCAMPED   TH07300020
ON AN ISLAND, HIS PARENTS TOLD THE BOYS WHOM HE ABUSED TO TAKE        TH07300030
HIM INTO THE WOODS AND TO TWIST BARK WITH HIM. THEN THEY WERE TO      TH07300040
DEFECATE, URINATE, SPIT AND BLOW THEIR NOSES ON THE GROUND, AND TO    TH07300050
LEAVE HIM. WHILE THEY WERE RUNNING AWAY, THE URINE AND THE OTHER      TH07300060
OBJECTS WHISTLED. AT LAST THE BOY FOUND OUT WHAT WAS WHISTLING, AND   TH07300070
STRUCK IT WITH A STICK. MEANWHILE ALL THE PEOPLE EXCEPT THE BOY'S     TH07300080
GRANDMOTHER HAD LEFT. SHE TAUGHT HIM TO SNARE MICE AND OTHER SMALL    TH07300090
GAME. HE MADE BLANKETS OF BIRD-SKINS WHICH THE SUN BOUGHT FOR BOW     TH07300100
AND ARROWS AND A GOAT-HAIR ROBE. HIS GRANDMOTHER SENT HIM TO HUNT     TH07300110
GROUSE AND SMALL GAME. LATER ON SHE SAID, "GO UP THAT HILL. YOUR      TH07300120
PARENTS USED TO HUNT DEER THERE. THEY HAVE LONG EARS. IF YOU SEE      TH07300130
ANY, SHOOT THEM." THE BOY WENT, AND SHOT A DEER. HE SAID TO HIS       TH07300140
GRANDMOTHER, "I HAVE KILLED A MYSTERIOUS BEING WITH VERY LONG EARS."  TH07300150
SHE SAID, "CUT IT UP. IT IS FOOD AND CLOTHING." HE KILLED MANY DEER,  TH07300160
AND HIS SCAFFOLD AND DRYING-FRAMES WERE COVERED WITH MEAT. ONE DAY    TH07300170
HE SAW CROW EATING THE SCRAPS THAT WERE LYING ABOUT. HE INVITED HIM,  TH07300180
AND GAVE HIM A PACK OF GOOD MEAT, WHICH CROW TOOK HOME, AND FED TO    TH07300190
HIS FAMILY AT NIGHT. AFTERWARDS CROW OFTEN VISITED HIM. THE STARVING  TH07300200
PEOPLE WERE SUSPICIOUS OF CROW, FOR THEY NOTICED THAT HE AND HIS      TH07300210
FAMILY BELCHED AT NIGHT, AND WERE GETTING FAT. WOLF SAID, "HE MUST    TH07300220
GET MEAT FROM NKE'KAUMSTEM." THE OTHERS LAUGHED AT THE IDEA,          TH07300230
THINKING THAT THE BOY AND HIS GRANDMOTHER WERE DEAD. THEY SENT        TH07300240
MAGPIE TO SEE, AND HE BROUGHT BACK THE NEWS THAT THE BOY'S SCAFFOLD   TH07300250
WAS LOADED WITH MEAT. THE STARVING PEOPLE AT ONCE BROKE CAMP, AND     TH07300260
WENT BACK TO THEIR OLD PLACE WHERE NKE'KAUMSTEM WAS. HE HAD PUT       TH07300270
DEER-FAT IN THE CELLARS OF THOSE WHO HAD LEFT FISH-SKINS AND          TH07300280
BACK-BONES FOR HIM. TO OTHERS HE HAD GIVEN MEAT; TO STILL OTHERS,     TH07300290
BONES OR HOOFS. IN HIS PARENTS' CELLAR HE PUT ONLY SINEWS OF          TH07300300
DEER-LEGS. COYOTE TRIED TO CLAIM THE CELLARS WITH FAT MEAT AS HIS.    TH07300310
HE DEFECATED IN THEM TO KEEP THE OWNERS AWAY; BUT THEY ROLLED HIM     TH07300320
IN THE EXCREMENTS, AND KICKED HIM OUT.                                TH07300330
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          WOLF-BOY     (FIRST VERSION)                                TH07400010
     WOLF-BOY WAS AN  ANCESTOR OF THE THOMPSON INDIANS. HE WAS A      TH07400020
CHIEF'S SON, AND LIVED WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER IN A COUNTRY BEYOND A     TH07400030
GREAT LAKE TO THE WEST OR SOUTH.  FORMERLY MANY PEOPLE LIVED THERE.   TH07400040
A GREAT WAR-PARTY OF STRANGE PEOPLE ATTACKED THEM; AND ALL THE        TH07400050
PEOPLE WERE DESTROYED  EXCEPT WOLF-BOY AND HIS GRANDMOTHER, WHO HID   TH07400060
IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND. WOLF-BOY WAS VERY SMALL WHEN HIS PEOPLE      TH07400070
WERE KILLED. HIS GRANDMOTHER REARED HIM, AND TAUGHT HIM ALL THE       TH07400080
ARTS AND KNOWLEDGE OF HIS PEOPLE. SHE WOULD SAY, "THUS YOUR ANCESTOR  TH07400090
DID," OR "THUS DID THOSE WHO ARE NOW DEAD." SHE TAUGHT HIM HOW TO     TH07400100
MAKE BOW AND ARROWS, HOW TO SHOOT AND HOW TO SNARE GAME. SOON HE      TH07400110
BECAME A PROFICIENT HUNTER AND TRAPPER. AT FIRST HE KILLED ONLY       TH07400120
SMALL ANIMALS AND BIRDS, AND HIS GRANDMOTHER MADE ROBES OF THEIR      TH07400130
SKINS; SOON HE KILLED LARGER GAME; AND FINALLY GRIZZLY BEARS, ELK,    TH07400140
AND ALL KINDS OF LARGE ANIMALS.                                       TH07400150
     ONE DAY HE ASKED HIS GRANDMOTHER WHO HIS ANCESTORS WERE OF       TH07400160
WHOM SHE ALWAYS SPOKE; AND HOW IT HAPPENED THAT HE AND SHE WERE THE   TH07400170
ONLY PEOPLE IN THAT COUNTRY, WHILE OF EACH KIND OF ANIMALS THERE      TH07400180
WERE PLENTY. SHE TOLD HIM THAT FORMERLY MANY PEOPLE LIVED THERE,      TH07400190
BUT THAT THEY HAD BEEN ATTACKED AND SLAIN BY A STRANGE PEOPLE, WHO    TH07400200
HAD ALWAYS HARASSED THEM; THAT THEIR ENEMIES THOUGHT ALL HAD BEEN     TH07400210
SLAIN, BUT THAT SHE HAD MANAGED TO HIDE HERSELF AND THE BOY; AND      TH07400220
THAT THEY WERE THE SOLE SURVIVORS. THE BONES OF THEIR KINDRED LAY     TH07400230
SCATTERED AROUND. HE ASKED WHERE THESE ENEMIES LIVED, AND SHE TOLD    TH07400240
HIM THAT THEY WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAKE. WOLF-BOY WANTED     TH07400250
TO TAKE REVENGE ON THE ENEMIES WHO HAD KILLED HIS PEOPLE, AND ASKED   TH07400260
HIS GRANDMOTHER FOR ADVICE. SHE SAID, "YOU MUST NOT THINK OF THIS.    TH07400270
POOR CHILD] YOU WILL BE KILLED, AND THEN I SHALL BE ALL ALONE." HE    TH07400280
PERSISTED IN HIS DETERMINATION, AND SAID TO HIS GRANDMOTHER, "YOU     TH07400290
MUST ACCOMPANY ME, GRANDMOTHER, YOU ARE WISE, AND CAN SEE THE WHOLE   TH07400300
WORLD. YOU KNOW WHERE OUR ENEMIES LIVE. I CANNOT ACCOMPLISH MY        TH07400310
OBJECT WITHOUT YOU." WOLF-BOY HAD TRAINED HIMSELF, UNDER THE          TH07400320
DIRECTIONS OF HIS GRANDMOTHER, AFTER THE MANNER OF HIS ANCESTORS.     TH07400330
ALTHOUGH STILL A MERE LAD, HE HAD OBTAINED GREAT MAGICAL POWER, BUT   TH07400340
HAD NOT REVEALED IT TO HIS GRANDMOTHER, WHO STILL CONSIDERED HIM AN   TH07400350
INFANT. THE OLD WOMAN TOLD HIM TO HOLLOW OUT A LOG AND MAKE A PLACE   TH07400360
IN IT FOR HER TO SIT IN.  THIS HE DID. HE MADE IT LIKE A CANOE. SHE   TH07400370
SAID, "IN THIS KIND OF VESSEL YOUR ANCESTORS TRAVELLED ON THE         TH07400380
WATER." SHE TOLD HIM TO MAKE A PADDLE AND TO SIT IN THE STERN. THEY   TH07400390
EMBARKED AND CROSSED THE LAKE, WHICH WAS VERY LARGE. WOLF-BOY LOST    TH07400400
SIGHT OF THE LAND, AND DID NOT KNOW WHICH WAY TO GO. HE INQUIRED OF   TH07400410
HIS GRANDMOTHER, WHO TOLD HIM TO TAKE HOLD OF HER EYELASHES AND OPEN  TH07400420
HER EYELIDS. ALTHOUGH SHE APPEARED TO BE BLIND AND KEPT HER EYES      TH07400430
CLOSED, SHE HAD EXTRAORDINARY POWERS OF VISION, AND COULD SEE A       TH07400440
LONG WAYS. SHE LOOKED AROUND, AND POINTED OUT THE DIRECTION THEY      TH07400450
HAD TO TAKE. IMMEDIATELY THE CANOE SHOT FORWARD TO THE POINT TO       TH07400460
WHICH HER VISION HAD PENETRATED. WHENEVER WOLF-BOY BECAME TIRED AND   TH07400470
DID NOT KNOW THE PROPER DIRECTION, HE INQUIRED OF HIS GRANDMOTHER,    TH07400480
WHO ALWAYS SAID, "OPEN MY EYES, CHILD." THE CANOE DARTED FORWARD,     TH07400490
FOLLOWING HER GLANCE TO THE UTMOST RANGE OF HER VISION. THIS          TH07400500
HAPPENED FOUR TIMES. AT LAST WOLF-BOY SAW THE OPPOSITE SHORES OF THE  TH07400510
LAKE, AND SOON PADDLED ASHORE. HERE HE LEFT HIS GRANDMOTHER,          TH07400520
TELLING HER THAT HE WOULD NOW GO AND VANQUISH HIS ENEMIES. SHE        TH07400530
FEARED FOR HIS SAFETY, BUT HE ASSURED HER THAT HE HAD THE POWER TO    TH07400540
DESTROY THEM. HE ASSUMED THE FORM OF A WOLF, AND RAN UNTIL HE         TH07400550
REACHED THE TOP OF A HILL OVERLOOKING THE VILLAGE OF HIS ENEMIES.     TH07400560
HE SAW THEIR DWELLINGS IN THE VALLEY BELOW. THERE WERE MANY LODGES    TH07400570
AND MANY PEOPLE. HE REACHED THE HOUSES, AND CIRCLED AROUND THE        TH07400580
DWELLINGS, DRAWING EVER NEARER. THE PEOPLE SAW HIM, AND SAID, "LOOK   TH07400590
AT THE WOLF THAT IS RUNNING ROUND OUR VILLAGE]" SUDDENLY HE           TH07400600
DISAPPEARED, AND THE PEOPLE SAW A SMALL CLOUD OF FINE DOWN            TH07400610
APPROACHING ONE OF THE LODGES. WHEN IT REACHED THE SMOKE-HOLE, THE    TH07400620
HOUSE TOOK FIRE. THE DOWN TRAVELLED RAPIDLY TO THE OTHER LODGES, AND  TH07400630
SOON THE WHOLE VILLAGE WAS ABLAZE. THE FIRE PURSUED AND BURNED THE    TH07400640
PEOPLE WHO TRIED TO ESCAPE. WHEN THE CHIEF SAW WHAT WAS HAPPENING,    TH07400650
HE RAN OUT IN HASTE WITH A LARGE ROBE, AND SPREAD IT ON THE GROUND    TH07400660
NEAR HIS LODGE. HE HEAPED MANY COSTLY THINGS ON IT, PLACED HIS FOUR   TH07400670
YOUNG DAUGHTERS ON TOP, AND, HOLDING UP HIS HANDS TOWARDS THE CLOUD   TH07400680
AND THE FIRE, HE SUPPLICATED THE MYSTERY TO STOP. HE SAID, "CHIEF,    TH07400690
HAVE MERCY ON ME] I WILL BE YOUR FRIEND. ALL THESE PRESENTS AND MY    TH07400700
DAUGHTERS I GIVE YOU, IF YOU WILL SPARE US." THEN THE DOWN HOVERED    TH07400710
OVER THE ROBE, AND, DESCENDING BEFORE THE CHIEF, ASSUMED THE FORM OF  TH07400720
A YOUNG MAN. ALL THE LODGES AND THEIR PEOPLE WERE BURNED, EXCEPT THE  TH07400730
CHIEF'S LODGE AND ITS INMATES. WOLF-BOY LIVED WITH THE CHIEF, WHOSE   TH07400740
DAUGHTERS BECAME HIS WIVES. FOUR YEARS HE LIVED THERE, AND HAD FOUR   TH07400750
CHILDREN BORN TO HIM.  ONE DAY THE CHILDREN ASKED THEIR MOTHERS       TH07400760
ABOUT THEIR GREAT-GRANDMOTHER. THEY WISHED TO SEE HER. THE WOMEN      TH07400770
ASKED THEIR HUSBAND IF HE HAD A GRANDMOTHER, AND HE ANSWERED, "YES."  TH07400780
THEY SAID, "YOUR CHILDREN CRY BECAUSE THEY WANT TO SEE HER." THEN     TH07400790
HE THOUGHT OF HIS GRANDMOTHER, AND WONDERED IF SHE WERE DEAD. HE      TH07400800
PROPOSED TO GO AND SEE HER AT ONCE. THEY GATHERED TOGETHER MUCH       TH07400810
FOOD AND NECESSARIES FOR THE JOURNEY, AND THEIR LOADS WERE VERY       TH07400820
LARGE AND HEAVY. WOLF-BOY TRANSFORMED THE LOADS INTO SMALL PARCELS,   TH07400830
WHICH THE WOMEN COULD CARRY WITH EASE.  THEY FOUND THE OLD WOMAN      TH07400840
ASLEEP IN THE CANOE, AND WOKE HER UP. THE YOUNG WOMEN SAID, "SHE      TH07400850
CANNOT SEE." WOLF-BOY TOLD THEM THAT IF THEY LIFTED UP HER EYELIDS,   TH07400860
SHE COULD SEE. THEY DID SO, AND SAW THAT SHE HAD THE MOST BEAUTIFUL,  TH07400870
BRIGHT, AND PIERCING EYES. THEY EMBARKED IN THE CANOE, AND PROCEEDED  TH07400880
TO RETURN TO WOLF-BOY'S COUNTRY. THE OLD WOMAN TOLD WOLF-BOY TO       TH07400890
STRIKE THE CANOE.  AS SOON AS HE HAD DONE SO, THE CANOE WENT VERY     TH07400900
FAST. THIS HE DID; AND WHENEVER HE WAS IN DOUBT AS TO WHETHER HE      TH07400910
WAS GOING RIGHT, HE OPENED HIS GRANDMOTHER'S EYES. THUS THEY          TH07400920
TRAVELLED UNTIL THEY REACHED HOME. AFTER SOME TIME WOLF-BOY AND HIS   TH07400930
FAMILY RETURNED, AND THENCEFORTH THEY LIVED IN HIS FATHER-IN-LAW'S    TH07400940
COUNTRY.  ACCORDING TO SOME INFORMANTS, HIS GRANDMOTHER STAID         TH07400950
BEHIND AND BECAME THE SHORT-TAILED MOUSE.                             TH07400960
***THO-131***
          WOLF-BOY     (SECOND VERSION)                               TH07500010
     THIS VERSION IS LIKE THE PRECEDING, BUT WITH THE FOLLOWING       TH07500020
DIFFERENCES:--                                                        TH07500030
     MANY PEOPLE LIVED AT LYTTON, WHERE THEY WERE ATTACKED BY         TH07500040
STRANGERS, AND ALL KILLED EXCEPT WOLF-BOY AND HIS GRANDMOTHER. SOME   TH07500050
SAY THE PEOPLE WERE BURNED UP.                                        TH07500060
     WOLF-BOY SET OUT WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER TO ATTACK THE ENEMIES WHO  TH07500070
HAD KILLED HIS PEOPLE. THEY TRAVELLED NORTH TO WHERE THEIR ENEMIES    TH07500080
LIVED. HE DRAGGED HIS GRANDMOTHER IN A HOLLOW LOG. THERE WERE FOUR    TH07500090
STAGES OR OBSTACLES ON THE WAY. THEY CAME TO A LARGE LAKE. WOLF-BOY   TH07500100
SAID TO HIS GRANDMOTHER, "THERE IS NOTHING BUT WATER AHEAD OF US, WE  TH07500110
CANNOT PROCEED." THE OLD WOMAN TOOK OFF HER BELT AND WHIPPED THE      TH07500120
WATER. SHE THREW HER BELT OUT OVER THE SURVACE OF THE LAKE, AND THUS  TH07500130
CUT THE WATER. AS SHE DREW IN THE BELT, THE WATER DIVIDED IN TWO      TH07500140
WHERE THE BELT HAD TOUCHED IT. THUS WOLF-BOY DRAGGED HIS GRANDMOTHER  TH07500150
OVER THE DRY BOTTOM OF THE LAKE. WHEN THEY HAD PASSED, THE WATER      TH07500160
CLOSED UP BEHIND THEM. THEY CAME TO OTHER OBSTACLES, AND WOLF-BOY     TH07500170
TOLD HIS GRANDMOTHER. SHE REQUESTED HIM TO LIFT UP HER EYELIDS, SO    TH07500180
SHE COULD SEE. AS SOON AS SHE LOOKED AT THE OBSTACLE, IT              TH07500190
DISAPPEARED. THEY SEEMED TO HAVE SHOT FORWARD AT ONCE TO A PLACE      TH07500200
BEYOND IT, OR AS FAR AS THE OLD WOMAN'S GLANCE HAD PENETRATED; OR     TH07500210
THE EARTH CONTRACTED, AND THE OBSTACLES WAS LEFT BEHIND THEM. THUS    TH07500220
THEY CROSSED OR SURMOUNTED A GREAT LAKE, A GREAT MOUNTAIN, A GREAT    TH07500230
FOREST, AND A GREAT CHASM.  AFTER TWO YEARS WOLF-BOY RETURNED TO      TH07500240
LYTTON WITH HIS TWO WIVES, TWO CHILDREN, HIS GRANDMOTHER, AND MANY    TH07500250
GOODS. ON THE WAY BACK THEY WENT IN THE HOLLOW LOG, EXCEPT WOLF-BOY,  TH07500260
WHO SAT ON THE TOP. HE WHIPPED THE LOG, AS ADVISED BY HIS             TH07500270
GRANDMOTHER, AND IN A VERY SHORT SPACE OF TIME THEY ARRIVED AT THEIR  TH07500280
DESTINATION. IT IS SAID THAT WOLF-BOY WAS AN ANCESTOR OF THE LYTTON   TH07500290
PEOPLE.                                                               TH07500300
***THO-132***
          THE LYTTON GIRLS WHO WERE STOLEN BY GIANTS                  TH07600010
     ONCE SOME PEOPLE WERE CAMPED ON THE HILLS NEAR LYTTON, AND       TH07600020
AMONG THEM WERE TWO GIRLS WHO WERE FOND OF PLAYING FAR AWAY FROM      TH07600030
THE CAMP. THEIR FATHER WARNED THEM AGAINST THE GIANTS, WHO INFESTED   TH07600040
THE COUNTRY. ONE DAY THEY RAMBLED OFF, PLAYING AS USUAL, AND TWO      TH07600050
GIANTS SAW THEM. THEY PUT THEM UNDER THEIR ARMS, AND RAN OFF WITH     TH07600060
THEM TO THEIR HOUSE ON AN ISLAND IN A LARGE RIVER, A LONG DISTANCE    TH07600070
AWAY. THEY TREATED THEM KINDLY, AND GAVE THEM PLENTY OF GAME TO       TH07600080
EAT. FIRST THEY BROUGHT THEM GROUSE, RABBITS, AND OTHER SMALL GAME;   TH07600090
BUT WHEN THEY LEARNED THAT THE GIRLS ALSO ATE DEER, THEY BROUGHT TO   TH07600100
THEM PLENTY OF DEER, AND THE GIRLS MADE MUCH BUCKSKIN. THE GIANTS     TH07600110
WERE MUCH AMUSED WHEN THEY SAW HOW THE GIRLS CUT UP THE DEER, HOW     TH07600120
THEY COOKED THE MEAT AND DRESSED THE SKINS. FOR FOUR DAYS THE GIRLS   TH07600130
WERE ALMOST OVERCOME BY THE SMELL OF THE GIANTS, BUT GRADUALLY THEY   TH07600140
BECAME USED TO IT. FOR FOUR YEARS THEY LIVED WITH THE GIANTS, WHO     TH07600150
WOULD CARRY THEM ACROSS THE RIVER TO DIG ROOTS AND GATHER BERRIES     TH07600160
WHICH DID NOT GROW ON THE ISLAND. ONE SUMMER THE GIANTS TOOK THEM     TH07600170
A LONG DISTANCE AWAY, TO A PLACE WHERE HUCKLEBERRIES WERE VERY        TH07600180
PLENTIFUL. THEY KNEW THAT THE GIRLS LIKED HUCKLEBERRIES VERY MUCH.    TH07600190
THEY LEFT THEM TO GATHER BERRIES, AND SAID THEY WOULD GO HUNTING      TH07600200
AND COME BACK IN A FEW DAYS TO TAKE THEM HOME. THE ELDER SISTER       TH07600210
RECOGNIZED THE PLACE AS NOT MANY DAYS' TRAVEL FROM THEIR PEOPLE'S     TH07600220
HOME, AND THEY RAN AWAY. WHEN THE GIANTS RETURNED FOR THEM, THEY      TH07600230
FOUND THEM GONE, AND FOLLOWED THEIR TRACKS. WHEN THE GIRLS SAW THAT   TH07600240
THEY WERE ABOUT TO BE OVERTAKEN, THEY CLIMBED INTO THE TOP OF A       TH07600250
LARGE SPRUCE-TREE, WHERE THEY COULD NOT BE SEEN. THEY TIED            TH07600260
THEMSELVES WITH THEIR TUMP-LINES. THE GIANTS, WHO HAD LOST THEIR      TH07600270
TRACKS, THOUGHT THEY MUST BE IN THE TREE, AND TRIED TO DISCOVER       TH07600280
THEM. THEY WALKED ALL AROUND AND LOOKED UP, BUT COULD NOT SEE THEM.   TH07600290
THEY THOUGHT, "IF THEY ARE THERE, WE SHALL SHAKE THEM OUT." THEY      TH07600300
SHOOK THE TREE MANY TIMES, AND PUSHED AND PULLED AGAINST IT; BUT THE  TH07600310
TREE DID NOT BREAK, AND THE GIRLS DID NOT FALL DOWN. THEREFORE THE    TH07600320
GIANTS LEFT. AFTER THEY HAD GONE, THE GIRLS CAME DOWN AND RAN ON.     TH07600330
THE GIANTS WERE LOOKING ALL AROUND FOR THEIR TRACKS, WHEN AT LAST     TH07600340
THEY CAME TO A PLACE WHERE THE GIRLS HAD PASSED. THEY PURSUED THEM;   TH07600350
AND WHEN THE GIRLS SAW THAT THEY WOULD BE OVERTAKEN, THEY CRAWLED,    TH07600360
ONE FROM EACH END, INTO A LARGE HOLLOW LOG ON A SIDE-HILL. THEY       TH07600370
CLOSED THE OPENINGS WITH BRANCHES WHICH THEY TIED TOGETHER WITH       TH07600380
THEIR TUMP-LINES. THE GIANTS LOST THEIR TRACKS AGAIN, AND THOUGHT     TH07600390
THEY MIGHT BE IN THE LOG. THEY PULLED AT THE BRANCHES, BUT THEY DID   TH07600400
NOT MOVE. THEY PEERED IN THROUGH SOME SMALL CRACKS, BUT COULD NOT     TH07600410
SEE ANYTHING. THEY TRIED TO ROLL THE LOG DOWN THE HILL, TO SHAKE      TH07600420
OUT WHATEVER MIGHT BE INSIDE, BUT IT WAS TOO HEAVY. AFTER A WHILE     TH07600430
THEY LEFT. WHEN THEY WERE GONE, THE GIRLS RAN ON AS BEFORE, AND       TH07600440
AFTER A TIME REACHED A HUNTING-CAMP OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE IN THE        TH07600450
MOUNTAINS. DURING THEIR FLIGHT THEY HAD LIVED ON BERRIES AND          TH07600460
FOOL-HENS. THEIR MOCCASINS WERE WORN OUT, AND THEIR CLOTHES TORN.     TH07600470
THEY TOLD THE PEOPLE HOW THE GIANTS LIVED AND ACTED. THEY WERE        TH07600480
ASKED IF THE GIANTS HAD ANY NAMES BESIDES TSAWANE'ITEMUX, AND THEY    TH07600490
SAID THEY WERE CALLED STSOMU'LAMUX AND TSEKETINU'S.                   TH07600500
***THO-133***
          THE DEER    (FROM THE UPPER THOMPSON AND LYTTON)            TH07700010
     THERE WAS A MAN WHO WAS A GREAT DEER-HUNTER. HE WAS CONSTANTLY   TH07700020
HUNTING, AND WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL. HE THOUGHT CONTINUALLY OF THE       TH07700030
DEER, AND DREAMED OF THEM. THEY WERE AS FRIENDS TO HIM. PROBABLY      TH07700040
THEY WERE HIS MANITOU. HE HAD TWO WIVES, ONE OF WHOM HAD BORNE HIM    TH07700050
NO CHILDREN, WHILE THE OTHER ONE HAD BORNE A MALE CHILD. ONE DAY      TH07700060
WHILE HUNTING, HE CAME ON THE FRESH TRACKS OF A DOE AND FAWN, WHICH   TH07700070
HE FOLLOWED. THEY LED TO A KNOLL ON WHICH HE SAW A YOUNG WOMAN AND    TH07700080
CHILD SITTING. THE TRACKS LED DIRECTLY TO THEM. HE WAS SURPRISED,     TH07700090
AND ASKED THE WOMAN IF SHE HAD SEEN ANY DEER PASS. SHE ANSWERED,      TH07700100
"NO." HE WALKED ON, BUT COULD NOT FIND THE TRACKS. ON HIS RETURN,     TH07700110
HE SAID TO THE WOMAN, "YOU NEED NOT TROUBLE YOURSELF ABOUT THE        TH07700120
TRACKS. FOR A LONG TIME I HAVE LOVED YOU AND LONGED FOR YUU. NOW YOU  TH07700130
SHALL GO WITH ME TO MY HOUSE." THEY WALKED ON TOGETHER; AND THE       TH07700140
HUNTER COULD NOT RESIST THE ATTRACTION OF THE WOMAN, NOR HELP         TH07700150
FOLLOWING HER. AS HE WENT ALONG, HE THOUGHT, "IT IS NOT WELL THAT I   TH07700160
AM ACTING THUS. MY WIVES AND MY CHILD ARE AT HOME AWAITING ME." THE   TH07700170
WOMAN KNEW HIS THOUGHTS AT ONCE, AND SAID, "YOU MUST NOT WORRY OR     TH07700180
THINK THAT YOU ARE DOING WRONG. YOU SHALL BE MY HUSBAND, AND YOU      TH07700190
WILL NEVER REGRET IT." AFTER THE TWO HAD TRAVELLED A LONG WAY, THEY   TH07700200
REACHED A HILLY COUNTRY. THEN THE MAN SAW AN ENTRANCE WHICH SEEMED    TH07700210
TO LEAD UNDERGROUND.  WHEN THEY HAD GONE SOME DISTANCE UNDERGROUND,   TH07700220
THEY FOUND THEMSELVES IN A LARGE HOUSE FULL OF PEOPLE WHO WERE JUST   TH07700230
LIKE INDIANS. THEY WERE OF BOTH SEXES AND ALL AGES. THEY WERE WELL    TH07700240
DRESSED IN CLOTHES OF DRESSED SKIN, AND WORE DEER-SKIN ROBES. THEY    TH07700250
SEEMED TO BE VERY AMIABLE AND HAPPY. AS THE TRAVELLERS ENTERED,       TH07700260
SOME OF THE PEOPLE SAID, "OUR DAUGHTER HAS BROUGHT HER HUSBAND."      TH07700270
THAT NIGHT THE WOMAN SAID TO THE HUNTER, "YOU ARE MY HUSBAND, AND     TH07700280
WILL SLEEP WITH ME. YOU MAY EMBRACE ME, BUT YOU MUST NOT TRY TO HAVE  TH07700290
INTERCOURSE WITH ME. YOU MUST NOT DO SO BEFORE THE RUTTING-SEASON.    TH07700300
THEN YOU MAY ALSO GO WITH MY SISTERS. OUR SEASON COMES BUT ONCE A     TH07700310
YEAR, AND LASTS ABOUT A MONTH. DURING THE REST OF THE YEAR WE HAVE    TH07700320
NO SEXUAL CONNECTIONS." THE HUNTER SLEPT WITH HIS NEW WIFE.           TH07700330
     ON THE FOLLOWING DAY THE PEOPLE SAID, "LET OUR SON-IN-LAW HUNT.  TH07700340
HE IS A GREAT HUNTER. LET HIM GET MEAT FOR US. WE HAVE NO MORE        TH07700350
MEAT." THE HUNTER TOOK HIS BOW AND ARROWS AND WENT HUNTING. TWO       TH07700360
YOUNG DEER, HIS BROTHERS-IN-LAW, RAN AHEAD AND STOOD ON A KNOLL.      TH07700370
PRESENTLY THE HUNTER SAW THEM, AND KILLED BOTH OF THEM. HE CUT THEM   TH07700380
UP AND CARRIED THEM HOME, LEAVING NOTHING BUT THEIR MANURE. THE       TH07700390
CHIEF HAD TOLD HIM IN THE MORNING TO BE CAREFUL AND NOT TO THROW      TH07700400
AWAY ANY PART OF THE GAME. NOW THE PEOPLE ATE AND WERE GLAD. THEY     TH07700410
SAVED ALL THE BONES AND PUT THEM AWAY IN ONE PLACE. THEY SAID TO      TH07700420
THE HUNTER, "WE ALWAYS SAVE EVERY BONE." WHEN THE DEER WERE EATEN,    TH07700430
THE BONES WERE WRAPPED IN BUNDLES, AND THE CHIEF SENT A MAN TO THROW  TH07700440
THEM INTO THE WATER. HE CARRIED THE BONES OF THE TWO DEER THAT THE    TH07700450
HUNTER HAD KILLED, AND OF ANOTHER ONE THAT THE PEOPLE WERE EATING     TH07700460
WHEN THE HUNTER FIRST ARRIVED. THE HUNTER HAD MISSED HIS TWO          TH07700470
BROTHERS-IN-LAW, AND THOUGHT THEY WERE AWAY HUNTING. WHEN THE MAN     TH07700480
WHO HAD CARRIED THE BONES AWAY RETURNED, THE TWO BROTHERS-IN-LAW      TH07700490
AND ANOTHER MAN WERE WITH HIM. THEY HAD ALL COME TO LIFE WHEN THEIR   TH07700500
BONES WERE THROWN INTO THE WATER.  THUS THESE DEER PEOPLE LIVED BY    TH07700510
HUNTING AND KILLING EACH OTHER AND THEN REVIVING. THE HUNTER LIVED    TH07700520
WITH HIS WIFE AND HER PEOPLE, AND HUNTED WHENEVER MEAT WAS REQUIRED.  TH07700530
HE NEVER FAILED TO KILL DEER, FOR SOME OF THE YOUNG DEER WERE ALWAYS  TH07700540
ANXIOUS TO BE KILLED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE.                   TH07700550
     AT LAST THE RUTTING-SEASON CAME ON, AND THE CHIEF PUT THE BODY   TH07700560
OF A LARGE OLD BUCK ON THE HUNTER, AND SO TRANSFORMED HIM INTO A      TH07700570
BUCK. HE WENT OUT WITH HIS WIFE AND FELT HAPPY. SOME OTHER YOUNGER    TH07700580
BUCKS CAME AND BEAT HIM OFF AND TOOK HIS WIFE. HE DID NOT LIKE        TH07700590
OTHERS TO HAVE HIS WIFE, THEREFORE HE WENT HOME AND FELT DOWNCAST.    TH07700600
THAT NIGHT THE PEOPLE SAID, "WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH OUR SON-IN-LAW,  TH07700610
THAT HE DOWS NOT SPEAK?" SOME ONE SAID, "HE IS DOWNCAST BECAUSE A     TH07700620
YOUNG MAN TOOK HIS WIFE." THE CHIEF SAID, "DO NOT FEEL SAD. WE        TH07700630
SHALL GIVE YOU ARNAMENTS TO-MORROW WHICH WILL MAKE YOU STRONG, AND    TH07700640
THEN NOBODY CAN TAKE YOUR WIFE AWAY FROM YOU." ON THE FOLLOWING       TH07700650
MORNING HE PUT LARGE ANTLERS ON HIM, AND GAVE HIM THE BODY OF A       TH07700660
BUCK IN ITS PRIME. THAT DAY THE HUNTER BEAT OFF ALL THE RIVAL BUCKS,  TH07700670
AND KEPT HIS WIFE AND ALSO ALL HER SISTERS AND COUSINS FOR HIMSELF.   TH07700680
HE HURT MANY OF HIS BROTHERS-IN-LAW IN FIGHTING. THE DEER PEOPLE      TH07700690
HAD SHAMANS WHO HEALED THE WOUNDS OF THOSE HURT IN BATTLE, AND THEY   TH07700700
WERE BUSY THROUGHOUT THE RUTTING-SEASON. IN THIS WAY THEY ACTED       TH07700710
UNTIL THE END OF THE RUT, AND THE HUNTER WAS THE CHAMPION DURING      TH07700720
THE WHOLE SEASON. IN DUE TIME HIS WIFE GAVE BIRTH TO A SON. WHEN THE  TH07700730
LATTER WAS GROWING UP, SHE SAID, "IT IS NOT FAIR TO YOUR PEOPLE       TH07700740
THAT YOU LIVE ENTIRELY WITH MY PEOPLE. WE SHOULD LIVE WITH THEM FOR   TH07700750
A WHILE." SHE REDUCED A LARGE QUANTITY OF DEER-FAT TO THE SIZE OF A   TH07700760
HANDFUL. SHE DID THE SAME WITH A LARGE QUANTITY OF DRIED VENISON,     TH07700770
DEER-SKINS, AND DRESSED BUCKSKINS. NOW SHE STARTED WITH HER CHILD     TH07700780
AND HER HUSBAND, WHO HUNTED ON THE WAY, AND KILLED ONE OF HIS         TH07700790
BROTHERS-IN-LAW WHENEVER THEY REQUIRED FOOD. HE PUT THE BONES INTO    TH07700800
THE WATER, AND THEY REVIVED. THEY TRAVELLED ALONG AS PEOPLE DO; BUT   TH07700810
THE WOMAN THOUGHT THIS TOO SLOW, THEREFORE THEY TRANSFORMED           TH07700820
THEMSELVES INTO DEER. NOW THEY WENT FAST, AND SOON REACHED THE        TH07700830
COUNTRY WHERE HER HUSBAND'S PEOPLE LIVED. SHE SAID TO HER HUSBAND,    TH07700840
"DO NOT APPROACH THE PEOPLE AT ONCE, OR YOU WILL DIE. FOR EIGHT       TH07700850
DAYS YOU MUST PREPARE YOURSELF BY WASHING IN DECOCTIONS OF HERBS."    TH07700860
PRESENTLY THEY SAW A YOUNG WOMAN SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE LODGES.  TH07700870
THE HUNTER RECOGNIZED HER AS HIS SISTER, SHOWED HIMSELF, AND CALLED,  TH07700880
"O SISTER] I HAVE COME BACK, BUT NO ONE MUST COME NEAR ME FOR EIGHT   TH07700890
DAYS. AFTER THAT I SHALL VISIT YOU; BUT YOU MUST CLEAN YOUR HOUSES,   TH07700900
SO THAT THERE MAY BE IN THEM NOTHING OLD AND NO BAD SMELL." THE       TH07700910
PEOPLE THOUGHT HIM DEAD, AND HIS CHILDLESS WIFE HAD MARRIED AGAIN.    TH07700920
AFTER THE HUNTER  HAD BECOME LIKE OTHER PEOPLE, HE ENTERED HIS        TH07700930
LODGE WITH HIS NEW WIFE AND HIS SON. HIS WIFE PULLED OUT THE          TH07700940
DEER-FAT FROM UNDER HER ARM,  AND THREW IT DOWN ON LONG FEAST-MATS    TH07700950
THAT HAD BEEN SPREAD OUT BY THE PEOPLE. IT ASSUMED ITS PROPER         TH07700960
DIMENSIONS AND COVERED ALL THE MATS. SHE DID THE SAME WITH THE DRIED  TH07700970
MEAT AND THE DEER-SKINS, WHICH ALMOST FILLED A LODGE. NOW THE         TH07700980
PEOPLE HAD A FEAST, AND FELT HAPPY AND PLEASED. THE HUNTER STAID      TH07700990
WITH HIS PEOPLE FOR A CONSIDERABLE TIME. WHENEVER THEY WANTED FRESH   TH07701000
MEAT, HE GAVE HIS BOW AND ARROWS TO HIS SON AND TOLD HIM TO HUNT.     TH07701010
THE YOUTH ALWAYS TOOK WITH HIM HIS HALF-BROTHER, THE SON OF HIS       TH07701020
FATHER BY HIS INDIAN WIFE. THEY KILLED DEER, FOR THE DEER WERE THE    TH07701030
BOY'S RELATIVES AND WERE WILLING TO BE KILLED. THEY THREW THE BONES   TH07701040
INTO THE WATER, AND THE DEER CAME BACK TO LIFE. THE DEER-BOY TAUGHT   TH07701050
HIS HALF-BROTHER HOW TO HUNT AND SHOOT DEER, HOW TO HOLD HIS BOW      TH07701060
AND ARROWS SO THAT HE WOULD NOT MISS, HOW TO CUT UP AND PRESERVE      TH07701070
THE MEAT; AND HE ADMONISHED HIM ALWAYS TO THROW THE BONES INTO THE    TH07701080
WATER, SO THAT THE DEER MIGHT REVIVE.                                 TH07701090
     FINALLY THE DEER-WOMAN SAID TO HER HUSBAND, "WE HAVE BEEN HERE   TH07701100
NOW FOR A LONG TIME. LET US RETURN TO MY PEOPLE." SHE INVITED THE     TH07701110
PEOPLE TO ACCOMPANY THEM, BUT THEY SAID THEY HAD NOT A SUFFICIENT     TH07701120
NUMBER OF MOCCASINS TO UNDERTAKE THE LONG JOURNEY. THE WOMAN THEN     TH07701130
PULLED OUT A PARCEL OF DRESSED SKINS, THREW IT ON THE GROUND, AND IT  TH07701140
BECAME A HEAP OF FINE SKINS FOR SHOES. ALL THE WOMEN WORKED NIGHT     TH07701150
AND DAY MAKING MOCCASINS, AND SOON THEY WERE READY TO START. THE      TH07701160
FIRST DAY OF THE JOURNEY THE HUNTER SAID TO HIS WIFE, "LET US SEND    TH07701170
OUR SON OUT, AND I WILL SHOOT HIM." HE HUNTED, AND BROUGHT HOME A     TH07701180
YOUNG DEER, WHICH THE PEOPLE ATE. THEY MISSED THE DEER-BOY, AND       TH07701190
WONDERED WHERE HE HAD GONE. AT NIGHT THE HUNTER THREW THE BONES INTO  TH07701200
THE WATER, AND THE BOY CAME TO LIFE. ON THE NEXT DAY THE HUNTER'S     TH07701210
WIFE WENT OUT, AND HE KILLED HER AND FED THE PEOPLE. THEY MISSED      TH07701220
HER, AND WONDERED WHERE SHE HAD GONE. AT NIGHT HE THREW THE BONES     TH07701230
INTO THE WATER, AND SHE CAME TO LIFE. SHE TOLD HER HUSBAND IT WOULD   TH07701240
BE BETTER NOT TO CONTINUE TO DO THIS, BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WERE         TH07701250
BECOMING SUSPICIOUS AND WOULD SOON DISCOVER WHAT THEY WERE DOING.     TH07701260
SHE SAID, "AFTER THIS KILL YOUR BROTHERS-IN-LAW." THE PEOPLE          TH07701270
TRAVELLED SLOWLY, FOR THERE WERE MANY, AND THE HUNTER KILLED DEER     TH07701280
FOR THEM EVERY DAY. AFTER MANY DAYS THEY REACHED THE DEER PEOPLE'S    TH07701290
HOUSE. THEY WERE WELL RECEIVED. AFTER A TIME THEY MADE UP THEIR       TH07701300
MINDS TO RETURN; AND THE DEER-BOY SAID HE WOULD RETURN WITH HIS       TH07701310
HALF-BROTHER'S PEOPLE, AND HUNT FOR THEM ON THE WAY, SO THAT THEY     TH07701320
MIGHT NOT STARVE. HE ACCOMPANIED THEM TO THEIR COUNTRY, AND NEVER     TH07701330
RETURNED. HE BECAME AN INDIAN AND A GREAT HUNTER. FROM HIM THE        TH07701340
PEOPLE LEARNED HOW TO TREAT DEER.  HE SAID TO THEM, "WHEN YOU KILL    TH07701350
DEER, ALWAYS SEE TO IT THAT THE BONES ARE NOT LOST. THROW THEM INTO   TH07701360
THE WATER. THEN THE DEER WILL COME TO LIFE. A HUNTER WHO DOES THIS    TH07701370
PLEASES THE DEER. THEY HAVE AFFECTION FOR HIM, ARE NOT AFRAID OF      TH07701380
HIM, AND DO NOT KEEP OUT OF HIS WAY, FOR THEY KNOW THAT THEY WILL     TH07701390
RETURN TO LIFE WHENEVER THEY GIVE THEMSELVES INTO HIS POWER. THE      TH07701400
DEER WILL ALWAYS REMAIN PLENTIFUL, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT REALLY        TH07701410
KILLED. IF IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO THROW THE BONES INTO WATER, THEN       TH07701420
BURN THEM. THEN THE DEER WILL REALLY DIE, BUT THEY WILL NOT FIND      TH07701430
FAULT WITH YOU. IF A MAN THROWS DEER-BONES ABOUT, AND TAKES NO CARE   TH07701440
OF THEM, IF HE LETS THE DOGS EAT THEM, AND PEOPLE STEP ON THEM,       TH07701450
THEN THE DEER WILL BE OFFENDED AND WILL HELP HIM NO MORE. THEY WILL   TH07701460
WITHHOLD THEMSELVES, AND THE HUNTER WILL HAVE NO LUCK IN HUNTING.     TH07701470
HE WILL BECOME POOR AND STARVE." THE HUNTER NEVER RETURNED TO THE     TH07701480
PEOPLE. HE BECAME A DEER.                                             TH07701490
***THO-134***
          THE BOY WHO TRAVELLED TO THE SUN                            TH07800010
     THIS STORY IS LIKE TEIT, MAFL 6: 53, 54, NO. 8, WITH THE         TH07800020
FOLLOWING VARIATIONS AND ADDITIONS: --                                TH07800030
     THE STORY OPENS IN THE SAME WAY AS NO. 8. THE YOUNG MAN WAS THE  TH07800040
SON OF A CHIEF (AT LYTTON ACCORDING TO SOME). HE WAS UGLY, AND HIS    TH07800050
OFFERS OF MARRIAGE THROUGH HIS MOTHER WERE REFUSED BY ALL THE GIRLS.  TH07800060
IN CONSEQUENCE HE TOOK TO PLAYING, AND TURNED INTO AN INVETERATE      TH07800070
GAMBLER. HE PLAYED WITH THE OTHER YOUNG MEN, AND LOST ALL HE HAD,     TH07800080
INCLUDING HIS CLOTHES. HIS PARENTS SCOLDED HIM. NOW THE YOUNG MEN,    TH07800090
AS WELL AS THE YOUNG WOMEN, LAUGHED AT HIM. HE BECAME DISCONSOLATE,   TH07800100
STOLE SOME OF HIS MOTHER'S CLOTHES, AND WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS,        TH07800110
WHERE HE PURIFIED HIMSELF IN THE SWEAT-BATH. HE HAD A DREAM IN WHICH  TH07800120
HE WAS TOLD BY A GOOD-LOOKING YOUNG MAN TO TRAVEL EAST. HE            TH07800130
TRAVELLED UNTIL HE CAME TO A CLIFF AT THE FAR END OF THE EARTH. EACH  TH07800140
DAY, AS HE DREW NEARER THIS PLACE, IT BECAME HOTTER. AT LAST HE       TH07800150
CAME TO A TRAIL WHICH LED TO THE SUN'S HOUSE. HERE HE MET A YOUNG     TH07800160
MAN CLAD IN VERY FINE CLOTHES, ORNAMENTED WITH SUNS AND STARS MADE    TH07800170
OF COPPER, WHO SAID THAT HE WAS THE SUN'S SON, AND THAT HE HAD BEEN   TH07800180
EXPECTING HIM. HE INVITED HIM INTO THE HOUSE. THE YOUTH RECOGNIZED    TH07800190
HIM AS THE SAME MAN WHO HAD APPEARED TO HIM IN HIS DREAM. THE STORY   TH07800200
THEN CONTINUES LIKE NO. 8. AFTER THE BOY HAD BEEN FOUR DAYS IN        TH07800210
HIDING, THE SUN'S SON TOLD HIS FATHER ABOUT THE VISITOR, AND ASKED    TH07800220
HIM NOT TO KILL HIM, AS HE DESIRED HIM FOR A COMPANION. HE STAID      TH07800230
THERE FOR A LONG TIME, AND TRAVELLED WITH THE SUN'S SON IN THE SKY    TH07800240
COUNTRY. FINALLY HE LONGED TO RETURN HOME, AND TOLD THE SUN'S SON,    TH07800250
WHO DID NOT WISH HIM TO LEAVE, FOR HE SAID HE WOULD BE LONELY. THE    TH07800260
BOY PROMISED TO RETURN AND TO BRING WOMEN COMPANIONS FOR HIM AND      TH07800270
HIS FATHER, WHO DID NOT KNOW OF WOMEN. THE SUN'S SON LET HIM GO,      TH07800280
SCRATCHED A HOLE THROUGH THE SKY, AND TOLD HIM TO JUMP DOWN. THE      TH07800290
BOY HESITATED, BUT FINALLY OBEYED. AS HE DESCENDED, HE BECAME A       TH07800300
STAR. ON REACHING THE GROUND, HE BECAME A GOOD-LOOKING MAN. HE        TH07800310
FOUND HIMSELF ON A HILL ABOVE HIS HOME VILLAGE. THE PEOPLE SAW THE    TH07800320
STAR FALLING, BUT THOUGHT NOTHING OF IT. THEY SIMPLY SAID, "ANOTHER   TH07800330
STAR HAS DEFECATED."  HE OPENED THE TINY BUNDLE THAT THE SUN'S SON    TH07800340
HAD GIVEN HIM, AND IN IT HE FOUND FINE CLOTHES, WHICH ASSUMED THEIR   TH07800350
NATURAL SIZE. (THE STORY CONTINUES LIKE MAFLS 6: 54, NO. 8.)          TH07800360
***THO-135***
          THE DEAD WOMAN AND HER CHILD   (FROM THE UPPER THOMPSON     TH07900010
          AND LYTTON)                                                 TH07900020
     A WOMAN WHO HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO A DAUGHTER DIED WHEN THE CHILD    TH07900030
WAS ONLY A FEW DAYS OLD. THE PEOPLE BURIED THE MOTHER, AND TRIED TO   TH07900040
REAR THE CHILD BY FEEDING IT. THE BABY, HOWEVER, WAS NOT SATISFIED,   TH07900050
AND CRIED. ONE NIGHT, WHEN IT WAS CRYING AFTER THE PEOPLE HAD GONE    TH07900060
TO BED AND THE FIRE HAD GONE OUT, THE MOTHER CAME INTO THE HOUSE AND  TH07900070
SUCKLED IT. SHE REMAINED WITH IT UNTIL ALMOST DAYLIGHT, WHEN SHE      TH07900080
RETURNED TO HER GRAVE. SHE DID SO MANY NIGHTS, AND THE PEOPLE         TH07900090
WONDERED THAT THE CHILD WAS THRIVING SO WELL AND DID NOT CRY DURING   TH07900100
THE NIGHT. THEY ALSO NOTICED IN THE MORNING THAT THERE WAS DRIED      TH07900110
MILK AROUND THE CHILD'S MOUTH, AND OTHER SIGNS THAT IT HAD BEEN       TH07900120
SUCKLED. THEY THOUGHT THIS WAS STRANGE, AND ASKED TWO OLD WOMEN TO    TH07900130
WATCH. ABOUT MIDNIGHT THE CHILD CRIED. THEN HER MOTHER APPROACHED,    TH07900140
CALLING "TCUXHWI'S.UUU,  TCEX.U'UU." THE DEAD WOMAN DESCENDED THE     TH07900150
LADDER, CALLING HER CHILD IN A LOW VOICE. SHE LAY DOWN WITH IT, AND   TH07900160
REMAINED UNTIL NEAR DAYBREAK. THE OLD WOMEN TOLD THE PEOPLE THAT A    TH07900170
WOMAN HAD COME IN AND SUCKLED THE CHILD, AND THEY BELIEVED THAT SHE   TH07900180
WAS ITS MOTHER. THEY MADE PREPARATIONS TO CAPTURE HER WHEN SHE        TH07900190
SHOULD COME BACK THE NEXT NIGHT. THEY BOILED SOME MEDICINE, AND HAD   TH07900200
A LARGE BUCKETFUL OF IT READY. THEY TORE UP SOME DRY CEDAR-BARK,      TH07900210
AND HELD IT IN READINESS TO MAKE A BLAZE AT ANY MOMENT. THEY          TH07900220
COVERED THE FIRE WITH ASHES TO KEEP IT ALIVE. THEY ALSO HAD SPLIT     TH07900230
PITCHWOOD READY TO START A BIG FIRE. FOUR SHAMANS TOOK THEIR PLACES   TH07900240
AT THE NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, AND WEST, READY TO HOLD THE WOMAN. AT      TH07900250
MIDNIGHT SHE CAME TO THE TOP OF THE LADDER, AND CALLED TO HER CHILD   TH07900260
AS BEFORE, BUT SHE HESITATED A LONG TIME BEFORE SHE CAME DOWN. SHE    TH07900270
SEEMED TO KNOW THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG. HOWEVER, WHEN HER BABY       TH07900280
CONTINUED TO CRY, SHE SLOWLY CLIMBED DOWN THE LADDER. WHEN SHE        TH07900290
REACHED THE CHILD, THE FOUR SHAMANS SEIZED HER, AND HELD HER FAST.    TH07900300
SHE (OR HER SOUL) TRIED TO ESCAPE BY GOING UNDERGROUND AND IN THE     TH07900310
AIR, BUT THE SHAMANS BLOCKED HER PASSAGE AT EVERY POINT. OTHERS       TH07900320
LIGHTED A BRIGHT FIRE, AND STILL OTHERS THREW MEDICINE ON HER. AT     TH07900330
LAST THEY TAMED HER. HER STRUGGLES CEASED, AND FINALLY SHE BECAME     TH07900340
LIKE ANY OTHER WOMAN. SHE LAY DOWN QUIETLY AND SUCKLED HER CHILD.     TH07900350
     SOME YEARS AFTER THIS, WHEN HER DAUGHTER WAS GROWN UP, THEY      TH07900360
WENT TOGETHER TO BRING FOOD FROM THEIR CELLAR. THE GIRL SAT DOWN AT   TH07900370
THE ENTRANCE, WHILE THE MOTHER OPENED THE CELLAR. WHEN SHE LOOKED     TH07900380
IN, SHE SAW THAT IT WAS FULL OF MICE, WHICH SCAMPERED ABOUT IN        TH07900390
EVERY DIRECTION. WHILE SHE WAS LOOKING AT THE MICE, SHE BECAME        TH07900400
TRANSFORMED INTO ONE OF THEM, AND FINALLY DISAPPEARED AMONG THEM.     TH07900410
THE GIRL SAT OUTSIDE AND CRIED, BECAUSE HER MOTHER HAD BECOME A       TH07900420
MOUSE. THE PEOPLE TOOK HER HOME.                                      TH07900430
***THO-136***
          THE MAN WHO BROUGHT TO LIFE HIS SWEETHEART    (FROM THE     TH08000010
          UPPER THOMPSON AND LYTTON)                                  TH08000020
     THIS STORY IS IDENTICAL WITH MAFLS 6: 68, 69. THE FOLLOWING      TH08000030
ADDITONAL DETAILS WERE OBTAINED: --                                   TH08000040
     WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW A COUPLE SLEEPING IN THE PLACE WHERE THE     TH08000050
CORPSE HAD LAIN, THEY LIFTED UP THE FOOT OF THE BLANKET AND SAW THE   TH08000060
FEET OF TWO PERSONS. ONE PAIR OF FEET WERE QUITE HEALTHY-LOOKING;     TH08000070
THE OTHER PAIR OF FEET WERE YELLOW, AND LOOKED LIKE THOSE OF A        TH08000080
CORPSE.... WHEN THE COUPLE SAT UP, THE FACE OF THE WOMAN WAS LIKE     TH08000090
THAT OF A CORPSE. THIS APPEARANCE WORE OFF IN A FEW DAYS.... WHEN     TH08000100
THE YOUNG MAN, WHO HAD ASKED THE ADVICE OF OTTER, HAD FAILED TO       TH08000110
RESUSCITATE HIS SWEETHEART, OTTER TOOK PITY ON HIM, AND LATER WENT    TH08000120
TO THE GRAVE AND BROUGHT HER BACK TO LIFE.... HE ALSO DID THE SAME    TH08000130
WITH THE GIRL WHO HAD BEEN KILLED BY THE OTHER YOUNG MAN.             TH08000140
***THO-137***
          HOLHOLAKWO'XA  OR HOLAKWO'XA                                TH08100010
     HOLAKWO'XA WAS AN OLD MAN WHO LIVED WITH THE PEOPLE. HE WAS      TH08100020
VERY FAT. HE HAD LONG HAIR, AND SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME PICKING LICE   TH08100030
FROM HIS HEAD. HE SELDOM SPOKE TO ANY ONE. SOMETIMES HE WOULD TURN    TH08100040
HIS BACK TO THE PEOPLE, AND THEY COULD HEAR THE NOISE OF FILING.      TH08100050
WHEN ANY ONE CAME TO SEE HIM, HE COVERED UP HIS LEGS. WHEN THEY       TH08100060
WANTED TO SEE HIS FEET, HE PULLED THEM UNDER HIM, AND WRAPPED HIS     TH08100070
ROBE AROUND HIMSELF BELOW THE WAIST, SAYING, "NO, I AM AFRAID YOU     TH08100080
WOULD SHOOT MY FEET IF I WERE TO SHOW THEM." NEVERTHELESS SOME OF     TH08100090
THE PEOPLE DISCOVERED THAT HE WAS FILING HIS LEGS AND FEET. THEY      TH08100100
THOUGHT HE WAS DEMENTED. AT LAST HIS LEGS WERE AS SHARP AS AWLS. ONE  TH08100110
NIGHT HE AROSE AND STABBED ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE LODGE WHILE THEY     TH08100120
WERE ASLEEP. A YOUNG MAN WHO VISITED THE LODGE ON THE FOLLOWING DAY   TH08100130
ASKED HOLAKWO'XA HOW THE PEOPLE HAD DIED. HE REPLIED THAT A           TH08100140
WAR-PARTY HAD KILLED THEM. THE YOUNG MAN TOLD THE PEOPLE OF THE       TH08100150
NEIGHBORING LODGE TO BE WATCHFUL, FOR HE THOUGHT THEY MIGHT BE        TH08100160
ATTACKED BY HOLAKWO'XA. THAT NIGHT HOLAKWO'XA ENTERED THEIR LODGE,    TH08100170
AND, FINDING THAT THEY WERE NOT ASLEEP, ATTACKED THEM BY JUMPING      TH08100180
AND KICKING AT THEM. A FIGHT ENSUED, AND HE KILLED MANY OF THE        TH08100190
PEOPLE. THE YOUNG MAN, WHO HAD ARMED HIMSELF WITH A LARGE WAR-KNIFE,  TH08100200
ATTACKED HOLAKWO'XA, WHO TRIED TO KICK HIM. THE YOUNG MAN DODGED,     TH08100210
AND HOLAKWO'XA'S FOOT STUCK IN THE POST OF THE UNDERGROUND LODGE.     TH08100220
HE KICKED WITH HIS OTHER LEG, TRYING TO FREE HIMSELF; BUT THE OTHER   TH08100230
LEG STUCK FAST ALSO, FOR IT WAS VERY SHARP. THE YOUNG MAN THEN SLEW   TH08100240
HIM, AND THREW HIM OUTSIDE TO THE DOGS.                               TH08100250
     SOME INFORMANTS RELATE THE END OF THE STORY DIFFERENTLY. THEY    TH08100260
SAY HOLAKWO'XA RUSHED AT THE YOUNG MAN AND TRIED TO STAB HIM WITH     TH08100270
HIS FOOT. THE YOUNG MAN HIT HIS LEG WITH HIS SHARP HEAVY KNIFE, OR    TH08100280
SWORD, AND CUT OR BROKE IT AT THE KNEE. THEN HOLAKWO'XA JUMPED AT     TH08100290
HIM WITH THE OTHER FOOT, WHICH WAS ALSO CUT OFF BY THE YOUTH. THEN    TH08100300
THE BOY KILLED HIM, AND, AS SOME ADD, DECAPITATED HIM.                TH08100310
***THO-138***
          THE WOMAN WHO WAS CAPTURED BY A GRIZZLY BEAR                TH08200010
     THIS STORY IS TOLD ALMOST WORD FOR WORD LIKE THE ONE COLLECTED   TH08200020
BY ME IN SIMILKAMEEN. THE SCENE OF THE TALE, HOWEVER, IS PLACED IN    TH08200030
BOTANI VALLEY.                                                        TH08200040
***THO-139***
          THE SNAKE-LOVER                                             TH08300010
     THIS STORY IS IDENTICAL WITH MAFLS 6: 83, WITH THE FOLLOWING     TH08300020
MODIFICATION: --                                                      TH08300030
     THE WOMAN WENT UNDERNEATH A BRANCHY TREE GROWING AT THE EDGE     TH08300040
OF THE LAKE, AND, AFTER CALLING HER LOVER, LAY DOWN UNDER THE TREE.   TH08300050
THE SNAKE-MAN CAME OUT OF THE WATER AND JOINED HER UNDER THE TREE.    TH08300060
***THO-140***
          PEQO'S EL EA'PI.LA       (FROM SPENCES BRIDGE)              TH08400010
     A MAN FELL IN LOVE WITH HIS YOUNGER SISTER, AND SHE              TH08400020
RECIPROCATED HIS AFFECTION. SOME OF THE PEOPLE PREPARED TO DESERT     TH08400030
THE INFATUATED COUPLE, WHILE OTHERS WANTED TO KILL THEM. FINALLY      TH08400040
THEY KILLED THE MAN, AND DESERTED THE GIRL. THEY CARRIED THE BODY     TH08400050
OF THE YOUTH ALONG.  AFTER TRAVELLING FAR EASTWARD AND CROSSING       TH08400060
MANY MOUNTAINS (INCLUDING THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS), THEY CAME TO A FLAT   TH08400070
PRAIRIE WITH MANY LAKES. IN ONE OF THESE LAKES WAS AN ISLET, AND      TH08400080
HERE THEY DEPOSITED THE MAN'S REMAINS. THEN THEY LEFT THIS PLACE      TH08400090
AND TRAVELLED ABOUT A DAY'S JOURNEY TO A LOCALITY FARTHER EAST OR     TH08400100
SOUTH, WHERE THERE WERE LOW HILLS, MEADOWS, AND LAKES. HERE THEY      TH08400110
SETTLED, AS THE COUNTRY ABOUNDED IN GAME AND BIRDS. BUFFALO,          TH08400120
ANTELOPE, AND OTHER GAME WERE PLENTIFUL. THE PEOPLE SAID TO ONE       TH08400130
ANOTHER, "THE GIRL CAN NEVER FIND US HERE, AND SHE WILL NEVER FIND    TH08400140
HER LOVER'S REMAINS." WHEN THE GIRL REALIZED WHAT HAD HAPPENED, SHE   TH08400150
BECAME DISTRACTED WITH GRIEF. SHE TRAVELLED ABOUT MANY DAYS AND       TH08400160
NIGHTS, NOT KNOWING WHAT SHE WAS DOING. AT LAST, IN A DREAM, SHE      TH08400170
SAW THE BODY OF HER BROTHER ON THE ISLET IN THE LAKE. IN MANY         TH08400180
DREAMS SHE RECEIVED INSPIRATION AND ADVICE. SHE BECAME A SHAMAN,      TH08400190
AND KNEW WHAT THE PEOPLE HAD DONE AND WHERE THEY HAD GONE. SHE        TH08400200
LIVED BY SHOOTING AND SNARING GAME AND BY FISHING. SHE OFTEN WEPT     TH08400210
AS SHE TRAVELLED ALONG, AND ADDRESSED BROTHER, "PEQO'S EL EA'PI.LA."  TH08400220
HER MOCCASINS WERE WORN OUT. FINALLY ALL HER CLOTHES AND SHOES WERE   TH08400230
RAGGED AND PATCHED. WHEN SHE REACHED THE LAKE, SHE MADE A CANOE       TH08400240
(OR RAFT) AND CROSSED TO THE ISLET. THEN SHE TREATED HER BROTHER'S    TH08400250
BODY AS SHAMANS DO, AND AFTER FOUR DAYS HE CAME BACK TO LIFE. THEY    TH08400260
LIVED TOGETHER AS HUSBAND AND WIFE, AND HAD CHILDREN. AFTER SOME      TH08400270
YEARS A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WENT TO THE LAKE WHERE THE YOUTH'S BODY      TH08400280
HAD BEEN DEPOSITED, AND THERE THEY FOUND HIM LIVING WITH HIS SISTER.  TH08400290
THEY WERE AFRAID, AND MOVED FARTHER TO THE EAST OR SOUTH, IN ORDER    TH08400300
NOT TO BE NEAR THE BROTHER AND SISTER. THE LATTER CONTINUED TO LIVE   TH08400310
AT THIS PLACE; AND THEIR DESCENDANTS ARE SAID TO LIVE THERE NOW,      TH08400320
EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.  NONE OF THE OTHER PEOPLE RETURNED TO    TH08400330
THEIR ORIGINAL HOME. THEREFORE THE THOMPSON SAY THAT THEY HAVE        TH08400340
RELATIVES EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.                                TH08400350
***THO-141***
          MIGRATION LEGEND                                            TH08500010
     A LONG TIME AGO THE PEOPLE WERE LIVING IN ANOTHER COUNTRY,       TH08500020
NEAR A LARGE LAKE, WHERE THEY WERE ATTACKED BY ENEMIES. SINCE THEY    TH08500030
COULD NOT CROSS THE WATER,  THEY WERE HEMMED IN BY THEIR ENEMIES,     TH08500040
AND WERE IN DANGER OF BEING DESTROYED. THEIR TWO CHIEFS CALLED THE    TH08500050
MEN TOGETHER FOR A COUNCIL AND DANCE. ONE AFTER ANOTHER THE SHAMANS   TH08500060
AND THE OTHER MEN DANCED AND SANG, CALLING UP THEIR MANITOUS AND      TH08500070
SOLICITING AID. EACH MAN SHOWED HIS POWERS, AND SOME WERE ABLE TO     TH08500080
ACCOMPLISH WONDERFUL DEEDS. SOME COULD SWIM IN THE WATER LIKE         TH08500090
BEAVERS AND OTTERS, AND MIGHT HAVE CROSSED THE LAKE; BUT THEY COULD   TH08500100
NOT CONVEY THE WHOLE TRIBE ACROSS THE LAKE. ON THE FOLLOWING DAY      TH08500110
THEY EXPECTED THE ATTACK OF THEIR ENEMIES. SOME PEOPLE WENT INTO      TH08500120
THE SWEAT-HOUSES TO PURIFY THEMSELVES, AND PRAYED; AND OTHERS         TH08500130
JOINED IN A WAR-DANCE, PREPARING THEMSELVES FOR BATTLE. ONLY THE      TH08500140
TWO CHIEFS HAD NOT YET SHOWN THEIR POWERS. THEY CONTENDED WITH EACH   TH08500150
OTHER. ONE HAD POWER OVER HEAT, AND THE OTHER OVER COLD. WHEN ONE     TH08500160
CHIEF  CALLED UP HIS POWERS, IT BECAME SO HOT THAT THE PEOPLE TOOK    TH08500170
TO THE WATER TO COOL THEMSELVES. STILL THEY SAW NO WAY OF ESCAPE.     TH08500180
THEN THE OTHER CHIEF  DANCED AND SANG, AND A COLD WIND BEGAN TO       TH08500190
BLOW. THE PEOPLE FLED TO THEIR LODGES, AND LIGHTED FIRES TO WARM      TH08500200
THEMSELVES. THAT NIGHT ICE COVERED THE LAKE, AND AT DAYBREAK THE      TH08500210
TRIBE CROSSED TO THE OTHER SIDE.  THE PEOPLE WONDERED, FOR THEY HAD   TH08500220
NEVER SEEN THE LAKE COVERED BY ICE BEFORE. THEN THE CHIEF, WHOSE      TH08500230
GUARDIAN-SPIRIT WAS HEAT, CAUSED A HOT WIND TO BLOW, AND THE ICE      TH08500240
DISAPPEARED, SO THAT THEIR ENEMIES COULD NOT FOLLOW THEM.             TH08500250
     YET THE PEOPLE THOUGHT, "EVEN HERE OUR ENEMIES MAY FOLLOW US."   TH08500260
THEREFORE THEY TRAVELLED STILL FARTHER AWAY. THEY CAMPED FOR A TIME,  TH08500270
BUT THE LOCATION WAS UNSUITABLE. FOUR TIMES THEY MOVED, FOR THEY      TH08500280
WERE DISSATISFIED WITH THEIR CAMPS. ONE PLACE HAD AN INSUFFICIENCY    TH08500290
OF WOOD, ANOTHER OF FISH, ANOTHER OF GAME.  AT LAST THEY CAME TO A    TH08500300
COUNTRY WHERE WOOD, BARK, FISH, AND GAME WERE PLENTIFUL, AND THERE    TH08500310
THEY REMAINED. THIS PLACE, IT IS SAID, WAS THE THOMPSON COUNTRY AT    TH08500320
LYTTON. THEY BECAME THE ANCESTORS OF THE THOMPSON INDIANS. ON THEIR   TH08500330
JOURNEY THEY CROSSED A GREAT LAKE, A GREAT PLAIN, A GREAT FOREST,     TH08500340
AND A GREAT MOUNTAIN. SOME INFORMANTS CLAIM THAT THEY LEFT AT EACH    TH08500350
CAMP SOME PEOPLE WHO DID NOT CARE TO MOVE ON. THEREFORE PEOPLE        TH08500360
SPEAKING THE THOMPSON LANGUAGE MAY BE FOUND AT THESE PLACES NOW.      TH08500370
***THO-142***
          MIGRATION LEGEND                                            TH08600010
     THE COUNTRY OF THE THOMPSON INDIANS WAS RICH BEFORE THE WHITES   TH08600020
CAME. THERE WAS AN ABUNDANCE OF ALL KINDS OF FOOD. SALMON WERE VERY   TH08600030
PLENTIFUL IN THE RIVERS, AND GREAT NUMBERS WERE CAUGHT AT MANY        TH08600040
PLACES. DEER WERE EVERYWHERE; AND BEAR, ELK, AND MOUNTAIN-SHEEP       TH08600050
ABOUNDED. DRESSED SKIN WAS CHEAP AND PLENTIFUL, AND NEARLY EVERY      TH08600060
ONE WORE SKIN CLOTHES. THE PEOPLE WERE NUMEROUS, HEALTHY, STRONG,     TH08600070
AND HAPPY. NOW THE PEOPLE ARE FEW, SICK, POOR, AND DEJECTED. GAME     TH08600080
AND SALMON ARE NOW ALSO SCARCE.                                       TH08600090
     WE ARE AS IN PRISON, AND OUR LANDS AND NEARLY EVERYTHING WE      TH08600100
HAD HAVE BEEN SPOILED OR STOLEN FROM US. THE GREAT CHIEF LED US TO    TH08600110
THIS COUNTRY, AND PLACED US IN IT TO OCCUPY IT, MULTIPLY IN IT,       TH08600120
AND BE HAPPY. HE GAVE US A RICH COUNTRY, WITH PLENTY IN IT FOR US     TH08600130
TO EAT. HE DID NOT GIVE THIS COUNTRY TO THE WHITES, OR ANY ONE ELSE.  TH08600140
THE CHIEF GAVE US THIS PART OF OUR MOTHER'S BODY TO LIVE ON AND       TH08600150
REST ON. WE KNOW ABOUT OUR ORIGIN AND OUR ANCESTORS, AND WE HAVE      TH08600160
INHABITED THIS COUNTRY FOR A LONG TIME. THE EARTH IS FULL OF THE      TH08600170
BONES OF OUR ANCESTORS. OUR TRADITIONS TELL US THAT EVEN IN           TH08600180
MYTHOLOGICAL TIMES OUR ANCESTORS LIVED HERE. FOUR OF THEM LIVED AT    TH08600190
LYTTON, FROM WHOM WE BELIEVE WE ARE DESCENDED, -- NTCEMI'KEN (OR      TH08600200
.NTCE'MKA), A MAN OF VERY LARGE STATURE, AND A GREAT HUNTER AND       TH08600210
WARRIOR; KWONA'E'KA,  WHO MADE CANOES; SKWIA'XWNWMUX,  WHO COULD      TH08600220
MOVE AROUND LIKE A BIRD, AND WAS A HUNTER AND WARRIOR; AND            TH08600230
KWESKAPI'NEK,  WHO WAS LIKE A QUEEN, AND MOTHER OF THE PEOPLE.        TH08600240
THESE WERE INDIANS, AND NOT ANIMALS. SOME PEOPLE CLAIM THAT THE       TH08600250
LYTTON PEOPLE SPRANG FROM THESE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS. AT THE CLOSE    TH08600260
OF THE MYTHOLOGICAL PERIOD THERE WERE FOUR LODGES AT LYTTON, EACH     TH08600270
REPRESENTING A FAMILY, OR FAMILY GROUP. THESE FAMILIES INTERMARRIED,  TH08600280
AND FROM THEM HAVE SPRUNG ALL THE THOMPSON PEOPLE. CEXPE'NTLEM,       TH08600290
TSO'SIETEN, AND OTHER LEADING CHIEFS, ALL CLAIMED DESCENT FROM ONE    TH08600300
OR MORE OF THESE FAMILIES. IN COURSE OF TIME THESE FOUR LODGES        TH08600310
INCREASED, AND SOME FAMILIES BROKE AWAY AND SETTLED IN OTHER          TH08600320
PLACES WHERE THERE WERE GOOD HUNTING AND FISHING. THUS FROM LYTTON    TH08600330
THE PEOPLE SPREAD UP AND DOWN THE FRASER RIVER, AND UP THE THOMPSON   TH08600340
RIVER. SOME FAMILIES MIGRATED FROM LYTTON, AND SETTLED AT             TH08600350
NEQA'UMEN, OR THOMPSON, WHICH WAS A GREAT SALMON-FISHING PLACE,       TH08600360
AND WAS ANNUALLY VISITED BY THE OKANAGON. THE PEOPLE OF MANY OF       TH08600370
THESE PLACES SENT FORTH OFFSHOOTS, A FAMILY OR TWO BREAKING AWAY      TH08600380
AND MAKING THEIR HEADQUARTERS AT A CERTAIN PLACE, WHICH IN TIME       TH08600390
BECAME THE CENTRE OF A BAND. THUS OUR COUNTRY WAS SETTLED, UNTIL      TH08600400
AT LAST OUR PEOPLE SPREAD DOWN THE FRASER TO SPUZZUM, AND UP THE      TH08600410
FRASER TO LA FONTAINE, ALSO UP THE THOMPSON RIVER TO SPENCES          TH08600420
BRIDGE, AND OVER TO NICOLA AND SIMILKAMEEN. AT THESE POINTS THEY      TH08600430
CAME IN CONTACT WITH OTHER TRIBES, WITH WHOM THEY INTERMARRIED.       TH08600440
THIS IS WHY OUR CHIEF CEXPE'NTLEM, IN TALKING TO THE WHITES (IN       TH08600450
1858), TOLD THEM THEY HAD ENTERED HIS HOUSE AND WERE NOW HIS          TH08600460
GUESTS. HE ASKED THEM TO TREAT HIS CHILDREN AS BROTHERS, AND THEY     TH08600470
WOULD SHARE THE SAME FIRE. HE DID NOT KNOW THAT THEY WOULD            TH08600480
AFTERWARDS TREAT HIS PEOPLE AS STRANGERS AND INFERIORS, AND STEAL     TH08600490
THEIR LAND AND FOOD FROM THEM. HAD HE KNOWN IT, THERE WOULD           TH08600500
PROBABLY HAVE BEEN WAR, AND THE LAND WOULD HAVE BEEN RED WITH         TH08600510
BLOOD. THEY ASKED HIM WHERE HIS HOUSE WAS. HE SAID, "YOU ARE IN IT.   TH08600520
THE CENTRE OF MY HOUSE IS HERE AT LYTTON. THE FIREPLACE IS RIGHT      TH08600530
HERE, AND YOU ARE SITTING BY IT. THE DOORS OF MY HOUSE ARE AT         TH08600540
SPUZZUM, AT LAHA'HOA,  AT STLE.Z,  AT .STCE'KUS,  AND AT              TH08600550
TCUTCUWI'XA.  BETWEEN THESE PLACES IS OUR TRIBAL TERRITORY, FROM      TH08600560
WHICH WE GATHER OUR FOOD." THIS IS WHY LYTTON WAS CONSIDERED THE      TH08600570
CHIEF AND CENTRAL PLACE OF THE TRIBE, AND OUR HEAD CHIEF WAS THERE.   TH08600580
THIS IS ALSO THE REASON WHY THE LYTTON PEOPLE HAD THE RIGHT TO        TH08600590
HUNT ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY OF THE TRIBE. THEY WERE CALLED THE       TH08600600
"REAL NTLAKA'PAMUX".  OTHER NTLAKA'PAMUX WERE CONSIDERED THEIR        TH08600610
OFFSPRING OR CHILDREN, BUT THEY WERE NOT REAL NTLAKA'PAMUX. THEY      TH08600620
WERE ALL MORE OR LESS MIXED WITH ALIEN BLOOD, AND THEY DO NOT         TH08600630
SPEAK THE LANGUAGE SO PURELY AS THE LYTTON DIVISION. NOT LONG AGO     TH08600640
NEARLY ALL THE FAMILIES ALONG THE THOMPSON RIVER COULD TRACE THEIR    TH08600650
DESCENT FROM A FEW FAMILIES AT LYTTON, WHO WERE CONSIDERED THE        TH08600660
ORIGINAL FAMILIES. THEREFORE WE BELIEVE THAT IT IS NOT SO VERY LONG   TH08600670
SINCE THE TIME OF THE FOUR LODGES AT LYTTON, BUT STILL THE TIME       TH08600680
IS TOO GREAT FOR US TO COUNT IT. PERHAPS THE PEOPLE TWO OR THREE      TH08600690
GENERATIONS AGO COULD COUNT THE TIME. STORIES USED TO BE TOLD OF      TH08600700
A MIGRATION OF THOMPSON PEOPLE FROM THE COLUMBIA RIVER TO LYTTON,     TH08600710
AND ALSO LATER FROM LYTTON TO THE COLUMBIA RIVER. LATELY AT LYTTON    TH08600720
I HEARD AN OLD MAN CALLED HWI'KWAL TELL ONE OF THESE STORIES.         TH08600730
THERE ARE STILL SOME THOMPSON-SPEAKING INDIANS ON THE COLUMBIA        TH08600740
RIVER. THEY SPEAK OUR LANGUAGE, BUT SOME OF THEIR WORDS ARE A LITTLE  TH08600750
DIFFERENT FROM OURS. THEY ALSO SPEAK THE WENATCHIE DIALECT            TH08600760
(PESKWA'US), WHICH IS LIKE OKANAGON. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANY OF         TH08600770
THEM, BUT HAVE OFTEN HEARD OF THEM, AND SEEN MEN WHO HAVE SEEN        TH08600780
THEM, AND ONE OR TWO MEN WHO CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN AT THE PLACE        TH08600790
WHERE THEIR REMNANTS NOW LIVE. SOME SAY THAT LONG AGO THEY LIVED      TH08600800
AT TWO OR MORE PLACES NEAR THE COLUMBIA RIVER. IT IS SAID THAT        TH08600810
NOW ONLY A FEW ARE LEFT, WHO LIVE AT ONE PLACE, A LITTLE DISTANCE     TH08600820
FROM THE COLUMBIA RIVER, I THINK IN SOME PART OF THE PESKWA'US        TH08600830
COUNTRY.                                                              TH08600840
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          MIGRATION LEGEND                                            TH08700010
     THE OLD PEOPLE USED TO TELL US THAT WE HAD NOT ALWAYS LIVED      TH08700020
IN THE THOMPSON RIVER COUNTRY. AT ONE TIME VERY LONG AGO OUR          TH08700030
ANCESTORS LIVED IN A VERY DISTANT COUNTRY, AND REACHED OUR PRESENT    TH08700040
COUNTRY AFTER A SERIES OF MIGRATIONS EXTENDING OVER A GREAT MANY      TH08700050
YEARS. IN THE BEGINNING, OUR ANCESTORS LIVED AT SOME PLACE INLAND,    TH08700060
SOUTH, OR SOUTHEAST FROM HERE, ON THE FAR SIDE OF A GREAT BODY OF     TH08700070
FRESH WATER. THIS WAS THEIR ORIGINAL HOME. AFTER A TIME A STRANGE     TH08700080
AND POWERFUL PEOPLE CAME TO THEIR COUNTRY AND ATTACKED THEM.          TH08700090
THERE WAS MUCH WAR, AND OUR PEOPLE WERE VANQUISHED BY THE ENEMY.      TH08700100
MANY WERE KILLED, AND AT LAST OUR ANCESTORS WERE SURROUNDED ON ALL    TH08700110
SIDES. THEY HAD TO CROSS THE LAKE, OR BE EXTERMINATED. IN THOSE       TH08700120
DAYS THE INDIANS HAD NO CANOES, AND I DO NOT KNOW HOW THEY            TH08700130
CROSSED, -- WHETHER THEY USED RAFTS, OR LOGS, OR MAGIC BLANKETS,      TH08700140
OR A MAGIC BELT, OR WHETHER THEY CROSSED ON THE ICE. I THINK THE      TH08700150
OLD PEOPLE HAD SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS. I DO NOT KNOW WHO         TH08700160
THEIR CHIEF WAS. IT MAY HAVE BEEN COYOTE, OR SPETLEMU'LOX, OR         TH08700170
SOME NOTED MAN. THEIR ENEMIES COULD NOT FOLLOW THEM. FOR A LONG       TH08700180
TIME THEY LIVED ON THIS SIDE OF THE LAKE; BUT AT LAST THEIR           TH08700190
ENEMIES REACHED THEM, AND THE WAR WAS RESUMED. THEY LEFT AT ONCE,     TH08700200
AND TRAVELLED A LONG DISTANCE UNTIL THEY REACHED THE BANKS OF A       TH08700210
LARGE RIVER. SOME PEOPLE THINK THIS WAS THE COLUMBIA RIVER, BUT       TH08700220
THEY ARE NOT CERTAIN OF THIS. HERE THEY REMAINED A LONG TIME. I       TH08700230
THINK THEY WERE ATTACKED AT THIS PLACE BY ENEMIES, BUT I AM NOT       TH08700240
SURE. THEY CROSSED THE RIVER, AND LIVED ON THIS SIDE. HERE THEY       TH08700250
STAID A LONG TIME; BUT EVENTUALLY THEY QUARRELLED AND SEPARATED,      TH08700260
ONE HALF OF THE PEOPLE MOVING NORTH, AND THE OTHER HALF REMAINING     TH08700270
OR MOVING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, I DO NOT REMEMBER WHICH. AS      TH08700280
SOME RELATE IT, THERE WERE FOUR STOPS AND FOUR MIGRATIONS. THE        TH08700290
FOURTH ONE MUST HAVE BEEN THE MOVING OF THE NORTHERN DIVISION TO      TH08700300
THE THOMPSON RIVER. THEY PROBABLY CONTINUED TRAVELLING UNTIL THEY     TH08700310
REACHED LYTTON, AND SETTLED THERE, FOR IT SEEMS THAT IN LATER         TH08700320
DAYS THE TRIBE SPREAD FROM THERE UNTIL ALL THE SETTLEMENTS            TH08700330
BELONGING TO OUR PEOPLE WERE OCCUPIED. RECENTLY I ASKED SOME OF       TH08700340
THE OLDEST PEOPLE OF MY BAND REGARDING THE STORY, BUT NONE OF         TH08700350
THEM KNEW IT. SOME OF THEM SAID THEY HAD HEARD IT. PROBABLY SOME      TH08700360
OF THE OLD PEOPLE AT LYTTON MAY KNOW THE FULL VERSION.                TH08700370
     AN INDIAN FROM SPENCES BRIDGE, WHO HAD HEARD THE STORY WHEN      TH08700380
YOUNG AND HAD OFTEN HEARD MENTION OF IT, THOUGHT THAT THE PEOPLE      TH08700390
HAD CROSSED THE LAKE ON A LOG WHICH COYOTE CAUSED TO GROW ACROSS      TH08700400
THE WATER, IN THE SAME WAY AS HE MADE THE TREE GROW ON WHICH HIS      TH08700410
SON ASCENDED TO THE SKY, AND THE PEOPLE WALKED ALONG ON IT AS ON      TH08700420
A BRIDGE.                                                             TH08700430
     IN A LETTER WRITTEN TO ME A FEW YEARS AGO BY A SLAXAI'UX         TH08700440
CHIEF, SINCE DECEASED, HE STATED THAT HIS ANCESTORS HAD BEEN          TH08700450
DRIVEN AWAY FROM THE SHORES OF A LARGE LAKE, AND HAD BEEN HARASSED    TH08700460
BY ENEMIES, WHO FOLLOWED THEIR MIGRATIONS. EVERY NOW AND THEN THE     TH08700470
ENEMIES CAUGHT UP WITH THEM, DROVE THEM FROM THEIR VILLAGES, AND      TH08700480
HARASSED THEM AS BEFORE. HE SAID THIS HAD CONTINUED UP TO THE         TH08700490
PRESENT DAY, AND HE CALLED THE WHITES THE ENEMIES OF HIS RACE. IT     TH08700500
WAS NOT CLEAR WHETHER HE MEANT THAT THE WHITES WERE ALSO THE          TH08700510
ENEMIES WHO HAD ATTACKED HIS REMOTE ANCESTORS, BUT THAT MIGHT BE      TH08700520
INFERRED.                                                             TH08700530
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          THE WOMAN WHO BECAME A HORSE                                TH08800010
     A CHIEF HAD MANY HORSES, AND AMONG THEM A STALLION WHICH HIS     TH08800020
WIFE OFTEN RODE. THE WOMAN AND STALLION BECAME ENAMOURED OF EACH      TH08800030
OTHER AND COHABITED. THE WOMAN GREW CARELESS OF HER HOUSEHOLD         TH08800040
DUTIES, AND ALWAYS WANTED TO LOOK AFTER THE HORSES. WHEN THE PEOPLE   TH08800050
MOVED CAMP AND THE HORSES WERE BROUGHT IN, IT WAS NOTICED THAT        TH08800060
THE STALLION MADE RIGHT FOR THE WOMAN, AND SNIFFED ABOUT HER AS       TH08800070
STALLIONS DO WITH MARES. AFTER THIS SHE WAS WATCHED. WHEN HER         TH08800080
HUSBAND LEARNED THE TRUTH, HE SHOT THE STALLION. THE WOMAN CRIED,     TH08800090
AND WOULD NOT GO TO BED. AT DAYBREAK SHE WAS GONE, NO ONE KNEW        TH08800100
WHERE. ABOUT A YEAR AFTER THIS IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT SHE HAD GONE    TH08800110
OFF WITH SOME WILD HORSES. ONE DAY WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE TRAVELLING    TH08800120
OVER A LARGE OPEN PLACE, THEY SAW A BAND OF HORSES, AND THE WOMAN     TH08800130
AMONG THEM. SHE HAD PARTLY CHANGED INTO A HORSE: HER PUBIC HAIR       TH08800140
HAD GROWN SO LONG THAT IT RESEMBLED A TAIL. SHE ALSO HAD MUCH HAIR    TH08800150
ON HER BODY, AND THE HAIR OF HER HEAD HAD GROWN TO RESEMBLE A         TH08800160
HORSE'S MANE. HER ARMS AND LEGS HAD ALSO CHANGED CONSIDERABLY;        TH08800170
BUT HER FACE WAS STILL HUMAN, AND BORE SOME RESEMBLANCE TO HER        TH08800180
ORIGINAL SELF. THE CHIEF SENT SOME YOUNG MEN TO CHASE HER. ALL        TH08800190
THE WILD HORSES RAN AWAY; BUT SHE COULD NOT RUN SO FAST AS THEY,      TH08800200
AND WAS RUN DOWN AND LASSOED. SHE WAS BROUGHT INTO HER HUSBAND'S      TH08800210
LODGE; AND THE PEOPLE WATCHED HER FOR SOME TIME TRYING TO TAME        TH08800220
HER, BUT SHE CONTINUED TO ACT AND WHINNY LIKE A HORSE. AT LAST        TH08800230
THEY LET HER FREE. THE FOLLOWING YEAR THEY SAW HER AGAIN. SHE HAD     TH08800240
BECOME ALMOST ENTIRELY HORSE, AND HAD A COLT BY HER SIDE. SHE HAD     TH08800250
MANY CHILDREN AFTERWARDS.                                             TH08800260
***THO-145***
          THE ORPHANS WHO ASCENDED TO HEAVEN                          TH08900010
     SOMEWHERE IN THE WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY THERE WAS A POPULOUS        TH08900020
VILLAGE. TWO BROTHERS BELONGING TO THIS PLACE STRAYED AWAY PLAYING,   TH08900030
AND DID NOT RETURN UNTIL LATE IN THE EVENING. MEANWHILE A             TH08900040
THUNDER-STORM DESTROYED THE VILLAGE AND KILLED THE PEOPLE. WHEN       TH08900050
THE BOYS RETURNED, THEY FOUND NOTHING BUT SMOKING RUINS. THEY         TH08900060
SAID TO EACH OTHER, "OUR PARENTS AND RELATIVES HAVE BEEN KILLED.      TH08900070
THERE IS NOBODY LEFT HERE. LET US GO AWAY]" AFTER SOME DAYS THEY      TH08900080
ARRIVED IN A STARVING CONDITION AT A TOWN SITUATED IN A HOLLOW. THE   TH08900090
PEOPLE OF THAT PLACE WERE ALL ADULT MEN: THERE WERE NEITHER WOMEN     TH08900100
NOR CHILDREN. THE BOYS SAW THE HIGH HOUSE OF THE CHIEF, AND HIS       TH08900110
KITCHEN NEAR BY. IN A PEN WERE SEVERAL PIGS, AND THE CHIEF'S COOK     TH08900120
WAS FEEDING THEM WITH BREAD AND MEAT. THE ELDER BROTHER DESCENDED     TH08900130
AND STOLE SOME OF THE BREAD AND MEAT FROM THE HOGS, AND CARRIED       TH08900140
IT TO HIS BROTHER. THEY ATE IT. ON THE NEXT MORNING THE COOK SAW      TH08900150
A CHILD'S TRACKS AROUND THE PIG-PEN, AND REPORTED TO THE CHIEF        TH08900160
WHAT HE HAD SEEN. THE LATTER TOLD HIM TO WATCH AND CAPTURE THE        TH08900170
CHILD. SOON AFTER THIS, HE SAW BOTH THE BOYS GATHERING FOOD AT        TH08900180
THE PIG-PEN. AFTER CHASING AND CATCHING THEM, HE BROUGHT THEM         TH08900190
BEFORE THE CHIEF, WHO QUESTIONED THEM. THEY TOLD HIM THEIR STORY.     TH08900200
THEN THE CHIEF TOLD HIS COOK TO LOOK WELL AFTER THE BOYS, AND TO      TH08900210
FEED THEM ON THE BEST, FOR HE WOULD ADOPT THEM AS HIS SONS. HE        TH08900220
SAID, "I HAVE NO CHILDREN, AND THERE ARE NONE IN THIS COUNTRY. I      TH08900230
WANT TO HAVE CHILDREN." THE BOYS GREW FAST. THEY STAID THERE, AND     TH08900240
HELPED IN THE HOUSEWORK. THEY SWEPT THE FLOORS, CARRIED WOOD AND      TH08900250
WATER.                                                                TH08900260
     ONE DAY THE CHIEF LET LOOSE HIS EIGHT COWS. THEN HE CALLED THE   TH08900270
ELDER BOY, TOOK HIS EIGHT BAY HORSES OUT OF THE STABLE, AND ASKED     TH08900280
HIM TO CHOOSE ONE FOR A SADDLE-HORSE. THEY WERE ALL EXACTLY ALIKE.    TH08900290
THE BOY CHOSE THE BEST ONE, -- ONE THAT COULD RUN AROUND THE EDGE     TH08900300
OF THE EARTH IN TWO HOURS. THEN HE BROUGHT OUT EIGHT SADDLES AND      TH08900310
EIGHT BRIDLES, AND THE BOY CHOSE CORRECTLY THE SADDLE AND BRIDLE      TH08900320
BELONGING TO HIS MOUNT. NOW, THE CHIEF KNEW THAT THE BOY WAS          TH08900330
GIFTED WITH MAGIC. HE SAID TO HIM, "MOUNT YOUR HORSE AND LOOK AFTER   TH08900340
MY CATTLE. I WANT THEM GRAZED ON THAT FAR HILLSIDE, WHERE THERE IS    TH08900350
MUCH GRASS. HERD THEM AND BRING THEM HOME EVERY EVENING." THE BOY     TH08900360
FOLLOWED THE TRACKS OF THE CATTLE UNTIL THEY ENTERED A ROUGH PIECE    TH08900370
OF COUNTRY, HILLY, AND FULL OF ROCKS AND TIMBER. HE FOLLOWED THEM     TH08900380
THROUGH IT; AND ON THE OTHER SIDE HE CAME TO A GRASSY COUNTRY WITH    TH08900390
STEEP OPEN SLOPES, AND A WIDE ROAD LEADING UP BETWEEN THEM. THE       TH08900400
ROAD WAS AS IF LATELY MOWN WITH A MOWING-MACHINE, OR LIKE A WIDE      TH08900410
SMOOTH SWATH CUT OUT OF THE GRASS. THE SMELL OF GRASS AND FLOWERS     TH08900420
ON IT WAS VERY SWEET. HE TURNED BACK FROM HERE; AND WHEN HE REACHED   TH08900430
HOME, THE COOK SCOLDED HIM FOR NOT BRINGING BACK THE COWS. THE        TH08900440
CHIEF HEARD THE COOK SCOLDING HIM, AND ASKED HIM WHAT HAD HAPPENED.   TH08900450
THEN THE BOY TOLD HOW HE HAD FOLLOWED THE TRACKS OF THE CATTLE ALL    TH08900460
THE WAY, AND HOW HE HAD DISCOVERED THE ROAD. THE CHIEF SAID, "VERY    TH08900470
WELL, GO THERE AGAIN IN THE MORNING, AND TRY TO FIND THE CATTLE."     TH08900480
EARLY IN THE MORNING THE BOY STARTED OFF. SOON HE REACHED THE         TH08900490
ROAD, AND FOLLOWED ALONG. AT LAST HE FOUND HIMSELF ON THE TOP OF A    TH08900500
HILL, AND IN ANOTHER COUNTRY. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL, LIKE THE              TH08900510
MOUNTAIN-TOPS; IN SOME PLACES OPEN, AND COVERED WITH GRASS AND        TH08900520
FLOWERS. HERE, ON THE EDGE OF THE HILL HE SAW GREAT PILES OF          TH08900530
CLOTHES AND OF OTHER THINGS. THIS WAS THE PLACE WHERE THE DEAD        TH08900540
PEOPLE LEFT THEIR EARTHLY BELONGINGS. HERE, OR A LITTLE FARTHER       TH08900550
ON, JUST OVER THE TOP OF THE HILL, HE SAW A GOLD STAFF STUCK INTO     TH08900560
THE GROUND. THE BOY HALTED HERE, AND WAS WONDERING ABOUT THESE        TH08900570
THINGS, WHEN A MAN APPEARED SUDDENLY AND ADDRESSED HIM. HE WAS THE    TH08900580
CHIEF WHO MEETS THE DEAD, AND ADMITS THEM TO THEIR RESPECTIVE         TH08900590
PLACES IN THE SPIRIT-LAND. HE ASKED THE BOY WHO HE WAS, AND THE       TH08900600
LATTER TOLD HIM HIS STORY. HE SAID, "YOU ARE A LIVING BEING AND       TH08900610
CANNOT STAY HERE. ONLY PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED CAN STAY HERE. YOU        TH08900620
MUST GO BACK." THEN, BETHINKING HIMSELF, HE SAID, "HOWEVER, SEEING    TH08900630
THAT YOU HAVE COME HERE, I WILL SHOW YOU SOME THINGS, SO THAT ON      TH08900640
YOUR RETURN TO EARTH YOU MAY TELL THE PEOPLE WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN,      TH08900650
AND ENLIGHTEN THOSE WHO ARE BAD AS TO THE TERRIBLE FATE AWAITING      TH08900660
THEM." HE SAID, "TIE YOUR HORSE TO THE GOLDEN STAFF, AND COME WITH    TH08900670
ME." THE BOY DID AS DIRECTED. ON TURNING ROUND, HE SAW TWO HOUSES.    TH08900680
THE MAN SAID, "OPEN THE DOOR OF THAT ONE TO THE LEFT." THE BOY        TH08900690
ANSWERED, "I HAVE NO KEY." THE MAN SMILED, PULLED OUT A KEY, AND      TH08900700
UNLOCKED THE DOOR. THEN HE ASKED THE BOY TO LOOK IN. AS SOON AS HE    TH08900710
DID SO, THE PEOPLE INSIDE TRIED TO SPEAR AND KNIFE HIM, BUT THEY      TH08900720
COULD NOT REACH HIM. THEY WERE ALL QUARRELLING AND FIGHTING, AND      TH08900730
MANY REPTILES OF DIFFERENT KINDS CRAWLED AROUND AMONG THEM. THEY      TH08900740
LIVED ON RAW REPTILE FLESH. THEIR CHIEF (THE DEVIL), SAT THERE        TH08900750
WITH A HUGE FROG IN FRONT OF HIM. HE WAS CUTTING UP PIECES OF THE     TH08900760
FLESH WITH A LARGE KNIFE, IN THE MANNER OF BUTCHERS. THE BOY SAID     TH08900770
THAT HE HAD SEEN ENOUGH.                                              TH08900780
     THEN HIS GUIDE ASKED HIM TO OPEN THE DOOR OF THE OTHER HOUSE.    TH08900790
THE BOY SAID THAT HE HAD NO KEY, SO THE MAN OPENED THE DOOR FOR       TH08900800
HIM. HE SAW MANY PEOPLE INSIDE, RANGING AS FAR AS THE EYE COULD       TH08900810
SEE, AND THE COUNTRY LOOKED VERY PLEASANT AND BEAUTIFUL AND CLEAN.    TH08900820
THE PEOPLE PAID NO ATTENTION TO HIM. THEY WERE ALL SINGING AND        TH08900830
PRAYING. SOME WERE ON THEIR KNEES PRAISING GOD. ALL OF THEM HAD       TH08900840
HAIR OF THE SAME LENGTH, REACHING DOWN TO THE SHOULDERS. THE BOY      TH08900850
SAID HE HAD SEEN ENOUGH AND WOULD GO HOME. LATER ON HE WOULD RETURN   TH08900860
AGAIN AND JOIN THE GOOD PEOPLE. HIS GUIDE SAID TO HIM, "NO ONE CAN    TH08900870
ENTER THERE UNLESS HE IS PURE IN BODY AND MIND. A PERSON MUST HAVE    TH08900880
NO SINS, AND MUST HAVE NO THOUGHTS OF EARTH AND EARTHLY THINGS."      TH08900890
THE BOY MOUNTED HIS HORSE, AND SOON REACHED THE CHIEF'S HOUSE. HE     TH08900900
TOLD THE CHIEF EVERYTHING; AND THE LATTER CALLED HIS PEOPLE           TH08900910
TOGETHER, AND TOLD THEM THEY WOULD GO IN A BODY TO THE NEW LAND       TH08900920
THAT THE BOY HAD DISCOVERED. THE BOY SAID TO HIM, "YOU ARE WEALTHY    TH08900930
AND WELL PROVIDED HERE ON EARTH, AND THINK ONLY OF GOOD AND           TH08900940
HEAVEN." THE PEOPLE FORMED A PROCESSION, ALL THE SOLDIERS MARCHING    TH08900950
AHEAD. THE CHIEF AND THE TWO BOYS DROVE BEHIND IN THE CHIEF'S         TH08900960
BUGGY. THE SOLDIERS AND OTHERS CUT A WIDE PATH THROUGH THE BAD        TH08900970
TRACT OF COUNTRY. AT LAST ALL REACHED THE WIDE ROAD. AFTER MARCHING   TH08900980
A LONG TIME, THE PEOPLE, ONE BY ONE, WOULD THINK OF WHAT THEY HAD     TH08900990
LEFT BEHIND, AND AT ONCE THEY BECAME TRANSFORMED INTO CROWS OR        TH08901000
SNAKES, WHICH FLEW OR CRAWLED AWAY. THEY BECAME DISSATISFIED, AND     TH08901010
COULD NOT FIX THEIR MINDS ON THE PLACE TO WHICH THEY WERE GOING.      TH08901020
THEY THOUGHT OF THE EARTH AND THE THINGS THEY HAD LEFT BEHIND THEM.   TH08901030
THUS ONE BY ONE THEY BECAME TRANSFORMED INTO BIRDS, ANIMALS,          TH08901040
REPTILES, AND INSECTS, AND AT LAST NONE WERE LEFT TO REACH THE END    TH08901050
OF THE ROAD, EXCEPT THE CHIEF AND THE TWO BOYS. THESE THREE REACHED   TH08901060
THE OTHER LAND AND REMAINED THERE. THEY ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WITH      TH08901070
MORTAL BODIES WHO LIVE IN HEAVEN.                                     TH08901080
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          AI'LUL; OR, THE UNLUCKY GAMBLER                             TH09000010
     A YOUNG MAN WAS WARNED BY HIS PARENTS AND RELATIVES AGAINST      TH09000020
GAMBLING. HE ALWAYS LOST. ONE DAY HE GAMBLED AWAY ALL HIS CLOTHES     TH09000030
AND HIS MOTHER'S ONLY BLANKET. SHE WAS ANGRY AT HIM, AND, IN ORDER    TH09000040
TO PUT HIM TO SHAME, SHE TOOK OFF HER KILT  AND WRAPPED IT AROUND     TH09000050
HIS NECK. HE WAS VERY MUCH ASHAMED, AND LAY DOWN IN A CORNER OF THE   TH09000060
LODGE. A YOUNG GIRL PITIED HIM, AND OFFERED HIM A ROBE, BUT HE        TH09000070
REFUSED IT. AT NIGHT HE TOOK A MAT, A BASKET, A FIRE-DRILL, AND A     TH09000080
KNIFE, AND WENT OFF TO THE MOUNTAINS. HE BUILT A SWEAT-LODGE, IN      TH09000090
WHICH HE REMAINED FOUR DAYS. HE THEN MOVED TO ANOTHER PLACE, WHERE    TH09000100
HE SWEATED IN A SWEAT-LODGE FOR FOUR MORE DAYS. THE FOURTH            TH09000110
SWEAT-LODGE WHICH HE BUILT HE MADE QUITE LARGE, AND LIVED IN IT.      TH09000120
HE TRAINED HIMSELF FOR A LONG TIME (ACCORDING TO SOME INFORMANTS,     TH09000130
FOR FOUR YEARS). HIS PEOPLE THOUGHT HE HAD COMMITTED SUICIDE. WHEN    TH09000140
HE HAD GAINED KNOWLEDGE REGARDING GAMES, HE RETURNED HOME. HIS        TH09000150
PARENTS WERE GLAD TO SEE HIM. THE MEN WITH WHOM HE HAD FORMERLY       TH09000160
PLAYED SAID, "LOSER HAS RETURNED. LET US PLAY WITH HIM]" THEY         TH09000170
URGED HIM UNTIL HE PLAYED WITH THEM. HIS MOTHER GAVE HIM A ROBE       TH09000180
AND HER EAR-RINGS WITH WHICH TO START GAMBLING. HE GAINED FROM        TH09000190
EVERY ONE WHO PLAYED WITH HIM. THE BEST GAMBLERS TRIED HIM, BUT ALL   TH09000200
LOST. HE WON MUCH PROPERTY. THEN ALL THE GIRLS WANTED TO MARRY        TH09000210
HIM; BUT HE REFUSED THEM ALL, UNTIL THE BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS OF        TH09000220
LOON AND SWAN CAME AND OFFERED THEMSELVES. THEIR MOTHERS BROUGHT      TH09000230
THEM. AI'LUL'S MOTHER ACCEPTED THEM; AND WHEN HE AGREED, THEY         TH09000240
BECAME HIS WIVES. THEY WERE GOOD SINGERS, AND COULD PLAY WELL ON      TH09000250
FLUTES.                                                               TH09000260
***THO-147***
          THE MAN WHO MARRIED COLD'S DAUGHTER                         TH09100010
     THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN WHO FELT VERY BAD BECAUSE HE HAD BECOME    TH09100020
VERY POOR. HE HAD JUST ONE HORSE LEFT. HE MADE UP HIS MIND TO SEEK    TH09100030
ADVENTURES, AND RODE AWAY, NOT KNOWING WHITHER HE WAS GOING. HE       TH09100040
PASSED ALONG A SIDE-HILL, BELOW A HIGH CLIFF, AND, LOOKING UP, SAW    TH09100050
A WHITE MAN WALKING IN FRONT OF A HOUSE. HE HAD BUILT A CABIN AT      TH09100060
THE BASE OF THE CLIFF. THE WHITE MAN SHOUTED TO HIM, "WHERE ARE YOU   TH09100070
GOING?" AND HE TOLD HIM THAT HE WANTED TO SPEAK WITH HIM. THE         TH09100080
INDIAN RODE UP. HE SAID, "DO YOU SEE THE GOLD UP THERE IN THE         TH09100090
CLIFF, WHERE THE EAGLES NEST?" THE INDIAN LOOKED, AND SAID HE SAW     TH09100100
IT. THERE WAS COARSE GOLD AND NUGGETS SCATTERED ALL OVER A SHELF OF   TH09100110
THE ROCK. THE WHITE MAN SAID, "GET THE GOLD, AND LET US DIVIDE IT]    TH09100120
THEN WE SHALL BOTH BE WEALTHY." THE INDIAN SAID, "HOW AM I TO GET     TH09100130
IT?" THE WHITE MAN REPLIED, "KILL YOUR HORSE, AND CUT IT OPEN.        TH09100140
WILD BEASTS AND BIRDS WILL FEED ON IT. HIDE YOURSELF BY THE SIDE OF   TH09100150
THE HORSE; AND WHEN THE TWO EAGLES COME, SEIZE THEIR LEGS.  THEY      TH09100160
WILL FLY WITH YOU UP TO WHERE THE GOLD IS. THROW THE GOLD DOWN, AND   TH09100170
THEN LET THE EAGLES TAKE YOU BACK." THE INDIAN SAID, "I LOVE MY       TH09100180
HORSE, AND DO NOT CARE TO KILL IT, AND THE GOLD IS OF LITTLE VALUE    TH09100190
TO ME. I DO NOT LONG FOR IT." THE WHITE MAN SAID, "YOU NEED NOT       TH09100200
FEAR FOR YOUR HORSE, I WILL BRING IT TO LIFE AGAIN. I WILL GATHER     TH09100210
ALL THE PIECES, AND WILL REVIVE IT." THE INDIAN AGREED, KILLED HIS    TH09100220
HORSE, CUT IT OPEN, AND HID BY ITS SIDE. COYOTE, WOLF, MAGPIE, AND    TH09100230
OTHERS GATHERED TO FEED ON THE BODY, AND HAD NEARLY EATEN IT WHEN     TH09100240
THE TWO EAGLES CAME DOWN. WHEN THEY ALIGHTED ON THE CARCASS, THE      TH09100250
INDIAN TOOK HOLD OF THEM BY THE LEGS, AND THEY FLEW WITH HIM UP TO    TH09100260
THE LEDGE. THERE THEY SAT DOWN. THE WHITE MAN WENT TO HIS CABIN AND   TH09100270
BROUGHT OUT FOUR BLANKETS, WHICH HE SPREAD AT THE BASE OF THE         TH09100280
CLIFF. HE SHOUTED, "GATHER THE GOLD AND THROW IT DOWN UPON THE        TH09100290
BLANKETS]" THE INDIAN SAID, "YOU HAVE NOT YET REVIVED MY HORSE."      TH09100300
NOTHING WAS LEFT OF IT NOW BUT THE SCATTERED BONES. THE WHITE MAN     TH09100310
GATHERED UP THE BONES, AND PUT THEM TOGETHER. HE TRIED, BUT THE       TH09100320
HORSE WOULD NOT GET UP OR COME TO LIFE. THEN THE INDIAN SAID, "YOU    TH09100330
HAVE NOT KEPT YOUR PROMISE. MY HORSE IS STILL DEAD, SO I SHALL NOT    TH09100340
GIVE YOU ANY GOLD." THE INDIAN PAID NO ATTENTION TO THE WHITE MAN'S   TH09100350
PLEADING. THEN THE EAGLES SPOKE TO HIM, AND SAID, "DO NOT SPEAK TO    TH09100360
THE WHITE MAN. HE CARES FOR NOTHING BUT GOLD. IF YOU SHOULD GIVE IT   TH09100370
TO HIM, HE WOULD KEEP ALL FOR HIMSELF. WE ARE GLAD THAT YOU HAVE      TH09100380
NOT GIVEN HIM ANY. IT DOES NOT BELONG TO HIM, YET HE COVETS IT.       TH09100390
THE GOLD BELONGS TO THE OLD WOMAN, YOUR GRANDMOTHER, WHO LIVES OUT    TH09100400
ON THE PLAIN. SHE LEFT IT HERE IN THE MOUNTAINS, AND WE ARE ITS       TH09100410
KEEPERS." THE MAN ANSWERED, "DO NOT LEAVE ME HERE. HOW CAN I GET      TH09100420
AWAY? I HAVE NO HORSE TO TRAVEL WITH." THEY SAID, "DO NOT WORRY. WE   TH09100430
WILL LOOK AFTER YOU. WE SHALL TAKE YOU TO YOUR GRANDMOTHER." THEN     TH09100440
THE EAGLES CARRIED HIM FAR OFF, AND SET HIM DOWN AT THE END OF A      TH09100450
NARROW TRAIL ON A LARGE PRAIRIE. THEY SAID, "GO ON UNTIL YOU REACH    TH09100460
A BLUFF WITH TIMBER. THERE YOU WILL SEE SMOKE. THERE IS YOUR          TH09100470
GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE." THEY LEFT HIM, AND HE WALKED ALONG THE TRAIL.   TH09100480
HE SAW THE SMOKE, AND FOUND A LODGE, WHICH HE ENTERED. THE OLD        TH09100490
WOMAN KNEW ALL THAT HAD HAPPENED, AND TREATED HIM KINDLY. SHE HAD     TH09100500
FOUR SONS WHO WENT OUT EVERY DAY AND RETURNED AT NIGHT. SHE SAID,     TH09100510
"WHEN YOUR ELDER BROTHERS COME HOME, THEY WILL BE GLAD TO SEE YOU."   TH09100520
THERE WERE NO OTHER INHABITANTS IN THAT COUNTRY. HE STAID THERE A     TH09100530
LONG TIME, AND GAINED MUCH KNOWLEDGE FROM HIS GRANDMOTHER.            TH09100540
     AFTER A WHILE HE DID NOT GET UP FROM HIS BED, AND DID NOT CARE   TH09100550
TO SPEAK. THEY ASKED HIM WHAT AILED HIM, BUT HE WOULD NOT TELL.       TH09100560
THEY QUESTIONED HIM MANY TIMES. AT LAST THE OLD WOMAN ASKED HIM IF    TH09100570
HE WAS IN LOVE OR WANTED A WIFE, AND HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE DID.     TH09100580
SHE SAID, "I WILL ASK YOUR ELDER BROTHERS WHEN THEY COME HOME IF      TH09100590
THEY KNOW ABOUT ANY WOMEN. THEY GO VERY FAR OVER THE EARTH IN THEIR   TH09100600
TRAVELS, AND MAY HAVE SEEN WOMEN SOMEWHERE." SHE QUESTIONED THEM;     TH09100610
AND THEY SAID THAT AT THE MIDDLE OF THE EARTH THERE WERE WOMEN, BUT   TH09100620
THEY WERE NOT NICE. THE ONLY FINE GIRLS WHOM THEY HAD SEEN LIVED AT   TH09100630
THE OTHER END OF THE EARTH. THEY WERE THE TWO DAUGHTERS OF THE        TH09100640
COLD, BUT NO ONE COULD GO THERE AND RETURN ALIVE.                     TH09100650
     THEN THE YOUNG MAN SAID THAT THESE WERE THE WOMEN OF WHOM HE     TH09100660
WAS THINKING, AND THAT HE DESIRED TO MARRY THE YOUNGER ONE. HIS       TH09100670
GRANDMOTHER, WHO FEARED THE DANGERS OF THIS UNDERTAKING, TRIED TO     TH09100680
INDUCE HIM TO CHANGE HIS MIND. SHE SAID, "CHOOSE A WIFE AMONG OUR     TH09100690
RELATIVES IN THE MIDDLE PART OF THE EARTH," BUT HE PERSISTED. THEN    TH09100700
SHE SAID, "I WILL HELP YOU. WHEN YOU GET THERE, YOU WILL BE ASKED     TH09100710
TO SIT ON A SEAT OF ICE; AND IF YOU ARE NOT PREPARED, YOU WILL        TH09100720
DIE." SHE PULLED OUT A GOLDEN STAFF FROM UNDER HER PILLOW, AND GAVE   TH09100730
IT TO HIM, SAYING, "I WILL GIVE YOU MY STAFF. WHEN YOU SIT DOWN,      TH09100740
PUT IT UNDER YOU. IT WILL PREVENT YOU FROM FREEZING, AND WILL KEEP    TH09100750
YOU WARM. IF YOU LIVE THROUGH ALL THE TRIALS THAT YOU HAVE TO         TH09100760
ENDURE, THE STAFF WILL DIRECT YOU HOME, -- EITHER TO ME OR TO YOUR    TH09100770
PARENTS' HOUSE, WHICHEVER PLACE YOU MAY WISH. DO EXACTLY AS YOUR      TH09100780
WIFE ADVISES YOU. IF YOU DO NOT DO SO, YOU WILL BE KILLED." SHE       TH09100790
CALLED IN HER TWO EAGLE SERVANTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS, WHO WERE         TH09100800
WATCHING THE GOLD THERE, AND TOLD THEM TO TRANSPORT THE YOUNG MAN     TH09100810
TO THE HOUSE OF THE COLD, AND TO GIVE HIM NEEDFUL ADVICE. SHE TOLD    TH09100820
HER SONS TO ACCOMPANY THEM PART OF THE WAY. THE MAN HID HIS           TH09100830
GRANDMOTHER'S STAFF UNDER HIS SHIRT, MOUNTED ON THE EAGLES, AND       TH09100840
LEFT. WHEN THEY HAD PASSED THE MIDDLE OF THE EARTH, THE EAGLES        TH09100850
SOARED UP TO THE SKY, AND ASKED THE MAN TO LOOK TO THE NORTH. THEY    TH09100860
SAID, "YOU SEE THERE FOUR RANGES OF SNOWY MOUNTAINS. WE GO BEYOND     TH09100870
THE FARTHEST ONE. THERE IS THE HOME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE COLD.        TH09100880
THEY LIVE IN THREE HOUSES, -- COLD AND HIS WIFE IN ONE, THEIR         TH09100890
ELDER DAUGHTER IN ANOTHER, AND THEIR YOUNGER DAUGHTER IN THE          TH09100900
THIRD." THEN THEY DESCENDED, AND PROCEEDED UNTIL THEY WERE VERY       TH09100910
CLOSE TO THE HOUSES OF THE COLD. THEY POINTED OUT THE HOUSE OF THE    TH09100920
YOUNGER DAUGHTER. THE YOUNG MAN WALKED UP TO IT AND ENTERED. WHEN     TH09100930
HE WAS INSIDE, HE SAID TO THE GIRL, "I HAVE COME A LONG WAY TO        TH09100940
MARRY YOU. I WANT YOU FOR MY WIFE." SHE ASKED HIM TO SIT DOWN ON A    TH09100950
BLOCK OF ICE. SHE EXPECTED ONLY THE TOP TO MELT, AND THE MAN TO BE    TH09100960
FROZEN TO DEATH. WHEN THIS DID NOT HAPPEN, SHE KNEW HE WAS NOT AN     TH09100970
ORDINARY MAN. HE HAD PUT UP HIS STAFF; AND WHEN SHE LOOKED AT HIM,    TH09100980
IT SEEMED THAT HIS SEAT WAS LUMINOUS, AND HAD TURNED INTO GOLD. SHE   TH09100990
SAID, "I CHOOSE YOU FOR MY HUSBAND. IF YOU WILL DO EXACTLY AS I       TH09101000
TELL YOU, ALL WILL BE WELL; BUT IF YOU DON'T, YOU WILL DIE. MY        TH09101010
FATHER WILL TEST YOU." HE REPLIED, "I SHALL DO AS YOU TELL ME." SHE   TH09101020
CONTINUED, "YOU SEE THAT HIGH MOUNTAIN OVER THERE? THERE IS A         TH09101030
SPRING OF WATER ON THE OTHER SIDE; AND MY FATHER WILL ASK YOU TO      TH09101040
CARRY IT TO THE PLACE IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE, WHERE IT SHALL RUN       TH09101050
WITHOUT FREEZING. THEN HE WILL ASK YOU TO MAKE A LARGE LAKE NEAR      TH09101060
HIS HOUSE, AND TO GATHER UP ALL THE DUCKS AND PUT THEM ON IT. MY      TH09101070
FATHER WILL PRODUCE A SEVERE COLD, AND YOU MUST PREVENT THE LAKE      TH09101080
FROM FREEZING; FOR IF IT SHOULD FREEZE OVER, THE DUCKS WOULD LEAVE.   TH09101090
AFTER THIS HE WILL ORDER YOU TO MAKE A LARGE CORRAL WITH STONE        TH09101100
WALLS, AND TO DRIVE INTO IT ALL THE ANIMALS, -- BEARS, DEER,          TH09101110
COYOTES, FOXES, AND ALL THE REST. DURING THESE TESTS YOU MUST         TH09101120
THINK ONLY OF ME. IF YOU THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE, YOU CANNOT           TH09101130
ACCOMPLISH THEM. WHEN YOU ARE ABOUT TO START WITH THESE               TH09101140
UNDERTAKINGS, YOU MUST CALL ME UP, SAYING, 'O MY WIFE] I SEEK YOUR    TH09101150
HELP]' AND I SHALL BE THERE TO HELP YOU, ALTHOUGH UNSEEN. NOW, GO     TH09101160
TO MY FATHER'S HOUSE."                                                TH09101170
     THE MAN WENT TO COLD'S HOUSE AND SHOOK THE DOOR. COLD TOLD HIS   TH09101180
WIFE TO OPEN IT. HE ASKED THE MAN WHAT HE WANTED; AND THE LATTER      TH09101190
ANSWERED, "I HAVE COME TO MARRY YOUR YOUNGER DAUGHTER." COLD SAID,    TH09101200
"VERY WELL. IF YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH THE TASKS THAT I SHALL GIVE YOU,    TH09101210
AND SHOW YOURSELF POWERFUL, YOU MAY HAVE HER. IF YOU DO PERFORM       TH09101220
THESE TASKS, YOU MUST LIVE WITH US IN THIS COUNTRY. IF YOU CANNOT     TH09101230
ACCOMPLISH ANY ONE OF THEM, YOU SHALL DIE." THE MAN AGREED TO THESE   TH09101240
TERMS. COLD SENT HIM ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN TO BRING THE SPRING. HE      TH09101250
DUG A DITCH BY DRAWING A LINE ALONG THE GROUND AHEAD OF HIM,          TH09101260
BEGINNING AT THE SPRING. THE WATER FOLLOWED CLOSE BEHIND HIM; AND     TH09101270
IN THE MORNING, WHEN COLD LOOKED OUT, A SMALL CREEK RAN PAST THE      TH09101280
DOOR. HE PRODUCED SEVERLY COLD WEATHER, BUT THE WATER DID NOT         TH09101290
FREEZE. IT ONLY STEAMED, AND KEPT QUITE WARM.                         TH09101300
     COLD THEN GAVE HIM THE SECOND FEAT TO PERFORM. AT NIGHT THE      TH09101310
MAN WENT TO THE ASSIGNED PLACE, SPREAD OUT HIS ARMS, MAKING THE       TH09101320
SIGN OF A LAKE, AND A LARGE LAKE APPEARED ON THE FLAT IN VIEW OF      TH09101330
COLD'S HOUSE. HE DESCRIBED A WIDE CIRCLE WITH HIS ARMS, AS IF         TH09101340
GATHERING IN SOMETHING; AND GREAT NUMBERS OF DUCKS APPEARED, AND      TH09101350
FLEW OUT ON THE WATERS OF THE LAKE. ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING COLD     TH09101360
SAW THE LAKE, AND TRIED TO FREEZE IT, BUT DID NOT SUCCEED. THEN HE    TH09101370
SET HIM THE THIRD TASK. THE YOUNG MAN WENT AT NIGHT, DESCRIBED A      TH09101380
CIRCLE WITH HIS ARMS, AND A LARGE STONE ENCLOSURE APPEARED. HE        TH09101390
DESCRIBED A WIDER CIRCLE, AND ALL KINDS OF ANIMALS APPEARED. HE       TH09101400
DROVE THEM INTO THE CORRAL. HE HAD ACTED ACCORDING TO THE GIRL'S      TH09101410
ADVICE.                                                               TH09101420
     SHE TOLD HIM WHAT THE FOURTH TEST WOULD BE. SHE SAID, "MY        TH09101430
FATHER WILL SEND MY MOTHER FOR MY ELDER SISTER AND MYSELF, AND HE     TH09101440
WILL PLACE US TOGETHER. WE ARE EXACTLY ALIKE, AND YOU WILL HAVE TO    TH09101450
POINT OUT WHICH OF US IS THE ONE YOU WANT FOR YOUR WIFE. IF YOU       TH09101460
CHOOSE MY ELDER SISTER, YOU WILL DIE. LOOK INTO OUR EYES, AND I       TH09101470
SHALL WINK. THUS YOU WILL RECOGNIZE ME." COLD SET THE FOURTH TASK.    TH09101480
THE YOUTH LOOKED INTO THE EYES OF THE SISTERS, AND CHOSE CORRECTLY.   TH09101490
     THEN COLD SAID, "YOU HAVE PERFORMED ALL THE TASKS. NOW YOU       TH09101500
ARE MY SON-IN-LAW. GO TO MY DAUGHTER'S HOUSE, AND LIVE WITH HER.      TH09101510
YOU MUST NOT ATTEMPT TO LEAVE OR TAKE HER AWAY." IN THE HOUSE OF      TH09101520
EACH SISTER WAS A FLUTE WHICH PLAYED BY ITSELF. WHEN THEY WERE AT     TH09101530
HOME, IT PLAYED SWEET MUSIC LOUDLY; WHEN THEY WERE OUT, IT PLAYED     TH09101540
FAINTLY AND DISCORDANTLY; WHEN THEY WERE AWAY A CERTAIN DISTANCE,     TH09101550
THE MUSIC STOPPED ENTIRELY. THUS THEIR PARENTS KNEW WHEN THEY AT      TH09101560
HOME, AND THEY COULD NOT GO AWAY WITHOUT BEING DISCOVERED. FOR        TH09101570
TWO YEARS THE YOUTH LIVED WITH HIS WIFE, AND THEY HAD A SON, WHO      TH09101580
GREW VERY FAST. THE BOY CRIED FOR HIS GRANDPARENTS. THE YOUNG         TH09101590
WOMAN ASKED HER HUSBAND IF HIS PARENTS WERE ALIVE, AND INQUIRED       TH09101600
ABOUT HIS RELATIVES. HE TOLD HER THAT HIS PARENTS WERE LIVING, AND    TH09101610
THAT HE HAD TWO YOUNGER SISTERS, THREE YOUNGER BROTHERS, AND MANY     TH09101620
OTHER RELATIVES. SHE SAID, "LET US GO TO THEM] OUR CHILD CRIES ALL    TH09101630
THE TIME TO SEE THEM." HE WAS AFRAID, BECAUSE HE THOUGHT THEY MIGHT   TH09101640
BE KILLED. HE ALSO THOUGHT HIS WIFE MIGHT BE KILLED BY HIS            TH09101650
RELATIVES, WHO WERE HEAT PEOPLE. AT LAST, HOWEVER, HE AGREED. HE      TH09101660
TOLD THE FLUTE IN THE HOUSE TO KEEP ON PLAYING, AND THEY ALL LEFT.    TH09101670
WHEN THE MUSIC STOPPED, COLD SENT HIS WIFE TO FIND OUT WHAT HAD       TH09101680
HAPPENED. SHE CAME BACK, AND REPORTED THAT THE YOUNG PEOPLE WERE      TH09101690
GONE. COLD SENT HIS WIFE IN PURSUIT. THE YOUNG MAN WAS NOW FAR        TH09101700
AWAY. HE WAS USING HIS STAFF AS A GUIDE TO LEAD HIM HOME. HIS WIFE    TH09101710
SAID, "MY MOTHER IS PURSUING US, AND WILL SOON OVERTAKE US. I SHALL   TH09101720
TRANSFORM YOU." SHE CHANGED HIM INTO AN OLD DUCK, THEIR CHILD INTO    TH09101730
A DUCKLING, AND HERSELF INTO A LAKE. HER MOTHER ARRIVED, AND SAW      TH09101740
NOTHING BUT A SMALL LAKE WITH TWO DUCKS ON IT. SHE RETURNED, AND      TH09101750
TOLD HER HUSBAND, WHO SAID, "THOSE WERE OUR CHILDREN. OUR DAUGHTER    TH09101760
IS STRONG IN MAGIC, AND HAS DECEIVED YOU." HE SENT HER OUT AGAIN.     TH09101770
WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT TO OVERTAKE THEM, THE GIRL CHANGED HER HUSBAND     TH09101780
AND CHILD INTO A GRAY-HEADED AND BENT OLD MAN AND A LITTLE CHILD,     TH09101790
AND HERSELF INTO AN OLD DECAYED LOG-HOUSE. THE MOTHER ASKED THE MAN   TH09101800
IF ANY ONE HAD PASSED THAT WAY; AND HE ANSWERED, "WE HAVE BEEN HERE   TH09101810
FOR A GREAT MANY YEARS; WE HAVE GROWN UP AND GOTTEN OLD HERE, BUT     TH09101820
WE HAVE NEVER SEEN ANY ONE PASSING." THE MOTHER RETURNED, AND TOLD    TH09101830
HER HUSBAND WHAT SHE HAD SEEN. HE SAID, "THEY HAVE DECEIVED YOU       TH09101840
AGAIN." SHE GAVE CHASE; AND WHEN ABOUT TO OVERTAKE THEM, THE GIRL     TH09101850
CHANGED HER CHILD INTO A PRIEST, HER HUSBAND INTO A BISHOP, AND       TH09101860
HERSELF INTO A CHURCH. HER MOTHER CAME INTO THE CHURCH, AND ASKED     TH09101870
THE BISHOP IF THEY HAD SEEN ANY ONE PASS. HE ANSWERED, "I NEVER       TH09101880
LIE. I TELL YOU, WE HAVE SEEN NO ONE COME HERE. YOU CAN ASK THE       TH09101890
PRIEST; HE ALSO NEVER LIES." SHE RETURNED, AND REPORTED TO HER        TH09101900
HUSBAND WHAT SHE HAD SEEN. HE SAID TO HER, "THEY DECEIVE YOU EVERY    TH09101910
TIME. I SHALL GO MYSELF. SOON THEY WILL REACH THE COUNTRY OF THE      TH09101920
HEAT PEOPLE." SHE SAID, "IF YOU GO, YOU WILL KILL EVERYTHING, EVEN    TH09101930
OUR DAUGHTER. EVERYTHING WILL FREEZE UP WHERE YOU GO."                TH09101940
     AFTER HE HAD STARTED, THE GIRL SAID, "NOW, MY FATHER IS          TH09101950
PURSUING US. I CAN DO NOTHING AGAINST HIM. HE WILL OVERTAKE US AND    TH09101960
KILL US. HE IS VERY COLD, AND HE IS ANGRY NOW." HEAT-MAN SAID, "WE    TH09101970
ARE NEAR THE HOUSE OF MY PARENTS. LET ME DEAL WITH YOUR FATHER]"      TH09101980
THEY HAD BARELY REACHED THE HOUSE, WHEN COLD APPEARED BEHIND THEM.    TH09101990
THE NORTH WIND BLEW WITH SNOW-STORMS. IT BLEW HARDER AND HARDER,      TH09102000
AND IT BECAME INTENSELY COLD. THE HEAT PEOPLE BECAME SICK.            TH09102010
HEAT-MAN PULLED OUT HIS STAFF AND SET IT UP IN THE LODGE, BUT         TH09102020
NEVERTHELESS COLD WAS FREEZING THEM. ICE WAS FORMING AROUND THE       TH09102030
HOUSE, AND ALL WERE ABOUT TO DIE. THEN HEAT-MAN CRIED TO HIS          TH09102040
FATHER (OR GRANDFATHER), "WE ARE PERISHING] COLD IS KILLING US]"      TH09102050
THEN THE OLD MAN HEAT DREW THE CHINOOK WIND FROM A BAG WHICH HE       TH09102060
CARRIED AT THE RIGHT SIDE, AND THE AIR BECAME WARM. THE ICE MELTED,   TH09102070
AND THE PEOPLE REVIVED. COLD SAW THAT HE WAS BEATEN; BUT HE           TH09102080
REMAINED, TRYING TO WIN THE CONTEST. HE BECAME SICK. HEAT SAID TO     TH09102090
HIM, "I HAVE OVERCOME YOU. YOU SHALL NEVER AGAIN GET ANGRY. YOU       TH09102100
SHALL RETURN TO YOUR COUNTRY AND LIVE THERE. YOUR DAUGHTER SHALL      TH09102110
NOT GO BACK." COLD PLEADED, SAYING, "I LOVE MY DAUGHTER. MAY I NOT    TH09102120
COME ONCE A YEAR AND SEE HER FOR A SHORT TIME?" HEAT CHIEF AGREED:    TH09102130
THEREFORE COLD NOW COMES ONCE A YEAR TO SEE HIS DAUGHTER, AND         TH09102140
STAYS FOR A SHORT TIME. THEN IT IS WINTER. HE NEVER GROWS VERY        TH09102150
ANGRY, AND THEREFORE THE WINTERS ARE NOT HARD. IF THE OLD CHIEF       TH09102160
HEAT HAD NOT GRANTED THE DESIRE OF COLD TO VISIT HIS DAUGHTER, WE     TH09102170
SHOULD NOW HAVE NO WINTER. HEAT-MAN HAD TOLD HIS WIFE HOW KIND AND    TH09102180
GOOD HIS FRIENDS THE HEAT PEOPLE WERE, HOW EVERYTHING LOVED THEM,     TH09102190
HOW THE SALMON AND THE DEER PLAYED IN HIS COUNTRY, HOW THE BIRDS      TH09102200
SANG AND EVERYTHING WAS GREEN, HOW THE GRASS GREW AND THE FLOWERS     TH09102210
BLOOMED AND LEAVES CAME OUT ON THE TREES. NOW SHE SAW THAT WHAT HER   TH09102220
HUSBAND HAD TOLD HER WAS TRUE, AND SHE LOVED THE HEAT PEOPLE AND      TH09102230
THEIR COUNTRY. SHE DID NOT WISH TO RETURN TO HER PEOPLE. BECAUSE      TH09102240
HEAT-MAN HAD MARRIED COLD-WOMAN AND HAD A SON BY HER, THEREFORE THE   TH09102250
HEAT PEOPLE'S TEMPER WAS LESSENED, AND THEY BECAME MORE MODERATE.     TH09102260
THEREFORE SOME WARM WINDS ARE NOT AS HOT AS OTHERS, AND NONE ARE      TH09102270
UNBEARABLE. HEAT-MAN'S GRANDMOTHER TOLD HIM TO KEEP THE STAFF. HE     TH09102280
THREW IT INTO THE RIVER, AND SINCE THEN GOLD HAS BEEN IN THE          TH09102290
RIVERS. BECAUSE GOLD WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE HEAT PEOPLE, THEREFORE   TH09102300
AFTER A CHINOOK WIND HAS BLOWN, GOLD IS MORE EASILY SEEN IN THE       TH09102310
SAND, AND ALONG THE SHORES OF THE RIVER. THE HEAT PEOPLE WERE LIKE    TH09102320
THE INDIANS. THEY LIKED THE INDIANS, LIVED AMONG THEM, AND THEY       TH09102330
INTERMARRIED. THE COLD PEOPLE WERE DIFFERENT, AND NEVER ASSOCIATED    TH09102340
WITH THE INDIANS. THEY WERE BAD PEOPLE.                               TH09102350
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          COYOTE GOES FISHING                                         TH09200010
     ONE TIME IN WINTER, FOX SAW COYOTE COMING, AND SAT DOWN ON A     TH09200020
BEAVER-HOLE IN THE ICE. COYOTE ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS DOING. FOX       TH09200030
SAID HE WAS FISHING WITH HIS TAIL. COYOTE THOUGHT HE WOULD LIKE TO    TH09200040
HAVE SOME FISH, AND ASKED FOX TO LET HIM FISH. FOX AGREED, AND        TH09200050
TOLD COYOTE NOT TO GET TIRED IF THE FISH DID NOT BITE AT FIRST;       TH09200060
HE WOULD CERTAINLY CATCH MANY FISH IN TIME. COYOTE SAT DOWN ON THE    TH09200070
HOLE, AND FOX LEFT. THEN FOX LATER CAUSED A COLD WIND TO COME, AND    TH09200080
COYOTE'S TAIL FROZE IN THE HOLE. COYOTE CALLED FOR HELP, AND          TH09200090
BEAVER CAME AND RELEASED HIM. (OTHERS SAY THAT COYOTE INDUCED FOX     TH09200100
TO PUT HIS TAIL INTO THE HOLE. COYOTE CAUSED A COLD WIND TO COME,     TH09200110
AS COLD WAS ONE OF HIS GUARDIAN-SPIRITS, AND FOX WAS FROZEN IN THE    TH09200120
HOLE. WHEN FOX DISCOVERED THAT COYOTE HAD FOOLED HIM, HE CALLED THE   TH09200130
CHINOOK WIND, WHO WAS HIS GUARDIAN-SPIRIT, AND RELEASED HIMSELF.      TH09200140
THEN HE PURSUED COYOTE, LUMPS OF ICE RATTLING ON HIS TAIL.  HE        TH09200150
CHASED COYOTE, WHO RAN INTO A HOLE, AND FOX SAT DOWN TO CLUB HIM      TH09200160
WHEN HE CAME OUT. COYOTE FOUND THAT THE HOLE HAD ANOTHER OUTLET.      TH09200170
THEN HE DEFECATED, AND ORDERED HIS EXCREMENTS TO TALK, WHILE HE       TH09200180
MADE HIS ESCAPE. FOX REMAINED SITTING BY THE HOLE, THINKING THAT      TH09200190
COYOTE WAS STILL THERE; BUT FINALLY THE EXCREMENTS DRIED UP AND       TH09200200
CEASED TALKING. THEN FOX KNEW THAT COYOTE HAD CHEATED HIM, AND WENT   TH09200210
AWAY.)                                                                TH09200220
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          STRIPED-FACE  (AN HISTORICAL TALE)                          TH09300010
     THIS IS THE SAME STORY AS JE 8: 406, THE ONLY DIFFERENCE         TH09300020
BEING AS FOLLOWS: --                                                  TH09300030
     THE PARTY CONSISTED OF TEN WOMEN. THERE WAS ONLY ONE SCOUT,      TH09300040
WHO HAD CLIMBED A TREE CLOSE TO WHERE THE WOMEN CAMPED. THE WOMEN     TH09300050
INTENDED TO DIG ROOTS ON THE MORROW. IN THE EVENING THE SCOUT GAVE    TH09300060
A FLYING-SQUIRREL CALL, AND THEN COUGHED. THE WOMEN SPOKE TO HIM,     TH09300070
AND INVITED HIM IN. HE BECAME SO TIRED WHEN ALL THE GIRLS WERE        TH09300080
PLAYING WITH HIM, THAT HE FELL SOUND ASLEEP, AND COULD NOT BE         TH09300090
AWAKENED. THEN THE THREE OLDEST WOMEN TOOK THEIR SHARPENED            TH09300100
ROOT-DIGGERS AND PINNED HIM TO THE GROUND BY PUSHING WITH ALL THEIR   TH09300110
WEIGHT, -- ONE THROUGH HIS THROAT, ONE THROUGH HIS STOMACH, AND ONE   TH09300120
THROUGH HIS ABDOMEN. THE OTHER WOMEN HAD ALREADY LEFT. THEN THE       TH09300130
OLDEST WOMAN SCALPED HIM WITH A STONE KNIFE (OR CUT OFF HIS HEAD).    TH09300140
HE HAD HIS HAIR TIED IN A KNOT. SHE SEIZED THE KNOT, AND CUT THE      TH09300150
SKIN ALL AROUND BENEATH IT. HIS FACE WAS PAINTED IN STRIPES, WHICH    TH09300160
WERE MADE BY RUBBING OFF THE PAINT WITH DEER'S TEETH OR WITH A        TH09300170
COMB. DAY WAS JUST BREAKING WHEN THE WOMEN REACHED THE TOP OF THE     TH09300180
RIDGE ABOVE THE VALLEY. THE OLDEST WOMAN CALLED OUT IN A LOUD         TH09300190
VOICE, "WHERE IS STRIPED-FACE? WHY DON'T YOU LOOK FOR HIM?" THE       TH09300200
WAR-PARTY HEARD IT, AND STARTED OFF. WHEN THEY REACHED THE WOMEN'S    TH09300210
CAMP, AND FOUND THEIR SCOUT KILLED WITH ROOT-DIGGERS AND SCALPED BY   TH09300220
WOMEN, THEY WERE SO ANGRY THAT THEY RAN THEIR SPEARS INTO HIS BODY    TH09300230
AND MANGLED THE CORPSE. THEN AGAIN THEY HEARD THE OLDEST WOMAN        TH09300240
CALLING AS A PERSON CALLS TO DOGS AND AS A WAR-PARTY CALLS TO THE     TH09300250
ENEMY. THEY GAVE CHASE. WHEN THE SHUSWAP REACHED THE RIVER, ALL THE   TH09300260
WOMEN HAD GONE ACROSS AND WERE ADREADY DANCING A SCALP-DANCE. THE     TH09300270
OLD WOMAN WAS CARRYING THE SCALP AT THE END OF A SPEAR. THE SHUSWAP   TH09300280
RETREATED, AND ON THEIR WAY BACK WERE ATTACKED BY A PARTY THAT HAD    TH09300290
TRIED TO HEAD THEM OFF. SEVERAL OF THEM WERE KILLED, AND THE REST     TH09300300
MADE GOOD THEIR ESCAPE. A LARGE WAR-PARTY OF THOMPSON INDIANS WAS     TH09300310
UNABLE TO OVERTAKE THEM. THIS HAPPENED ABOUT A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.     TH09300320
***THO-150***
          THE HUNTER WHO FOOLED THE GRIZZLY BEAR    (FROM SPENCES     TH09400010
          BRIDGE)                                                     TH09400020
     A MAN WAS TRAVELLING IN BOTANI VALLEY, AND SAW A LARGE           TH09400030
GRIZZLY BEAR APPROACHING. HE SAW NO WAY OF ESCAPE, AND, BEING         TH09400040
UNARMED, HE THOUGHT HE WOULD FEIGN DEATH. HE LAY DOWN ON HIS BACK;    TH09400050
AND WHEN THE BEAR CAME TO SMELL HIM, HE HELD HIS BREATH. THE BEAR     TH09400060
THREATENED TO STRIKE HIM AND GROWLED, BUT HE NEVER MOVED. AT LAST     TH09400070
THE BEAR, THINKING THE MAN WAS DEAD, WENT AWAY (FOLLOWING HER         TH09400080
CUBS?).                                                               TH09400090
***THO-151***
          A HUNTER WHO FEIGNS DEATH, AND A GRIZZLY BEAR   (FROM       TH09500010
          NICOLA VALLEY)     (AN HISTORICAL TALE)                     TH09500020
     ONCE A HUNTER FROM SPENCES BRIDGE CAMPED IN BOTANI VALLEY. AN    TH09500030
OLD MAN TOLD HIM TO BE CAREFUL WHEN HE HUNTED THAT MORNING, AS HE     TH09500040
HAD HAD A BAD DREAM ABOUT A GRIZZLY BEAR. THE HUNTER DID NOT HUNT     TH09500050
THAT DAY, BUT INSTEAD WENT DOWN THE VALLEY TO VISIT ANOTHER CAMP.     TH09500060
HE CARRIED NO WEAPON EXCEPT A KNIFE. SUDDENLY, WHEN HE TURNED A       TH09500070
BEND IN THE TRAIL, HE SAW A LARGE SILVER-TIP GRIZZLY BEAR, AND WAS    TH09500080
UNABLE TO GET AWAY UNOBSERVED. HE REMEMBERED THAT HIS GRANDFATHER     TH09500090
HAD TOLD HIM THAT IN SUCH A CASE IT WAS BEST TO LIE PERFECTLY STILL   TH09500100
AND TO HOLD THE BREATH. HE THREW HIMSELF ON THE TRAIL, AND REMAINED   TH09500110
QUITE STILL. THE BEAR APPROACHED HIM CAUTIOUSLY. IT STOOD OVER HIM    TH09500120
WITH ITS PAW RAISED, READY TO STRIKE HIM. THEN IT LOWERED IT, AND     TH09500130
SMELLED HIM ALL OVER. IT FELT OF HIM WITH ITS PAW, AND TURNED HIM     TH09500140
OVER. THE HUNTER REMAINED QUITE RIGID. THEN THE BEAR WENT AWAY,       TH09500150
EVIDENTLY BELIEVING THAT HE WAS MYSTERIOUS. HE WAS NOT EVEN           TH09500160
SCRATCHED BY THE BEAR.                                                TH09500170
***THO-152***
          SIMON FRASER'S VISIT IN 1808    (TOLD BY WA'XTKO, A         TH09600010
          WOMAN OF SPENCES BRIDGE)                                    TH09600020
     WHEN KWOLINA'U.L  CAME TO LYTTON, TCEXE'X WAS CHIEF OF THE       TH09600030
SPENCES BRIDGE BAND. HE WAS A PROMINENT CHIEF AND A GREAT ORATOR.     TH09600040
HE HAD ONE EYE. HE NEVER PRACTISED AS A SHAMAN, BUT WAS MORE          TH09600050
POWERFUL THAN MOST SHAMANS. I AM DIRECTLY DESCENDED FROM HIM. HE      TH09600060
HAD A LARGE FAMILY, AND WAS AN ELDERLY MAN AT THE TIME WHEN THESE     TH09600070
WHITES CAME TO LYTTON. IT WAS IN MIDSUMMER. THE BERRIES WERE JUST     TH09600080
RIPE IN THE RIVER-VALLEY; AND MANY OF THE TRIBE WERE ASSEMBLED AT     TH09600090
BOTANI, DIGGING ROOTS AND PLAYING GAMES. SOME THOMPSON MEN, WHO HAD   TH09600100
BEEN UP AT LA FONTAINE ON HORSEBACK, CAME BACK QUICKLY WITH THE       TH09600110
NEWS OF THE APPROACH OF THESE PEOPLE. TCEXE'X WAS AT BOTANI WITH      TH09600120
OTHERS FROM SPENCES BRIDGE. HE HURRIED DOWN TO LYTTON, AND WAS        TH09600130
THERE WHEN THE WHITES ARRIVED. THE CHIEF OF THE LATTER WE CALLED      TH09600140
"SUN." WE DID NOT KNOW HIS NAME. SEVERAL CHIEFS MADE SPEECHES TO      TH09600150
HIM, BUT TCEXE'X MADE THE GREATEST SPEECH. HIS SPEECH SO PLEASED      TH09600160
SUN, THAT HE GAVE HIM A PRESENT OF A LARGE SILVER BROOCH, OR SOME     TH09600170
OTHER SIMILAR ORNAMENT, WHICH HE HAD ON HIS PERSON. ON SPECIAL        TH09600180
OCCASIONS TCEXE'X USED THIS ATTACHED TO HIS HAIR IN FRONT, OR ON      TH09600190
THE FRONT OF HIS HEAD. WHEN I WAS A GIRL, I SAW IT WORN BY HIS        TH09600200
SONS. ONE OF HIS SONS INHERITED IT; ON HIS DEATH, HIS BROTHER         TH09600210
OBTAINED IT; AND IT WAS PROBABLY BURIED WITH THE THIRD BROTHER WHO    TH09600220
HAD IT, AS IT DISAPPEARED ABOUT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. THE            TH09600230
LAST-NAMED DIED AT LYTTON AS AN ELDERLY MAN, AND HIS BODY WAS         TH09600240
BURIED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE THOMPSON RIVER, AT DRYNOCH, ABOUT     TH09600250
SEVEN MILES BELOW SPENCES BRIDGE.                                     TH09600260
***THO-153***
          MYTHS AND TALES OF THE UTA'MQT                              TH09700010
          COYOTE TALES                                                TH09700020
          NLIKISENTEM    (LOWER AND UPPER UTA'MQT)                    TH09700030
     (THIS STORY IS TOLD NEARLY IN THE SAME WAY AS THE SECOND COYOTE  TH09700040
STORY IN MY "TRADITIONS OF THE THOMPSON RIVER INDIANS" PAGES          TH09700050
21-29. THE FOLLOWING PARTS ARE DIFFERENT. THE FIRST PART OF THE       TH09700060
STORY IS NOT RELATED; VIZ., ABOUT COYOTE MAKING A SON OF CLAY,        TH09700070
GUM, AND QUARTZ. THE STORY BEGINS AS FOLLOWS.)                        TH09700080
     COYOTE LIVED WITH HIS SON, WHO HAD TWO WIVES, ONE OF WHOM WAS    TH09700090
DARK-SKINNED, AND THE OTHER FAIR. COYOTE WAS JEALOUS OF HIS SON'S     TH09700100
WIVES, AND COVETED THEM FOR HIMSELF. HE DID NOT KNOW, HOWEVER,        TH09700110
WHICH OF THEM HE LIKED THE BETTER: SO ONE NIGHT HE MADE A VERY LARGE  TH09700120
FIRE, AND, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE BRIGHT BLAZE, HE WATCHED HIS       TH09700130
CHANCE TO LOOK AT THE WOMEN'S PRIVATES. HE WAS SO FAVORABLY           TH09700140
IMPRESSED WITH THOSE OF THE FAIR ONE, THAT HE AT ONCE MADE UP HIS     TH09700150
MIND TO GET RID OF HIS SON, AND TAKE POSSESSION OF HIS WIFE FOR       TH09700160
HIMSELF. EAGLE-PLUMES WERE SCARCE, AND THEREFORE HIGHLY VALUED: SO    TH09700170
HE CAUSED AN EAGLE'S NEST TO APPEAR ON A STEEP CLIFF,  WITH EAGLETS   TH09700180
IN IT. HE THEN CALLED HIS SON, AND SAID TO HIM, "I WILL SHOW YOU      TH09700190
WHERE YOU CAN GET EAGLE-FEATHERS." COYOTE TOOK HIM TO THE CLIFF,      TH09700200
AND, POINTING OUT TO HIM THE EAGLE'S NEST NEAR THE TOP, SAID,         TH09700210
"CLIMB FOR IT, I WILL HELP YOU." AS HIS SON CLIMBED, COYOTE LOOKED    TH09700220
UPWARDS FROM TIME TO TIME, AND EACH TIME HE DID SO THE CLIFF GREW     TH09700230
HIGHER.                                                               TH09700240
     (THE REST OF THE STORY GOES ON JUST THE SAME AS IN THE UPPER     TH09700250
THOMPSON VERSION UNTIL THE INCIDENT OF MEETING THE TWO OLD WOMEN      TH09700260
IS REACHED, WHEN IT IS ROTTEN ROCK THEY ARE HANDING TO EACH OTHER,    TH09700270
INSTEAD OF ROTTEN WOOD AS IN THE UPPER THOMPSON VERSION. FROM         TH09700280
HERE ON, THE STORY IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE UPPER THOMPSON TALE     TH09700290
(OMITTING, OF COURSE, THE EXAMINING OF THE WOMEN, WHICH HAS           TH09700300
ALREADY BEEN MENTIONED) UP TO THE POINT WHERE NLI'KISENTEM IS         TH09700310
FEASTING THE PEOPLE. THEN IT RUNS AS FOLLOWS.)                        TH09700320
     COYOTE WENT TO THE FEAST WITH THE OTHER PEOPLE, AND, AFTER       TH09700330
EATING, WIPED HIS KNIFE OF HIS BROW. INSTEAD, HOWEVER, OF DRAWING     TH09700340
THE FLAT SIDE OF HIS KNIFE OVER HIS BROW, HE DREW THE EDGE OVER       TH09700350
IT, THUS MAKING A LARGE GASH RIGHT ACROSS.                            TH09700360
     (THEN THE STORY IS JUST THE SAME, EXCEPT THAT WHEN COYOTE        TH09700370
FALLS DOWN IN THE CREEK AND IS DRIFTING, HE CHANGES HIMSELF INTO      TH09700380
A WOODEN DISH INSTEAD OF INTO A PIECE OF BOARD, AS IN THE UPPER       TH09700390
THOMPSON VERSION. THEN THE STORY CONTINUES THE SAME UNTIL COYOTE IS   TH09700400
TAKING THE SALMON UP THE FRASER RIVER, WHEN HE SHOUTS AS HE           TH09700410
PROCEEDS AHEAD OF THE SALMON, SO AS TO LET THE PEOPLE KNOW THAT HE    TH09700420
IS BRINGING THAT WONDERFUL FISH. THE INCIDENT OF THROWING THE PENIS   TH09700430
IS THE SAME, WITH THIS DIFFERENCE.)                                   TH09700440
     HE IS CARRYING HIS PENIS ON HIS BACK ROLLED UP IN LEAVES. HE     TH09700450
TAKES IT OFF AND THROWS IT, ETC. THE OTHER GIRLS TRIED TO CUT IT      TH09700460
OFF FROM THE GIRL IN WHICH IT WAS, AS SHE WAS UNABLE TO WALK WITH     TH09700470
THE WEIGHT; BUT ALTHOUGH THEY USED SHARP STONES AND KNIVES, THEY      TH09700480
WERE UNABLE TO CUT IT. THEN COYOTE CRIED OUT ACROSS THE RIVER,        TH09700490
"CUT IT WITH SWAMP-GRASS (A VARIETY WITH SHARP EDGES)." THEY DID AS   TH09700500
DIRECTED, AND ONLY THE POINT WAS LEFT IN.                             TH09700510
     (FROM HERE THE STORY IS JUST THE SAME, WITH THE FOLLOWING        TH09700520
ADDITIONS.)                                                           TH09700530
     WHEN INTRODUCING THE SALMON INTO THE OKANAGON  COUNTRY, HE       TH09700540
MET WOLVERENE, AND ASKED HIM FOR HIS DAUGHTER. HIS WISH WAS           TH09700550
GRANTED, AND SHE BECAME HIS WIFE. AFTER SOME TIME SHE GAVE BIRTH      TH09700560
TO A DAUGHTER, WHO ACCOMPANIED HER FATHER WHEN TRAVELLING ABOUT ON    TH09700570
THE UPPER COLUMBIA. HE THREW HER INTO THAT RIVER, WHERE SHE LAY DOWN  TH09700580
ON HER BACK AND WAS TURNED INTO STONE. THIS ROCK FORMS PART OF THE    TH09700590
COLUMBIA, AND THE SALMON ASCEND THE RIVER ON EITHER SIDE OF IT.       TH09700600
     (THE LAST PART OF THE STORY (PAGES 28, 29), RELATING THE         TH09700610
WONDERFUL FEATS OF COYOTE, AND THE INCIDENT WITH THE GRISLY BEAR,     TH09700620
ARE NOT TOLD BY THE UTA'MQT.)                                         TH09700630
***THO-154***
          COYOTE AND HIS GUESTS   (LOWER UTA'MQT)                     TH09800010
     (COYOTE'S GUESTS WERE BLACK BEAR, KINGFISHER, AND MAGPIE.        TH09800020
THIS STORY IS TOLD EXACTLY THE SAME AS NUMBER 8 COYOTE STORY ON       TH09800030
PAGES 40-42 OF THE "TRADITIONS OF THE THOMPSON RIVER INDIANS," BUT    TH09800040
HAS THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL DETAILS. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE         TH09800050
STORY, COYOTE WAS HUNGRY AND NAKED, BEING CLAD ONLY IN AN OLD         TH09800060
(WOVEN) RABBIT-SKIN BLANKET: SO BLACK BEAR, TAKING PITY ON HIM,       TH09800070
INVITED HIM TO HER UNDERGROUND LODGE, AND SO ON. THE BEGINNING OF     TH09800080
THE MAGPIE INCIDENT IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT.)                           TH09800090
     COYOTE THOUGHT HE WOULD VISIT THE MAGPIE. SO HER REPAIRED TO     TH09800100
THE LATTER'S HOUSE, WHERE HE WAS KINDLY TREATED. MAGPIE WENT OUT      TH09800110
AND NETTED A DEER, AND COYOTE WATCHED HIM FROM A DISTANCE. AFTER      TH09800120
BRINGING HOME A DEER, MAGPIE TREATED COYOTE TO A HEARTY MEAL OF       TH09800130
FRESH MEAT. ON LEAVING, COYOTE INVITED MAGPIE TO HIS HOUSE ON THE     TH09800140
MORROW. ON HIS ARRIVAL, COYOTE SAID, "I WILL GO OUT AND CATCH A       TH09800150
DEER, SO YOU MAY HAVE A GOOD MEAL." HE WENT OUT AND TRIED MAGPIE'S    TH09800160
TACTICS OF DEER-CATCHING, WITH THE RESULT AS TOLD IN THE UPPER        TH09800170
THOMPSON STORY OF THIS INCIDENT.                                      TH09800180
     (THE FOLLOWING IS ADDITIONAL AT THE END OF THE STORY, AFTER      TH09800190
THE MAGPIE INCIDENT.)                                                 TH09800200
     COYOTE THOUGHT HE WOULD VISIT WOOD-TICK (KITSE'IN),  WHO LIVED   TH09800210
IN A HOUSE UNDER A HIGH ROCK. WOOD-TICK LIVED ON DEER,  WHICH HE      TH09800220
OBTAINED BY STRIKING  THIS ROCK WITH HIS MAGIC STAFF. IF HE DESIRED   TH09800230
ONE DEER, HE WENT UP TO THE ROCK AND STRUCK IT ONCE; AND IF HE        TH09800240
WISHED FOUR DEER, HE STRUCK THE ROCK WITH HIS STAFF FOUR TIMES; AND   TH09800250
IMMEDIATELY THAT NUMBER OF DEER FELL DOWN FROM THE TOP OF THE CLIFF.  TH09800260
     NOW COYOTE KNEW HOW WOOD-TICK MANAGED TO PROCURE HIS FOOD.       TH09800270
HE ALSO KNEW THE VALUABLE PROPERTIES OF HIS MAGIC STAFF, AND          TH09800280
THEREFORE HE DESIRED TO OBTAIN POSSESSION OF IT. WHEN COYOTE          TH09800290
REACHED WOOD-TICK'S HOUSE, HE WAS INVITED TO ENTER. AS THERE WAS      TH09800300
NO MEAT IN THE HOUSE AT THE TIME, WOOD-TICK SAID HE WOULD GO AND      TH09800310
PROCURE A DEER FOR HIS GUEST; BUT COYOTE SAID, "YOU NEED NOT          TH09800320
TROUBLE. IF YOU LOAN ME YOUR STAFF, I SHALL GO AND GET ONE FOR YOU."  TH09800330
COYOTE KNEW THAT WOOD-TICK WAS A LAZY INDIVIDUAL AND DID NOT CARE     TH09800340
ABOUT TRAVELLING MUCH. WOOD-TICK ASSENTED TO COYOTE'S PROPOSAL, AND   TH09800350
GAVE HIM HIS STAFF, BUT BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE GAVE STRICT INJUNCTIONS  TH09800360
TO COYOTE NOT TO STRIKE THE ROCK MORE THAN FOUR TIMES. WHEN COYOTE    TH09800370
REACHED THE CLIFF, HE STRUCK IT FOUR TIMES, AND A DEER FELL DOWN      TH09800380
EACH TIME. THEN HE SAID TO HIMSELF, "WHY SHOULD I NOT STRIKE IT       TH09800390
OFTENER?" SO HE STRUCK IT THE FIFTH TIME, BUT NO DEER FELL DOWN.      TH09800400
THEN HE STRUCK IT FOR THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH TIMES, BUT WITH LIKE      TH09800410
RESULTS. WHEN HE STRUCK IT THE EIGHTH TIME, THE FOUR DEER BECAME      TH09800420
ALIVE, AND, JUMPING UP, RAN AWAY.                                     TH09800430
     NOW COYOTE THREW OFF HIS BLANKET, AND, FOLLOWING THE DEER, RAN   TH09800440
TO WOOD-TICK'S HOUSE AS FAST AS HE COULD, BUT ARRIVED JUST IN TIME    TH09800450
TO SEE WOOD-TICK GOING OFF RIDING ON ONE OF THE DEER'S EARS.          TH09800460
LOOKING AROUND IN THE HOUSE, HE SAW SOME DEER FAT IN ONE CORNER.      TH09800470
TAKING HOLD OF IT, HE SWALLOWED IT, SAYING, "I WILL HAVE SOMETHING    TH09800480
TO EAT, ANYWAY;" BUT THE FAT CAME UP AGAIN, AND, JUMPING OUT OF       TH09800490
HIS MOUTH, RAN AWAY. SEEING SOME DEER-BONES NEAR THE FIRE, HE         TH09800500
REACHED TO TAKE HOLD OF THEM; BUT, JUST AS HIS FINGERS ALMOST         TH09800510
TOUCHED THEM, THEY GOT UP AND RAN AWAY. EVERY BIT OF DEER FAT,        TH09800520
MEAT, BLOOD, AND BONE RAN AWAY, SO COYOTE WAS LEFT WITHOUT ANYTHING   TH09800530
TO EAT.                                                               TH09800540
***THO-155***
          COYOTE AND ELK                                              TH09900010
     ELK HAD BEEN KILLED BY ANOTHER ELK WHO BELONGED TO A COUNTRY     TH09900020
SITUATED AT A DISTANCE, AND ALL HIS WIVES HAD BEEN TAKEN AWAY BY      TH09900030
THE VICTOR. COYOTE, AS HE CAME ALONG THE TRAIL,  NOTICED ELK'S BODY   TH09900040
LYING THERE, AND MADE FUN OF IT. ELK FELT ANGRY AT THE TAUNTING AND   TH09900050
SARCASTIC REMARKS PASSED BY COYOTE: SO HE CAME TO LIFE AGAIN, AND     TH09900060
BEGAN TO CHASE HIM. HE HAD NEARLY OVERTAKEN COYOTE, WHEN THE LATTER   TH09900070
ENTERED THE GROUND, AND, PASSING THROUGH A HILL, CAME OUT AT THE      TH09900080
OTHER SIDE. BY THUS OUTWITTING ELK, AND TAKING A SHORT CUT, HE        TH09900090
OBTAINED AGAIN A LONG START OVER ELK.                                 TH09900100
     AT LAST ELK SPIED HIM A LONG DISTANCE AHEAD; AND COYOTE CRIED    TH09900110
OUT, "YOU BETTER STAY WHERE YOU ARE, FOR YOU CAN NEVER OVERTAKE ME]"  TH09900120
ELK ANSWERED, "YOU MAY PLAY ALL THE TRICKS YOU LIKE, BUT I SHALL      TH09900130
OVERTAKE YOU AND KILL YOU, JUST THE SAME." SO HE GAVE CHASE AGAIN,    TH09900140
AND SOON DREW UP ON COYOTE, WHO HAD RECOURSE TO THE SAME EXPEDIENT    TH09900150
AS BEFORE.                                                            TH09900160
     WHEN ELK CAUGHT SIGHT OF HIM AGAIN, HE WAS FAR AHEAD. COYOTE     TH09900170
CRIED OUT, "YOU BETTER STAY WHERE YOU ARE, SLOW-FEET, FOR YOU WILL    TH09900180
NEVER OVERTAKE ME] THE LIKE OF YOU CAN NEVER KILL ME." ELK ANSWERED,  TH09900190
"YOU MAY BOAST AS YOU LIKE, AND PLAY WHAT TRICKS YOU LIKE, BUT I      TH09900200
SHALL CERTAINLY OVERTAKE AND KILL YOU." SO HE GAVE CHASE AGAIN WITH   TH09900210
RENEWED VIGOR. AGAIN COYOTE HAD RECOURSE TO THE SAME TRICK; BUT ELK   TH09900220
PERSEVERED IN THE CHASE, AND GRADUALLY MADE THE DISTANCE LESS         TH09900230
BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE FUGITIVE.                                     TH09900240
     WHEN ELK WAS CHASING HIM FOR THE FOURTH TIME, COYOTE SAW THAT    TH09900250
HE WAS GOING TO BE OVERTAKEN, AS HE FELT TIRED AND OUT OF WIND; SO    TH09900260
HE PULLED OUT FOUR PUBIC HAIRS,  THREW THEM ON THE GROUND, AND THEY   TH09900270
AT ONCE BECAME FOUR TALL YELLOW-PINE TREES (PINUS PONDEROSA),  INTO   TH09900280
ONE OF WHICH HE CLIMBED FOR REFUGE. ELK CAME UP, AND AT ONCE          TH09900290
STARTED TO CHOP IT DOWN. WHEN IT WAS ABOUT TO FALL, COYOTE JUMPED     TH09900300
INTO THE BRANCHES OF ANOTHER ONE, BUT ELK CHOPPED IT DOWN TOO. WHEN   TH09900310
ELK HAD NEARLY GOTTEN THE FOURTH ONE DOWN, COYOTE CRIED OUT, "DO      TH09900320
NOT KILL ME] I CAN BE OF SERVICE TO YOU. SPARE ME, AND I WILL BE      TH09900330
YOUR FRIEND. I WILL HELP YOU TO FIGHT YOUR ENEMIES." ELK SAID, "DO    TH09900340
YOU REALLY MEAN WHAT YOU SAY?" AND COYOTE ANSWERED, "YES, I WILL      TH09900350
REALLY BE YOUR FRIEND, AND WILL HELP YOU TO FIGHT YOUR ENEMIES."      TH09900360
     ELK ACCEPTED HIM AS AN ALLY; AND THEY TRAINED THEMSELVES, AND    TH09900370
MADE PREPARATIONS FOR TAKING THE WAR-PATH. COYOTE HAD PITCH-WOOD      TH09900380
FASTENED TO HIS HEAD FOR ANTLERS. ELK PROPOSED TO ATTACK HIS ENEMY    TH09900390
SINGLE-HANDED; BUT IF THE LATTER GOT THE BEST OF HIM, THEN COYOTE     TH09900400
WAS TO COME TO HIS AID. ARRIVING AT THE HOUSE OF THEIR ENEMY, ELK     TH09900410
ENGAGED HIM IN COMBAT AND SLEW HIM. THEN HE TOOK POSSESSION OF HIS    TH09900420
ENEMY'S HOUSE AND ALL HIS WIVES, AS WELL AS HIS OWN WIVES, WHICH      TH09900430
HE THUS GOT BACK.                                                     TH09900440
     WHEN COYOTE WAS ABOUT TO DEPART FOR HIS OWN COUNTRY, ELK SAID,   TH09900450
"I WILL GIVE YOU ONE WIFE  TO BE FOOD FOR YOU ON YOUR JOURNEY."       TH09900460
COYOTE DEPARTED WITH THE WOMAN: AND THE FIRST NIGHT IN CAMP HE CUT    TH09900470
OFF A PIECE OF HER HAUNCH AND ATE IT; ON THE SECOND NIGHT HE CUT      TH09900480
OFF A LARGER PIECE; AND ON THE THIRD NIGHT HE SAID TO HIMSELF, "I     TH09900490
WILL CUT OFF ENOUGH TO-NIGHT TO APPEASE MY APPETITE;" SO HE CUT A     TH09900500
VERY LARGE PIECE OFF THE WOMAN'S HAUNCH, AND, HAVING EATEN IT ALL,    TH09900510
HE FELT SATISFIED. THE FOURTH NIGHT THE WOMAN SAID TO HERSELF, "I     TH09900520
WILL LEAVE COYOTE. HE CUTS OFF LARGER PIECES EVERY NIGHT, AND MAKES   TH09900530
ME SORE." SO SHE DESERTED COYOTE, WHO HAD TO CONTINUE HIS JOURNEY     TH09900540
ALONE.                                                                TH09900550
***THO-156***
          COYOTE'S VISIT TO SO'IEP                                    TH10000010
     COYOTE MADE UP HIS MIND TO VISIT A WICKED PEOPLE WHO LIVED       TH10000020
IN AN UNDERGROUND LODGE  ON THE FAR SIDE OF A LARGE RIVER. THE        TH10000030
CHIEF MAN OF THESE PEOPLE WAS CALLED SO'IEP,  AND HIS RIGHT-HAND      TH10000040
MAN'S NAME WAS KUALU'M.  BOTH WERE NOTED FOR BEING HIGHLY GIFTED      TH10000050
IN MAGIC. THE CHIEF HAD A DAUGHTER, BUT HE WOULD NOT ALLOW HER TO     TH10000060
MARRY ANY OF THE YOUNG MEN.                                           TH10000070
     COYOTE TOOK HIS SON ALONG WITH HIM, AND, REACHING THE            TH10000080
CROSSING-PLACE OF THE RIVER, THEY SHOUTED TO BE TAKEN ACROSS. AN      TH10000090
OLD WOMAN  CAME WITH A CANOE, AND THEY JUMPED INTO IT. SHE TOLD       TH10000100
THEM THAT THE PEOPLE WHOM THEY INTENDED TO VISIT WERE VERY BAD,       TH10000110
AND THAT SO'IEP, THEIR CHIEF, HAD TWO LARGE AND FIERCE DOGS, --       TH10000120
GRISLY BEAR AND RATTLESNAKE, -- THAT HE MADE DEVOUR EVERY YOUNG       TH10000130
MAN WHO CAME TO SEEK HIS DAUGHTER'S HAND. COYOTE'S SON TOLD HER       TH10000140
THAT HE WISHED TO MARRY SO'IEP'S DAUGHTER: THEREFORE THE OLD WOMAN    TH10000150
TOLD HIM WHAT TESTS THEY WOULD PUT HIM THROUGH, AND HOW THEY WOULD    TH10000160
TRY TO KILL HIM. SHE ALSO GAVE HIM MUCH ADVICE, AND FULL DIRECTIONS   TH10000170
HOW TO ACT IN EACH EMERGENCY.                                         TH10000180
     WHEN COYOTE AND HIS SON ENTERED SO'IEP'S HOUSE, HE PUT ON AN     TH10000190
IMMENSE FIRE, EXPECTING TO OVERCOME THEM WITH HEAT; BUT THEY PUT      TH10000200
LUMPS OF ICE ON THEIR FOREHEADS AND REMAINED UNHURT. WHEN SO'IEP      TH10000210
SAW THAT HIS VISITORS WERE ENDOWED WITH MAGIC, AND THAT THE DOGS      TH10000220
HAD BEEN AFRAID TO BITE THEM, HE GAVE HIS DAUGHTER IN MARRIAGE TO     TH10000230
COYOTE'S SON, BUT SWORE IN SECRET TO KILL HIM IF HE COULD.            TH10000240
     THAT NIGHT SO'IEP SAID TO KUALU'M, "TAKE MY SON-IN-LAW           TH10000250
HUNTING TOMORROW." NEXT MORNING KUALU'M DID AS DIRECTED, AND WHILE    TH10000260
THEY WERE HUNTING, AND SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER, HE SET FIRE TO THE  TH10000270
GRASS, INTENDING TO BURN THE LAD; BUT THE LATTER STEPPED IN THE       TH10000280
MIDDLE OF A LARGE TRAIL, AND REMAINED UNHARMED.                       TH10000290
     KUALU'M RETURNED, THINKING HE HAD BURNED THE BOY, BUT THE        TH10000300
LATTER ARRIVED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS. THEN SO'IEP SAID, "TAKE MY         TH10000310
SON-IN-LAW TO GATHER FIREWOOD TO-MORROW." SO KUALU'M TOOK HIM TO      TH10000320
GATHER FIREWOOD. THEY CAME TO A DRY TREE, AND THE LAD BEGAN TO        TH10000330
SPLIT IT. THE TREE OPENED SUDDENLY, AND THE LAD'S WEDGE FELL INSIDE.  TH10000340
THE TREE WAS VERY LARGE AND HOLLOW IN THE CENTRE. AS THE LAD WAS      TH10000350
GOING IN THROUGH THE CRACK, KUALU'M MADE THE TREE CLOSE TOGETHER      TH10000360
SO AS TO SQUEEZE HIM, BUT THE LAD PLACED HIS WEDGE CROSSWAYS IN       TH10000370
THE CRACK AND REMAINED UNHURT. THEN HE SPAT OUT RED AND WHITE PAINT   TH10000380
FROM HIS MOUTH INTO THE CRACKS OF THE TREE, SO THAT THE PAINT         TH10000390
OOZED OUT AND RAN DOWN ON THE OUTSIDE. KUALU'M, THINKING THAT THE     TH10000400
WHITE PAINT WAS HIS BRAINS, AND THE RED PAINT HIS BLOOD, MADE SURE    TH10000410
HE HAD KILLED HIM THIS TIME; BUT, SHORTLY AFTER KUALU'M HAD REACHED   TH10000420
HOME AND REPORTED HIS DEATH, THE LAD ARRIVED CARRYING A LOAD OF       TH10000430
FIREWOOD.                                                             TH10000440
     THEN SO'IEP SAID, "TAKE MY SON-IN-LAW TO SPEAR SALMON            TH10000450
TO-MORROW."  SO KUALU'M TOOK HIM AS DIRECTED. THEY WENT TO THE        TH10000460
RIVER, WHERE KUALU'M GAVE THE LAD A SPEAR TO USE WHICH HAD A HEAD     TH10000470
OF COPPER. PRESENTLY A SALMON APPEARED, AND THE LAD WAS GOING TO      TH10000480
SPEAR IT; BUT KUALU'M SAID, "THAT IS NOT A SALMON, IT IS A MERMAN     TH10000490
(XAXAA'TKO)." THEN A FISH APPEARED WHICH HAD THE HEAD OF A MAN AND    TH10000500
VERY LONG HAIR: SO KUALU'M SAID, "SPEAR THAT, IT IS A SALMON." THE    TH10000510
LAD SPEARED IT, AND WAS PULLED, SPEAR AND ALL, UNDERNEATH THE         TH10000520
WATER, WHERE HE DISAPPEARED FROM SIGHT. KUALU'M WENT HOME AND         TH10000530
REPORTED THE LAD'S DEATH, BUT SHORTLY AFTERWARDS HE APPEARED AND      TH10000540
ENTERED THE LODGE, CARRYING THE MERMAN ON HIS BACK.                   TH10000550
     NOW, COYOTE SAID HE WOULD KILL THESE PEOPLE, SO HE KICKED DOWN   TH10000560
EARTH FROM A MOUNTAIN-SIDE  ON THEM; BUT THEY ESCAPED UNHARMED,       TH10000570
EXCEPTING HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, WHO WAS BURIED ALIVE. THEN HE CAUSED   TH10000580
A COLD WIND TO BLOW, AND THE ICE DAMMED UP THE WATER OF THE RIVER,    TH10000590
SO THAT IT RAN OVER THE TOP OF THE ICE AND FLOODED THE SURROUNDING    TH10000600
COUNTRY. THE WATER WHICH FLOWED OVER THE COUNTRY AND FILLED SO'IEP'S  TH10000610
UNDERGROUND LODGE FORMED INTO ICE, AND ALL THE PEOPLE WERE FROZEN TO  TH10000620
DEATH. THEN COYOTE AND HIS SON  RETURNED TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY.        TH10000630
***THO-157***
          COYOTE AND THE COLD                                         TH10100010
     COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING OVER THE COUNTRY, AND CAME TO A            TH10100020
SWEAT-HOUSE NEAR THE BANK OF A RIVER. IT WAS COVERED OVER, AND WAS    TH10100030
OCCUPIED BY A MAN  WHO WAS SWEATING. COYOTE SAID, "I WISH TO SWEAT    TH10100040
WITH YOU;" AND THE MAN INSIDE ASSENTED, SAYING, "ALL RIGHT] TAKE      TH10100050
OFF YOUR ROBE AND COME IN." COYOTE DIVESTED HIMSELF OF HIS BLANKET    TH10100060
AND ENTERED. AS SOON AS HE CAME IN, THE MAN MADE MUCH STEAM BY        TH10100070
THROWING WATER ON THE STONES, SO COYOTE SWEATED PROFUSELY AND WENT    TH10100080
OUT TO PLUNGE  INTO THE STREAM. HE ENTERED TWICE AGAIN, AND EACH      TH10100090
TIME THE MAN MADE MUCH STEAM, SO COYOTE COULD STAY IN ONLY FOR A      TH10100100
SHORT TIME. THE MAN NEVER WENT OUT TO WASH IN THE WATER.              TH10100110
     WHEN COYOTE WAS WASHING FOR THE THIRD TIME, HE SAID TO HIMSELF,  TH10100120
"I WILL MAKE THAT FELLOW COME OUT;" SO HE MADE TWO SALMON APPEAR IN   TH10100130
THE RIVER CLOSE TO THE SHORE. THEN, ON ENTERING THE SWEAT-HOUSE       TH10100140
FOR THE FOURTH TIME, HE SAID TO THE MAN, "THERE ARE TWO SALMON IN     TH10100150
THE RIVER WHERE I WAS WASHING." THE MAN SAID, "I DO NOT BELIEVE       TH10100160
YOU. THERE ARE NO SALMON IN THE RIVER, AND NONE IN THIS COUNTRY."     TH10100170
COYOTE SAID, "I DO NOT LIE. COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF." SO THE MAN    TH10100180
WENT OUTSIDE, AND SAW THE SALMON CLOSE TO THE SHORE, SWIMMING SLOWLY  TH10100190
UPSTREAM. COYOTE TOLD HIM TO TAKE HIS BLANKET AND CATCH THEM. HE      TH10100200
WADED INTO THE STREAM AND TRIED TO CATCH THEM WITH THE BLANKET;       TH10100210
BUT COYOTE MADE THEM SWIM OUTSTREAM, SO THAT THEY WERE ALWAYS A       TH10100220
LITTLE BEYOND HIS REACH, AND THE MAN FOLLOWED THEM. AT LAST HE GOT    TH10100230
BEYOND HIS DEPTH, AND, THE CURRENT CATCHING HIM, HE WAS SWEPT         TH10100240
AWAY DOWNSTREAM. THEN COYOTE WENT BACK TO THE SWEAT-HOUSE AND STOLE   TH10100250
THE MAN'S CLOTHES, WHICH HE PUT ON, AND ALSO HIS HEAD-BAND, WHICH     TH10100260
WAS COVERED WITH DENTALIA. HE ALSO TOOK HIS DECORATED QUIVER, AND     TH10100270
THE FOUR BLANKETS WHICH COVERED THE SWEAT-HOUSE, WHICH WERE THE       TH10100280
DOORS OF THE "HOUSE OF THE COLD."                                     TH10100290
     COYOTE CONTINUED HIS JOURNEY; BUT THE MAN GOT ASHORE BEFORE      TH10100300
VERY LONG, AND, FINDING THAT COYOTE HAD STOLEN HIS PROPERTY, HE       TH10100310
CAUSED A VIOLENT WIND TO BLOW. COYOTE HELD ON TO THE BLANKETS; BUT    TH10100320
ONE AFTER ANOTHER WAS BLOWN AWAY FROM HIM AS THE WIND INCREASED IN    TH10100330
VIOLENCE. COYOTE WAS IN DANGER OF BEING BLOWN AWAY HIMSELF, SO HE     TH10100340
CAUGHT HOLD OF TREES; BUT EACH TREE IN TURN WAS BLOWN DOWN WITH       TH10100350
THE STRENGTH OF THE WIND. ONLY WHEN THE HEAD-BAND, QUIVER, AND ALL    TH10100360
THE CLOTHES, HAD BEEN BLOWN OFF COYOTE'S BODY, THE WIND CEASED, AND   TH10100370
COYOTE WENT ON HIS WAY NAKED.                                         TH10100380
***THO-158***
          COYOTE AND WOOD-TICK                                        TH10200010
     AT LAST HE CAME TO A HOUSE, WHICH WAS INHABITED BY WOOD-TICK     TH10200020
(KITSE'IN).  HE ENTERED AND THE LATTER GAVE HIM SOME FAT TO EAT.      TH10200030
COYOTE SAID, "I AM HUNGRY AND NAKED, AND WOULD LIKE TO STAY WITH      TH10200040
YOU AS YOUR SERVANT." WOOD-TICK AGREED TO THIS, AND, POINTING TO A    TH10200050
LARGE HEAP OF DEER-SKINS, TOLD HIM TO TAN THEM. SO COYOTE STAID WITH  TH10200060
WOOD-TICK, AND TANNED MANY DOE-SKINS FOR HIM, AND MADE SOFT ROBES     TH10200070
AND CLOTHES FOR HIMSELF.                                              TH10200080
     AFTER A TIME WOOD-TICK TRUSTED HIM, AND SENT HIM TO GET          TH10200090
DEER-MEAT. HE GAVE HIM HIS STAFF, AND TOLD HIM TO GO UP TO A STEEP    TH10200100
CLIFF OVERLOOKING THE HOUSE, AND TO STRIKE THE ROCK ONCE WITH THE     TH10200110
STAFF. HE CAUTIONED HIM PARTICULARLY NEVER TO STRIKE IT MORE THAN     TH10200120
ONCE. COYOTE DID AS DIRECTED, AND, AS SOON AS HE STRUCK THE ROCK,     TH10200130
A DEAD DEER APPEARED AT HIS FEET. HE SKINNED IT, CUT IT UP, AND       TH10200140
CARRIED IT HOME. WHEN WOOD-TICK SAW THAT HE HAD DONE EVERYTHING       TH10200150
RIGHT, HE MADE UP HIS MIND TO SEND HIM FOR MEAT EVERY DAY. ON THE     TH10200160
FOURTH DAY, WHEN COYOTE WAS UP ON THE ROCK, HE MADE UP HIS MIND TO    TH10200170
STRIKE IT OFTEN AND SEE WHAT EFFECT IT WOULD HAVE: SO HE STRUCK       TH10200180
THE ROCK WITH THE STAFF UNTIL HIS ARM WAS TIRED, AND A DEAD DEER      TH10200190
FELL AT HIS FEET EACH TIME. THEN HE SAID TO HIMSELF, "I HAVE NOW SO   TH10200200
MUCH MEAT THAT I SHALL NEVER STARVE;" AND, RETURNING TO WOOD-TICK'S   TH10200210
HOUSE, HE STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD WITH A STONE. AFTER A TIME           TH10200220
WOOD-TICK REVIVED, AND CRIED OUT, "GET UP AND GO]" THEN ALL THE       TH10200230
DEER BECAME ALIVE AND RAN AWAY. WOOD-TICK JUMPED ON A BUCK'S EAR      TH10200240
AND MADE OFF WITH THE REST. COYOTE GOT EXCITED AND RAN TO SAVE        TH10200250
SOME FAT, BUT IT GOT UP AND RAN AWAY. THE ROBES IN HIS BED, AND       TH10200260
THE BUCKSKIN CLOTHES HE WAS WEARING, RAN AWAY; AND EVERY PIECE OF     TH10200270
DEER'S BONE, HAIR, AND SKIN AROUND THE PLACE GOT UP AND FOLLOWED      TH10200280
THE REST: SO COYOTE WAS LEFT WITHOUT FOOD, AND WITH ONLY HIS ROBE,    TH10200290
AS BEFORE.                                                            TH10200300
***THO-159***
          COYOTE JUGGLES WITH HIS EYES                                TH10300010
     CONTINUING HIS TRAVELS, HE CAME TO A PLACE WHERE HE SAW          TH10300020
BLUE-GROUSE THROWING HIS EYES UP IN THE AIR AND CATCHING THEM.        TH10300030
COYOTE SAID TO HIMSELF, "I CAN ALSO PERFORM THAT FEAT," SO HE         TH10300040
PULLED OUT HIS EYES AND THREW THEM UP IN THE AIR; BUT RAVEN CAUGHT    TH10300050
THEM AND FLEW AWAY WITH THEM, SO COYOTE WAS LEFT WITHOUT EYES AND     TH10300060
UNABLE TO SEE. HE WENT GROPING ABOUT, AND, COMING TO A PATCH OF       TH10300070
KINNIKINNIK OR BEARBERRIES, HE SELECTED TWO OF THE BERRIES, AND       TH10300080
PUT THEM IN HIS EYE-SOCKETS AS SUBSTITUTES FOR EYES. HE WAS THEN      TH10300090
ABLE TO SEE A LITTLE, BUT ONLY VERY DIMLY. CONTINUING HIS JOURNEY,    TH10300100
HE CAME TO THE OUTSKIRTS OF A VILLAGE WHERE SOME BOYS WERE PLAYING.   TH10300110
ONE BOY WHO WAS NEAR HIM CALLED HIM "RED-EYES" AND OTHER SARCASTIC    TH10300120
NAMES. COYOTE SAID, "ALTHOUGH MY EYES ARE RED, I CAN SEE AS WELL      TH10300130
AS YOU CAN. I CAN SEE THE PLEIADES (NXA'US)." THE BOY LAUGHED AND     TH10300140
SAID, "HOW CAN YOU SEE THE PLEIADES? IT IS JUST NOON. I KNOW NOW      TH10300150
FOR A CERTAINTY THAT YOU CANNOT SEE WITH YOUR RED EYES." THEN         TH10300160
COYOTE SEIZED THE BOY, AND, TAKING OUT HIS EYES, PUT THEM IN HIS      TH10300170
OWN HEAD, AND, PUTTING HIS BEARBERRY EYES IN THE BOY'S HEAD, HE       TH10300180
TURNED HIM INTO A BIRD CALLED TCELA'UIN.                              TH10300190
***THO-160***
          COYOTE AND THE WOMEN                                        TH10400010
     SOME TIME AFTER THIS, COYOTE CAME WITHIN SIGHT OF SOME LODGES    TH10400020
THE INHABITANTS OF WHICH SEEMED TO BE TAKING DOWN THE COVERINGS       TH10400030
AND MAKING PREPARATIONS TO DEPART. HE CHANGED HIS APPEARANCE SO AS    TH10400040
TO RESEMBLE AN OLD WOMAN, AND, APPROACHING, ACCOSTED THE              TH10400050
INHABITANTS, WHO CONSISTED OF FOUR YOUNG WOMEN. THEY TOLD HIM THAT    TH10400060
THEY WERE GETTING READY TO GO TO A GATHERING, AND THAT THE REST OF    TH10400070
THE PEOPLE HAD ALREADY DEPARTED. HE SAID TO THEM, "I WISH TO GO TO    TH10400080
THE GATHERING ALSO. DO NOT LEAVE ME BEHIND. I AM YOUR GRANDMOTHER."   TH10400090
THE WOMEN SAID THEY WOULD NOT DESERT HIM; BUT WHEN READY TO GO,       TH10400100
COYOTE DECLARED THAT HE WAS UNABLE TO WALK, AND ASKED THEM TO CARRY   TH10400110
HIM. THEY SAID THEY WOULD CARRY HIM BY TURNS. ONE WOMAN PUT HER       TH10400120
STRAP AROUND HIM AND CARRIED HIM; BUT HER HEAD GOT SORE, AND SHE      TH10400130
PUT THE STRAP DOWN ON HER BREAST, BUT IT ALSO GOT SORE. THEN COYOTE   TH10400140
SAID, "IF YOU LENGTHEN YOUR STRAP AND LET ME DOWN LOWER ON YOUR       TH10400150
BACK, YOU WILL NOT FEEL SORE." THE WOMAN DID AS DIRECTED AND LOWERED  TH10400160
HIM DOWN ON HER BACK; BUT SHE GOT SORE AGAIN, AND COYOTE DIRECTED     TH10400170
HER TO LOWER HIM DOWN FARTHER, WHICH SHE DID. THEN, AS SHE CARRIED    TH10400180
HIM, COYOTE MADE HIS PENIS TOUCH HER PRIVATES FROM BEHIND; AND, AS    TH10400190
SOON AS THE WOMAN WAS AWARE OF THIS, SHE DROPPED HIM ON THE GROUND,   TH10400200
AND WOULD NOT CARRY HIM ANY MORE. SHE DID NOT TELL THE OTHER WOMEN    TH10400210
WHAT HAD HAPPENED: SO ANOTHER ONE PUT HER STRAP AROUND HIM AND        TH10400220
CARRIED HIM ON HER BACK. HE DEALT WITH HER IN LIKE MANNER, AND ALSO   TH10400230
WITH THE OTHER TWO WOMEN: SO ALL FOUR WERE PREGNANT WHEN THEY         TH10400240
REACHED THE PLACE WHERE THE PEOPLE WERE ASSEMBLED.                    TH10400250
***THO-161***
          HE-SPIT-ON-HER-BELLY (PITSEQA'NEKATEM)     (LOWER UTA'MQT)  TH10500010
     A YOUNG MAN LIVED IN THE MOUNTAINS WITH HIS TWO SISTERS. HE      TH10500020
WAS A GREAT HUNTER, AND ALWAYS HAD LARGE STORES OF FAT MEAT AND       TH10500030
SKINS IN HIS HOUSE AND CACHES. HE BATHED HIMSELF EVERY DAY IN A       TH10500040
CREEK NEAR BY; AND THE NEEDLES WHICH CAME OFF HIS SPONGE OF           TH10500050
FIR-BRANCHES, AND FELL INTO THE WATER, BECAME DENTALIA (SLAQ)).       TH10500060
SOME OF THESE HE USED TO TAKE HOME TO HIS SISTERS EVERY NIGHT. HE     TH10500070
GAVE THEM STRICT INJUNCTIONS NEVER TO VISIT HIS BATHING-PLACE. THE    TH10500080
ELDER SISTER HAD TOLD THE YOUNGER ONE WHERE THEIR BROTHER OBTAINED    TH10500090
HIS DENTALIA, AND THIS MADE THE YOUNGER GIRL VERY ANXIOUS TO SEE      TH10500100
THE PLACE.                                                            TH10500110
     ONE DAY THEIR BROTHER WAS HUNTING, AS USUAL, AND THE SISTERS     TH10500120
WENT OUT FOR A WALK. THE YOUNGER SISTER BOTHERED THE ELDER SO MUCH    TH10500130
TO SHOW HER THEIR BROTHER'S BATHING-PLACE, THAT AT LAST SHE           TH10500140
ASSENTED AND TOOK HER THERE. THEY PICKED UP A GREAT QUANTITY OF       TH10500150
DENTALIA FROM UNDERNEATH THE WATER AND CARRIED THEM HOME.             TH10500160
     NOW, THEIR BROTHER, WHO WAS TRACKING DEER, KNEW AT ONCE, THAT    TH10500170
THEY HAD TOUCHED THE DENTALIA; SO HE BECAME SORROWFUL, AND WENT       TH10500180
HOME CARRYING HIS PACK OF DEER-MEAT ON HIS BACK. HE HUNG UP HIS       TH10500190
QUIVER, AND LEFT HIS PACK ON THE FLOOR OF THE LODGE. HE HAD MADE      TH10500200
UP HIS MIND TO DESERT HIS SISTERS FOR THEIR DISOBEDIENCE: THEREFORE,  TH10500210
LIFTING UP THE FIRE-STONE OF THE UNDERGROUND HOUSE, HE WENT DOWN      TH10500220
THE HOLE WHICH LED UNDERNEATH TO THE LOWER WORLD.                     TH10500230
     WHEN THE SISTERS ARRIVED HOME, THEY SAW THEIR BROTHER'S QUIVER   TH10500240
AND PACK OF MEAT; SO THEY KNEW HE HAD BEEN HOME. HIS DOG WAS          TH10500250
WHINING, AND SCRATCHING UP THE EARTH AROUND THE BASE OF THE           TH10500260
FIRE-STONE: SO THE SISTERS TURNED IT OVER TO SEE WHAT WAS THE         TH10500270
MATTER. WHEN THEY DID SO, THEY SAW THERE WAS A HOLE THERE, AND THE    TH10500280
WIND RUSHED UP THROUGH IT FROM BELOW. THEY LOOKED DOWN THROUGH IT,    TH10500290
AND SAW THEIR BROTHER PLAYING BALL  WITH THE PEOPLE IN THE LOWER      TH10500300
WORLD.                                                                TH10500310
     THE ELDER SISTER WAS ANGRY AT THE YOUNGER BECAUSE SHE HAD        TH10500320
ENTICED HER TO THEIR BROTHER'S BATHING-PLACE. SHE SAID, "YOU SEE      TH10500330
WHAT THE RESULT IS OF DISOBEYING OUR BROTHER'S COMMAND." THE          TH10500340
SISTERS WERE VERY SORRY, AND WEPT SORELY; SO THAT SOME OF THEIR       TH10500350
TEARS FELL DOWN THE HOLE AND ON THEIR BROTHER, WHO WAS PLAYING        TH10500360
BELOW.                                                                TH10500370
     WHEN THEIR BROTHER NOTICED THE DROPS FALLING ON HIM, HE SAT      TH10500380
DOWN, AND SAID TO HIMSELF, "THAT IS A WONDERFUL THING: A DROP HAS     TH10500390
FALLEN ON MY HAND." HE LOOKED UP, BUT SAW NO SIGNS OF RAIN. HE        TH10500400
WONDERED, BECAUSE IT NEVER USED TO RAIN FORMERLY, AND HE SAW NO       TH10500410
SIGNS OF IT THEN.  NOW HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, "IT MUST BE A TEAR,     TH10500420
AND MY SISTERS ARE WEEPING FOR ME IN THE UPPER WORLD." THE OTHER      TH10500430
BALL-PLAYERS ASKED WHAT AILED HIM. "HAS ANY ONE STRUCK YOU WITH       TH10500440
HIS BALL-STICK?" THEY SAID; BUT HE ANSWERED, "NO, I AM ONLY           TH10500450
SORROWFUL BECAUSE MY SISTERS WEEP FOR ME."                            TH10500460
     THEN HE MADE HIMSELF INVISIBLE, AND, GOING UP THE HOLE, HE       TH10500470
STOOD AT HIS SISTERS' BACKS. THEY WERE GLAD TO SEE HIM, AND           TH10500480
IMPLORED HIM NOT TO DESERT THEM. HE SAID, "I MUST RETURN TO THE       TH10500490
LOWER WORLD." THEN HIS YOUNGEST SISTER SAID, "THEN WE WILL            TH10500500
ACCOMPANY YOU." HE SAID, "VERY WELL, SHUT YOUR EYES AND JUMP DOWN,    TH10500510
BUT DO NOT OPEN THEM UNTIL YOU REACH THE BOTTOM." THEY SHUT THEIR     TH10500520
EYES AND JUMPED, BUT OPENED THEM AGAIN; SO THEY WERE FORCED UP        TH10500530
AGAIN. THUS THEIR BROTHER TRIED TO GET THEM DOWN FOUR TIMES, BUT      TH10500540
EACH TIME THEY OPENED THEIR EYES AND CAME BACK. THEN THEIR BROTHER    TH10500550
SAID, "IT IS USELESS TO TRY TO GET YOU TO THE LOWER WORLD. YOU        TH10500560
BETTER GO TO YOUR AUNT THE ELK."  HE GAVE THEM MEAT  TO EAT ON THE    TH10500570
ROAD, AND DIRECTIONS HOW TO GO. HE ALSO SAID, "IF YOU SEE ANY         TH10500580
HOUSE ON THE WAY, DO NOT ENTER IT." THUS HE LEFT THEM AND RETURNED    TH10500590
TO THE LOWER WORLD.                                                   TH10500600
     NOW, THE SISTERS SET OUT ON THEIR JOURNEY TO THEIR AUNT'S        TH10500610
HOUSE, AND AFTER SOME DAYS SAW A HOUSE ON THE TRAIL. THE WEATHER      TH10500620
BECAME COLD, AND THE YOUNGER SISTER DESIRED TO ENTER THE HOUSE TO     TH10500630
WARM HERSELF. THE OLDER SISTER SAID, "REMEMBER OUR BROTHER'S          TH10500640
ADVICE;" BUT THE YOUNGER PERSISTED, SO THEY ENTERED THE HOUSE, IN     TH10500650
WHICH THEY FOUND COYOTE, WHO WAS BUSY TANNING SKINS. HE TREATED       TH10500660
THEM KINDLY AND PUT ON A LARGE FIRE FOR THEM. HE TOOK SOME OF HIS     TH10500670
DRIED SEMEN FROM UNDER THE PREPUCE, AND PLACING IT IN A DISH,         TH10500680
OFFERED IT TO THE SISTERS, SAYING, "YOU ARE NO DOUBT HUNGRY. EAT      TH10500690
SOME FAT." THE ELDER SISTER WAS SUSPICIOUS, AND THREW SOME OF IT      TH10500700
INTO THE FIRE. WHEN SHE SAW THAT IT DID NOT BURN LIKE FAT, BUT ONLY   TH10500710
CRACKLED AND SMOKED, SHE ADVISED HER SISTER NOT TO EAT OF IT; BUT     TH10500720
THE LATTER DISOBEYED, AND AS A RESULT AT ONCE BECAME PREGNANT.        TH10500730
     THE SISTERS THEN CONTINUED THEIR JOURNEY. WHEN THEY WERE OUT     TH10500740
OF SIGHT, COYOTE TOOK HIS UNDERGROUND LODGE ON HIS BACK, RAN AHEAD    TH10500750
FARTHER ALONG THE TRAIL, AND, PLACING HIS HOUSE DOWN, BEGAN TO        TH10500760
DRESS BUCKSKIN, AS BEFORE. AGAIN THE WOMEN WERE FORCED TO GO          TH10500770
INSIDE (OWING TO COYOTE MAKING THE WEATHER VERY COLD), WHEN THEY      TH10500780
WERE TREATED IN THE SAME MANNER AS BEFORE. THIS WAS DONE FOUR TIMES   TH10500790
BY COYOTE. THE LAST TIME THE YOUNGER SISTER WAS TAKEN IN TRAVAIL,     TH10500800
AND THE ELDER SISTER LEFT HER IN COYOTE'S HOUSE. ON LEAVING, COYOTE   TH10500810
SAID TO HER, "IF YOUR SISTER HAS A FEMALE CHILD, I WILL REAR IT;      TH10500820
BUT IF A MALE, I WILL HANG IT UP IN THE BRANCH OF A TREE."            TH10500830
     THE ELDER GIRL WENT ON. HER AUNT THE ELK KNEW OF HER COMING,     TH10500840
AND SO DID SOME OF THE OTHER PEOPLE. WHEN THE GIRL WAS ABOUT TWO      TH10500850
DAYS' JOURNEY FROM HER DESTINATION, LYNX SENT HARE TO MEET HER AND    TH10500860
FIX CAMP FOR HER THAT NIGHT. HARE RAN VERY SWIFTLY, AND SOON REACHED  TH10500870
THE SPOT WHERE THE GIRL WOULD CAMP AT SUNDOWN. HERE HE ERECTED A      TH10500880
BRUSH LODGE FOR HER TO SLEEP IN, GATHERED FIRE-WOOD, AND MADE A       TH10500890
FIRE. NOW, LYNX HAD TOLD HARE NOT TO BE ASHAMED, BUT TO WAIT FOR      TH10500900
THE GIRL IN THE LODGE HE SHOULD ERECT, AND GIVE HER FOOD WHEN SHE     TH10500910
ARRIVED; BUT WHEN HARE SAW THE GIRL APPROACHING, HE BECAME BASHFUL    TH10500920
AND ASHAMED; THEREFORE HE HUNG THE MEAT ON ONE OF THE LODGE-POLES     TH10500930
AND RAN AND HID HIMSELF.                                              TH10500940
     THE GIRL ARRIVED, AND CAMPED IN THE LODGE FOR THE NIGHT. NEXT    TH10500950
MORNING HARE WATCHED HER FROM HIS HIDING-PLACE UNDERNEATH A LOG.      TH10500960
SHE CONTINUED HER JOURNEY NEXT MORNING, AND, WHILE STEPPING OVER      TH10500970
THE LOG WHICH LAY ACROSS THE TRAIL, HARE RAN OUT FROM UNDERNEATH      TH10500980
AND CALLED HER NAMES, SUCH AS "RED PRIVATES," ETC. THE WOMAN GOT      TH10500990
ANGRY AND THREW HER ROOT-DIGGER AT HIM, SPLITTING HIS NOSE. THIS      TH10501000
IS THE REASON THAT THE HARE HAS SUCH A PECULIAR NOSE AND NOSTRILS     TH10501010
AT THE PRESENT DAY.                                                   TH10501020
     WHEN THE GIRL CAME WITHIN SIGHT OF HER AUNT'S HOUSE, THE         TH10501030
LATTER SAID TO ALL THE YOUNG MEN, "RUN OUT AND MEET YOUR COUSIN]      TH10501040
WHOEVER REACHES HER FIRST SHALL BE HER HUSBAND." THEN GRISLY BEAR,    TH10501050
BLACK BEAR, WOLF, EAGLE, HUMMING-BIRD, PUMA,  AND ALL THE OTHER       TH10501060
ANIMALS AND BIRDS EXCEPT COYOTE, LYNX, HARE AND DEER, RAN TO MEET     TH10501070
THE GIRL. WHEN THEY HAD RUN SOME LITTLE DISTANCE, ELK HERSELF RAN     TH10501080
OUT, AND, PASSING THE OTHERS, REACHED THE GIRL FIRST. SHE TOOK HER    TH10501090
NIECE HOME AND WATCHED CAREFULLY OVER HER, SO THAT NONE OF THE        TH10501100
YOUNG MEN MIGHT SEE HER. NIGHTS SHE PUT HER IN A BASKET (SLUQ),       TH10501110
WHICH SHE HUNG TO THE BEAMS OF THE LODGE IMMEDIATELY OVER HER OWN     TH10501120
BED-PLACE.                                                            TH10501130
     LYNX WAS DISPLEASED AT NOT BEING ABLE TO SEE THE GIRL, AND       TH10401140
MADE A HOLE IN THE ROOF OF THE UNDERGROUND HOUSE, AND IN THE LID OF   TH10501150
THE BASKET, AND EVERY NIGHT SPAT DOWN ON THE GIRL WHEN SHE WAS        TH10501160
ASLEEP, HIS SPITTLE FALLING ON HER NAVEL, AND THUS MAKING HER         TH10501170
PREGNANT. EACH MORNING THE GIRL FOUND HER BELLY WET WHEN SHE AWOKE,   TH10501180
AND INFORMED HER AUNT, WHO ASSEMBLED THE PEOPLE TO FIND OUT WHO       TH10501190
HAD DONE THE MISCHIEF; BUT ALL THE YOUNG MEN DENIED IT. BEFORE        TH10501200
LONG THE GIRL GAVE BIRTH TO A MALE CHILD, BUT HIS FATHER WAS STILL    TH10501210
UNKNOWN.                                                              TH10501220
     WHEN THE BOY HAD GROWN TO BE OF GOODLY SIZE, ELK ASSEMBLED       TH10501230
THE PEOPLE, AND ASKED ALL THE MEN EACH TO MAKE A BOW AND ARROW FOR    TH10501240
THE CHILD, SO THAT HE MIGHT KNOW WHO HIS FATHER WAS. COYOTE AND       TH10501250
RAVEN EACH CLAIMED THE LAD; BUT ELK SAID THEY LIED, AND WOULD NOT     TH10401260
RECOGNIZE EITHER OF THEM AS HIS FATHER. LYNX, WHO WAS AFRAID, SAT     TH10501270
LEANING AGAINST THE LADDER OF THE UNDERGROUND HOUSE, AND NEVER SAID   TH10501280
A WORD. ALL THE MEN IN TURN HANDED THEIR BOWS AND ARROWS TO THE       TH10501290
LAD; BUT AS HE TRIED EACH OF THEM, HE THREW THEM AWAY. COYOTE CAME    TH10501300
WITH A FINELY-MADE BOW AND ARROWS ORNAMENTED WITH COLORED FEATHERS;   TH10501310
BUT THEY DID NOT SUIT, AND WERE THROWN AWAY LIKE THE REST. AT LAST    TH10501320
LYNX, WHO HAD BEEN HOLDING BACK, CAME FORWARD AND HANDED THE BOY      TH10501330
A ROUGHLY-MADE BOW AND ARROWS MADE OF FIR-BRANCHES. ON TAKING HOLD    TH10501340
OF THEM, THE LAD WAS HIGHLY PLEASED, AND FIRED MANY ARROWS. THUS      TH10501350
LYNX WAS KNOWN TO BE THE BOY'S FATHER.                                TH10501360
     RAVEN, COYOTE, AND SOME OF THE OTHER MEN, WERE CHAGRINED         TH10501370
BECAUSE THEY HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO PROVE THEMSELVES THE FATHER OF      TH10501380
THE BOY, AND, AS THE PEOPLE WERE DISPERSING, THEY BEAT LYNX, WHO      TH10501390
WAS SITTING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LADDER. RAVEN KICKED HIM IN THE      TH10501400
FACE, AND JUMPED ON HIS HEAD AS HE WENT UP THE LADDER, THUS           TH10501410
DISFIGURING HIM, AND CAUSING LYNX'S FACE TO ASSUME THE SHAPE IT HAS   TH10501420
AT THE PRESENT DAY.                                                   TH10501430
     ELK AND ALL THE PEOPLE WERE DISPLEASED BECAUSE LYNX WAS THE      TH10501440
FATHER OF THE BOY, THEREFORE THEY DESERTED THE WOMAN AND THE BOY.     TH10501450
WHEN THEY HAD ALL GONE, THE WOMAN BOUND UP LYNX'S WOUNDS, AND HE      TH10501460
BECAME HER HUSBAND.                                                   TH10501470
     WHEN LYNX BECAME WELL AGAIN, HE WENT OUT HUNTING, AND GATHERED   TH10501480
ALL THE GAME TOGETHER ON ONE HILL. PUMA, WOLF, AND ALL THE BEST       TH10501490
HUNTERS OF THE PEOPLE, COULD FIND NO GAME, AND A FAMINE BEGAN TO      TH10501500
REIGN. RAVEN, WHO WAS NEARLY FAMISHED, RETURNED TO THE VILLAGE, AND   TH10501510
FOUND THE BOY OUTSIDE PLAYING WITH A RING MADE OUT OF DEER-FAT. HE    TH10501520
SNATCHED UP THE RING AND DEVOURED IT. THE BOY CRIED BECAUSE OF THE    TH10501530
LOSS OF HIS RING; AND HIS MOTHER, RUNNING OUTSIDE, CAUGHT RAVEN BY    TH10501540
THE THROAT, AND CHOKED HIM SO HARD THAT HIS ENTRAILS BEGAN TO         TH10501550
PROJECT FROM HIS ANUS. THEN SHE LET HIM GO, AND TOLD HIM TO LICK      TH10501560
HIS PROTRUDING GUTS. WHEN HE HAD DONE THIS, SHE INVITED HIM INSIDE,   TH10501570
AND GAVE HIM MEAT TO EAT.                                             TH10501580
     HE RETURNED TO THE PEOPLE'S CAMP, AND TOLD THEM THAT LYNX'S      TH10501590
HOUSE WAS FULL OF MEAT AND FAT: THEREFORE ALL THE FAMISHED PEOPLE     TH10501600
RETURNED TO THE VILLAGE, AND WERE FEASTED BY LYNX. HE GAVE MOST MEAT  TH10501610
AND FAT TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAD FORMERLY TREATED HIM KINDLY; BUT      TH10501620
TO RAVEN, COYOTE, AND OTHERS HE GAVE VERY LITTLE.                     TH10501630
***THO-162***
          NSPATCE'TCEIT,  OR THE FOUR BLACK BEARS; ALSO CALLED        TH10600010
          THE QWA'QTQWAL BROTHERS.    (UPPER AND LOWER UTA'MQT)       TH10600020
     A MAN  WHO WAS A HUNTER LIVED IN THE MOUNTAINS IN THE            TH10600030
NEIGHBORHOOD OF BETA'NI. HE HAD TWO WIVES, WHO WERE GRISLY BEAR AND   TH10600040
BLACK BEAR; AND EACH OF HIS WIVES HAD FOUR CHILDREN. HE PAID MOST     TH10600050
ATTENTION TO THE BLACK BEAR WIFE; SO THE OTHER BECAME JEALOUS, AND    TH10600060
MADE UP HER MIND TO GET RID OF HER RIVAL. ONE DAY SHE SAID TO HER     TH10600070
HUSBAND, "I AM GOING TO DIG ROOTS. COME ALONG WITH ME, SO I MAY NOT   TH10600080
FEEL LONELY] YOU CAN DO SHOOTING AT THE SAME TIME." HE ACCOMPANIED    TH10600090
HER, AND HUNTED NEAR BY WHERE SHE WAS DIGGING. TOWARDS SUNSET HE      TH10600100
RETURNED TO WHERE SHE WAS. SHE SAID TO HIM, "THE SUN IS ABOUT         TH10600110
SETTING.  IT WILL SOON BE TIME FOR US TO GO HOME, BUT THERE IS NO     TH10600120
HURRY. COME HERE AND LAY YOUR HEAD ON MY LAP. I WILL LOUSE YOU."      TH10600130
HE DID AS REQUESTED. AFTER PICKING OVER HIS HEAD A LITTLE WHILE AND   TH10600140
PRETENDING TO FIND MANY LICE, THE GRISLY BEAR WIFE SAID, "WHAT A      TH10600150
QUANTITY YOU HAVE] IT IS A WONDER THE WIFE YOU LOVE SO MUCH DOES      TH10600160
NOT LOUSE YOU." THEN SHE BIT HIM IN THE NECK AND KILLED HIM. SHE      TH10600170
THEN CUT OFF HIS GENITALIA, PUT THEM IN HER BASKET, AND WENT HOME.    TH10600180
HERE SHE SAID TO BLACK BEAR, "OUR HUSBAND WENT SHOOTING AND DID       TH10600190
NOT COME BACK. I WAITED FOR HIM VERY LONG."                           TH10600200
     AFTER DARK SHE PUT HER HUSBAND'S GENITALIA IN THE ASHES TO       TH10600210
ROAST. ONE OF THE YOUNG BLACK BEARS SAW IT WHEN SHE WAS RAKING THE    TH10600220
COALS, AND SHOUTED, "SHE IS BAKING MY FATHER'S GENITALIA]" BUT THE    TH10600230
GRISLY BEAR MADE FUN OF THE CHILD, AND PEACE WAS RESTORED. AFTER      TH10600240
THE MEAT WAS COOKED, GRISLY BEAR AROSE FROM HER BED AND ATE IT. THE   TH10600250
NEXT MORNING SHE SAID TO BLACK BEAR, "LET US GO OUT AND SEARCH FOR    TH10600260
OUR HUSBAND." ABOUT SUNSET SHE CALLED BLACK BEAR, AND SAID, "IT IS    TH10600270
USELESS FOR US TO SEARCH ANY LONGER. WE BETTER GO HOME TO OUR         TH10600280
CHILDREN. BUT WE HAVE PLENTY OF TIME. COME HERE AND LAY YOUR HEAD     TH10600290
ON MY LAP. I WILL LOUSE YOU." BLACK BEAR DID AS REQUESTED; AND        TH10400300
GRISLY BEAR, PRETENDING TO FIND MANY LICE, SAID, "WHAT A QUANTITY     TH10600310
YOU HAVE] IT IS A WONDER THE HUSBAND WHO LOVES YOU SO MUCH DOES       TH10600320
NOT LOUSE YOU." THEN SHE BIT HER IN THE NECK, KILLED HER, AND CUT     TH10600330
OFF HER BREASTS.                                                      TH10600340
     ON ARRIVING HOME, SHE SAID TO BLACK BEAR'S CHILDREN, "IT IS      TH10600350
STRANGE YOUR MOTHER HAS NOT ARRIVED. SHE MUST HAVE GONE A LONG WAY,   TH10600360
SEARCHING FOR HER HUSBAND." THAT NIGHT GRISLY BEAR BAKED THE          TH10600370
BREASTS; BUT ONE OF BLACK BEAR'S CHILDREN SAW HER, AND SHOUTED,       TH10600380
"OH, SHE IS BAKING MY MOTHER'S BREASTS]" BUT GRISLY BEAR MADE FUN     TH10600390
OF THE CHILD, AND SIAD SHE WAS BAKING ROOTS.                          TH10600400
     THEN SHE TOLD HER FOUR CHILDREN PRIVATELY THAT SHE HAD KILLED    TH10600410
HER HUSBAND AND HIS WIFE, AND THAT SHE ALSO WANTED TO KILL BLACK      TH10600420
BEAR'S FOUR CHILDREN. "WHEN I GO AWAY TO DIG ROOTS IN THE MORNING,"   TH10600430
SHE TOLD THEM, "SAY TO BLACK BEAR'S CHILDREN, 'LET US PLAY AT         TH10600440
FEASTING]' THEN SET BEFORE THEM A BASKETFUL OF NQA'UX,  AND INDUCE    TH10600450
THEM TO EAT HEAVILY, SO THAT THEY MAY LOSE THEIR STRENGTH. THEN       TH10600460
SAY, 'LET US GO AND SWIM;' AND WHEN YOU GET TO THE LAKE, SUGGEST,     TH10600470
'LET US PLAY AT WRESTLING.' THEY WILL BE FULL, AND YOU CAN EASILY     TH10600480
OVERCOME THEM AND DROWN THEM. THEN TAKE THEIR BODIES HOME, AND        TH10600490
STICK THE YOUNGEST ONE ON A STICK TO ROAST, FOR I SHALL BE HUNGRY     TH10600500
WHEN I COME HOME. BE SURE TO FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS, AND EAT VERY     TH10600510
LITTLE OF THE NQA'UX YOURSELVES."                                     TH10600520
     IN THE MORNING THE YOUNG GRISLY BEARS DID AS TOLD. THE ELDEST    TH10600530
BLACK BEAR, HOWEVER, BECAME SUSPICIOUS, AND WARNED HIS BROTHERS.      TH10600540
THEY ATE VERY LITTLE OF THE FOOD GIVEN TO THEM BY THE GRISLY BEARS;   TH10600550
BUT THE LATTER COULD NOT RESTRAIN THEIR APPETITIES, AND ATE UNTIL     TH10600560
HARDLY ABLE TO MOVE. THE GRISLY BEARS THEN SAID, "LET US GO AND       TH10600570
SWIM]" SO THEY ALL WENT DOWN TO THE LAKE  AND SWAM. THEY THEN         TH10600580
SUGGESTED, "LET US PLAY AT WRESTLING." THE BLACK BEARS AGREED, AND    TH10600590
THE TWO YOUNGEST COMMENCED FIRST. GRISLY BEAR, BEING GLUTTED, WAS     TH10600600
SOON PUT UNDER THE WATER BY BLACK BEAR AND DROWNED. THE OTHER         TH10600610
GRISLIES BECAME AFRAID; BUT THE ELDEST BLACK BEAR PULLED THE BODY     TH10600620
TO THE BANK, AND SAID, "YOUR BROTHER IS ALL RIGHT. HE WILL REVIVE     TH10600630
VERY SOON. LET US CONTINUE OUR PLAY." THE NEXT TWO THEN HAD A         TH10600640
CONTEST, RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF GRISLY BEAR, AS BEFORE; AND THEN   TH10600650
THE OTHERS WRESTLED, WITH THE SAME RESULT. THE BLACK BEARS THEN       TH10600660
TOOK THE BODIES OF THE GRISLY BEARS TO THE HOUSE, STUCK THE           TH10600670
YOUNGEST ONE ON A STICK TO ROAST, AND LAID THE OTHERS IN THE PLACE    TH10600680
WHERE THE BLACK BEARS THEMSELVES GENERALLY LAY, COVERING THEM OVER    TH10600690
WITH ROTTEN WOOD AND ANT-HILLS. THEY THEN WENT AS FAST AS POSSIBLE    TH10600700
ALONG THE TRAIL  TO THE RIVER.                                        TH10600710
     THE MOTHER GRISLY BEAR CAME HOME AFTER DARK, AND, BEING          TH10600720
HUNGRY, AT ONCE BEGAN TO EAT THE SMALL BEAR ON THE SPIT, AND WAS      TH10600730
THUS ENGAGED WHEN MEADOW LARK CRIED OUT FROM THE TOP OF THE           TH10600740
SMOKE-HOLE, "YOU ARE EATING YOUR OWN CHILD]" SHE THEN LOOKED, AND     TH10600750
RECOGNIZED IT BY THE CLAWS. SHE FLEW INTO A RAGE, RAN TO WHERE THE    TH10600760
BLACK BEARS SLEPT, TO KILL THEM, BUT FOUND THERE HER OWN CHILDREN     TH10600770
DEAD. SHE THEN STARTED ON THE TRAIL OF THE BLACK BEARS, SO AS TO      TH10600780
OVERTAKE THEM BEFORE THEY REACHED THE RIVER; BUT THE COMMON MARMOT    TH10600790
WHO LIVED IN A HOUSE NEAR THE TRAIL, DETAINED HER BY INVITING HER     TH10600800
TO EAT AND BY TALKING TO HER. HE DID THIS SO THAT THE YOUNG BLACK     TH10600810
BEARS SHOULD HAVE MORE TIME. HE ASKED HER WHY SHE WAS IN SUCH A       TH10600820
HURRY; AND, AS SHE DID NOT LIKE TO CONFESS HER ERRAND, SHE ANSWERED   TH10600830
THAT SHE WAS IN NO HURRY, AND STOPPED WITH HIM FOR A WHILE. WHEN      TH10600840
SHE GOT OUT OF HIS SIGHT, SHE REDOUBLED HER SPEED, AND OVERTOOK THE   TH10600850
YOUNG BLACK BEARS A LITTLE DISTANCE FROM THE RIVER. THEY SAW HER      TH10600860
COMING, AND RAN UP A TREE. THE GRISLY BEAR CAME TO THE FOOT OF THE    TH10600870
TREE, AND SAID TO THEM, "YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER HAVE COME BACK, AND   TH10600880
HAVE SENT ME TO BRING YOU HOME. COME DOWN AT ONCE, AS I AM ANXIOUS    TH10600890
TO RETURN]" BUT THE ELDEST BLACK BEAR TOLD HER SHE LIED, AND          TH10600900
ADVISED THE OTHERS NOT TO GO DOWN. THEN THE GRISLY BEAR BECAME        TH10600910
ANGRY, AND SAID SHE WOULD KILL THEM, AND BEGAN AT ONCE TO BITE THE    TH10600920
TREE AT THE BUTT, IN ORDER TO MAKE IT FALL.  WHEN THE TREE WAS        TH10600930
NEARLY FALLING, THE ELDEST BLACK BEAR SAID, "WE WILL DROP THE         TH10600940
YOUNGEST ONE DOWN TO YOU. OPEN YOUR MOUTH WIDE." THEN, GRISLY BEAR    TH10600950
LEANED BACK AND OPENED HER MOUTH, AND HE THREW DOWN INTO HER FACE     TH10600960
ROTTEN WOOD MIXED WITH ANTS, CHOKING AND BLINDING HER.                TH10600970
     THE FOUR BROTHERS FORTHWITH DESCENDED, AND RAN FOR THE RIVER.    TH10600980
ON ARRIVING AT THE CROSSING, THEY SAW THEIR GRANDFATHER, S'QONE'QA    TH10600990
(AN OLD MAN WHO MADE CANOES), PATCHING HIS CANOE. HE CAME ACROSS      TH10601000
TO FETCH THEM, AND LANDED THEM SAFELY ON THE OTHER SIDE. THEY TOLD    TH10601010
HIM THEIR STORY, AND SAID, "GRISLY BEAR WILL BE HERE IN A LITTLE      TH10601020
WHILE." AS EXPECTED, GRISLY BEAR CAME, AND CALLED ON S'QONE'QA TO     TH10601030
TAKE HER OVER. HE TOOK HER INTO HIS CANOE, AND TOLD HER TO SIT        TH10601040
DOWN ON AN UNPATCHED HOLE, SO AS TO KEEP THE WATER FROM COMING IN.    TH10601050
THEY TOOK A LONG TIME TO CROSS; AND THE SMALL FISHES, ONE AFTER       TH10601060
ANOTHER, BEGAN TO NIBBLE AT GRISLY BEAR THROUGH THIS HOLE, BITING     TH10601070
OFF SMALL PIECES OF HER BUTTOCKS. WHEN SHE WOULD JUMP UP, THE         TH10601080
CANOE WOULD FILL WITH WATER; SO S'QONE'QA WOULD TELL HER TO SIT       TH10601090
DOWN AGAIN, OR THEY WOULD DROWN. THEN THE LARGER FISHES, ONE AFTER    TH10601100
ANOTHER, BIT HER AND TORE OFF BIG PIECES OF HER FLESH; AND AT LAST    TH10601110
THE STURGEON CAME ALONG AND TOOK THE LAST BITE, PULLING OUT HER       TH10601120
ENTRAILS. THE RESULT WAS, THAT WHEN SHE LANDED, SHE FELL DOWN DEAD.   TH10601130
     THEN THE YOUNG BLACK BEAR BROTHERS, WHO WERE ALSO CALLED         TH10601140
QWA'TQWALT OR QWA'QTKWAL  BECAME ENDOWED WITH MAGIC, AND TRAVELLED    TH10601150
UP THE THOMPSON RIVER. THEY CARRIED THEIR YOUNGEST BROTHER ON THEIR   TH10601160
BACKS; GENERALLY THE ONE NEXT IN AGE TO HIMSELF CARRIED HIM.          TH10601170
     THEY HAD NOT GONE FAR WHEN THEY SAW A WOMAN WHO HAD ROASTED A    TH10601180
HARE OR RABBIT (SKUQII'TC, LEPUS AMERICANUS), AND WAS CALLING OUT,    TH10601190
"WHO WILL EAT OF MY ROAST." THEY TOOK HER ROAST FROM HER, AND         TH10601200
TRANSFORMED HER.                                                      TH10601210
     SOME DISTANCE ABOVE THEY SAW ANOTHER WOMAN, WHO WAS CRYING       TH10601220
OUT, "WHO WILL COPULATE WITH ME?" THE ELDEST BROTHER, AFTER PUTTING   TH10601230
A LEAF IN HIS MOUTH, WHICH HE CHEWED, WENT TO COPULATE WITH HER.      TH10601240
HE SAW MANY HUMAN BONES ALL AROUND WHERE SHE SAT. EVERY MAN WHO       TH10601250
HAD CONNECTION WITH HER HAD DIED, BECAUSE HER PRIVATES CONSISTED      TH10601260
OF RATTLESNAKE.  HE SPAT OUT THE LEAF HE HAD CHEWED ON HER PRIVATES,  TH10601270
AND TRANSFORMED HER,  SAYING, "WOMEN SHALL NOT HENCEFORTH KILL MEN    TH10601280
WHEN THEY HAVE CONNECTION WITH THEM."                                 TH10601290
     WHEN THEY REACHED MUD-SLIDE, A PLACE ABOUT FOUR MILES BELOW      TH10601300
SPENCES BRIDGE, THEY SAW A CANNIBAL SPEARING FISH.  HE WAS STANDING   TH10601310
ON THE TOP OF THE CLIFF ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE RIVER. THE        TH10601320
YOUNGEST BROTHER SAID, "I WILL PLAY A TRICK ON THAT FELLOW]" SO HE    TH10601330
CHANGED HIMSELF INTO A FISH, AND APPEARED IN THE WATER AT THE PLACE   TH10601340
WHERE THE CANNIBAL WAS STANDING. THE LATTER SPEARED HIM; BUT WHEN     TH10601350
HE DID SO, THE BROTHER BROKE THE LINE WHICH CONNECTED THE SPEAR-HEAD  TH10601360
WITH THE HANDLE, AND DISAPPEARED WITH THE SPEAR-HEAD.                 TH10601370
     THE CANNIBAL WAS VERY MUCH GRIEVED AT THE LOSS OF HIS            TH10601380
SPEAR-HEAD, FOR IT WAS MADE OF COPPER; THEREFORE HE WENT HOME AND     TH10601390
LAY DOWN IN A SULKY FIT. PRESENTLY THE FOUR BROTHERS CAME ALONG,      TH10601400
AND, AFTER GREETING THE CANNIBAL'S WIFE, SHOWED HER THE SPEAR-HEAD.   TH10601410
SHE RECOGNIZED IT, AND TOLD HER HUSBAND, WHO WAS OVERJOYED AT THE     TH10601420
THOUGHT OF GETTING BACK HIS SPEAR-HEAD AGAIN. HE ORDERED HIS WIFE     TH10601430
TO COOK A MEAL FOR THEM. SHE DID SO, AND, WHEN READY, SET BEFORE      TH10601440
THEM A VERY SMALL BASKET FULL OF NQA'UX, GIVING THEM VERY LARGE       TH10601450
SPOONS OF MOUNTAIN-SHEEP-HORN TO SUP WITH. THEY LAUGHED, AND          TH10601460
THOUGHT TO FINISH THE FOOD AT ONE SPOONFUL, BUT WERE SURPRISED TO     TH10601470
FIND THEMSELVES SATISFIED AND THE FOOD APPARENTLY UNDIMINISHED.       TH10601480
THE CANNIBAL THEN SAT DOWN AND FINISHED IT AT ONE MOUTHFUL.           TH10601490
     THEY THEN LEFT; AND ABOVE THIS PLACE THEY CROSSED THE RIVER IN   TH10601500
A CANOE MADE OF HORSE-TAIL (LU'XEN), AND CAMPED ON A SMALL ISLAND     TH10601510
UNDERNEATH THE MOUNTAIN CALLED CA'NEXANENEMAX.  THEY LIGHTED A        TH10601520
FIRE, AND AN ALTERCATION ENSUED BETWEEN THEM AS TO WHICH OF THE       TH10601530
FOUR WAS GREATEST IN MAGIC.  AFTER SOME CONTESTS, THE YOUNGEST        TH10601540
PROVED HIMSELF THE STRONGEST OF THE FOUR; SO THE OTHERS, IN REVENGE   TH10601550
FOR THEIR DEFEAT, THREW THEIR YOUNGEST BROTHER'S HEAD-BAND INTO THE   TH10601560
FIRE WHEN HE WAS ASLEEP. THE FIRE DID NOT HARM IT, HOWEVER; AND       TH10601570
WHEN HE AWOKE IN THE MORNING, HE BACAME WROTH WITH HIS BROTHERS FOR   TH10601580
THE TRICK THEY HAD SERVED HIM. SO HE CAUSED A FLOOD; AND AS THE       TH10601590
WATER OF THE RIVER ROSE RAPIDLY, HIS BROTHERS BECAME AFRAID, AND      TH10601600
SOUGHT REFUGE ON THE HIGH MOUNTAIN NEAR BY. AS THE WATERS GAINED      TH10601610
ON THEM, THEY MADE THE MOUNTAIN FOUR TIMES HIGHER; BUT STILL THE      TH10601620
WATERS ROSE, AND EVENTUALLY REACHED THE TOP, SO THAT THEY WERE IN     TH10601630
DANGER OF DROWNING. THEN THEY CALLED ON THEIR BROTHER TO HAVE MERCY   TH10601640
ON THEM; AND HE STOPPED THE FLOOD, WHICH GRADUALLY RECEDED UNTIL      TH10601650
THE WATERS REACHED THEIR NORMAL LEVEL AGAIN.                          TH10601660
     NOW THEY CONTINUED THEIR JOURNEY; AND WHEN THEY HAD ARRIVED      TH10601670
SOME DISTANCE ABOVE SPENCES BRIDGE, THEY SAW AN UNDERGROUND LODGE     TH10601680
AND ENTERED IT. THEY FOUND IT OCCUPIED BY COYOTE, WHO WAS JUST IN     TH10601690
THE ACT OF CUTTING OPEN HIS WIFE'S BELLY TO DELIVER HER OF HER        TH10601700
CHILD.  THEY STOPPED HIM, AND ASKED HIM WHY HE THUS TREATED HIS       TH10601710
WIFE. HE SAID, "HOW CAN I DO OTHERWISE? IF I DO NOT TAKE THE CHILD    TH10601720
FROM THE WOMAN, IT WILL DIE AS WELL AS ITS MOTHER. I HAVE ALWAYS      TH10601730
DONE THUS." HE HAD BEEN DOING THIS TO HIS WIVES WHEN PREGNANT FROM    TH10601740
TIME IMMEMORIAL, THEREBY KILLING THEM, BUT REARING THEIR DAUGHTERS,   TH10601750
WHICH HE AFTERWARDS MARRIED, AND TREATED IN LIKE MANNER WHEN THEY     TH10601760
BECAME HEAVY WITH CHILD. THUS HE HAD HAD HIS DAUGHTERS AS WIVES FOR   TH10601770
MANY GENERATIONS. THE BLACK BEARS SAID, "WE WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO      TH10601780
DO." ONE OF THEM TOOK A STRING, AND, AFTER WETTING IT, ENTERED IT     TH10601790
THROUGH THE WOMAN'S PRIVATES AND ATTACHED IT TO THE CHILD. THEN       TH10601800
THE BROTHERS PULLED, BUT THE STRING BROKE. NEXT THEY TOOK A STRIP     TH10601810
OF BIRD-CHERRY BARK, AND AFTER SOFTENING IT IN WATER, ATTACHED IT     TH10601820
TO THE CHILD. WHEN THEY PULLED, THE CHILD CAME FORTH IN A NATURAL     TH10601830
MANNER. THEN THEY SAID, "WOMEN SHALL HENCEFORTH GIVE BIRTH TO THEIR   TH10601840
CHILDREN, AND NEVER REQUIRE TO HAVE THEM TAKEN OUT THROUGH THEIR      TH10601850
BELLIES."                                                             TH10601860
     CONTINUING THEIR TRAVELS UP THE RIVER, THE BROTHERS CAME TO      TH10601870
ANOTHER UNDERGROUND HOUSE, WHICH THEY ENTERED. THIS HOUSE WAS ALSO    TH10601880
INHABITED BY COYOTE,  WHO HAPPENED TO BE AWAY AT THE TIME, GATHERING  TH10601890
FIRE-WOOD. THE BROTHERS SAT DOWN INSIDE; BUT, AS THE WEATHER WAS      TH10601900
RATHER CHILLY, THEY PRESENTLY WISHED TO HAVE A FIRE. THEY LOOKED IN   TH10601910
VAIN FOR ANY FIRE-WOOD IN THE LODGE, BUT AT LAST DISCOVERED A PIECE   TH10601920
OF WOOD WITH A KNOT-HOLE IN IT, WHICH WAS COVERED OVER WITH A LOT     TH10601930
OF ROBES. THEY SPLIT IT UP AND MADE A FIRE WITH IT. THIS PIECE OF     TH10601940
WOOD WAS COYOTE'S WIFE.                                               TH10601950
     NOW COYOTE REACHED THE TOP OF THE LADDER WITH A PACK OF          TH10601960
FIRE-WOOD. WHEN THE BROTHERS WERE AWARE OF HIS APPROACH, THEY HID     TH10601970
THEMSELVES. COYOTE CALLED OUT, "WIFE, I HAVE ARRIVED] HELP ME DOWN    TH10601980
WITH MY PACK OF FIRE-WOOD]" THEN CHANGING HIS VOICE, HE SAID,         TH10601990
"HUSBAND, I AM VERY COMFORTABLE HERE IN BED. I DO NOT CARE TO GET     TH10602000
UP." THEN HE SAID IN HIS NATURAL VOICE, "WIFE, DO COME AND TAKE       TH10602010
DOWN MY PACK OF WOOD;" AND AGAIN CHANGING HIS VOICE, HE ANSWERED      TH10602020
FOR HIS WIFE, SAYING, "I DO NOT CARE TO GET UP. LET YOUR PACK DROP    TH10602030
DOWN." NOW HE LET THE WOOD DROP DOWN, AND ENTERED THE LODGE           TH10602040
HIMSELF. IMMEDIATELY HE WENT UP TO THE BED WHERE THE HEAP OF ROBES    TH10602050
WERE TO HAVE CONNECTION WITH HIS WIFE, BUT FOUND THE PIECE OF WOOD    TH10602060
GONE. HE SEARCHED THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE, BUT, FAILING TO FIND IT, HE   TH10602070
SAT DOWN AND WEPT.                                                    TH10602080
     THE BROTHERS COULD NOT RESTRAIN THEMSELVES ANY LONGER, AND       TH10602090
LAUGHED FROM THEIR HIDING-PLACES. THEY SAID, "WE WILL GIVE YOU        TH10602100
BETTER WIVES THAN THE ONE YOU HAD." BORROWING AN ADZE, THEY WENT TO   TH10602110
A BLUFF OF TREES NEAR BY, AND, CUTTING A SHORT PIECE OF ALDER         TH10602120
(KWIE'LP)  AND A LONGER PIECE OF COTTONWOOD (OLOLTCE'TCELP)  THEY     TH10602130
FASHIONED THEM INTO THE SHAPE OF WOMEN, AND MADE THEM ALIVE. THEN     TH10602140
THEY REPAIRED TO COYOTE'S HOUSE AND SAID TO HIM, "YOUR WIVES WILL     TH10602150
BE HERE PRESENTLY." BEFORE LONG THE SHORT WOMAN, WHO WAS OF ALDER,    TH10602160
ENTERED THE HOUSE WITHOUT SPEAKING, AND CLOSELY FOLLOWING HER CAME    TH10602170
THE TALL WOMAN OF COTTONWOOD, WHO SAID, "ALA'"  AS SHE REACHED THE    TH10602180
TOP OF THE LADDER. THE ALDER WOMAN WAS OF THE LOWER FRASER TRIBES,    TH10602190
AND THE COTTONWOOD WOMAN OF THE UPPER THOMPSON TRIBE, AND THEY        TH10602200
BECAME COYOTE'S WIVES.  THE BLACK BEARS THEN SAID, "HENCEFORTH MEN    TH10602210
SHALL WOMEN FOR WIVES, AND NOT KNOT-HOLES; AND THEIR OFFSPRING MUST   TH10602220
MARRY ONE ANOTHER, SO THE COUNTRY MAY BE PEOPLED."                    TH10602230
     CONTINUING THEIR JOURNEY, THE BROTHERS CAME TO THE ARROW         TH10602240
COUNTRY BEYOND SPENCES BRIDGE, AND THERE THE YOUNGEST ONE CHANGED     TH10602250
HIMSELF INTO A DOG, WITH ARROW-POINTS FOR HAIR,  AND AN ARROW-HEAD    TH10602260
OF GREAT SHARPNESS FOR A TONGUE; AND THE OTHER BROTHERS MADE BOWS     TH10602270
AND ARROWS WITH STONE POINTS. THE YOUNGEST SAID, "SHORTLY WE SHALL    TH10602280
COME TO A PEOPLE  WHO WILL FIGHT US," AND HE ADVISED THE OTHERS       TH10602290
HOW TO ACT.                                                           TH10602300
     SOON THEY ARRIVED AT A GROUP OF SEVERAL LARGE UNDERGROUND        TH10602310
HOUSES INHABITED BY MANY PEOPLE. HERE THEY WERE TREATED KINDLY,       TH10602320
AND MUCH FOOD WAS PLACED BEFORE THEM AND THEIR DOG. AT NIGHT THE      TH10602330
PEOPLE MADE EACH OF THE BROTHERS SLEEP IN A DIFFERENT HOUSE, AND      TH10602340
CAUSED MANY YOUNG WOMEN TO PLAY AND SLEEP WITH THEM; SO THAT THEY     TH10602350
BECAME TIRED OUT, AND EVENTUALLY FELL INTO A VERY DEEP SLEEP. WHEN    TH10602360
THEY WERE SOUND ASLEEP, THE PEOPLE TOOK THE BROTHERS' ARROWS AND      TH10602370
CHANGED THE STONE POINTS, PUTTING NEEDLES OF THE YELLOW PINE          TH10602380
(S'A'TKELP, PINUS PONDEROSA)  IN THEIR PLACES.                        TH10602390
     NEXT MORNING THE BROTHERS LEFT THE DOG TIED UP NEAR ONE OF THE   TH10602400
HOUSES, AND WENT OUT  WALKING OVER A PRAIRIE NEAR THE VILLAGE. WHEN   TH10602410
THEY HAD PASSED OVER THE PRAIRIE AND WERE ABOUT TO ENTER A FOREST,    TH10602420
THEY WERE AMBUSHED BY A NUMBER OF MEN CONCEALED IN THE WOODS, AND     TH10602430
THE ELDER BROTHERS WERE SHOT. THE OTHER BROTHER, FINDING HIS ARROWS   TH10602440
USELESS, RAN BACK TOWARDS THE VILLAGE, WHERE THE PEOPLE WERE ALL      TH10602450
GATHERED AROUND AND ON THE TOPS OF THE HOUSES, WATCHING THE FIGHT.    TH10602460
     NOW, THE BROTHER WHO WAS RUNNING WAS LOVED BY A GIRL OF THE      TH10602470
VILLAGE, AND HE KNEW SHE LOVED HIM; SO HE CRIED OUT TO HER TO LET     TH10602480
THE DOG LOOSE. SHE TURNED THE DOG LOOSE, AND AT ONCE HE RAN AROUND,   TH10602490
THROUGH AND OVER EACH HOUSE; AND THE PEOPLE, WHO WERE STANDING        TH10602500
THICKLY, WERE ALL KILLED. THEN HE ATTACKED THE WARRIORS WHO WERE      TH10602510
PURSUING HIS BROTHER, AND KILLED THEM ALL. EVERY ONE WHO WAS BITTEN   TH10602520
BY THE DOG OR STABBED WITH HIS TONGUE, AND ALL THOSE WHO WERE         TH10602530
TOUCHED OR CUT BY HIS HAIR, DIED. THEN THEY REVIVED THEIR TWO         TH10602540
ELDER BROTHERS WHO HAD BEEN KILLED, AND TOGETHER THEY JOURNEYED TO    TH10602550
THE UPPER WORLD. WHILE TRAVELLING  THERE AMONG THE STARS, THEY SAW    TH10602560
A GRISLY BEAR, AND GAVE CHASE TO HIM; BUT THE ELDEST BROTHER BECAME   TH10602570
AFRAID AS THEY NEARED THE BEAR, AND HUNG BACK,  SAYING, "I WISH TO    TH10602580
DEFECATE." THEN THEY CHANGED THEMSELVES INTO STARS, SAYING, "WE       TH10602590
WILL BE SEEN BY ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS, WHO WILL TELL OUR STORY."     TH10602600
HENCE THE ONE GRISLY BEAR, FOLLOWED BY THE THREE BLACK BEAR HUNTERS   TH10602610
AND THE DOG, IN THE GROUP OF STARS CALLED THE "GRISLY BEAR."          TH10602620
***THO-163***
          CHILD-OF-HOG-FENNEL   (KOKWE'LAHA'IT)     (LOWER UTA'MQT)   TH10700010
     THERE ONCE LIVED A MAIDEN IN SOME PLACE IN THE UPPER COUNTRY     TH10700020
WHO WENT OUT TO DIG HOG-FENNEL ROOTS (PEUCEDANUM MACROCARPUM NUTT.)   TH10700030
WHILE DIGGING, SHE TOOK A FANCY TO A VERY LARGE THICK ROOT,           TH10700040
COHABITED WITH IT, AND AS A RESULT BECAME PREGNANT. FEELING ASHAMED   TH10700050
OF HER CONDITION, SHE LEFT THE PEOPLE AND ERECTED A LODGE SOME        TH10700060
DISTANCE AWAY, IN WHICH SHE LIVED. IN DUE COURSE SHE GAVE BIRTH TO    TH10700070
A SON, WHO, WHEN HE BECAME OLD ENOUGH TO USE BOW AND ARROWS, ASKED    TH10700080
HIS MOTHER WHO HIS FATHER WAS. HE SAID, "I NEVER SEE MY FATHER,       TH10700090
AND HE NEVER COMES HOME." SHE TOLD HIM THAT HIS FATHER FELL IN THE    TH10600100
ROCKS MANY YEARS AGO AND WAS KILLED. THEN HE SAID, "I WILL HAVE       TH10700110
REVENGE ON THE ROCKS FOR KILLING MY FATHER." SO HE WENT TO THE        TH10700120
PRECIPICE AND ASKED IT WHY IT SLEW HIS FATHER; BUT THE PRECIPICE      TH10700130
ANSWERED, "YOUR MOTHER HAS TOLD YOU A LIE. I NEVER SAW YOUR FATHER."  TH10700140
HE RETURNED HOME AND TOLD HIS MOTHER WHAT THE CLIFF HAD SAID: SO      TH10700150
SHE TOLD HIM THAT HIS FATHER FELL FROM A TREE MANY YEARS AGO AND      TH10700160
WAS KILLED. HE SAID, "I WILL HAVE REVENGE ON THE TREES." SO HE        TH10700170
TOOK HIS BOW AND ARROWS AND WENT TO INTERROGATE THE TREE; BUT THE     TH10700180
LATTER ANSWERED, "I KNOW NOTHING OF YOUR FATHER. YOUR MOTHER MUST     TH10700190
HAVE TOLD YOU A LIE." RETURNING, HE TOLD HIS MOTHER WHAT THE TREE     TH10700200
HAD SAID. THEN SHE TOLD HIM THAT HIS FATHER HAD BEEN DROWNED IN       TH10700210
THE RIVER. HE SAID, "THEN I WILL HAVE REVENGE ON THE WATER." TAKING   TH10700220
HIS BOW AND ARROWS, HE WENT TO KILL THE WATER FOR MURDERING HIS       TH10700230
FATHER; BUT THE WATER SAID TO HIM, "THOSE WHOM I KILL I KNOW, BUT     TH10700240
YOUR FATHER I NEVER SAW. YOUR MOTHER HAS TOLD YOU A LIE." RETURNING   TH10700250
HOME, HE TOLD HIS MOTHER WHAT THE WATER HAD SAID, AND WAS VERY        TH10700260
ANGRY AT HER FOR TELLING HIM LIES, BUT SHE WAS ASHAMED TO TELL HIM    TH10700270
THE TRUTH.                                                            TH10700280
     HE LEFT HIS MOTHER AND TRAVELLED OVER THE COUNTRY. WHEREVER HE   TH10700290
WENT, THE HOG-FENNEL PLANTS SHOOK THEIR LEAVES WITH GLADNESS; AND     TH10700300
WHEN HE TROD NEAR THEM, THEY EMBRACED HIS LEGS. AS HE WAS JUMPING     TH10700310
OVER A STREAM, BULLHEAD CATFISH (TSENA'TZ) SAW HIM, AND CRIED OUT,    TH10700320
"NKOKWE'LAHA'IT]" HE TURNED BACK THREE TIMES TO LOOK FOR THE PERSON   TH10700330
WHO HAD CALLED HIM NAMES. ON SEARCHING THE FOURTH TIME, HE FOUND      TH10700340
HIM, AND WAS GOING TO KILL HIM, BUT, CHANGING HIS MIND, HE            TH10700350
TRANSFORMED HIM INTO THE BULL-HEAD CATFISH AND THREW HIM INTO THE     TH10700360
WATER, SAYING, "YOU SHALL BE THE CATFISH, AND SHALL NEVER AGAIN       TH10700370
CALL PEOPLE NAMES."                                                   TH10700380
     NOW HE THOUGHT HE KNEW WHO HIS FATHER WAS, AND, RETURNING TO     TH10700390
HIS MOTHER, HE ASKED HER IF THE HOG-FENNEL ROOT WAS HIS FATHER.       TH10700400
SHE ACKNOWLEDGED HAVING HAD INTERCOURSE WITH THE HOG-FENNEL ROOT,     TH10700410
AND TOLD HIM THAT IT WAS HIS FATHER. THEN HE KILLED HER,  AND         TH10700420
SAID, "HENCEFORTH WOMEN SHALL NOT HAVE INTERCOURSE OR BE MADE         TH10700430
PREGNANT BY ROOTS."                                                   TH10700440
     NOW, CHILD-OF-HOG-FENNEL TRAVELLED OVER THE COUNTRY AGAIN, AND   TH10700450
DID MANY WONDERFUL THINGS. HE TRAVELLED AS FAR DOWN AS THE UPPER      TH10700460
BORDERS OF THE UTA'MQT COUNTRY, WHENCE HE TURNED BACK. AT LAST HE     TH10700470
CAME TO A LARGE RIVER, WHERE VERY MANY PEOPLE LIVED. HE STAID WITH    TH10700480
THESE PEOPLE FOUR NIGHTS, AND EACH MORNING ON AWAKING FOUND HIS       TH10700490
BELLY WET. HE TOLD THE PEOPLE,  WHO ASSEMBLED ALL THE WOMEN, AND      TH10700500
ASKED WHICH OF THEM HAD SLEPT WITH THE STRANGER. THEY ALL DENIED      TH10700510
HAVING HAD ANY INTERCOURSE WITH HIM. IT WAS NOTICED THAT FROG WAS     TH10700520
ABSENT. PRESENTLY SHE CAME IN, AND THEY ASKED HER THE SAME QUESTION.  TH10700530
SHE ANSWERED, "YES, I VISITED HIM, AND I WISH TO MARRY HIM." THE      TH10700540
PEOPLE SAID, "NO, WE CANNOT ALLOW YOU TO BECOME THE WIFE OF SO        TH10700550
GREAT A MAN. HE MUST HAVE A BETTER AND A PRETTIER WIFE THAN YOU."     TH10700560
THEN ALL THE PEOPLE CROSSED THE RIVER, DESERTING FROG. THEY GAVE      TH10700570
THE FINEST YOUNG WOMAN OF ALL THE PEOPLE TO BE THE WIFE OF            TH10700580
CHILD-OF-HOG-FENNEL. NEXT NIGHT, WHEN CHILD-OF-HOG-FENNEL WAS         TH10700590
SLEEPING WITH HIS BRIDE, FROG GATHERED HERSELF UP,  AND, JUMPING      TH10700600
ACROSS THE RIVER AT ONE BOUND, ALIGHTED ON CHILD-OF-HOG-FENNEL'S      TH10700610
FACE. FROG STUCK THERE,  AND THE PEOPLE TRIED IN VAIN TO GET HER      TH10700620
OFF, ALTHOUGH THEY PULLED AND SCRAPED VERY HARD. THUS                 TH10700630
CHILD-OF-HOG-FENNEL, WHO HAD BEEN A VERY HANDSOME MAN, BECAME         TH10700640
DISFIGURED FOR LIFE.                                                  TH10700650
     SOME TIME AFTER THIS THE PEOPLE WISHED TO MAKE A MOON, FOR       TH10700660
HITHERTO THERE HAD BEEN NO MOON, AND THEY THOUGHT THEY WOULD HAVE     TH10700670
A LIGHT AT NIGHT SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO THE SUN. THEY ASKED COYOTE TO    TH10700680
BE THE MOON, AND HE CONSENTED. THE FIRST NIGHT HE AROSE IN THE        TH10700690
EVENING; AND AS HE PASSED OVERHEAD, EACH TIME THAT HE SAW A MARRIED   TH10700700
COUPLE HAVING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE, HE CRIED OUT, "HA] YOU ARE IN THE   TH10700710
ACT OF HAVING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE]" ("UA'XEP LIP KATIX]") THE PEOPLE   TH10700720
WERE DISPLEASED AT HIS THUS TAKING NOTICE OF THEIR ACTIONS, AND       TH10700730
ASKED CHILD-OF-HOG-FENNEL TO TAKE HIS PLACE. HE ASSENTED TO THEIR     TH10700740
PROPOSAL AND BECAME THE MOON. HE CONDUCTED HIMSELF PROPERLY AND       TH10700750
DID HIS WORK WELL, THEREFORE THE PEOPLE AGREED THAT HE SHOULD ALWAYS  TH10700760
BE THE MOON; AND THUS HE CONTINUES TO BE AT THE PRESENT DAY. THE      TH10700770
FROG MAY STILL BE SEEN AS DARK SPOTS ON HIS FACE.                     TH10700780
***THO-164***
          THE TRANSFORMER    (LOWER UTA'MQT)                          TH10800010
     A MAN CAME UP THE FRASER RIVER FROM THE LOWER PART OF THE        TH10800020
S'A'TCINKO COUNTRY. HE WAS KNOWN AS A TRANSFORMER, AND VISITED ALL    TH10800030
PARTS OF THE VALLEY WHERE PEOPLE RESIDED. THOSE PEOPLE WHO WERE       TH10800040
BAD, AND DID NOT PRAY, HE CHANGED INTO STONES, BIRDS, AND ANIMALS.    TH10800050
WHEN THE PEOPLE HEARD THAT HE WAS COMING, THEY BEGAN TO PRAY          TH10800060
DILIGENTLY, AND GATHERED TOGETHER FOR THE PURPOSE OF HOLDING          TH10800070
RELIGIOUS DANCES. THEY ADDRESSED THE TRANSFORMER HIMSELF IN THEIR     TH10800080
PRAYERS AND DANCES.                                                   TH10800090
     ONE MAN WHO WAS ENGAGED MAKING A CANOE WOULD NOT PRAY. HE        TH10800100
SAID, "I HAVE NO TIME TO PRAY, I AM TOO BUSY;" SO HE KEPT ON          TH10800110
WORKING AT HIS CANOE. HE WAS BUSILY ENGAGED AT HIS WORK ONE DAY       TH10800120
WHEN THE TRANSFORMER APPEARED TO HIM, BUT THE CANOE-MAKER DID NOT     TH10800130
KNOW WHO HE WAS. THE FORMER SAID, "MY FRIEND, I SEE YOU ARE BUSY.     TH10800140
WHERE ARE THE REST OF THE PEOPLE?" THE CANOE-MAKER ANSWERED, "OH,     TH10800150
THEY ARE ALL OVER THERE, PRAYING. THEY EXPECT A MAN FROM BELOW OF     TH10800160
WHOM THEY ARE AFRAID. I DON'T BELIEVE SUCH THINGS MYSELF, AND HAVE    TH10800170
GOT NO TIME TO PRAY, BECAUSE I WANT TO FINISH MY CANOE." THE          TH10800180
TRANSFORMER SAID, "YOU HAVE GOT A NICE ADZE. LET ME SEE IT]" SO THE   TH10800190
CANOE-MAKER HANDED IT TO HIM. THEN HE PUSHED IT AGAINST THE MAN'S     TH10800200
NOSE, AND AT ONCE HE WAS CHANGED INTO A WOODPECKER, AND FLEW UP       TH10800210
INTO A TREE, WHICH HE BEGAN TO STRIKE WITH HIS BEAK, AS HE HAD        TH10800220
PREVIOUSLY DONE TO THE CANOE WITH HIS ADZE.                           TH10800230
     HE PASSED BY THE PEOPLE HE SAW PRAYING, AND PROCEEDED TO THE     TH10800240
NEXT BAND UP THE RIVER. HERE HE CAME UPON A MAN WHO WAS ENGAGED IN    TH10800250
GRINDING TO A POINT A STONE ABOUT SIX INCHES LENGTH, PROBABLY A       TH10800260
STONE KNIFE OR DAGGER. HE ASKED THE MAN WHAT HE WAS DOING; AND THE    TH10800270
LATTER, NOT KNOWING HIM, ANSWERED, "I AM MAKING A WEAPON TO KILL      TH10800280
TRANSFORMER WITH WHEN HE APPEARS." TRANSFORMER SAID, "IT LOOKS VERY   TH10800290
NICE. LET ME SEE IT]" AFTER LOOKING AT IT, HE SAID, "YOU OUGHT TO     TH10800300
HAVE THIS ON YOUR HEAD." AT THE SAME TIME HE PUSHED IT AGAINST ONE    TH10800310
SIDE OF THE MAN'S HEAD, AND THE MAN BECAME TRANSFORMED INTO A DEER    TH10800320
WITH ANTLERS. THEN HE DROVE HIM AWAY, AND SAID TO HIM, "YOU SHALL     TH10800330
NEVER AGAIN MAKE WEAPONS TO KILL ANY PERSON WITH."                    TH10800340
     THE TRANSFORMER CONTINUED ON HIS WAY, AND, REACHING A POINT      TH10800350
ABOUT ONE MILE WEST OF YALE, HE SAW A MAN WITH A DOG CHASING AN ELK   TH10800360
ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE RIVER. THE ELK TOOK TO THE STREAM, AND HAD   TH10800370
ALMOST CROSSED TO THE NORTHERN BANK WHEN HE TRANSFORMED ALL THREE     TH10800380
INTO STONES, WHICH MAY BE SEEN TO THIS DAY. THE PLACE WHERE THIS      TH10800390
HAPPENED IS CALLED NTETLIXA'TKOUS STEXA'TS ("WHERE THE ELK STANDS     TH10800400
IN THE WATER"). WHEN HE ARRIVED NEAR THE BORDERS OF THE UTA'MQT       TH10800410
COUNTRY, AT THE CANYON KNOWN AS TSAXALI'S, HE SAW PEOPLE ON THE       TH10800420
OPPOSITE BANK OF THE RIVER WHO WERE CATCHING SALMON WITH THEIR        TH10800430
HANDS. IN PLACES WHERE THE ROCKS WERE HIGH, THEY SUSPENDED BOYS BY    TH10800440
HOLDING THEIR FEET. WHEN THE BOYS CAUGHT A FISH WITH THEIR HANDS,     TH10800450
THEY PULLED THE BOYS AND FISH UP TOGETHER. THEY DID NOT SEEM TO BE    TH10800460
ABLE TO CATCH MANY IN THIS MANNER. THE TRANSFORMER WAS SORRY FOR      TH10800470
THESE PEOPLE, AND SAID TO HIMSELF, "THEY HAVE NO FISHING-UTENSILS,    TH10800480
I WILL TRY TO HELP THEM." SO HE SAT DOWN AND BEGAN TO THINK. THERE    TH10800490
WAS A ROCK IN FRONT OF HIM, AND HE SCRATCHED IT WITH HIS              TH10800500
FINGER-NAILS. WITH EACH SCRATCH A THOUGHT CAME INTO THE HEADS OF      TH10800510
THE PEOPLE, AND THEY GAINED KNOWLEDGE. AFTER THE FIRST SCRATCH,       TH10800520
THEY SAID TO ONE ANOTHER, "LET US MAKE TWINE]" AFTER THE NEXT, THEY   TH10800530
SAID, "LET US MAKE NETS]" AND SO ON WITH EACH SCRATCH UNTIL THEY      TH10800540
HAD OBTAINED THE WHOLE KNOWLEDGE OF CATCHING AND CURING SALMON AS     TH10800550
THE INDIANS DO AT THE PRESENT DAY. AFTER THE PEOPLE HAD LEARNED       TH10800560
EVERYTHING, AND HAD BEGUN TO CATCH FISH IN THE PROPER WAY, HE         TH10800570
SHOWED THEM ALL THE BEST PLACES FOR THE PURPOSE; AND THE INDIANS      TH10800580
HAVE ALWAYS USED THESE FISHING-PLACES OR STATIONS SINCE THAT TIME.    TH10800590
     WHEN THE TRANSFORMER ARRIVED NEAR A PLACE A FEW MILES ABOVE      TH10800600
YALE, CALLED E'AM,  HE MET A MAN OF LARGE STATURE, WHOSE FEET SANK    TH10800610
IN THE ROCKS AS HE WALKED. HE CHANGED HIM INTO A STONE, WHICH MAY     TH10800620
BE SEEN A LITTLE EAST OF THAT PLACE. THIS MAN'S FOOT-PRINTS, AND      TH10800630
ALSO THE SCRATCHES IN THE ROCK WHICH THE TRANSFORMER MADE WHEN        TH10800640
TEACHING THE PEOPLE HOW TO FISH, MAY BE SEEN AT THE PRESENT DAY.      TH10800650
     SOME DISTANCE FARTHER UP THE RIVER, AT A PLACE CALLED            TH10800660
HUXTSI'XAMA, HE SAW A WOMAN WHO WAS IN THE ACT OF GIVING BIRTH TO     TH10800670
A CHILD. HE TURNED HER AND HER CHILD INTO STONE.                      TH10800680
     WHEN HE REACHED A PLACE ABOUT HALF A MILE BELOW SPUZZUM,         TH10800690
CALLED ZOLPI'PX ("LITTLE LEHA'L"), HE SAW SOME PEOPLE PLAYING         TH10800700
LEHA'L. ONE MAN, WHO HAD GAMBLED AWAY HIS DOG, WAS IN THE ACT OF      TH10800710
HOLDING HIS GAMBLING-BONE BEHIND HIS BACK, AND HAD HIS FACE TURNED    TH10800720
TOWARDS HIS TWO WIVES, WHO WERE SITTING NEAR BY, WHEN THE             TH10800730
TRANSFORMER TURNED THEM ALL INTO STONE.                               TH10800740
     AT SPUZZUM HE MET GOOD-MAN OR GREAT-CHIEF,  WHO WAS ON HIS WAY   TH10800750
DOWN THE RIVER. HE IT WAS WHO CREATED PEOPLE OR WHO MADE THEM GOOD.   TH10800760
IT IS NOT KNOWN WHAT BECAME OF EITHER OF THEM AFTER THEY MET; BUT     TH10800770
IT IS SUPPOSED THAT THE CHIEF WENT BACK TO THE INTERIOR, WHILE THE    TH10800780
TRANSFORMER WENT BACK TO THE MOUTH OF FRASER RIVER.                   TH10800790
***THO-165***
          THE GREAT CHIEF    (LOWER UTA'MQT)                          TH10900010
     A GREAT MAN OR CHIEF CAME FROM ABOVE.  HE WAS ENDOWED WITH       TH10900020
GREAT POWERS OF MAGIC, AND TRAVELLED THROUGH THE COUNTRY PUTTING      TH10900030
EVERYTHING RIGHT. AT EACH PLACE HE CAME TO HE DIVIDED THE PEOPLE,     TH10900040
SEPARATING THE GOOD FROM THE BAD. THE FORMER HE SCATTERED OVER THE    TH10900050
COUNTRY, LOCATING CERTAIN FAMILIES IN CERTAIN PLACES; AND THE         TH10900060
INDIANS ARE DESCENDED FROM THESE PEOPLE. HE LOCATED PEOPLE AS HE      TH10900070
WENT ALONG. THE BAD PEOPLE HE FOUND IN THE COUNTRY HE KILLED OR       TH10900080
TRANSFORMED INTO ANIMALS AND ROCKS.                                   TH10900090
     THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE WHO LIVED NEAR FORT YALE, AT A PLACE      TH10900100
CALLED XA'LIL. THEY HAD FOUR OR MORE LARGE SEATS OR BLOCKS SHAPED     TH10900110
LIKE TRUNKS, ON WHICH THEY USED TO SIT. HE TURNED THESE INTO STONES,  TH10900120
WHICH MAY BE SEEN THERE AT THE PRESENT DAY. THERE WAS ALSO AT THIS    TH10900130
PLACE A MAN OF VERY LARGE STATURE, WHOM HE TRANSFORMED INTO STONE,    TH10900140
AND HE MAY BE SEEN AT THE PRESENT DAY LYING ON HIS BACK. IF IT IS     TH10900150
HOT WEATHER, THE PEOPLE REPAIR TO THESE STONES AND RUB THEM, AND      TH10900160
IMMEDIATELY THE WEATHER TURNS CLOUDY; AND IF THE WEATHER IS RAINY,    TH10900170
THEY DO THE SAME THING, AND IT AT ONCE TURNS SUNNY.                   TH10900180
***THO-166***
          THE MOSQUITO AND THE THUNDER    (LOWER UTA'MQT)             TH11000010
     THEIR VERSION OF THE STORY IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS TALE 11,       TH11000020
"TRADITIONS OF THE THOMPSON RIVER INDIANS," PAGE 56.                  TH11000030
***THO-167***
          THE MOON AND HIS YOUNGER SISTER     (LOWER UTA'MQT)         TH11100010
     THEIR VERSION OF THIS STORY IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS TALE 36,      TH11100020
"TRADITIONS OF THE THOMPSON RIVER INDIANS," PAGE 91, THE ONLY         TH11100030
DIFFERENCE BEING THAT THE SISTER IS THE FROG, AND NOT THE HARE.       TH11100040
***THO-168***
          THE PEOPLE WHO NEVER SLEPT     (LOWER UTA'MQT)              TH11200010
     AT ONE TIME THE PEOPLE WHO INHABITED SOME UNDERGROUND LODGES     TH11200020
NEAR SPUZZUM NEVER SLEPT. THEY THOUGHT THAT SLEEP WAS DEATH; AND      TH11200030
WHEN A PERSON FELL ASLEEP, THINKING HE WAS DEAD, THEY AT ONCE TOOK    TH11200040
HIM OUTSIDE AND BURIED HIM. AT LAST A WOMAN  FROM ANOTHER PLACE       TH11200050
MARRIED ONE OF THESE PEOPLE, AND, SEEING WHAT THEY DID WITH THEIR     TH11200060
SLEEPING FRIENDS, SHE SAID TO THEM, "WHY DO YOU THUS KILL YOUR        TH11200070
FRIENDS? IF YOU LEAVE THEM UNTIL DAYLIGHT, THEY WILL COME TO LIFE     TH11200080
AGAIN. THEY ARE ONLY ASLEEP." THIS WAS TRIED, AND, BEING PROVED TO    TH11200090
BE TRUE, THE PEOPLE HENCEFORTH SLEPT AT NIGHT.                        TH11200100
***THO-169***
          BEAVER AND EAGLE; OR, THE ORIGIN OF FIRE     (UPPER AND     TH11300010
          LOWER UTA'MQT)                                              TH11300020
     IN THE BEGINNING THE PEOPLE WERE WITHOUT FIRE, AND HAD TO        TH11300030
DEPEND ALTOGETHER ON THE SUN FOR COOKING THEIR FOOD. AT THAT TIME     TH11300040
THE SUN WAS VERY MUCH HOTTER THAN IT IS NOW, AND PEOPLE WERE ABLE     TH11300050
TO COOK THEIR FOOD BY HOLDING IT UP TO THE SUN, OR BY SPREADING       TH11300060
IT UNDER THE SUN'S RAYS.  THIS, HOWEVER, WAS NOT SO GOOD AS FIRE;     TH11300070
AND BEAVER AND EAGLE DETERMINED THEY WOULD FIND OUT IF THERE WAS      TH11300080
ANY FIRE IN THE WORLD, AND OBTAIN IT, IF POSSIBLE, FOR THE PEOPLE.    TH11300090
THEY TRAINED THEMSELVES IN THE MOUNTAINS UNTIL THEY BECAME FULL       TH11300100
OF "MYSTERY," AND THROUGH THEIR MAGIC WERE ABLE TO LOOK OVER ALL      TH11300110
THE WORLD, EVEN TO ITS EDGES. THEY DISCOVERED THAT THERE WAS FIRE     TH11300120
IN A LODGE AT LYTTON, SO THEY LAID THEIR PLANS ACCORDINGLY. THEY      TH11300130
LEFT THEIR HOME AT THE MOUTH OF THE FRASER,  AND JOURNEYED UP THAT    TH11300140
RIVER UNTIL THEY ARRIVED AT LYTTON.                                   TH11300150
     (THE REST OF THIS STORY IS THE SAME  AS IN TALE 12,              TH11300160
"TRADITIONS OF THE THOMPSON RIVER INDIANS," PAGE 56.)                 TH11300170
***THO-170***
          BEAVER AND THE FROGS  (A FLOOD MYTH)    (LOWER UTA'MQT)     TH11400010
     NOT VERY FAR FROM BEAVER'S HOUSE WERE SITUATED, CLOSE            TH11400020
TOGETHER, THREE OTHER UNDERGROUND HOUSES.  THESE WERE INHABITED BY    TH11400030
THREE WOMEN -- BUSH-TAILED RAT, THE COMMON MOUSE, AND FROG -- AND     TH11400040
THEIR CHILDREN. BEAVER WISHED TO MARRY FROG'S DAUGHTER,  AND          TH11400050
VISITED HER HOUSE ONE DAY TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS WITH HER MOTHER;       TH11400060
BUT THE LATTER REJECTED HIM, AND CALLED HIM BY MANY NASTY NAMES,      TH11400070
SUCH AS "SHORT-BELLY," "BROAD-POSTERIOR," ETC. BEAVER WENT HOME       TH11400080
FEELING VERY ANGRY, AND PREPARED TO TAKE VENGEANCE ON FROG. HE        TH11400090
SAID TO RAT AND MOUSE, "LEAVE YOUR HOUSES AND MOVE BACK INTO THE      TH11400100
MOUNTAINS, FOR I INTEND TO HAVE REVENGE ON FROG." SOME TIME AFTER     TH11400110
THEY HAD GONE, HE WENT OUTSIDE AND SANG AND DANCED. THEN IT           TH11400120
COMMENCED TO RAIN, AND THE CREEKS AND RIVERS ROSE SO, THAT ALL THE    TH11400130
COUNTRY WAS FLOODED. FROG AND HER FAMILY WERE WASHED OUT OF THEIR     TH11400140
HOUSE, AND CARRIED AWAY BY THE STREAM. AS SHE DRIFTED PAST WHERE      TH11400150
BEAVER WAS SINGING, SHE IMPLORED HIM FOR HELP, AND ASKED HIM TO       TH11400160
BRING A CANOE TO HER; BUT HE ANSWERED, "GO INSIDE YOUR OWN            TH11400170
PRIVATES, AND USE THEM FOR A CANOE." THE FROGS WERE SCATTERED OVER    TH11400180
THE WHOLE EARTH; AND WHEN THE FLOOD RECEDED, THEY WERE LEFT HERE      TH11400190
AND THERE IN ALL THE LAKES THROUGHOUT THE MOUNTAINS. THIS IS THE      TH11400200
REASON THAT WE FIND FROGS IN ALL THE LAKES AND STREAMS AT THE         TH11400210
PRESENT DAY, EVEN ON HIGH MOUNTAINS.                                  TH11400220
***THO-171***
          THE BAD BOY; OR, THE SUN AND THE LAD   (LOWER UTA'MQT)      TH11500010
     ONCE THERE WAS A BOY WHO WAS NOTED FOR HIS BAD TEMPER. HE WAS    TH11500020
SO DISOBEDIENT AND EVIL-TEMPERED, THAT THE PEOPLE COULD DO NOTHING    TH11500030
WITH HIM; THEREFORE THEY PROPOSED TO DESERT HIM. WHILE HE WAS         TH11500040
AWAY IN A PATCH OF BUSHES PLAYING, THE PEOPLE PACKED UP THEIR         TH11500050
GOODS AND LEFT. UPON HIS RETURN, THE BOY FOUND THE HOUSES ALL         TH11500060
DESERTED, AND BEGAN TO SEARCH FOR THE PEOPLE. HE HEARD WHISTLING IN   TH11500070
THE WOODS ALL AROUND, AND, THINKING THE PEOPLE WERE HIDING, AND       TH11500080
PLAYING SOME JOKE ON HIM, HE HURRIED FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER        TH11500090
(WHEREVER HE HEARD A WHISTLE) UNTIL HE BECAME COMPLETELY WEARIED.     TH11500100
FOR THE PURPOSE OF MISLEADING THE BOY, IN CASE HE MIGHT OVERTAKE      TH11500110
THEM, THE PEOPLE, BEFORE LEAVING, HAD SPAT ON THE GROUND, BROKE       TH11500120
WIND, URINATED, AND DEFECATED ON THE GROUND IN DIFFERENT PLACES       TH11500130
ALL AROUND; AND THEIR SPITTLE, WIND, URINE, AND EXCREMENT HAD         TH11500140
WHISTLED UNTIL DRY, THUS MISLEADING THE BOY.                          TH11500150
     (THE REST OF THE STORY IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS TALE 7,            TH11500160
"TRADITIONS OF THE THOMPSON RIVER INDIANS," PAGE 51, EXCEPT THE       TH11500170
FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL. )                                               TH11500180
     THE FOUR BLANKETS WERE OF RAT-SKINS, MOUSE-SKINS,                TH11500190
BLUEJAY-SKINS, AND MAGPIE-SKINS RESPECTIVELY.                         TH11500200
     WHEN THE LAD GAVE SUN HIS BLANKETS, HE MADE HIM PROMISE TO BE    TH11500210
COOLER. BEFORE THAT, SUN WAS VERY HOT.                                TH11500220
***THO-172***
          THE WAR OF THE FISHES.   (UPPER AND LOWER UTA'MQT)          TH11600010
     FORMERLY THE INDIANS LIVED AT LYTTON, THE ANIMALS IN THE         TH11600020
NICOLA COUNTRY, AND THE FISHES IN THE UTA'MQT AND S'A'TCINKO          TH11600030
COUNTRIES.                                                            TH11600040
     A NUMBER OF SALMON WENT UP IN A CANOE TO VISIT THE PEOPLE OF     TH11600050
LYTTON. WHEN THEY WERE RETURNING, HUMPBACK-SALMON STOLE A GIRL        TH11600060
FROM THAT PLACE. NEXT YEAR THE FISHES SAID, "LET US CONDUCT HER       TH11600070
TO LYTTON;" SO THEY ALL ACCOMPANIED THE BRIDE AND HER HUSBAND ON      TH11600080
THEIR VISIT TO HER RELATIVES. MEANWHILE THE ANIMALS HAD HEARD OF      TH11600090
THE ARRIVAL OF THE FISHES AT LYTTON, SO MARTEN, FISHER, WOLVERENE,    TH11600100
LYNX, FOX, AND MANY OTHERS, WENT THERE WITH THE INTENTION OF          TH11600110
STEALING SALMON'S WIFE. THE FISHES TARRIED A LONG TIME AT LYTTON,     TH11600120
AND THE WOMAN GAVE BIRTH TO A SON THERE.                              TH11600130
     ONE NIGHT THE FISHES WERE PLAYING LEHAL WITH THE LYTTON          TH11600140
PEOPLE; AND SOME OF THE ANIMALS, STARTING A VERY LARGE FIRE, MADE     TH11600150
THE LODGE SO HOT, THAT THE WOMEN HAD TO GO OUTSIDE TO COOL            TH11600160
THEMSELVES. HUMPBACK-SALMON SAID, "DO NOT MAKE THE PLACE SO HOT,      TH11600170
YOUR SISTERS ARE SWEATING;" BUT THE ANIMALS PAID NO ATTENTION TO      TH11600180
WHAT HE SAID, AND PUT ON MORE WOOD. WHEN SALMON'S WIFE WENT           TH11600190
OUTSIDE, SHE WAS SEIZED BY SOME OF THE ANIMALS WHO WERE LYING IN      TH11600200
WAIT, AND CARRIED OFF BY THEM TO THE NICOLA COUNTRY. WHEN THE         TH11600210
FISHES DISCOVERED THAT THE WOMAN HAD BEEN STOLEN, THEY RETURNED       TH11600220
HOME, LEAVING HER CHILD AT LYTTON.                                    TH11600230
     NOW, THE FISHES DESIRED TO RECOVER THE WOMAN, THEREFORE THE      TH11600240
NEXT YEAR THEY ALL WENT ON A WAR-EXPEDITION AGAINST THE ANIMALS,      TH11600250
MOST OF WHOM LIVED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF NICOLA LAKE. WHEN THEY      TH11600260
REACHED THAT PLACE, THEY GAVE BATTLE TO THE ANIMALS, BUT WERE         TH11600270
SPEEDILY VANQUISHED AND PUT TO FLIGHT. MANY OF THEM WERE KILLED       TH11600280
ON THE SPOT, AND OTHERS WERE OVERTAKEN AND SLAIN BEFORE THEY          TH11600290
COULD GET OUT OF THE NICOLA VALLEY. THEIR BODIES WERE ALL THROWN      TH11600300
INTO THE LAKES AND STREAMS OF THAT COUNTRY. THIS IS SAID TO BE THE    TH11600310
REASON WHY MOST KINDS OF FISHES ARE FOUND IN THE STREAMS AND LAKES    TH11600320
IN NICOLA AT THE PRESENT DAY. THE ANIMALS CONTINUED THE PURSUIT       TH11600330
OF THEIR ENEMIES, AND OVERTOOK THE SOCKEYE OR RED SALMON AT THE       TH11600340
MOUTH OF THE NICOLA RIVER, WHERE THEY SLEW HIM, AND THREW HIS         TH11600350
BODY INTO THE THOMPSON RIVER. THIS, THEY SAY, IS WHY THE RED          TH11600360
SALMON RUNS UP THE THOMPSON RIVER, BUT SELDOM OR NEVER UP THE         TH11600370
NICOLA. THEY CONTINUED THE PURSUIT AS FAR AS THE MOUTH OF THE         TH11600380
THOMPSON AT LYTTON, WHERE THEY OVERTOOK AND KILLED STURGEON, AND      TH11600390
THREW HIS BODY INTO THE FRASER RIVER. THIS, THEY SAY, ACCOUNTS FOR    TH11600400
THE STURGEON FREQUENTING THE FRASER RIVER, AND NOT THE THOMPSON.      TH11600410
DOG-SALMON ALONE, OF ALL THE FISHES, ESCAPED, AND HE HAS EVER         TH11600420
SINCE BEEN AFRAID TO LEAVE THE LOWER COUNTRY.  THIS IS SAID TO BE     TH11600430
THE REASON WHY THE DOG-SALMON DOES NOT ASCEND THE FRASER RIVER        TH11600440
ABOVE THE CANYON. MOST OF THEM DO NOT EVEN ASCEND SO FAR AS THE       TH11600450
CANYON, BUT RUN IN THE RIVER BELOW HOPE AND YALE. IT IS SAID IT       TH11600460
IS AFRAID TO VENTURE BACK AGAIN TO THE UPPER COUNTRY FROM WHENCE      TH11600470
IT WAS CHASED.                                                        TH11600480
     WHEN HUMPBACK-SALMON'S SON GREW TO BE A MAN, HE LEFT LYTTON      TH11600490
AND WENT ON A VISIT TO HIS RELATIVES IN THE FISH COUNTRY. HERE HE     TH11600500
LEARNED THE FULL STORY OF THE SLAUGHTER OF HIS FATHER AND THE         TH11600510
OTHER FISHES, SO HE DETERMINED TO HAVE REVENGE AND TO RESCUE HIS      TH11600520
MOTHER. RETURNING TO LYTTON, HE PROCEEDED TO THE NICOLA COUNTRY,      TH11600530
WHERE HE FOUND HIS MOTHER AT NICOLA LAKE. SOME OF THE ANIMALS         TH11600540
TREATED HIM KINDLY ENOUGH; BUT OTHERS, ESPECIALLY BADGER, TALKED      TH11600550
VERY RUDELY TO HIM, AND TOLD HIM IF HE DID NOT LEAVE, THEY WOULD      TH11600560
KILL HIM. HE GOT ANGRY AT THIS TREATMENT, AND ONE DAY FOUGHT          TH11600570
WITH THE ANIMALS, KILLING BADGER, GRISLY BEAR, AND MANY OTHERS.       TH11600580
HE TOOK HIS MOTHER BACK TO LYTTON, WHERE THEY AFTERWARDS LIVED.       TH11600590
***THO-173***
          SWAMP-ROBIN     (LOWER UTA'MQT)                             TH11700010
     A NUMBER OF PEOPLE LIVED WITH THUMDER IN THE UPPER WORLD, OR     TH11700020
SKY LAND, ONE OF WHOM WAS SWAMP-ROBIN (S'XOYI'K). ONE DAY SHE SAID,   TH11700030
"I WISH TO SEE THE FACE OF MY STEP-MOTHER, THUNDER. WHY DON'T I       TH11700040
SEE IT? WHY DOES SHE WITHHOLD  HER FACE FROM ME?" NEXT DAY SHE        TH11700050
BROUGHT FIRE-WOOD FOR HER ELDER BROTHER.  IT WAS BRANCHES OF CEDAR    TH11700060
SHE BROUGHT; AND WHEN SHE PUT THEM ON THE FIRE AND THEY BURNED,       TH11700070
SPARKS FLEW AROUND. ONE OF THE SPARKS ALIGHTED ON THUNDER, WHO        TH11700080
TURNED HER FACE ROUND TOWARDS SWAMP-ROBIN, AND IMMEDIATELY            TH11700090
LIGHTNING FLASHED. WHEN SHE SAW THUNDER'S FACE AND HER LARGE          TH11700100
AQUILINE NOSE, SHE FAINTED. THEN THUNDER SAID, "DROP MY               TH11700110
STEP-DAUGHTER DOWN]" SO THE PEOPLE DROPPED HER DOWN ON THE EARTH;     TH11700120
AND THUNDER SAID TO HER, "YOU SHALL BE SWAMP-ROBIN. WHENEVER YOU      TH11700130
ARE THIRSTY, CRY LOUDLY,  AND I WILL SEND YOU RAIN TO QUENCH YOUR     TH11700140
THIRST; AND IF ANYONE MOCKS YOU, I WILL THUNDER AND LIGHTEN."         TH11700150
     SWAMP-ROBIN WANDERED AROUND, AND ONE DAY MET RAVEN, WHO ASKED    TH11700160
HER WHERE SHE CAME FROM. SHE ANSWERED, "I CAME FROM ABOVE. I AM       TH11700170
OF THUNDER'S FAMILY." RAVEN LAUGHED AT HER, AND SAID, "YOU CAME       TH11700180
FROM ABOVE] HOW COULD A THING LIKE YOU COME FROM ABOVE?" AND MADE     TH11700190
FUN OF HER. SWAMP-ROBIN WAS SORROWFUL AND WEPT BECAUSE RAVEN DID      TH11700200
NOT BELIEVE HER, BUT ONLY MOCKED HER. THEN IT THUNDERED AND           TH11700210
LIGHTENED, AND RAVEN WAS AFRAID AND BELIEVED WHAT SWAMP-ROBIN SAID.   TH11700220
***THO-174***
          SKUNK      (LOWER UTA'MQT)                                  TH11800010
     SKUNK PRETENDED TO BE SORROWFUL, AND WEPT. HE SAID TO HIS        TH11800020
WIFE, "I AM SORROWFUL. COOK MUCH NQA'UX, ROOTS, AND FISH, THAT MY     TH11800030
GUESTS MAY HAVE PLENTY TO EAT." THEN HE ASKED ALL THE PEOPLE TO       TH11800040
COME AND SEE HIM, AND ALL HIS YOUNGER BROTHERS THE ANIMALS REPAIRED   TH11800050
TO HIS HOUSE. GRISLY BEAR, FISHER, MARTEN, WOLF, WOLVERENE, ALL       TH11800060
WENT. WHEN THEY HAD ALL ASSEMBLED, HE ADDRESSED THEM THUS: "I THINK   TH11800070
OF OUR DEAD PARENTS, WHO WERE SLAUGHTERED BY OUR ENEMIES, AND MY      TH11800080
HEART IS SORROWFUL. I THINK OF OUR PARENTS' SLAUGHTER AS YET          TH11800090
UNAVENGED, AND MY HEART IS SORROWFUL. I PROPOSE THAT WE GO TO WAR     TH11800100
TO SISE'TAMA,  AND THAT WE AVENGE OURSELVES ON THE SISE'TAMUX  FOR    TH11800110
THE SLAUGHTER OF OUR PARENTS."                                        TH11800120
     THE ANIMALS AGREED TO SKUNK'S PROPOSAL, AND FORTHWITH THEY       TH11800130
ALL STARTED ON THE WAR-PATH. SKUNK ACTED AS THEIR WAR-CHIEF AND       TH11800140
GUIDE. AFTER TRAVELLING MANY DAYS, THEY ARRIVED AT THE EDGE OF        TH11800150
SOME STEEP HILLS LOOKING DOWN ON A VALLEY WHICH WAS FILLED WITH       TH11800160
SMOKE. SKUNK SAID, "WE ARE NOW LOOKING DOWN ON THE COUNTRY OF OUR     TH11800170
ENEMIES. THE SMOKE WE SEE IS FROM THEIR FIRES, FOR THERE ARE MANY     TH11800180
LODGES. IT WILL NOT BE WISE FOR US TO ATTACK THEM AT ONCE. IF YOU     TH11800190
STAY HERE, I WILL GO AND RECONNOITER." LEAVING THEM, HE DESCENDED     TH11800200
INTO THE VALLEY, AND WAS SOON LOST SIGHT OF IN THE SMOKE. HE          TH11800210
REPAIRED TO THE BANK OF THE RIVER WHICH FLOWED THROUGH THE VALLEY,    TH11800220
AND THERE HE PICKED UP MANY DEAD DOG-SALMON.  HE CUT OFF THEIR        TH11800230
HEADS, AND PLACED THEM IN A ROW. THEN HE OPENED THEIR MOUTHS AND      TH11800240
COMMANDED THEM TO BARK LIKE DOGS. WHEN HE HAD GONE A LITTLE           TH11800250
DISTANCE AWAY, THEY ALL BARKED LIKE DOGS. THEN GRISLY BEAR SAID       TH11800260
TO THE OTHER ANIMALS, "THE ENEMY'S DOGS HAVE DETECTED OUR BROTHER,"   TH11800270
AND ON SKUNK'S ARRIVAL ASKED HIM IF HE HAD BEEN DETECTED. HE          TH11800280
ANSWERED, "NO] BUT THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE, AND IT WOULD BE USELESS     TH11800290
FOR US TO ATTACK THEM UNTIL DAYBREAK."                                TH11800300
     NOW, THERE WAS A LARGE PIT  THERE WHICH HAD BEEN USED FOR        TH11800310
TRAPPING, AND SKUNK PROPOSED THAT ALL THE ANIMALS SHOULD HIDE IN IT   TH11800320
UNTIL DAYBREAK. HE SIAD, "YOU MAY ALL SLEEP; FOR I SHALL WATCH AND    TH11800330
WAKE YOU BEFORE DAYBREAK." SO ALL THE ANIMALS WENT INTO THE PIT TO    TH11800340
SLEEP, -- THE LARGE ANIMALS IN THE BOTTOM, AND THE SMALLER ONES       TH11800350
ON THE TOP, -- SO THE PIT WAS QUITE FULL. JUST BEFORE DAYLIGHT,       TH11800360
SEEING THAT ALL THE ANIMALS WERE ASLEEP, SKUNK EXCRETED HIS           TH11800370
OBNOXIOUS FLUID OVER THEM, THUS KILLING THEM FOR THE TIME BEING.      TH11800380
THEN, LEAVING THEM FOR DEAD, HE WENT HOME.                            TH11800390
     WHEN NEAR THE VILLAGE, HE DEFECATED, AND TURNED HIS EXCREMENT    TH11800400
INTO A BOY, TO WHOM HE SAID, "TETA'MUK."  THE BOY ANSWERED,           TH11800410
"POPO'KIN, TIK SPLANTKIN."  SKUNK, BEING ANNOYED AT THIS ANSWER,      TH11800420
SAID, "E'E] TU'TA TETA', SESA'UTKIN TIK SISE'TAMUXKIN;"  BUT THE      TH11800430
BOY ANSWERED, "I AM THE EXCREMENT OF SKUNK." AFTER DRILLING HIM       TH11800440
FOR A WHILE, SKUNK MANAGED TO GET THE BOY TO ANSWER HIS QUESTION,     TH11800450
SAYING, "I AM A SISE'TAMUX SLAVE."                                    TH11800460
     CONTINUING HIS JOURNEY WITH THE BOY, THEY REACHED THE VILLAGE.   TH11800470
THE PEOPLE WONDERED AT SKUNK RETURNING WITHOUT HIS BROTHERS, AND      TH11800480
GATHERED AROUND HIM TO HEAR THE NEWS. WHEN THE PEOPLE HAD ALL         TH11800490
ASSEMBLED, SKUNK ADDRESSED THEM, SAYING, "I ALONE SURVIVE OF OUR      TH11800500
NUMEROUS WAR-PARTY. WE ATTACKED THE SISE'TAMUX, AND HAD A FIERCE      TH11800510
FIGHT. MY BROTHERS THE ANIMALS WERE ALL SLAIN, AND I ALONE WAS        TH11800520
ABLE TO ESCAPE. AS I FLED, I SAW THIS BOY WHO GOT SEPARATED FROM      TH11800530
HIS PEOPLE IN THE FIGHT, AND I MADE A SLAVE OF HIM."                  TH11800540
     THEN HE CALLED HIS BROTHER'S WIVES TOGETHER TO GIVE THEM         TH11800550
MORE PARTICULAR INFORMATION REGARDING THE FIGHT. HE SAID, "YOUR       TH11800560
HUSBANDS ARE ALL DEAD, THEREFORE YOU BECOME MY WIVES, AND I BECOME    TH11800570
YOUR HUSBAND." THEN HE ASKED EACH ONE OF THE WOMEN TO COME FORWARD,   TH11800580
AND HE WOULD POINT OUT THE PARTS OF THE BODY WHERE HER HUSBAND        TH11800590
WAS WOUNDED. HE PLACED HIS FINGER ON HER BROW, AND SAID, "YOUR        TH11800600
HUSBAND WAS HIT HERE;" THEN ON HER NOSE, SAYING, "HE WAS HIT          TH11800610
HERE;" THEN ON HER MOUTH, CHIN, THROAT, AND EACH PART OF HER BODY,    TH11800620
UNTIL HE PLACED HIS FINGER ON HER PRIVATES, SAYING, "HE WAS HIT       TH11800630
HERE. OH] MY FINGER WENT IN." THEN THE WOMAN, FEELING ASHAMED,        TH11800640
WENT OVER TO HIS PART OF THE HOUSE. HE DID THIS WITH ALL THE          TH11800650
ANIMALS' WIVES, AND THEY THUS BECAME HIS WIVES. SOME OF THE PEOPLE,   TH11800650
HOWEVER, WERE SUSPICIOUS OF SKUNK, SO THEY ASKED THE BOY WHAT HE      TH11800660
WAS. HE ANSWERED, "SPOPO'KIN." THEY SAID, "WHAT DO YOU SAY]" THEN     TH11800670
THE BOY SAID, "SISE'TAMUXKIN." THIS MADE THE PEOPLE STILL MORE        TH11800680
SUSPICIOUS; AND SOME OF THEM SAID, "SKUNK LIES. HE HAS DISPOSED OF    TH11800690
HIS FRIENDS IN SOME MANNER, AND THIS BOY HE HAS MADE OUT OF           TH11800700
SOMETHING."                                                           TH11800710
     SKUNK WAS WELL PLEASED NOW, FOR HE HAD MANY WIVES; BUT HIS       TH11800720
JOYS DID NOT LAST LONG, FOR A FEW DAYS AFTERWARDS ALL THE WARRIORS    TH11800730
APPEARED, DESCENDING THE HILLSIDE IN INDIAN FILE. THE PEOPLE SAW      TH11800740
THEM COMING, AND SENT OUT SOME YOUNG MEN TO FIND OUT WHO THEY WERE.   TH11800750
THE WARRIORS ASKED IF SKUNK HAD RETURNED; AND THE YOUNG MEN SAID,     TH11800760
"YES] HE SAID YOU WERE KILLED, AND HE HAS TAKEN ALL YOUR WIVES TO     TH11800770
HIMSELF." WHEN SKUNK HEARD THAT THE WARRIORS HAD RETURNED, HE         TH11800780
TOLD THE WIVES TO GO BACK TO THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS' HOUSES;       TH11800790
BUT MANY OF THEM WOULD NOT GO. SOME SAID, "YOU HAVE SHAMED US, WE     TH11800800
CANNOT GO BACK;" AND OTHERS SAID, "WHY SHOULD WE GO BACK WHEN OUR     TH11800810
HUSBANDS ARE DEAD?"                                                   TH11800820
     THE WARRIORS WERE VERY WROTH AT SKUNK, AND ATTACKED HIS HOUSE.   TH11800830
THEY KILLED ALL THE WOMEN INSIDE, AND ALSO SKUNK'S BOY. WHEN THEY     TH11800840
STRUCK THE LATTER, HE TURNED INTO EXCREMENT. SKUNK HIMSELF WAS        TH11800850
SORELY WOUNDED, AND STABBED IN MANY PARTS OF THE BODY. HE CRIED       TH11800860
OUT, "YOU MAY AS WELL DISPOSE OF ME NOW, AND KILL ME OUTRIGHT. PUT    TH11800870
ME IN A SLUQ  AND THROW ME INTO THE RIVER." THEY DID WITH HIM AS      TH11800880
DIRECTED; AND WHEN THEY THREW HIM INTO THE RIVER, THEY TRANSFORMED    TH11800890
HIM AND CURSED HIM, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL ONLY BE THE         TH11800900
ANIMAL THE SKUNK, AND YOU SHALL NEVER AGAIN BE ABLE TO BETRAY YOUR    TH11800910
FRIENDS OR TO STEAL THEIR WIVES. YOU SHALL BE SHUNNED BY ALL MEN      TH11800920
AND ANIMALS BECAUSE OF YOUR ODOR." SKUNK FLOATED DOWN THE RIVER IN    TH11800930
THE BASKET, AND GOT ASHORE IN THE S'A'TCINKO COUNTRY, WHERE HE        TH11800940
REMAINED. THEREFORE SKUNKS ARE VERY PLENTIFUL IN THAT COUNTRY AT      TH11800950
THE PRESENT DAY.                                                      TH11800960
***THO-175***
          FISHER'S WIFE; OR MARTEN AND FISHER    (LOWER UTA'MQT)      TH11900010
     A WEALTHY WOMAN LIVED IN A CERTAIN PART OF THE COUNTRY, AND      TH11900020
HAD CROW AS A SLAVE. NO OTHER PEOPLE LIVED NEAR BY, AND AT THAT       TH11900030
TIME MEN WERE VERY SCARCE IN THE LAND. CROW WAS DESIROUS OF           TH11900040
MARRYING HIS MISTRESS; BUT, BEING AFRAID TO MAKE PROPOSALS TO HER,    TH11900050
HE THOUGHT OF A SCHEME WHICH HE HOPED WOULD DELUDE HER AND BRING      TH11900060
ABOUT THE DESIRED RESULT. HE BEGAN TO STAY AWAY FROM HOME SOME        TH11900070
NIGHTS, UNTIL IT BECAME A FREQUENT OCCURRENCE AND HIS MISTRESS        TH11900080
THOUGHT NOTHING OF IT. HE HAD IN THE MEAN TIME MADE A CANOE AND       TH11900090
PLACED LIMBS OF TREES IN IT, WHICH HE SHAPED TO LOOK LIKE PEOPLE,     TH11900100
AND ALSO MADE A LARGE BLANKET OF LONG WHITE MOSS.                     TH11900110
     ONE DARK NIGHT, AFTER PAINTING HIMSELF TO LOOK DIFFERENT FROM    TH11900120
USUAL AND DONNING HIS BLANKET, HE EMBARKED IN HIS DUG-OUT CANOE       TH11900130
AND PADDLED FOR THE WOMAN'S HOUSE. HAVING REACHED THERE, HE ENTERED,  TH11900140
AND PRETENDED HE WAS A WEALTHY STRANGER WHO HAD COME TO ASK HER       TH11900150
IN MARRIAGE. SHE CONSENTED, AND AT HIS REQUEST TOOK OFF ALL HER       TH11900160
CLOTHES. HE GAVE HER HIS MOSS BLANKET TO PUT ON, AND CONDUCTED        TH11900170
HER TO THE CANOE. HE SAID, "THESE ARE MY SLAVES IN THE CANOE, AND     TH11900180
THEY WILL PADDLE US TO MY HOUSE, WHERE YOU WILL BE VERY HAPPY."       TH11900190
WHEN THEY HAD EMBARKED, HE PUSHED THE CANOE FROM SHORE, AND TOLD      TH11900200
THE PRETENDED PEOPLE (OR LIMBS) TO PADDLE OUT TO HIS HOUSE. THEN      TH11900210
HE LAY DOWN WITH HIS FORMER MISTRESS AND HAD REPEATED CONNECTION      TH11900220
WITH HER THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT, WHILE THE CANOE KEPT DRIFTING DOWN     TH11900230
THE STREAM. HE WAS AFRAID THE WOMAN WOULD DISCOVER THE DECEPTION AS   TH11900240
SOON AS IT BECAME DAYLIGHT: SO, JUST ABOUT BREAK OF DAY, HE OPENED    TH11900250
HER LEGS, PRETENDING HE WISHED TO HAVE CONNECTION WITH HER AGAIN,     TH11900260
AND DEFECATED IN BETWEEN. AFTER HE HAD DONE THIS, HE FLEW UP ON THE   TH11900270
BRANCH OF A TREE NEAR THE RIVER'S EDGE. THEN THE WOMAN KNEW THE       TH11900280
DECEPTION WHICH HAD BEEN PRACTISED ON HER, AND CURSED HIM, SAYING,    TH11900290
"YOU SHALL HENCEFORTH BE A CROW, AND SHALL NEVER AGAIN BE ABLE TO     TH11900300
DECEIVE WOMEN."                                                       TH11900310
     CROW HAD TAKEN THE PADDLE WITH HIM WHEN HE FLEW AWAY, SO SHE     TH11900320
DRIFTED HELPLESSLY DOWNSTREAM. SHE ASKED FEATHERS OF THE BIRDS AS     TH11900330
THEY FLEW OVERHEAD, AND THEY LET THEM DROP DOWN INTO THE CANOE;       TH11900340
BUT NONE OF THEM WERE STIFF ENOUGH TO PADDLE WITH. AT LAST A FLOCK    TH11900350
OF DUCKS FLEW OVERHEAD, AND SHE ASKED THEM TO HELP HER. THEY LET      TH11900360
A FEATHER DROP, AND SHE WAS ABLE TO PADDLE ASHORE WITH IT. SHE WAS    TH11900370
NOW A LONG DISTANCE FROM HOME, AND WITHOUT FOOD OR CLOTHING. SEEING   TH11900380
A HOLE IN THE GROUND, SHE GATHERED SOME MOSS, AND, PUTTING IT IN      TH11900390
THE BOTTOM OF THE HOLE, SAT DOWN ON IT. THUS SHE HAD SHELTER AND      TH11900400
CONCEALMENT. SHE HAD NOT BEEN THERE LONG WHEN SHE SAW A DEER FEEDING  TH11900410
NEAR BY. SO SHE MADE A SNARE OUT OF GREEN WILLOW SWITCHES, WHICH      TH11900420
SHE TWISTED TO MAKE THEM PLIABLE AND STRONG, AND, SETTING THE SNARE   TH11900430
IN THE DEER'S TRAIL, SHE SOON CAPTURED IT. SHE SPLIT A STONE IN TWO,  TH11900440
AND USED THE PIECES AS KNIVES TO CUT UP AND SKIN THE DEER WITH.       TH11900450
HAVING THUS OBTAINED PLENTY OF FOOD, SHE NOW SET TO WORK AND MADE     TH11900460
MORE SNARES OF WITHES AND OF DEER-HIDE, AND CAUGHT MANY DEER. SHE     TH11900470
TANNED THEIR SKINS, AND MADE HERSELF PLENTY OF CLOTHING; SHE ALSO     TH11900480
MADE KETTLES AND OTHER VESSELS OF BARK, AND CONSTRUCTED AN            TH11900490
UNDERGROUND HOUSE, IN WHICH SHE TOOK UP HER ABODE.                    TH11900500
     NOW, UNKNOWN TO HER THERE WAS ANOTHER UNDERGROUND HOUSE AT NO    TH11900510
GREAT DISTANCE, WHICH WAS INHABITED BY TWO BROTHERS, -- FISHER AND    TH11900520
MARTEN.  THE FORMER WENT HUNTING ONE DAY, AND ON DEPARTING TOLD       TH11900530
HIS BROTHER, WHO GENERALLY STAID AT HOME AND DID THE HOUSE-WORK,      TH11900540
IF HE SAW ANY PRETTY BIRD OR ANIMAL APPROACH THE HOUSE, NOT TO SHOOT  TH11900550
AT IT. AFTER HE HAD GONE, A WOODPECKER  ENTERED THE HOUSE. WHEN       TH11900560
MARTEN SAW IT, HE SAID TO HIMSELF, "ITS SCALP WOULD MAKE A FINE       TH11900570
ORNAMENT FOR MY BROTHER'S QUIVER." SO HE BEGAN SHOOTING ARROWS AT     TH11900580
IT, BUT HE COULD NOT HIT IT; AND THE BIRD WENT HOPPING AWAY UP THE    TH11900590
LADDER AND OUTSIDE. HE FOLLOWED, SHOOTING AT IT, AND WAS SURPRISED    TH11900600
THAT, ALTHOUGH HE SHOT AT IT SO OFTEN, YET HE COULD NOT HIT IT. IT    TH11900610
TOOK HIM AWAY SOME DISTANCE, AND THEN, AS HE FIRED THE LAST ARROW,    TH11900620
IT DISAPPEARED NEAR THE LADDER OF AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE. HE WAS        TH11900630
ASTONISHED TO SEE AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE AT THIS PLACE; BUT, AS HIS     TH11900640
ARROW HAD STRUCK THE LADDER, HE WENT UP TO PULL IT OUT. AS HE WAS     TH11900650
DOING THIS, THE WOMAN SAID FROM INSIDE, "COME DOWN AND SEE ME]" SO    TH11900660
HE WENT INSIDE. SHE HANDED TO HIM, ACROSS THE FIRE, A MAT WITH SOME   TH11900670
FAT IN IT, SAYING, "HERE IS SOMETHING TO EAT] TAKE A GOOD HOLD OF     TH11900680
IT IN CASE IT FALLS INTO THE FIRE." AS HE TOOK A FIRM GRIP OF THE     TH11900690
MAT, SHE JERKED IT BACK, AND DREW HIM INTO THE FIRE, WHERE HE WAS     TH11900700
SEVERLY BURNED. SHE CARRIED HIM OUTSIDE AND LEFT HIM THERE. HE        TH11900710
CRAWLED TO THE WATER, AND, AFTER WASHING HIMSELF, MANAGED TO REACH    TH11900720
HOME. WHEN HIS BROTHER CAME BACK, HE SAID, "YOU SEE HOW YOU HAVE      TH11900730
FARED THROUGH DISOBEYING ME. WHAT SHALL I PUT ON YOUR BURNS?" HE      TH11900740
ANSWERED, "PUT ON MY MARTEN-SKIN QUIVER." FISHER CUT UP THE QUIVER    TH11900750
AND GLUED IT ON TO MARTEN; BUT IT WAS NOT QUITE SUFFICIENT TO COVER   TH11900760
ALL HIS BODY -- A PIECE WAS LEFT UNCOVERED AT HIS THROAT WHERE THE    TH11900770
WHITE SPOT OF THE MARTEN IS AT THE PRESENT DAY. THIS IS SAID TO BE    TH11900780
THE REASON WHY THE MARTEN HAS A WHITE SPOT ON ITS THROAT AT THE       TH11900790
PRESENT DAY. IF THE SKIN OF THE QUIVER HAD BEEN LARGE ENOUGH TO       TH11900800
COVER MARTEN, MARTENS WOULD NOW HAVE NO WHITE SPOTS ON THEIR          TH11900810
THROATS.                                                              TH11900820
     NEXT DAY THEY WAITED UNTIL WOODPECKER SHOULD ARRIVE AGAIN. AS    TH11900830
SOON AS HE APPEARED, THEY SHOT ARROWS AT HIM, BUT WERE UNABLE TO      TH11900840
HIT HIM. THEY KEPT SHOOTING AT HIM WITHOUT SUCCESS UNTIL HE REACHED   TH11900850
THE ENTRANCE OF THE UNDERGROUND HOUSE, WHERE AN ARROW FROM FISHER     TH11900860
KILLED IT; BUT WHEN THEY WENT TO PULL OUT THE ARROW, THEY FOUND THEY  TH11900870
HAD ONLY SHOT SOME EXCREMENT.                                         TH11900880
     NOW THE WOMAN INVITED THEM INSIDE, AND THEY ENTERED. SHE         TH11900890
OFFERED THEM SOME FAT TO EAT, AND HANDED IT IN A MAT TO THEM ACROSS   TH11900900
THE FIRE, AT THE SAME TIME ASKING THEM TO TAKE A FIRM HOLD OF IT.     TH11900910
FISHER TOOK IT, AND, AS THE WOMAN PULLED BACK, HE LET GO, SO SHE      TH11900920
FELL ON HER BACK, WITH HER LEGS UP IN THE AIR. THEN FISHER JUMPED     TH11900930
ON TOP OF HER, AND HAD SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH HER; BUT MARTEN        TH11900940
THREW EARTH AT HER PRIVATES, AND CALLED HER NASTY NAMES. SHE          TH11900950
AGREED TO BECOME FISHER'S WIFE AND TO GO TO THEIR HOUSE NEXT DAY.     TH11900960
     AS FISHER WAS GOING HUNTING NEXT MORNING, HE TOLD MARTEN,        TH11900970
WHEN HIS WIFE CAME, TO TREAT HER KINDLY, GIVE HER GOOD MEAT TO        TH11900980
EAT, AND A NICE SOFT SKIN FOR A ROBE, AND ANOTHER FOR AN APRON OR     TH11900990
KILT. INSTEAD OF DOING THIS, HOWEVER, HE GAVE HER SINEW TO EAT, AND   TH11901000
A BADLY-DRESSED SKIN OF HIS OWN TO MAKE HER CLOTHES OUT OF. WHEN      TH11901010
FISHER CAME HOME, HE CHANGED THESE FOR WELL-DRESSED SOFT SKINS OF     TH11901020
HIS OWN MANUFACTURE. HE MADE HER COMFORTABLE, AND THEY LIVED          TH11901030
HAPPILY TOGETHER; WHILE MARTEN DID ALL THE HEAVY WORK, AND FETCHED    TH11901040
ALL THE WOOD AND WATER.                                               TH11901050
     FISHER SAID TO HIM, "MY WIFE MUST ON NO ACCOUNT GO TO FETCH      TH11901060
WATER. WHEN SHE WANTS WATER, YOU MUST FETCH IT FOR HER." SO MARTEN    TH11901070
DID AS DIRECTED, AND ALWAYS FETCHED WATER; BUT HE DID NOT LIKE HIS    TH11901080
BROTHER'S WIFE MUCH, AND OFTEN MOCKED AND MADE FUN OF HER, AND        TH11901090
CALLED HER NAMES WHEN HE WHISTLED. ONE DAY HE WAS WHISTLING THE       TH11901100
WORDS "RED PRIVATES" IN DERISION OF THE WOMAN, WHEN FISHER HEARD      TH11901110
HIM, AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS SAYING. HE ANSWERED, "I WAS JUST       TH11901120
WHISTLING, AND SAYING THAT IT WAS FINE WEATHER."                      TH11901130
     AFTER SOME TIME THE WOMAN BORE A SON TO FISHER, AND THE BOY      TH11901140
GREW RAPIDLY. ONE DAY MARTEN GOT LAZY AND WOULD NOT FETCH WATER,      TH11901150
SO THE WOMAN WENT FOR IT HERSELF. WHEN SHE REACHED THE                TH11901160
WATERING-PLACE, SHE PUT HER CHILD DOWN BESIDE THE WATER-BUCKETS,      TH11901170
AND, TAKING OFF HER CLOTHES, SHE WENT INTO THE WATER TO BATHE. A      TH11901180
LARGE FISH APPEARED SWIMMING AROUND, AND THEN DISAPPEARED. IT WAS     TH11901190
THE KING OR TYHEE SALMON (KWOI'A), AND HE WENT ASHORE AND CHANGED     TH11901200
HIMSELF INTO A MAN. THEN HE ADDRESSED HER FROM THE SHORE, SAYING,     TH11901210
"I HAVE WISHED TO SEE YOU FOR A LONG TIME, AND HAVE NOW COME FOR      TH11901220
YOU TO BECOME MY WIFE." SHE WAS STRUCK WITH HIS HANDSOME APPEARANCE,  TH11901230
AND CONSENTED TO GO WITH HIM.                                         TH11901240
     WHEN FISHER CAME HOME, HIS WIFE WAS NOT THERE; SO HE ASKED       TH11901250
MARTEN WHERE SHE WAS, AND, RECEIVING AN EVASIVE ANSWER, HE AT ONCE    TH11901260
REPAIRED TO THE WATERING-PLACE, WHERE HE FOUND THE BOY CRYING         TH11901270
BESIDE THE BUCKETS AND CLOTHES OF HIS MOTHER. HE TOOK THE BOY HOME,   TH11901280
AND TOLD MARTEN THAT THE SALMON HAD TAKEN THE WOMAN. THEN FISHER      TH11901290
CHANGED THE BOY INTO A HORSE-FLY,  AND SENT HIM TO FIND OUT WHERE     TH11901300
HIS MOTHER WAS.                                                       TH11901310
     THE BOY ARRIVED AT THE COUNTRY OF THE FISHES  DOWN BELOW,        TH11901320
WHERE THERE WERE MANY PEOPLE AND MANY CANOES. IN ONE PLACE HE SAW     TH11901330
FOUR UNDERGROUND HOUSES, AND ENTERED THEM ONE AFTER ANOTHER. IN       TH11901340
THE LAST ONE HE FOUND HIS MOTHER. THE PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE WATCHED     TH11901350
HIM AS HE BUZZED AROUND, AND SAID, "THAT FLY ACTS STRANGELY." HE      TH11901360
PASSED BY HIS MOTHER'S EAR, AND WHISPERED TO HER THAT HER HUSBAND     TH11901370
WOULD COME FOR HER; THEN HE FLEW OUT OF THE HOUSE, AND BACK TO HIS    TH11901380
FATHER, WHO AFTER THE BOY HAD TOLD HIM ALL HE HAD SEEN CHANGED        TH11901390
HIM INTO A BOY AGAIN.                                                 TH11901400
     THEN FISHER CAUGHT A FAWN, AND TOOK IT TO THE BOY TO PLAY        TH11901410
WITH; HE ALSO MADE MINIATURE BOW AND ARROWS FOR HIM TO SHOOT THE      TH11901420
FAWN WITH. THEY WENT OUTSIDE AND WATCHED THE BOY ONE DAY UNTIL        TH11901430
EVENING PLAYING AT SHOOTING THE FAWN UNTIL HE GOT TIRED AND FELL      TH11901440
ASLEEP. FISHER SAID, "WE WILL LEAVE THE BOY. HE IS ALL RIGHT, AND     TH11901450
WILL NOT CRY WHEN HE MISSES US." SO THEY LEFT FOOD AND WATER WITH     TH11901460
HIM IN THE HOUSE, AND, ENTERING THEIR CANOE, THEY PADDLED AWAY TO     TH11901470
THE COUNTRY OF THE FISHES. WHEN THEY GOT NEAR TO THE FOUR HOUSES,     TH11901480
THEY HID THEIR CANOE IN THE BUSHES, AND TRAVELLED ON FOOT. THEY MET   TH11901490
THE SISTERS OF KING-SALMON CARRYING LOADS OF WILD CRAB-APPLES         TH11901500
(KWOA'P), AND SINGING AS THEY WENT ALONG, THE WORDS OF THEIR SONG     TH11901510
BEING "OUR ELDER BROTHER POSSESSES THE WIFE OF TCINTU'PUS." THEY      TH11901520
STOPPED THEM, AND QUESTIONED THEM REGARDING THEIR BROTHER'S           TH11901530
HOUSE, -- IN WHAT PART OF IT THEY SLEPT AND SAT, HOW THEY ACTED       TH11901540
WHEN THEY ENTERED, AND WHAT THEY USUALLY DID WHEN AT HOME. HAVING     TH11901550
GAINED ALL THE DESIRED INFORMATION FROM THE SISTERS, THEY TOOK        TH11901560
HOLD OF THEM BY THEIR NOSES, AND, SHAKING THEM VIOLENTLY, THEIR       TH11901570
BONES FELL OUT. THEN THEY PUT ON THE WOMEN'S SKINS, AND, TAKING       TH11901580
THE LOADS OF CRAB-APPLES ON THEIR BACKS, THEY WENT DOWN TO THE        TH11901590
WATER'S EDGE, WHERE THEY FOUND THE WOMEN'S CANOE, IN WHICH THEY       TH11901600
EMBARKED. AS THEY PADDLED ALONG, THEY SANG THE SAME SONG THAT THE     TH11901610
SISTERS HAD BEEN SINGING.                                             TH11901620
     BEFORE LONG THEY CAME TO A BEACH WHERE MANY CANOES WERE HAULED   TH11901630
UP, AND, SEEING RAT AND MOUSE NEAR BY, THEY TOLD THEM WHO THEY WERE,  TH11901640
AND OFFERED TO PAY THEM IF THEY WOULD MAKE HOLES IN ALL THE           TH11901650
PEOPLE'S CANOES THAT NIGHT. THEY AGREED TO DO THIS, AND AFTER DARK    TH11901660
THE RATS AND MICE MADE HOLES IN THE BOTTOMS OF ALL THE CANOES         TH11901670
EXCEPTING THE WOMEN'S CANOE THAT MARTEN AND FISHER HAD BEEN USING.    TH11901680
     IN THE EVENING, FISHER AND HIS BROTHER WALKED UP TO              TH11901690
KING-SALMON'S HOUSE WITH THEIR LOADS OF CRAB-APPLES. AFTER            TH11901700
DEPOSITING THEIR BURDENS, THEY ENTERED, AND JUMPED FROM THE FOOT      TH11901710
OF THE LADDER TO THE FLOOR. IN DOING THIS, MARTEN FELL SHORT; AND     TH11901720
THE PEOPLE NOTICED IT, AND SAID, "IT IS STRANGE OUR SISTER CANNOT     TH11901730
JUMP TO-NIGHT." THEY WENT UP TO THE SAME CORNER IN WHICH THE          TH11901740
SISTERS HAD BEEN WONT TO SLEEP. THE PEOPLE TALKED WITH THEM, AND      TH11901750
SOON NOTICED THAT ONE OF THEM (MARTEN) HAD A DIFFERENT VOICE FROM     TH11901760
THE WOMAN HE IMPERSONATED, WHILE THE OTHER (FISHER) ONE'S VOICE       TH11901770
WAS EXACTLY LIKE THAT OF THE ELDER SISTER. IT WAS PARTLY DARK INSIDE  TH11901780
THE HOUSE, AND NO PERSON NOTICED ANYTHING DIFFERENT ABOUT THEM        TH11901790
EXCEPTING RAVEN, WHOSE SUSPICIONS WERE AROUSED, AND WHO DETECTED      TH11901800
A WHITE SPOT ON MARTEN'S THROAT, AND ASKED HOW IT CAME TO BE THERE.   TH11901810
THEY ANSWERED THAT IT WAS CAUSED BY TOO MUCH SINGING. THEN HE         TH11901820
NOTICED THAT ONE OF THEM HAD A VERY LARGE NOSE, WITH NO SKIN ALONG    TH11901830
THE BRIDGE, AND THAT PITCH HAD BEEN RUBBED OVER THE PLACE TO HIDE     TH11901840
IT. HE SAID, "HOW IS IT YOUR NOSE IS LARGER THAN FORMERLY, AND YOU    TH11901850
HAVE PITCH DAUBED ON IT?" ONE OF THEM ANSWERED, "MY SISTER WAS        TH11901860
PICKING APPLES, WHEN A BRANCH FELL DOWN AND BRUISED AND SKINNED       TH11901870
HER NOSE SO THAT IT SWELLED, AND I RUBBED PITCH ON IT TO MAKE IT      TH11901880
HEAL."                                                                TH11901890
     SOME TIME AFTER DARK THEY ESCORTED THE NEW WIFE OF KING-SALMON   TH11901900
TO THE WATER TO BATHE HERSELF, AS THIS HAD BEEN THE DUTY OF THE       TH11901910
SISTERS SINCE THEIR BROTHER OBTAINED HIS WIFE. THEY CARRIED           TH11901920
TORCHES, AND RAVEN WATCHED THEM FROM A DISTANCE. THEY TOLD THE        TH11901930
WOMAN WHO THEY WERE, AND ASKED HER TO PLAY WITH KING-SALMON, SO       TH11901940
THAT HE MIGHT FEEL TIRED AND SLEEP SOUNDLY. AFTER WASHING             TH11901950
THEMSELVES, THEY ALL RETURNED TO THE HOUSE, AND SOON EVERY ONE        TH11901960
RETIRED FOR THE NIGHT. THE WOMAN PLAYED WITH KING-SALMON A LONG       TH11901970
TIME; AND THE PEOPLE SAID, "IT IS VERY STRANGE OUR BROTHER'S WIFE     TH11901980
IS SO FULL OF FUN TO-NIGHT, SHE WAS WONT TO BE VERY QUIET."           TH11901990
     ABOUT MIDNIGHT, WHEN KING-SALMON WAS SOUND ASLEEP, FISHER ROSE   TH11902000
UP QUIETLY, AND, TAKING HIS KNIFE, CUT OFF SALMON'S HEAD. THEN ALL    TH11902010
THREE, STEATHILY LEAVING THE HOUSE, HASTENED TO THE CANOE, CARRYING   TH11902020
SALMON'S HEAD ALONG WITH THEM. AT DAYBREAK RAVEN DISCOVERED THAT      TH11902030
KING-SALMON HAD BEEN MURDERED, AND THAT THE WOMAN HAD FLED. HE        TH11902040
AWAKENED THE PEOPLE, AND THEY ALL STARTED IN PURSUIT. WHEN THEY       TH11902050
REACHED THE CANOES, THEY FOUND THEY HAD ALL BEEN HOLED EXCEPT ONE     TH11902060
SMALL ONE, WHICH HAD ESCAPED THE NOTICE OF THE RATS AND MICE. IN      TH11902070
THIS THE PEOPLE EMBARKED AND GAVE CHASE, AND SOON BEGAN TO OVERTAKE   TH11902080
THE FUGITIVES, WHO, WHEN THEY REACHED THE PLACE WHERE THEY HAD        TH11902090
HIDDEN THEIR OWN CANOE, EMBARKED IN IT, AND BROKE UP THE WOMEN'S      TH11902100
CANOE WHICH THEY HAD BEEN USING. BUT STILL THEIR PURSUERS GAINED      TH11902110
ON THEM, FOR SALMON'S HEAD MADE THEM HEAVY. WHEN THEY SAW THEY        TH11902120
WOULD SOON BE OVERTAKEN, THEY THREW THE HEAD OVERBOARD, AND SOON      TH11902130
BEGAN TO LEAVE THEIR PURSUERS BEHIND. WHEN THE LATTER REACHED THE     TH11902140
PLACE WHERE THE HEAD HAD BEEN THROWN INTO THE WATER, THEY BEGAN TO    TH11902150
DIVE FOR IT; BUT NONE OF THEM COULD DIVE DEEP ENOUGH. AT LAST LOON    TH11902160
DIVED AND BROUGHT IT UP. THEY TOOK IT HOME AND PUT IT ON THE BODY     TH11902170
OF KING-SALMON, WHO THEN BECAME ALIVE AGAIN.                          TH11902180
     THEIR CANOE BEING LIGHT, THE TWO BROTHERS AND THE WOMAN SOON     TH11902190
LEFT THE FISH COUNTRY FAR BEHIND. AS THEY WERE PADDLING ALONG, THEY   TH11902200
SAW A WOLF IN THE FOREST, NEAR THE WATER'S EDGE, BUT HE SOON RAN      TH11902210
AWAY OUT OF SIGHT. THE WOMAN WAS SO FASCINATED BY WOLF, THAT SHE      TH11902220
SAID TO THE MEN, "LET ME GO ASHORE TO PICK CRAB-APPLES." THEY LET     TH11902230
HER ASHORE, AND SHE PICKED CRAB-APPLES, WHILE THEY REMAINED IN THE    TH11902240
CANOE. SOON SHE DISAPPEARED IN THE WOODS, AND, AFTER SOME TIME,       TH11902250
THEY CALLED FOR HER, BUT RECEIVED NO ANSWER. THEN FISHER SAID TO      TH11902260
MARTEN, "TAKE THE CANOE HOME AND LOOK AFTER MY SON. I WILL FOLLOW     TH11902270
MY WIFE, AND BRING HER BACK." THEN HE WENT ASHORE, AND FOLLOWED       TH11902280
THE TRACKS OF WOLF AND THE WOMAN TO WOLF'S HOUSE.                     TH11902290
     ON THE FOLLOWING DAY HE SAW HIS WIFE ALONE GATHERING             TH11902300
FIRE-WOOD, AND TALKED WITH HER. NEXT DAY HE CHANGED HIMSELF INTO A    TH11902310
SMALL BOY, AND HIS WIFE TOOK HIM HOME ON THE TOP OF HER LOAD OF       TH11902320
FIRE-WOOD AND TOLD THE PEOPLE SHE HAD FOUND HIM IN THE WOODS, AND     TH11902330
SHE WISHED TO REAR HIM AS HER SON. EVERY DAY THE WOLVES WENT          TH11902340
HUNTING; AND ONLY THEIR FATHER, A VERY OLD MAN, WAS LEFT AT HOME.     TH11902350
FISHER GREW SURPRISINGLY FAST, AND SOON WAS ALMOST A MAN. THE         TH11902360
WOLVES SAID, "WE WILL SOON MAKE HIM HUNT FOR US;" BUT HE KILLED       TH11902370
THEM ALL ONE NIGHT, AND TOOK HIS WIFE HOME TO HIS OWN HOUSE.          TH11902380
***THO-176***
          TAPPED-HIS-LEGS   (TSKIE'LAXATEM)     (LOWER UTA'MQT)       TH12000010
     THE PEOPLE ALL LIVED IN FOUR UNDERGROUND HOUSES.  THEY           TH12000020
INCLUDED BEAVER AND MANY OTHERS, AMONG THEM RAVEN. IT WAS             TH12000030
WINTER-TIME, AND ALTHOUGH THEY ALL HUNTED, THEY HAD BEEN UNABLE       TH12000040
TO KILL ANY GAME FOR A LONG TIME, AND WOULD HAVE STARVED HAD IT       TH12000050
NOT BEEN FOR BEAVER, WHO PROVIDED FOOD FOR THEM BY SPEARING FISH      TH12000060
THROUGH A HOLE IN THE ICE.                                            TH12000070
     ONE DAY, WHILE BEAVER WAS FISHING AS USUAL, ALL THE OTHER MEN    TH12000080
BEING AWAY HUNTING, RAVEN APPEARED AND STRUTTED AROUND IN A           TH12000090
BOASTFUL WAY. HE WORE A NECKLACE OF FRESH KNEE-BONES OF THE DEER      TH12000100
STRUNG ON A STRING ALTERNATELY WITH PIECES OF DEER-FAT. HE WENT       TH12000110
OUT ON THE ICE WHERE BEAVER WAS SPEARING, AND TAPPED HIS TOES WITH    TH12000120
HIS BEAK. THEN, AFTER USING INSULTING LANGUAGE TO HIM, AND MAKING     TH12000130
FUN OF THE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY DEER, HE FLEW       TH12000140
AWAY.                                                                 TH12000150
     WHEN THE HUNTERS CAME HOME, BEAVER TOLD THEM OF RAVEN'S VISIT,   TH12000160
AND THEY MADE UP THEIR MINDS TO STAY AT HOME AND WATCH TO SEE IF      TH12000170
HE CAME THE NEXT DAY; AND THEY PUT THE SMALL SCREECH-OWL (SQA'QUQ)    TH12000180
ON THE TOP OF A POLE TO WATCH. TOWARDS EVENING RAVEN APPEARED, AND    TH12000190
ACTED IN A SIMILAR WAY TO WHAT HE HAD THE DAY BEFORE. WHEN HE FLEW    TH12000200
AWAY, THEY ALL WATCHED HIM TO SEE IN WHAT DIRECTION HE WOULD          TH12000210
DISAPPEAR; BUT THEIR EYES ALL WATERED; AND ONLY THE SMALL             TH12000220
SCREECH-OWL, WHOSE EYES DID NOT WATER, WAS ABLE TO SEE WHERE HE       TH12000230
ALIGHTED.                                                             TH12000240
     NEXT DAY THE ALL STARTED IN THE DIRECTION IN WHICH THE SMALL     TH12000250
SCREECH-OWL HAD SEEN HIM DISAPPEAR, AND, WHEN NEAR THE PLACE,         TH12000260
HEARD THE SOUND OF STICKS BREAKING, AND OF PEOPLE LAUGHING AND        TH12000270
TALKING. ON RECONNOITERING, THEY FOUND IT WAS BLUEJAY AND PINEJAY     TH12000280
(OR BUTCHER-BIRD) GATHERING WOOD. THEY HAD LONG POLES WITH HOOKED     TH12000290
ENDS, WITH WHICH THEY WERE BREAKING THE DRY BRANCHES OFF THE LARGE    TH12000300
TREES. THEY SURROUNDED THEM, TOOK THEM PRISONERS, AND MADE THEM       TH12000310
GIVE ALL THE INFORMATION THEY POSSESSED ABOUT THE PEOPLE WITH WHOM    TH12000320
THEY LIVED. THEY SAID THEY WERE SERVANTS OF THESE PEOPLE, AND DID     TH12000330
ALL THE WORK, SUCH AS GATHERING FIRE-WOOD, CARRYING WATER, DRESSING   TH12000340
SKINS, COOKING, ETC. AFTER ASKING THEM PARTICULARLY ABOUT HOW THEY    TH12000350
ACTED WHEN AT HOME AND WHEN ENGAGED IN THEIR VARIOUS DUTIES, THEY     TH12000360
TOOK THEM BY THEIR NOSES, AND, SHAKING THEM, THEIR BONES FELL OUT.    TH12000370
     THEN TWO OF THE PEOPLE WENT INSIDE OF BLUEJAY'S AND PINEJAY'S    TH12000380
SKINS. THE MAN THAT WENT INSIDE OF BLUEJAY'S SKIN HAD A LARGER        TH12000390
NOSE THAN THE LATTER, AND THE SKIN WAS NOT SUFFICIENT TO COVER IT     TH12000400
ALL: SO HE RUBBED PITCH OVER HIS NOSE TO HIDE THE PLACE. THE REST     TH12000410
OF THE PEOPLE HID CLOSE BY, WHILE THE OTHER TWO WHO WERE TO           TH12000420
IMPERSONATE BLUEJAY AND PINEJAY TOOK THEIR LOADS OF WOOD ON THEIR     TH12000430
BACKS AND WENT TOWARDS THE HOUSE.                                     TH12000440
     ARRIVING THERE, THEY THREW DOWN THEIR LOADS OF WOOD, BUT,        TH12000450
IN DOING SO, ONE OF THEM MADE A GREAT NOISE. RAVEN SAID, "YOU WERE    TH12000460
NOT WONT TO PLACE YOUR LOADS OF WOOD DOWN IN THAT MANNER." THEN       TH12000470
THEY WENT TO FETCH WATER. WHEN THEY CAME BACK, RAVEN SAID TO THE      TH12000480
ONE WHO IMPERSONATED BLUEJAY, "YOU TALK DIFFERENTLY;" AND THE         TH12000490
LATTER ANSWERED, "YES, I HAVE A COLD AND AM HOARSE." THEN RAVEN       TH12000500
SAID, "AND YOU HAVE PITCH ON YOUR NOSE." -- "YES," HE ANSWERED,       TH12000510
"A STICK WHICH I WAS BREAKING FELL DOWN AND SKINNED MY NOSE, SO       TH12000520
I RUBBED PITCH ON THE WOUND."                                         TH12000530
     THESE ANSWERS SEEMED TO SATISFY RAVEN; HE SENT THEM TO POUND     TH12000540
A SKIN (WITH SCRAPERS). WHILE THEY WERE YET ENGAGED AT THIS, HE       TH12000550
TOLD THEM TO GIVE HIM THE TONGS AND BASKET, BECAUSE HE WAS GOING      TH12000560
TO BOIL MEAT. AFTERWARDS HE TOOK THE STONES OUT OF THE BASKET         TH12000570
WITH THE TONGS, AND GAVE THEM TO HIS SERVANTS TO COOL THEM IN         TH12000580
THEIR HANDS BEFORE PUTTING THEM AWAY. THEY WERE NOT USED TO THIS,     TH12000590
AND, ALTHOUGH THE STONES BURNED THEIR HANDS, YET THEY KEPT A          TH12000600
STRAIGHT FACE.                                                        TH12000610
     WHEN THEY HAD ALL EATEN THEIR MEAL OF BOILED DEER-MEAT,          TH12000620
FISHER SAID, "I THINK WE BETTER ALL GO TO SLEEP;" SO RAVEN TOLD       TH12000630
THEM TO GO TO BED. THEY WENT AND LAY DOWN IN THE PLACE WHERE          TH12000640
BLUEJAY AND PINEJAY HAD TOLD THEM THEY USUALLY SLEPT.                 TH12000650
     THE INHABITANTS OF THE HOUSE WERE RAVEN, FISHER, MARTEN          TH12000660
WOLVERENE, AND LYNX (BESIDES FORMERLY THEIR TWO SERVANTS BLUEJAY      TH12000670
AND PINEJAY). THEIR HOUSE WAS A LONG BUILDING MADE OF LOGS AND        TH12000680
BRUSH, AND WAS PARTITIONED ACROSS THE MIDDLE WITH POLES. IN ONE       TH12000690
END THE PEOPLE LIVED; WHILE IN THE OTHER END THEY KEPT THE DEER,      TH12000700
WHICH THEY HAD BY THEIR MAGIC GATHERED UP AND CONFINED IN THEIR       TH12000710
HOUSE. IN THE NIGHT-TIME THE TWO MEN AROSE AND TURNED LOOSE ALL THE   TH12000720
DEER. THEN THEY CHANGED THESE PEOPLE INTO THE ANIMALS THEY ARE AT     TH12000730
THE PRESENT DAY, AT THE SAME TIME SAYING, "THE DEER SHALL NEVERMORE   TH12000740
BE GATHERED INTO ONE PLACE AND CORRALLED BY ANY MAN'S MAGIC, BUT      TH12000750
SHALL HENCEFORTH BE DISTRIBUTED HERE AND THERE OVER THE COUNTRY;      TH12000760
AND YOU PEOPLE SHALL NEVER MORE HAVE THE POWER TO GATHER DEER         TH12000770
TOGETHER AT YOUR PLEASURE, NOR EVEN TO HUNT THEM WITH SUCCESS, BUT    TH12000780
SHALL HENCEFORTH LIVE BY STEALING MEAT AND GAME KILLED OR LEFT BY     TH12000790
HUNTERS."                                                             TH12000800
***THO-177***
          BATTLE OF THE BIRDS     (LOWER UTA'MQT)                     TH12100010
     A GIRL LEFT THE PEOPLE FOR THE PURPOSE OF MARRYING THE           TH12100020
GOLDEN-EAGLE (HALA'U).  ON THE WAY TO HER INTENDED HUSBAND'S HOUSE    TH12100030
SHE MET BALD-HEADED EAGLE ON A LOG CROSSING A STREAM. HE WOULD NOT    TH12100040
LET HER PASS. SHE SAID, "UNCLE, LET ME PASS]" BUT HE ANSWERED, "I     TH12100050
HAVE NO NIECE." THEN SHE SAID, "ELDER BROTHER, LET ME PASS]" BUT HE   TH12100060
ANSWERED, "I HAVE NO YOUNGER SISTER." SHE ADDRESSED HIM BY ALL THE    TH12100070
TERMS OF RELATIONSHIP ONE AFTER ANOTHER, BUT HE ALWAYS ANSWERED       TH12100080
HER IN A SIMILAR MANNER. AT LAST SHE SAID, "HUSBAND, LET ME PASS]"    TH12100090
THEN HE ANSWERED, "WIFE, WHY DID YOU NOT ADDRESS ME THUS BEFORE?"     TH12100100
SHE COULD NOT GET AWAY FROM HIM, THEREFORE SHE ACCOMPANIED HIM TO     TH12100110
HIS HOUSE, AND BECAME HIS WIFE. HE LIVED IN AN UNDERGROUND LODGE      TH12100120
ALONE, BUT IN ANOTHER UNDERGROUND LODGE NEAR BY LIVED ALL THE BIRDS   TH12100130
WITH THEIR ELDER BROTHER GOLDEN-EAGLE. THE LATTER DID NOT KNOW THAT   TH12100140
BALD-HEADED EAGLE HAD STOLEN HIS SWEETHEART.                          TH12100150
     ONE NIGHT THE BIRDS WERE UNABLE TO MAKE A FIRE IN THEIR LODGE,   TH12100160
SO GOLDEN-EAGLE SENT ONE OF THE SMALL BIRDS TO PROCURE A LIGHT FROM   TH12100170
BALD-HEADED EAGLE. THE BIRD PROCURED THE LIGHT, BUT ON THE WAY        TH12100180
BACK PUT IT OUT, AND, ENTERING THE HOUSE, WENT AND LAY DOWN. HE WAS   TH12100190
SORROWFUL AND WOULD NOT TALK, BECAUSE HE HAD SEEN HIS ELDER           TH12100200
BROTHER'S INTENDED WIFE IN BALD-HEAD'S HOUSE. THEN GOLDEN-EAGLE       TH12100210
SENT ANOTHER BIRD, WITH THE SAME RESULT. THE PEOPLE WONDERED WHAT     TH12100220
WAS THE MATTER, THAT EVERY MESSENGER ACTED THUS. THEN BLUEJAY WENT,   TH12100230
LOOKED IN AND SAW THE WOMAN. HE RETURNED AND SAID TO GOLDEN-EAGLE,    TH12100240
"YOUR YOUNGER BROTHERS SAW YOUR INTENDED WIFE IN BALD-HEADED EAGLE'S  TH12100250
HOUSE, THEREFORE THEY ACT THUS."                                      TH12100260
     THE BIRDS MADE UP THEIR MINDS TO TAKE THE WOMAN, AND LAID        TH12100270
THEIR PLANS ACCORDINGLY. THEY WENT OVER TO BALD-HEAD'S HOUSE AND      TH12100280
ENGAGED HIM IN A GAME OF LEHAL. WHILE THEY WERE PLAYING, BLUEJAY      TH12100290
PUT MUCH WOOD ON THE FIRE, SO THE PLACE BECAME VERY HOT. THE WOMAN    TH12100300
WENT OUTSIDE TO COOL HERSELF; AND GOLDEN-EAGLE AND TCI'XTCUXT,  WHO   TH12100310
WERE WAITING OUTSIDE, AT ONCE LED HER TO THEIR HOUSE, WHERE SHE       TH12100320
BECAME THE WIFE OF GOLDEN-EAGLE. BALD-HEAD WAS VERY WROTH WHEN HE     TH12100330
LEARNED THE TRICK THAT HAD BEEN PLAYED ON HIM: THEREFORE NEXT         TH12100340
MORNING HE DONNED HIS COLLAR OF WHITE BIRCH-BARK, WENT TO             TH12100350
GOLDEN-EAGLE'S HOUSE, AND CHALLENGED THE BIRDS. GOLDEN-EAGLE SENT     TH12100360
THE BIRDS OUT ONE AT A TIME TO FIGHT HIM, THE WEAKER AND SMALLER      TH12100370
ONES FIRST. THE WOMAN PAINTED THE FACE AND COMBED THE HAIR OF EACH    TH12100380
BIRD BEFORE HE WENT OUT TO BATTLE, BUT BALD-HEAD KILLED EACH ONE      TH12100390
IN TURN AFTER A VERY BRIEF CONTEST. NOW THERE WERE ONLY THREE LEFT.   TH12100400
THEN THE HA'TAHAT  WENT OUT, BUT AFTER A SEVERE FIGHT HE WAS          TH12100410
KILLED. NEXT GOLDEN-EAGLE WENT OUT HIMSELF, AND ENGAGED HIS ENEMY.    TH12100420
AFTER A SEVERE AND PROTRACTED STRUGGLE, HE WAS KILLED; BUT HE HAD     TH12100430
MANAGED TO BREAK THE BARK ARMOR OF HIS ANTAGONIST, SO HIS NECK WAS    TH12100440
NOW UNPROTECTED. THE WOMAN WEPT WHEN SHE SAW THAT HER HUSBAND HAD     TH12100450
BEEN KILLED. LAST OF ALL, THE TCI'XTCUXT WENT OUT. AFTER A LONG       TH12100460
FIGHT, HE MANAGED TO KILL AND BEHEAD BALD-HEADED EAGLE, BUT HE WAS    TH12100470
BADLY WOUNDED HIMSELF IN THE ENCOUNTER. THEN THE WOMAN BOUND UP       TH12100480
THE TCI'XTCUXT'S WOUNDS AND ASKED HIM TO PUT THE HEADS ON ALL THE     TH12100490
OTHER BIRDS. HE WENT OUTSIDE, AND, PASSING BY THE HEAD OF EACH OF     TH12100500
THE BIRDS IN TURN, THEIR HEADS JUMPED BACK TO THEIR BODIES, AND       TH12100510
THEY CAME TO LIFE AGAIN. THEY SAT UP AND SCRATCHED THEIR HEADS,       TH12100520
SAYING, "WE MUST HAVE BEEN ASLEEP A LONG TIME." HE DID NOT PASS BY    TH12100530
THE HEAD OF BALD-HEADED EAGLE, THEREFORE THE LATTER REMAINED DEAD     TH12100540
WHERE HE WAS.                                                         TH12100550
     SOME TIME AFTER THIS THE WOMAN BORE A SON TO GOLDEN-EAGLE.       TH12100560
WHEN THE BOY GREW UP, HE ASKED CONTINUALLY TO SEE HIS GRAND-PARENTS:  TH12100570
THEREFORE GOLDEN-EAGLE TOLD HIS WIFE TO TAKE HIM ON A VISIT TO HER    TH12100580
PARENTS. AFTER SHE HAD STARTED ON HER JOURNEY, THE HEAD OF THE DEAD   TH12100590
EAGLE FOLLOWED HER, AND AT NIGHT CRAWLED UP HER VAGINA. NEXT DAY,     TH12100600
AS SHE WAS TRAVELLING ALONG, SHE SAW A BAND OF DEER  ON A HILL        TH12100610
CLOSE BY. SHE SAID, "IF THERE WERE ONLY A MAN HERE TO KILL THEM]"     TH12100620
THEN EAGLE'S HEAD CAME OUT OF HER PRIVATES, AND SAID, "I AM A MAN,    TH12100630
AND WILL KILL THE DEER FOR YOU. WIPE ME WITH YOUR HAND." SHE WIPED    TH12100640
HIM AS DIRECTED, AND HE ROLLED OVER THE GROUND TO THE DEER, AND,      TH12100650
ENTERING THE BUTTOCKS OF ONE AFTER THE OTHER, KILLED THEM ALL.        TH12100660
THEN, ROLLING BACK AGAIN, HE ENTERED THE WOMAN AS BEFORE.             TH12100670
     AFTER SOME DAYS THE WOMAN REACHED HER PARENTS' HOUSE, AND        TH12100680
SHORTLY AFTERWARDS GAVE BIRTH TO TWO YOUNG BALD-HEADED EAGLETS        TH12100690
SHAPED LIKE EGGS. THESE FOLLOWED HER WHEREVER SHE WENT. SHE WAS       TH12100700
DESIROUS OF GETTING RID OF HER EGG-CHILDREN, AND ALSO OF EAGLE'S      TH12100710
HEAD, WHICH CONTINUALLY WENT OUT FROM AND CAME IN TO HER VAGINA;      TH12100720
SO SHE ASKED HER BROTHER'S ADVICE. HE TOLD HER TO SWEAT-BATHE, AND    TH12100730
WENT HIMSELF AND PREPARED A SWEAT-HOUSE FOR HER. WHEN HIS SISTER      TH12100740
ENTERED, HE MADE THE PLACE VERY HOT WITH STEAM, AND THE EGGS AND      TH12100750
HEAD BURST. THEN THEY TOOK THE HEAD AND TRANSFORMED IT, SAYING,       TH12100760
"YOU SHALL HENCEFORTH BE AN ORDINARY BALD-HEADED EAGLE, AND SHALL     TH12100770
NEVER AGAIN BE ABLE TO ENTER WOMAN'S PRIVATES OR MAKE HER PREGNANT."  TH12100780
***THO-178***
          BATTLE OF THE BIRDS     (UPPER UTA'MQT)                     TH12200010
     A WOMAN AND HER SISTER LIVED TOGETHER IN A CERTAIN COUNTRY,      TH12200020
AND IN THE NEIGHBORING COUNTRY WERE MANY MEN WHO ALL LIVED IN TWO     TH12200030
UNDERGROUND LODGES. IN ONE LODGE LIVED BALD-HEADED EAGLE,             TH12200040
FISH-HAWK, AND MOST OF THE SMALL BIRDS AND WATER-FOWL, WHILE THE      TH12200050
OTHER LODGE WAS OCCUPIED BY THE GOLDEN-EAGLE (HALA'U), CHICKEN-HAWK,  TH12200060
OWL, AND ALL THE LAND BIRDS OF PREY.                                  TH12200070
     ONE DAY THE WOMAN WAS WASHING HERSELF IN A STREAM, AND           TH12200080
BALD-HEADED EAGLE, HAPPENING TO SEE HER, APPROACHED HER AND ASKED     TH12200090
HER TO BECOME HIS WIFE. SHE CONSENTED, AND ACCOMPANIED HIM BACK TO    TH12200100
HIS HOUSE. WHEN GOLDEN-EAGLE AND THE HAWKS, ETC., LEARNED THAT THEIR  TH12200110
NEIGHBORS HAD A WOMAN IN THEIR HOUSE, THEY MADE UP THEIR MINDS TO     TH12200120
STEAL HER. NEXT NIGHT THEY VISITED BALD-HEAD'S HOUSE AND ENGAGED      TH12200130
THE OCCUPANTS IN A GAME OF LEHAL. SOME OF THEM PUT A GREAT DEAL OF    TH12200140
ADDITIONAL FUEL ON THE FIRE, AND MADE THE HOUSE SO HOT THAT THE       TH12200150
WOMAN HAD TO GO OUTSIDE TO COOL HERSELF. AS SHE WAS ON HER WAY TO     TH12200160
THE CREEK TO WASH HERSELF, GOLDEN-EAGLE POUNCED ON HER AND CARRIED    TH12200170
HER OFF TO HIS LODGE.                                                 TH12200180
     NEXT MORNING BALD-HEADED EAGLE REPAIRED WITH ALL HIS FOLLOWERS   TH12200190
TO THE HOUSE OF GOLDEN-EAGLE, AND CHALLENGED THE OCCUPANTS TO FIGHT.  TH12200200
THEN ALL THE INMATES, HEADED BY GOLDEN-EAGLE, CAME FORTH AND GAVE     TH12200210
THEM BATTLE. NOW A VERY SANGUINARY ENGAGEMENT TOOK PLACE, AND ALL     TH12200220
THE BIRDS ON BOTH SIDES WERE SLAIN, EXCEPTING TCI'XTCUXT, WHO ALONE   TH12200230
REMAINED ALIVE. BEING THE ONLY SURVIVOR OF THE CONFLICT, HE CLAIMED   TH12200240
THE WOMAN AS HIS WIFE; BUT SHE DID NOT CARE FOR HIM, AND AFTERWARDS   TH12200250
RAN AWAY FROM HIM. AS SHE PASSED OVER THE BATTLE-FIELD, SHE SAW THE   TH12200260
DEAD BODY OF BALD-HEADED EAGLE ON THE GROUND, AND URINATED ON HIS     TH12200270
HEAD.  CONTINUING HER JOURNEY TOWARDS HER SISTER'S HOUSE, SHE         TH12200280
BECAME AWARE THAT SHE WAS PREGNANT, AND SHORTLY AFTERWARDS GAVE       TH12200290
BIRTH TO TWO EGGS WHICH RESEMBLED BALD-HEADED EAGLE'S HEAD. THESE     TH12200300
ROLLED AFTER HER AS SHE WALKED. ON ARRIVING AT THE LODGE OF HER       TH12200310
SISTER, THE LATTER ASKED HER WHAT THESE EGGS WERE THAT FOLLOWED       TH12200320
HER. SHE ANSWERED, "THESE ARE MY CHILDREN." THEN HER SISTER THREW     TH12200330
THEM INTO THE FIRE, AND THEY BURST.                                   TH12200340
     NOW, AFTER THE WOMAN HAD DESERTED HIM, THE TCI'XTCUXT FELT       TH12200350
VERY LONELY, THEREFORE HE PUT THE HEAD OF EACH BIRD BACK AGAIN ON     TH12200360
ITS BODY, AND THEY ALL BECAME ALIVE AGAIN.                            TH12200370
***THO-179***
          WREN   (TSETSO')     (UPPER AND LOWER UTA'MQT)              TH12300010
     THE PEOPLE OF THE UPPER WORLD (OR SKY COUNTRY) STOLE THE WIFE    TH12300020
OF SWAN, WHO WAS VERY ANGRY AT THIS OUTRAGE AND CALLED ALL THE        TH12300030
PEOPLE OF THE EARTH TO A COUNCIL. THEY AGREED TO MAKE WAR ON THE      TH12300040
SKY PEOPLE, AND, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SWAN, THEY ALL GATHERED       TH12300050
TOGETHER WITH THEIR BOWS AND ARROWS. THEN THEY FIRED ARROWS AT THE    TH12300060
SKY, BUT ALL THEIR ARROWS FELL SHORT.                                 TH12300070
     AFTER THEY HAD ALL TRIED IT, WREN FIRED AN ARROW. THE PEOPLE     TH12300080
WATCHED IT ASCEND UNTIL LOST TO VIEW; BUT, ALTHOUGH THEY WAITED FOR   TH12300090
SOME TIME, IT NEVER CAME DOWN AGAIN. IT HAD STUCK IN THE SKY. THEN    TH12300100
WREN FIRED ANOTHER ARROW, WHICH ALSO DISAPPEARED AND DID NOT COME     TH12300110
DOWN AGAIN. IT HAD STUCK IN THE NOCK OF THE FIRST ONE. AFTER HE HAD   TH12300120
FIRED MANY ARROWS, THE PEOPLE AT LAST SAW THE ARROWS STICKING ONE     TH12300130
IN THE END OF THE OTHER, LIKE A CHAIN SUSPENDED FROM THE SKY.         TH12300140
     WREN CONTINUED FIRING ARROWS WITH THE SAME RESULT, UNTIL AT      TH12300150
LAST THE ARROW-CHAIN REACHED THE EARTH. THEN ALL THE PEOPLE ASCENDED  TH12300160
ONE BEHIND ANOTHER OVER THE CHAIN OF ARROWS, AND, ENTERING  THE       TH12300170
UPPER WORLD, THEY FOUGHT THE SKY PEOPLE, SOME OF WHOM CONSISTED       TH12300180
OF GRISLIES, BLACK BEARS, AND ELKS. A GREAT BATTLE WAS FOUGHT, IN     TH12300190
WHICH THE SKY PEOPLE WERE VICTORIOUS, AND THE EARTH PEOPLE BEGAN      TH12300200
TO RETREAT IN GREAT HASTE DOWN OVER THE CHAIN OF ARROWS. WHEN         TH12300210
ABOUT HALF THE PEOPLE HAD REACHED THE BOTTOM, THE CHAIN BROKE IN      TH12300220
THE MIDDLE, AND MANY WERE KILLED BY THE FALL. OTHERS, WHO WERE ON     TH12300230
THE CHAIN ABOVE WHERE IT BROKE, HAD TO ASCEND AGAIN, AND WERE         TH12300240
EITHER KILLED OR MADE PRISONERS BY THE SKY PEOPLE. THOSE WHO          TH12300250
REACHED THE EARTH REPRESENT THE PEOPLE, ANIMALS, BIRDS, AND FISHES    TH12300260
TO BE FOUND ON THE EARTH AT THE PRESENT DAY. THERE WERE FORMERLY      TH12300270
OTHER DIFFERENT ANIMALS AND BIRDS ON THE EARTH, BUT THEY WERE         TH12300280
KILLED IN THIS WAR OR REMAIN IN THE SKY TO THIS DAY.                  TH12300290
***THO-180***
          HARE AND GRISLY BEAR       (UPPER UTA'MQT)                  TH12400010
     HARE LIVED WITH HIS OLD GRANDMOTHER IN AN UNDERGROUND LODGE      TH12400020
ON ONE SIDE OF A LARGE RIVER, WHILE ON THE OTHER SIDE LIVED GRISLY    TH12400030
BEAR AND HER FAMILY. ONE DAY HARE WAS ENGAGED MAKING A                TH12400040
DOUBLE-POINTED DAGGER (NKATCI'NTIN)  OF STONE; AND GRISLY BEAR,       TH12400050
COMING ALONG, ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS DOING. HE SAID, "I AM MAKING      TH12400060
A TOY TO PLAY WITH." GRISLY BEAR LITTLE KNEW THAT HE INTENDED TO      TH12400070
USE THE WEAPON ON HER.                                                TH12400080
     HARE WAS HARD UP FOR FOOD, SO HE WENT ACROSS THE RIVER ONE       TH12400090
NIGHT AND STOLE GRISLY BEAR'S STORES OF DRIED SALMON. HE CARRIED      TH12400100
THEM HOME AND BURIED THEM UNDERNEATH THE FLOOR OF HIS LODGE. GRISLY   TH12400110
BEAR SUSPECTED HARE OF THE THEFT, SO SHE VISITED HIS LODGE TO SEE     TH12400120
IF SHE COULD FIND ANY TRACE OF THE STOLEN PROVISIONS. HARE SAT DOWN   TH12400130
ON THE TOP OF THE HOLE HE HAD THE FISH IN, SO THAT GRISLY BEAR        TH12400140
MIGHT NOT SEE THAT THE EARTH HAD BEEN DISTURBED THERE. GRISLY BEAR    TH12400150
STAID A WHILE IN THE LODGE, CONVERSING WITH HARE, WHO WAS ENGAGED     TH12400160
FILING HIS DOUBLE-POINTED DAGGER TO A SHARP POINT; BUT, AS SHE DID    TH12400170
NOT SEE ANY TRACE OF THE STOLEN PROPERTY IN THE LODGE, SHE PREPARED   TH12400180
TO LEAVE. JUST AS SHE WAS LEAVING, HARE SAID TO HER, "WHY DID YOU     TH12400190
SAY THAT I SHOULD SELL MY HEAD-BAND OF HARE-SKIN TO MY NIECES OR      TH12400200
AUNTS TO WEAR WHEN MAKING BASKETS?" GRISLY BEAR DENIED THE CHARGE,    TH12400210
AND HARE CALLED HER A LIAR, AND SHE RETORTED BY CALLING HIM A THIEF   TH12400220
AND ACCUSING HIM OF STEALING HER DRIED FISH.                          TH12400230
     THUS THEY QUARRELLED, AND THEN THEY FOUGHT. HARE WAS MUCH        TH12400240
QUICKER THAN GRISLY BEAR, AND STABBED HER OFTEN WITH HIS WEAPON,      TH12400250
WHILE HE ALWAYS MANAGED TO EVADE HER BLOWS. AT LAST HE GOT OUT OF     TH12400260
BREATH, AND CALLED ON HIS GRANDMOTHER TO THROW THE PITCH-WOOD INTO    TH12400270
THE FIRE, BECAUSE GRISLY BEAR WAS GETTING THE BETTER OF HIM. THE      TH12400280
OLD WOMAN DID AS DIRECTED, AND THE HOUSE BECAME FILLED WITH SMOKE.    TH12400290
NOW GRISLY BEAR COULD HARDLY SEE OR BREATHE, AND HARE SOON            TH12400300
DISPATCHED HER WITH HIS WEAPON. HE SKINNED HER AND HUNG UP THE        TH12400310
CARCASS. THE FOLLOWING NIGHT HE CROSSED THE RIVER AND MURDERED ALL    TH12400320
HER CHILDREN EXCEPT ONE THAT MANAGED TO ESCAPE.                       TH12400330
     SOME TIME AFTERWARDS HARE TOLD HIS GRANDMOTHER TO WASH HERSELF,  TH12400340
TO COMB HER HAIR, AND TO PAINT HER FACE. THEN, TAKING A FANCY TO      TH12400350
HER, HE HAD SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH HER, WHICH KILLED HER. SOME       TH12400360
TIME AFTERWARDS HE WAS SITTING ON THE TOP OF HIS LODGE, WHEN DUCK     TH12400370
FLEW BY. HE ASKED HER IF SHE HAD ANY NEWS, TO WHICH SHE ANSWERED      TH12400380
IN THE NEGATIVE. NEXT DAY SHE FLEW BY AGAIN, AND HE ASKED HER THE     TH12400390
SAME QUESTION. ON THE FOURTH DAY HE REPEATED HIS QUERY; AND DUCK,     TH12400400
WHO WAS ANNOYED AT HIS REPEATED QUESTIONS, ANSWERED, "YES, I HAVE     TH12400410
NEWS. HARE HAD SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH HIS OLD GRANDMOTHER AND        TH12400420
KILLED HER." HARE WAS ASHAMED, AND WENT DOWN INTO HIS LODGE WITHOUT   TH12400430
SPEAKING.                                                             TH12400440
***THO-181***
          BLUEJAY   (KWO'KSKWA OR KAUWE'YAATA)   (LOWER UTA'MQT)      TH12500010
     A MAN CALLED BLUEJAY (KWO'KSKWA OR KAUWE'YAATA ) LIVED WITH      TH12500020
HIS TWO NEPHEWS. THEIR FOREFATHERS AND ALL THEIR RELATIVES HAD BEEN   TH12500030
KILLED BY A NUMEROUS PEOPLE, WHO WERE THEIR ENEMIES. BLUEJAY MADE     TH12500040
HIS NEPHEWS TRAIN THEMSELVES AS WARRIORS; AND WHEN HE THOUGHT THEY    TH12500050
WERE PROFICIENT, HE SAID TO THEM, "TRAIN YOURSELVES FOR FOUR DAYS     TH12500060
LONGER, AND THEN WE WILL TAKE THE WARPATH AGAINST OUR ENEMIES, WHO    TH12500070
HAVE KILLED ALL OUR PEOPLE. WE WILL FIGHT OUR FOREFATHERS' ENEMIES,   TH12500080
AND WILL AVENGE THE SLAUGHTER OF OUR RELATIVES. WE WILL NEED ALL      TH12500090
OUR SKILL AND 'MYSTERY', BECAUSE OUR ENEMIES ARE NUMEROUS,            TH12500100
WATCHFUL, AND WARLIKE."                                               TH12500110
     THEN BLUEJAY TIED HIS HAIR IN A KNOT ON THE TOP OF HIS HEAD,     TH12500120
AND SAT DOWN, NEVER MOVING FOR FOUR DAYS. AT THE END OF THAT TIME,    TH12500130
ALL THREE STARTED FOR THE ENEMIES' COUNTRY, WHICH WAS DISTANT, AND    TH12500140
SITUATED ON THE FARTHER SIDE OF A LARGE RIVER AND A LAKE. THE         TH12500150
PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE WERE THE ELKS, GRISLIES, DEER, GOATS,          TH12500160
BIGHORN-SHEEP,  AND OTHER ANIMALS; AND THESE WERE ALL THEIR           TH12500170
ENEMIES. GRISLY AND ELK WERE SCOUTS, AND CONSTANTLY ROAMED THROUGH    TH12500180
THE HILLS BETWEEN BLUEJAY'S COUNTRY AND THEIR OWN, SO AS TO GUARD     TH12500190
AGAINST SURPRISE, AND TO INTERCEPT ANY WAR-PARTIES WHICH MIGHT        TH12500200
VENTURE THITHER. BLUEJAY AND HIS NEPHEWS, HOWEVER, MANAGED TO         TH12500210
AVOID THE SCOUTS, AND AT LAST REACHED THE RIVER. HERE HE TOLD HIS     TH12500220
COMPANIONS TO WAIT WHILE HE TRIED THE RIVER. HE WALKED INTO THE       TH12500230
WATER AND DISAPPEARED, BUT BEFORE LONG EMERGED ON THE OTHER SIDE.     TH12500240
HE HAD WALKED ACROSS THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER. THEN HE RETURNED THE    TH12500250
SAME WAY, AND, GIVING HIS NEPHEWS A STICK TO HOLD ON TO, WHILE HE     TH12500260
HELD THE OTHER END HIMSELF, THEY ENTERED THE RIVER, AND, WALKING      TH12500270
ALONG THE BOTTOM UNDER WATER, AT LAST SAFELY REACHED THE OPPOSITE     TH12500280
BANK. WHEN THEY CAME WITHIN SIGHT OF THE LAKE, BLUEJAY TOLD HIS       TH12500290
NEPHEWS TO SIT DOWN WHILE HE WENT TO RECONNOITRE.                     TH12500300
     AS HE REACHED THE LAKE, A LARGE MAN WITH VERY LONG HAIR          TH12500310
EMERGED FROM THE WATER. BLUEJAY STRUCK HIM WITH HIS SPEAR, AND THE    TH12500320
MAN AT ONCE SANK INTO THE LAKE, DRAGGING AFTER HIM THE SPEAR AND      TH12500330
BLUEJAY, WHO WOULD NOT LET GO. THEN THE WATERS OF THE LAKE BECAME     TH12500340
AGITATED AND MUDDY, FOR THE MAN AND BLUEJAY WERE FIGHTING AT THE      TH12500350
BOTTOM. AT LAST BLUEJAY KILLED THE MAN, AND DREW THE BODY OUT ON THE  TH12500360
SANDY LAKE-SHORE. THEN HE SANG AND DANCED AROUND THE BODY OF HIS      TH12500370
VICTIM BECAUSE OF HIS VICTORY. HE CALLED ON HIS NEPHEWS TO COME;      TH12500380
AND WHEN THEY ARRIVED, HE CUT OFF THE MAN'S SCALP. THEN THEY TOOK     TH12500390
THE HAIR OF THE SCALP AND TIED SOME OF IT TO THEIR SPEARS, TO THE     TH12500400
HANDLES OF THEIR KNIVES, AND TO THE HEADS OF THEIR ARROWS.            TH12500410
     AT LAST THEY CAME WITHIN SIGHT OF THE ABODE OF THEIR ENEMIES.    TH12500420
IT WAS A LARGE, LONG HOUSE OF STONE, SITUATED AT THE BOTTOM OF A      TH12500430
HIGH CLIFF, AND IT HAD THREE DOORS. THEY HID THEMSELVES UNTIL NEAR    TH12500440
DAY-BREAK NEXT MORNING, WHEN THEY MADE AN ATTACK AND BURST IN THE     TH12500450
DOORS. BLUEJAY ENTERED BY THE MIDDLE DOOR, WHILE HIS NEPHEWS          TH12500460
ENTERED BY THE TWO END ONES. THEY TOOK THE PEOPLE BY SURPRISE AND     TH12500470
KILLED A GREAT MANY, BUT THE SURVIVORS SOON ARMED THEMSELVES AND      TH12500480
DROVE THE INTRUDERS OUT. THE TWO NEPHEWS WERE SLAIN, AND BLUEJAY      TH12500490
HAD TO FLEE FOR HIS LIFE. HIS PURSUERS RAPIDLY GAINED ON HIM, AND     TH12500500
HE TOOK REFUGE IN THE MIDDLE OF A THICKET OF BUSHES. HERE HE WAS      TH12500510
SURROUNDED. SOME OF THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO CUT DOWN THE BUSHES,  WHILE   TH12500520
OTHERS KEPT THRUSTING AT HIM WITH THEIR SPEARS BETWEEN THE BUSHES.    TH12500530
IN HIS EXTREMITY HE CALLED  ON THE BIRD BLUEJAY TO HELP HIM. THE      TH12500540
BIRD CAME TO HIS RESCUE, AND, ATTACKING THE ENEMY FIERCELY, MADE      TH12500550
THEM TAKE FLIGHT. THEY FLED TO THE CLIFFS FOR SAFETY. THEN BLUEJAY    TH12500560
AND THE BIRD REVIVED THE NEPHEWS BY WALKING PAST THEIR HEADS OR       TH12500570
JUMPING OVER THEIR BODIES. THEY CAME TO LIFE AGAIN, AND SAID, "WE     TH12500580
MUST HAVE SLEPT A LONG TIME]" BUT BLUEJAY SAID, "YES] YOU HAVE BEEN   TH12500590
ASLEEP, HAVE YOU, WHY? YOU WERE DEAD AND WE HAVE BROUGHT YOU TO       TH12500600
LIFE AGAIN."                                                          TH12500610
     AFTER THIS THEY ALL STARTED ON THEIR JOURNEY HOME. AS SOON AS    TH12500620
THEY HAD SAFELY PASSED BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE ENEMIES'          TH12500630
COUNTRY, THE BIRD BLUEJAY LEFT THEM. THE OTHERS CONTINUED THEIR       TH12500640
JOURNEY, AND WHEN NEAR HOME, BLUEJAY SAID, "LET US GO HUNTING] YOU    TH12500650
GO UP OVER THAT HILLSIDE AND LOOK FOR GAME, WHILE I WILL GO IN        TH12500660
THIS OTHER DIRECTION." TO THIS PROPOSITION THE NEPHEWS ASSENTED,      TH12500670
AND ACCORDINGLY THEY SEPARATED. THEY WENT UP OVER OPPOSITE            TH12500680
HILL-SIDES; BUT BEFORE THEY HAD ASCENDED VERY FAR, THEY TURNED        TH12500690
AROUND TOWARDS EACH OTHER, AND TRIED TO TRANSFORM EACH OTHER. IN      TH12500700
THIS THEY SUCCEEDED AT LAST; FOR BLUEJAY CHANGED HIS NEPHEWS INTO     TH12500710
WOLVES, SAYING, "YOU SHALL BE WOLVES AND HUNT ALL YOUR DAYS, AND      TH12500720
YOUR OFFSPRING SHALL ALWAYS BE WOLVES AND SHALL ALWAYS HUNT." THE     TH12500730
NEPHEWS CHANGED BLUEJAY INTO A BIRD, SAYING, "YOU AND YOUR            TH12500740
OFFSPRING SHALL ALWAYS BE BLUEJAYS, AND YOU SHALL NEVER BE ABLE TO    TH12500750
KILL GAME BY HUNTING, BUT WILL ALWAYS HAVE TO DEPEND ON WHAT YOU      TH12500760
CAN STEAL, AND ON THE REFUSE OF GAME LEFT BY HUNTERS."                TH12500770
***THO-182***
          XE'NIAX     (LOWER UTA'MQT)                                 TH12600010
     AN OLD WOMAN LIVED WITH HER TWO GRAND-DAUGHTERS, -- THE ELDER    TH12600020
NAMED WE'LATCK, AND THE YOUNGER STATA'GA. SHE TAUGHT THEM HOW TO      TH12600030
MAKE BASKETS, AND HOW TO PERFORM ALL SORTS OF WORK REQUIRED BY        TH12600040
WOMEN. THE YOUNGER ONE WAS AN APT PUPIL, AND SOON LEARNED TO DO ALL   TH12600050
SORTS OF WORK WELL; BUT THE ELDER ONE WAS CARELESS, AND NEVER         TH12600060
LEARNED TO MAKE ANYTHING PROPERLY. THERE WAS THUS A GREAT             TH12600070
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO GIRLS' HANDWORK. ONE DAY THE GRANDMOTHER   TH12600080
SAID TO THE GIRLS, "I HAVE BEEN REARING YOU CAREFULLY, AND TEACHING   TH12600090
YOU, SO AS TO FIT YOU TO BECOME USEFUL WIVES. BEFORE LONG I SHALL     TH12600100
SEND YOU TO A DISTANT COUNTRY TO MARRY TWO BROTHERS, WHO ARE GREAT    TH12600110
MEN, AND HUNTERS." WE'LATCK WAS GLAD AT THIS NEWS, BUT STATA'GA       TH12600120
SAID NOTHING.                                                         TH12600130
     SOME TIME AFTER THIS THE GRANDMOTHER TOLD THE GIRLS THAT THE     TH12600140
TIME HAD ARRIVED WHEN THEY SHOULD GO TO THEIR HUSBANDS. SHE SAID,     TH12600150
"THE BROTHERS YOU ARE TO MARRY ARE OWL AND EAGLE, WHO LIVE IN A       TH12600160
HOUSE TO THE EAST (OR UP THE RIVER).  SHE DIRECTED THEM HOW TO        TH12600170
FIND THE PLACE, AND SAID, "WHEN YOU ENTER THE HOUSE, YOU WILL SEE     TH12600180
THE HAIRY LEGS OF OWL BELOW, AND THE LEGS OF EAGLE ABOVE THEIR        TH12600190
RESPECTIVE PLACES, LIKE RAINBOWS. THE YOUNGER ONE OF YOU WILL SIT     TH12600200
DOWN UNDER EAGLE'S LEGS, AND THE ELDER UNDER OWL'S LEGS. YOU WILL     TH12600210
ALSO FIND YOUR HUSBANDS' FIERCE DOGS TIED UP OUTSIDE THE HOUSE;       TH12600220
BUT IF YOU THROW THE MEDICINE ON THEM THAT I GIVE YOU, THEY WILL      TH12600230
BECOME TAME AND LET YOU PASS."                                        TH12600240
     NOW, THE GIRLS STARTED ON THEIR JOURNEY, EACH OF THEM CARRYING   TH12600250
A LARGE BASKETFUL OF DRIED ROOTS AND BERRIES. WHEN THEY REACHED       TH12600260
THE HOUSE, THEY FOUND THE FOUR DOGS TIED OUTSIDE. THEY WERE           TH12600270
RATTLESNAKE,  GRISLY BEAR, BLACK BEAR, AND WOLF. THEY WERE VERY       TH12600280
FIERCE, AND WISHED TO ATTACK THE WOMEN; BUT THE LATTER THREW          TH12600290
MEDICINE INTO THEIR MOUTHS, SO THAT THEY COULD NOT BITE AND BECAME    TH12600300
TAME. WHEN THEY ENTERED THE UNDERGROUND HOUSE, THEY SAW THE LEGS OR   TH12600310
PICTURES  OF OWL LOW DOWN ON ONE SIDE, AND THAT OF EAGLE HIGHER       TH12600320
UP ON THE OTHER SIDE; SO WE'LATCK SAT DOWN IN OWL'S PLACE, AND        TH12600330
STATA'GA IN EAGLE'S PLACE.                                            TH12600340
     THE MEN WERE OUT HUNTING, BUT THEY HAD NOT WAITED LONG BEFORE    TH12600350
THEY HEARD THE GIRLS COMING. OWL WAS WALKING AHEAD CRYING LIKE        TH12600360
AN OWL, AND SAYING, "SOME ONE SITS IN OUR HOUSE." WE'LATCK BECAME     TH12600370
AFRAID, AND WISHED TO SIT DOWN BESIDE HER SISTER; BUT THE LATTER      TH12600380
TOLD HER TO STAY WHERE SHE WAS AND KEEP QUIET. OWL, ENTERING, SAT     TH12600390
BESIDE HIS WIFE; AND EAGLE, FOLLOWING, WENT TO HIS PLACE, AND SAT     TH12600400
DOWN BESIDE STATA'GA. OWL BOILED SOME VENISON; BUT IT COULD NOT BE    TH12600410
EATEN, AS HE HAD KILLED A VERY POOR DEER, AND THE MEAT WAS            TH12600420
EXTREMELY TOUGH. THEN EAGLE BOILED SOME OF HIS VENISON, WHICH WAS     TH12600430
VERY NICE AND TENDER, BECAUSE HE HAD KILLED A FAT DEER. NOW, OWL'S    TH12600440
WIFE TOOK ROOTS FROM HER PACK AND MADE SOUP,  BUT IT WAS SO THIN      TH12600450
AND WATERY THAT IT WAS UNFIT TO BE EATEN. THEN EAGLE'S WIFE TOOK      TH12600460
ROOTS FROM HER PACK AND ALSO MADE SOUP; AND IT WAS VERY GOOD,         TH12600470
BECAUSE SHE KNEW HOW TO COOK IT PROPERLY. THUS THE WOMEN STAID        TH12600480
WITH THEIR HUSBANDS FOR MANY MONTHS. THEY ALWAYS FED THE DOGS, AND,   TH12600490
WHEN DOING SO, USED TO JUMP OVER THEM: SO THE DOGS EVENTUALLY         TH12600500
BECAME QUITE GENTLE, AND VERY FOND OF THE WOMEN.                      TH12600510
     AFTER A TIME BOTH WOMEN GAVE BIRTH TO CHILDREN. OWL'S CHILD      TH12600520
WAS A FROG, AND EAGLE'S A BOY. NOW THEIR HUSBANDS WENT HUNTING, AND   TH12600530
DID NOT RETURN: SO, AFTER TWO DAYS AND TWO NIGHTS HAD ELAPSED,        TH12600540
THEIR WIVES BECAME VERY ANXIOUS ABOUT THEM, AND PREPARED TO GO IN     TH12600550
SEARCH OF THEM. THEY HAD BEEN TAKEN BY A WOMAN CALLED XE'NIAX, WHO    TH12600560
LIVED IN THE MOUNTAINS AND STOLE MEN. SHE IS DESCRIBED AS HAVING      TH12600570
NO HAIR AT ALL ON HER HEAD OR ON ANY PART OF HER BODY. ANY MEN SHE    TH12600580
CAPTURED BECAME POWERLESS, WEAK, AND INDOLENT: SO THEY WOULD          TH12600590
NEITHER HUNT NOR WORK, NOR DID THEY HAVE ANY AMBITION TO HELP         TH12600600
THEMSELVES, OR DESIRE LEFT TO ESCAPE.                                 TH12600610
     AFTER MAKING A MINIATURE FAWN, BOW AND ARROWS, FOR EAGLE'S       TH12600620
SON TO PLAY WITH DURING THEIR ABSENCE, AND LEAVING FOOD AND WATER     TH12600630
WITH HIM, THE WOMEN DEPARTED, TAKING THE FROG ALONG WITH THEM. HIS    TH12600640
MOTHER CARRIED HIM ON HER BACK. AT LAST THEY STRUCK THE TRAIL OF      TH12600650
THE WOMAN AND HER PRISONERS, AND FOLLOWED IT UP. OWL HAD PLUCKED      TH12600660
THE FEATHERS OUT OF HIS BODY ONE BY ONE, AND DROPPED THEM AS THEY     TH12600670
WENT ALONG FOR A SIGN. WHEN HE HAD FINISHED ALL HIS FEATHERS, EAGLE   TH12600680
HAD DONE LIKEWISE WITH HIS, SO THEY FOLLOWED THE TRACK EASILY.        TH12600690
COMING TO A LAKE, THEY SAW THE LINE OF EAGLES' FEATHERS RIGHT         TH12600700
ACROSS: SO THEY PLACED THE FROG IN THE WATER, AND, GETTING ON HIS     TH12600710
BACK, THEY CROSSED OVER. THEY FOLLOWED THE FEATHERS UNTIL THEY CAME   TH12600720
TO THE TOP OF A VERY STEEP CLIFF, WHERE THEY SAW XE'NIAX'S HOUSE.     TH12600730
THEY ENTERED AND FOUND IT FILLED WITH MEN WHO WERE MOSTLY LYING       TH12600740
DOWN. THOSE SHE HAD CAPTURED RECENTLY WERE NEAREST TO HER, AND THE    TH12600750
OLDEST ONES FARTHEST AWAY. THEY WERE THUS IN ROTATION ACCORDING TO    TH12600760
TIME OF CAPTURE, -- THOSE SHE HAD CAPTURED FIRST BEING AT THE FAR     TH12600770
END OF THE ROW, AND THOSE OF RECENT DATE NEAREST TO HER, -- THE       TH12600780
LATEST CAPTIVE HAVING TO SLEEP BESIDE HER UNTIL SHE CAUGHT THE NEXT   TH12600790
ONE. OWL AND THE EAGLE WERE LYING ONE ON EACH SIDE OF HER.            TH12600800
     AFTER PLACING THE FROG AT THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF TO HELP THEM,    TH12600810
THEY ATTACKED XE'NIAX. THEY HAD A FIERCE STRUGGLE, AND SEVERAL        TH12600820
TIMES WERE SHOVED TO THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF BY XE'NIAX; BUT THE FROG   TH12600830
PUSHED THEM BACK AGAIN. XE'NIAX HAD KILLED WOMEN BEFORE, WHO HAD      TH12600840
COME AFTER THEIR HUSBANDS, BY THROWING THEM OVER THE CLIFF. THE       TH12600850
FOURTH TIME, AS THEY STRUGGLED NEAR THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF, THE        TH12600860
FROG GAVE XE'NIAX A SHOVE, AND SHE FELL OVER TO THE BOTTOM.           TH12600870
THINKING THAT SHE WAS KILLED, THE WIVES RUSHED IN AND TOLD THE MEN    TH12600880
TO MAKE READY TO DEPART, FOR THEY HAD KILLED XE'NIAX; BUT THEY WERE   TH12600890
JUST PUTTING ON THEIR MOCCASINS WHEN SHE APPEARED QUITE UNHARMED      TH12600900
AFTER THE FALL.                                                       TH12600910
     THE WIVES STAID THERE THREE DAYS, AND EACH DAY THEY FOUGHT       TH12600920
WITH XE'NIAX, BUT EACH TIME WITH LIKE RESULTS. ON THE FOURTH DAY      TH12600930
XE'NIAX SAID TO THE WOMEN, "WHAT NICE LONG HAIR YOU HAVE] I WISH I    TH12600940
HAD HAIR LIKE YOU]" SHE HAD NO HAIR ON HER HEAD WHATEVER. THEY        TH12600950
ANSWERED, "WE MAKE OUR OWN HAIR. IT IS A VERY SIMPLE MATTER, AND      TH12600960
WE CAN SOON MAKE SOME FOR YOU QUITE AS LONG AND THICK AS OUR OWN."    TH12600970
XE'NIAX AT ONCE ACCEPTED THE OFFER, AS SHE WAS VERY ANXIOUS TO HAVE   TH12600980
HAIR ON HER HEAD, AND WAS ENVIOUS OF THE WOMEN'S LONG TRESSES. THE    TH12600990
SISTERS SIAD, "FETCH IN FOUR STONES AND SOME PITCH,  AND WE WILL      TH12601000
SOON MAKE PLENTY OF HAIR FOR YOU." WHEN SHE HAD BROUGHT THE STONES    TH12601010
AND PITCH, THE WOMEN LIGHTED A FIRE AND HEATED THE STONES             TH12601020
RED-HOT. THEY TOLD HER TO LIE DOWN AND SMEARED HER HEAD WITH THE      TH12601030
PITCH. NOW ONE SISTER HELD HER HEAD UP, WHILE THE OTHER ONE PUT A     TH12601040
RED-HOT STONE ON TOP OF HER HEAD. THE MELTING PITCH RAN DOWN OVER     TH12601050
XE'NIAX'S FACE AND NECK, AND SHE BEGAN TO WINCE; BUT THEY TOLD HER    TH12601060
TO REMAIN QUIET, FOR HER HAIR WAS ALREADY STARTING TO GROW. THE       TH12601070
WOMAN WHO WAS HOLDING HER LET HER OWN HAIR FALL DOWN ON XE'NIAX'S     TH12601080
SHOULDERS, AND ASKED HER TO FEEL HOW LONG HER HAIR HAD GROWN          TH12601090
ALREADY. WHEN THE SECOND RED-HOT STONE WAS PUT ON, XE'NIAX BEGAN      TH12601100
TO STRUGGLE; BUT THEY TOLD HER TO KEEP QUIET AND NOT TO MOVE. THE     TH12601110
WOMAN WHO WAS HOLDING HER LET HER OWN HAIR REACH DOWN TO XE'NIAX'S    TH12601120
WAIST, AND, ASKING HER TO FEEL OF IT, SAID, "SEE HOW LONG YOUR HAIR   TH12601130
HAS BECOME] ANOTHER STONE, AND IT WILL REACH YOUR HEELS." XE'NIAX     TH12601140
WAS SATISFIED, AND LAY STILL. THEN THEY PUT ON THE THIRD STONE,       TH12601150
WHICH BURNED RIGHT THROUGH THE CROWN OF HER HEAD; AND IMMEDIATELY     TH12601160
AFTERWARDS THE FOURTH ONE, WHICH BURNED THROUGH AND DROPPED INTO      TH12601170
HER INSIDE, SO THAT SHE DIED. THEY THREW HER BODY OVER THE CLIFF,     TH12601180
AND PRONOUNCED JUDGMENT ON HER, SAYING, "HEREAFTER YOU SHALL ONLY     TH12601190
BE AN 'EARTH MYSTERY' (XAXAO'IMUX),  AND SHALL NEVER AGAIN BE ABLE    TH12601200
TO SEDUCE AND STEAL MEN."                                             TH12601210
     THEN THE WOMEN WENT GATHERING ROOTS, AND FEASTED ALL THE MEN,    TH12601220
WHO AFTERWARDS WENT TO THEIR RESPECTIVE HOMES; BUT SOME OF THEM       TH12601230
WHO HAD BEEN WITH XE'NIAX MANY YEARS, FOUND, ON REACHING HOME, THAT   TH12601240
SEVERAL GENERATIONS HAD PASSED DURING THEIR ABSENCE. THE HUSBANDS     TH12601250
WENT BACK WITH THEIR WIVES TO THEIR HOUSE, AND FOLLOWED THEIR USUAL   TH12601260
AVOCATION OF HUNTING.                                                 TH12601270
     EAGLE'S CHILD BEGAN TO CRY FOR HIS GRANDMOTHER: SO THE FATHER    TH12601280
ASKED THE WOMEN IF THEY HAD A MOTHER, TO WHICH THEY ANSWERED IN THE   TH12601290
AFFIRMATIVE, SO HE TOLD THEM TO TAKE THE BOY BACK TO THEIR COUNTRY    TH12601300
TO SEE HIS GRANDMOTHER. HE SAID, "ON YOUR WAY BACK YOU WILL COME      TH12601310
TO WHERE THE TRAIL DIVIDES. TAKE THE ORDINARY ONE, AND AVOID THE      TH12601320
ONE PAINTED RED, BECAUSE IT WILL LEAD YOU TO A COUNTRY INHABITED      TH12601330
BY BAD PEOPLE AND CANNIBALS."                                         TH12601340
     THE WOMEN STARTED OFF ON THEIR JOURNEY, STATA'GA CARRYING THE    TH12601350
BOY, AND HER SISTER CARRYING THE FROG. WHEN THEY CAME TO WHERE THE    TH12601360
TRAIL DIVIDED, THEY HAD A DISPUTE AS TO WHICH WAS THE TRAIL THEY      TH12601370
HAD BEEN TOLD TO FOLLOW, AND EVENTUALLY SET OUT ON THE RED TRAIL.     TH12601380
AFTER TRAVELLING SOME DISTANCE, THEY CAME TO A HOUSE INHABITED BY     TH12601390
UNCANNY PEOPLE (XAXA).  THESE PEOPLE SHOVED THEM INTO A LARGE         TH12601400
COPPER KETTLE, AND PUT THEM ON THE FIRE TO BOIL. THE CANNIBALS LEFT   TH12601410
THEM THERE TO COOK, AND RETIRED FOR THE NIGHT, EXPECTING TO EAT       TH12601420
THEM FOR BREAKFAST NEXT MORNING. THE FROG WAS LOWERMOST IN THE        TH12601430
KETTLE, AND MADE A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM, THROUGH WHICH HE URINATED      TH12601440
ON THE FIRE, SO THAT IT WENT OUT UNDERNEATH THE KETTLE, AND THEY      TH12601450
DID NOT BOIL. AT MIDNIGHT THEY CAME OUT OF THE KETTLE AND FLED.       TH12601460
     NEXT MORNING THE CANNIBALS, FINDING THEY HAD ESCAPED, GAVE       TH12601470
CHASE, AND SOON CAME UP WITH THEM ON A PIECE OF OPEN, FLAT GROUND.    TH12601480
WHEN THEY SAW THEY WERE NEARLY OVERTAKEN, WE'LATCK SAID TO THE        TH12601490
FROG, "HAVE YOU NO PUBIC HAIR?"  HE SAID, "NO, HAVE YOU ANY?" SHE     TH12601500
ANSWERED, "YES, I HAVE FOUR." HE SAID, "GIVE THEM TO ME." SO HIS      TH12601510
MOTHER GAVE HIM THE FOUR HAIRS, WHICH HE THREW ON THE GROUND, AND     TH12601520
AT ONCE THERE SPRANG UP FOUR LARGE YELLOW-PINE TREES (PINUS           TH12601530
PONDEROSA),  CLOSE TOGETHER. THEY ALL CLIMBED UP INTO ONE OF THESE;   TH12601540
AND THE CANNIBALS, REACHING THE BOTTOM, AT ONCE BEGAN TO CHOP IT      TH12601550
DOWN. WHEN IT WAS NEARLY DOWN, THEY JUMPED INTO THE BRANCHES OF THE   TH12601560
SECOND ONE, AND THE CANNIBALS BEGAN TO CHOP IT DOWN ALSO.             TH12601570
     IN THE MEAN TIME THE FOUR DOGS AT THE HUNTER'S HOUSE BEGAN TO    TH12601580
GROWL AND SHOW THEIR TEETH, AND STRAINED AT THEIR HALTERS: SO THE     TH12601590
HUSBANDS, THINKING THAT SOMETHING MUST BE WRONG AND THE WOMEN IN      TH12601600
DANGER, LET THEM LOOSE, AND THEY WENT BOUNDING AWAY TO THE RESCUE,    TH12601610
RATTLESNAKE RATTLING AS HE WENT. THEY REACHED THE SPOT JUST AS THE    TH12601620
CANNIBALS HAD NEARLY GOTTON THE FOURTH TREE DOWN, AND, ATTACKING      TH12601630
THEM, KILLED THEM AND ATE THEM UP.                                    TH12601640
     THE WOMEN RETRACED THEIR STEPS, AND, COMING TO THE PROPER        TH12601650
TRAIL, FOLLOWED IT, WHILE THE FOUR DOGS WENT HOME TO THEIR MASTERS.   TH12601660
REACHING THEIR GRANDMOTHER, WHO LIVED NEAR A ROCKY MOUNTAIN TO THE    TH12601670
WEST, THEY FOUND HER SITTING OUTSIDE WITH YOUNG FIR-TREES GROWING     TH12601680
UP ALL AROUND HER. SHE WAS OLD AND FRAIL, AND NOT ABLE TO MOVE,       TH12601690
HER KNEES BEING BENT UP TO HER EARS AS SHE SAT. THEY SHOWED HER       TH12601700
GRANDCHILD TO HER, AND ASKED HER WHERE THEY SHOULD BURY HER. SHE      TH12601710
SAID, "DO NOT BURY ME, BUT DROWN  ME IN A POOL OF SOME STREAM NEAR    TH12601720
A GRAVELLY OR SANDY BEACH; SO THAT YOUNG MEN, WHEN THEY COME TO       TH12601730
WASH THEMSELVES, MAY GAIN KNOWLEDGE THROUGH ME. THOSE WHO BATHE       TH12601740
EARLY AND OFTEN WITH ME (OR AT SUCH PLACES) SHALL LIVE TO BE OF       TH12601750
GREAT AGE LIKE MYSELF, AND SHALL NOT DIE UNTIL THEIR KNEES ARE        TH12601760
BENT UP TO THEIR EARS LIKE MINE."                                     TH12601770
***THO-183***
          NTCIMI'KEN    (UPPER AND LOWER UTA'MQT)                     TH12700010
     THERE WAS A MAN CALLED NTCIMI'KEN  OR NTCI'MKA, WHO LIVED ON     TH12700020
THE THOMPSON RIVER NEAR LYTTON. HIS WIFE WAS STOLEN BY A CANNIBAL     TH12700030
WHO MADE HIS HOME ON THE WEST SIDE OF FRASER RIVER, OPPOSITE OR       TH12700040
ABOVE ITS JUNCTION WITH THE THOMPSON. NTCIMI'KEN WAS ANXIOUS TO       TH12700050
RECOVER HIS WIFE, BUT KNEW IT WAS USELESS TO ATTEMPT IT WITHOUT       TH12700060
HELP, AS THE CANNIBAL WAS VERY BLOOD-THIRSTY, AND, MOREOVER, WAS      TH12700070
ENDOWED WITH GREAT MAGICAL POWERS. THEREFORE HE LEFT THE THOMPSON,    TH12700080
AND MADE A JOURNEY THROUGH THE COUNTRIES OF THE NEIGHBORING TRIBES    TH12700090
TO THE EAST. THERE HE STOLE A BOY,  WHOM HE TOOK HOME WITH HIM.       TH12700100
TOGETHER THEY WENT BACK INTO THE NEIGHBORING MOUNTAINS TO TRAIN       TH12700110
THEMSELVES AND TO OBTAIN MYSTERIOUS KNOWLEDGE (MEDICINE). THEY        TH12700120
STAID IN THE MOST REMOTE AND "MYSTERIOUS" PARTS OF THE MOUNTAINS,     TH12700130
WHERE THEY PRAYED, FASTED, AND PURIFIED THEMSELVES.                   TH12700140
     ONE DAY WHEN TRAVELLING, THEY CAME UPON A LAKE WHICH WAS FULL    TH12700150
OF BEAVERS. THEY WERE HUNGRY, AND DESIRED TO GET SOME OF THESE        TH12700160
ANIMALS TO EAT, THEREFORE THEY PROPOSED TO DRINK THE LAKE DRY, SO     TH12700170
AS TO BE ABLE TO CATCH THEM. NTCIMI'KEN DRANK FIRST; BUT BEFORE       TH12700180
LONG HIS BELLY BECAME DISTENDED, AND HE HAD TO STOP DRINKING          TH12700190
BEFORE HE HAD BEEN ABLE TO DECREASE THE SIZE OF THE LAKE. THEN        TH12700200
THE BOY BEGAN TO DRINK, AND DID NOT STOP UNTIL HE HAD DRUNK THE       TH12700210
LAKE DRY.                                                             TH12700220
     NOW NTCIMI'KEN KNEW THAT THE BOY HAD GROWN PROFICIENT IN         TH12700230
MAGIC. THEY KILLED THE BEAVERS, AND NTCIMI'KEN ATE ALL THEIR BODIES   TH12700240
EXCEPTING THE TAILS, WHICH HE THREW AWAY. HE ONLY GAVE A LITTLE       TH12700250
OF THE MEAT TO THE LAD, THEREFORE THE LATTER WAS STILL HUNGRY.        TH12700260
AFTER HAVING GLUTTED HIMSELF, NTCIMI'KEN FELL ASLEEP. WHEN HE AWOKE,  TH12700270
HE FOUND THE BOY EATING THE TAILS WHICH HE HAD THROWN AWAY. HE        TH12700280
SAID TO HIM, "WHY DO YOU EAT THAT TRASH? DON'T YOU KNOW THAT IT       TH12700290
IS BEAVER'S EXCREMENT?" BUT THE BOY KEPT ON ROASTING THE TAILS AND    TH12700300
EATING THEM, AND ONLY LAUGHED AT WHAT NTCIMI'KEN SAID. AT LAST THE    TH12700310
LATTER TRIED ONE, AND, FINDING IT TO BE DELICIOUS EATING, HE          TH12700320
RESERVED THE REMAINING TAILS FOR HIMSELF.                             TH12700330
     NOW THEY JOURNEYED TO THE MOUTH OF THE THOMPSON RIVER, AND       TH12700340
NTCIMI'KEN SENT THE LAD ACROSS THE FRASER TO ATTACK THE CANNIBAL.     TH12700350
SEEING THE LATTER NEAR HIS HOUSE, HE CALLED NAMES AT HIM, SUCH AS     TH12700360
"EAR-RINGS," "BROKEN LEG," ETC. THE CANNIBAL RUSHED AT THE BOY        TH12700370
WITH A VERY LONG SPEAR, BUT THE LAD JUMPED ON THE TOP OF A            TH12700380
MOUNTAIN-PEAK, AND ESCAPED HIS THRUST. THUS THE CANNIBAL FOLLOWED     TH12700390
HIM FROM PEAK TO PEAK; BUT THE BOY, BY JUMPING, ALWAYS MANAGED TO     TH12700400
EVADE THE THRUSTS FROM HIS LONG SPEAR. AT LAST, HOWEVER, THE BOY      TH12700410
GOT TIRED, AND CALLED ON NTCIMI'KEN FOR HELP, SAYING, "UNCLE, OUR     TH12700420
ENEMY PRESSES ME HARD. BLOW THE SMOKE FROM YOUR PIPE THIS WAY."       TH12700430
NTCIMI'KEN, WHO WAS SITTING ON THE GROUND SMOKING AND SHARPENING      TH12700440
HIS KNIFE, JUMPED UP AND ATTACKED THE CANNIBAL. THEY FOUGHT FOR       TH12700450
THE MASTERY, BUT AT LAST THE LATTER WRESTLED WITH NTCIMI'KEN, WHO     TH12700460
FELL UNDERMOST IN THE STRUGGLE. HE CALLED ON THE BOY FOR HELP,        TH12700470
SAYING, "TAKE MY KNIFE AND CUT OFF OUR ENEMY'S RIGHT ARM, FOR HE      TH12700480
KILLS ME WITH IT." THE BOY CUT OFF THE CANNIBAL'S RIGHT ARM. THEN     TH12700490
NTCIMI'KEN SAID, "CUT OFF HIS LEFT ARM, FOR HE MASTERS ME WITH IT."   TH12700500
THE BOY DID AS DIRECTED. THEN HE SAID, "CUT OFF HIS PENIS, FOR HE     TH12700510
WRESTLES WITH IT," AND THE BOY DID SO. THUS THE BOY DID AS DIRECTED   TH12700520
UNTIL HE HAD CUT UP ALL PARTS OF THE CANNIBAL'S BODY. THEN            TH12700530
NTCIMI'KEN AROSE AND THREW THE SEVERAL PARTS OF THE CANNIBAL'S        TH12700540
BODY TO THE TRIBES OF THE FOUR QUARTERS. HE THREW THE HEAD TO THE     TH12700550
COAST INDIANS (S'A'TCINKO AND YU'KELTA),  THEREFORE THESE PEOPLE      TH12700560
HAVE LARGE HEADS.  HE THREW THE HEART AND PRIVATES TO THE OKANAGON    TH12700570
TRIBES, THEREFORE THEY ARE BRAVE, AND THE MEN HAVE LARGE SEXUAL       TH12700580
ORGANS. THE ARMS WERE THROWN TO THE NKAMTCI'NEMUX AND SHUSWAP,        TH12700590
THEREFORE THEY BECAME EXPERT WARRIORS. AFTER HE HAD THUS THROWN       TH12700600
PARTS OF THE BODY TO EACH OF THE TRIBES, THE BOY SAID, "YOU HAVE      TH12700610
FORGOTTEN THE NLAKYA'PAMUX'O'E AND THE UTA'MQT. THEN HE TOOK THE      TH12700620
KNIFE AND THREW IT TO THE FORMER, AND, WIPING HIS BLOODY HANDS        TH12700630
WITH A BUNCH OF CEDAR-BARK, HE THREW IT TO THE UTA'MQT. THEREFORE     TH12700640
THE LATTER ARE INFERIOR PEOPLE;  AND THE THOMPSON BECAME A FIERCE     TH12700650
PEOPLE, AND WERE NOTED FOR STABBING ONE ANOTHER WITH KNIVES.          TH12700660
     NOW THE BOY WENT ACROSS THE RIVER TO FETCH NTCIMI'KEN'S WIFE.    TH12700670
HE CROSSED IN A CANOE OF HORSE-TAILS (LU'XEN). HE ENTERED THE         TH12700680
CANNIBAL'S HOUSE, AND SAW HUMAN HEADS HANGING ALL AROUND IN A         TH12700690
CIRCLE. THE WOMAN HAD EARRINGS AND NECKLACES OF FINGER-NAILS. SHE     TH12700700
WAS ENGAGED IN BREAKING HUMAN BONES TO EXTRACT THE MARROW, FOR THAT   TH12700710
WAS THE CANNIBAL'S FAVORITE FOOD. WHEN SHE SAW THE BOY, SHE SAID,     TH12700720
"DID YOU NOT MEET THE CANNIBAL?" HE ANSWERED, "YES, I MET HIM AND     TH12700730
SLEW HIM. I HAVE NOW COME TO FETCH YOU BACK TO YOUR HUSBAND           TH12700740
NTCIMI'KEN." SHE WAS OVERJOYED AT THIS NEWS, AND AT ONCE BEGAN TO     TH12700750
DIVEST HERSELF OF HER FINGER-NAIL ORNAMENTS. THE LAD SAID, "THERE     TH12700760
IS NO HURRY. I WISH YOU TO LET ME TAKE A SWEAT-BATH BEFORE WE         TH12700770
DEPART." THEN HE TOOK FOUR STONES AND ENTERED THE WOMAN'S PRIVATES,   TH12700780
WHERE HE SWEAT-BATHED. WHEN HE CAME OUT TO WASH HIMSELF, HIS HAIR     TH12700790
HAD GROWN DOWN TO HIS SHOULDERS. HE RE-ENTERED, AND, ON COMING        TH12700800
FORTH THE SECOND TIME, HIS HAIR HAD GROWN HALFWAY DOWN HIS BACK.      TH12700810
ON ISSUING THE THIRD TIME, IT HAD REACHED THE SMALL OF HIS BACK,      TH12700820
AND THE FOURTH TIME IT HAD GROWN TO HIS HEELS. THE WOMAN SAID, "YOUR  TH12700830
HAIR IS NOW TOO LONG," THEREFORE SHE CUT IF OFF EVEN WITH HIS         TH12700840
BUTTOCKS.                                                             TH12700850
     NOW THEY RETURNED TO NTCIMI'KEN, WHOM THEY FOUND IN HIS HOUSE    TH12700860
ON THE THOMPSON. HE WAS GLAD TO GET HIS WIFE BACK. THE LAD STAID      TH12700870
WITH THEM A LONG TIME, BUT LEFT THEM FOR BRIEF INTERVALS, GOING       TH12700880
BACK TO THE MOUNTAINS WHERE HE TRAINED HIMSELF AND HUNTED.            TH12700890
     NOW THE TIME CAME FOR HIM TO RETURN TO HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND      TH12700900
NTCIMI'KEN TOLD HIM TO SWEAT-BATHE. WHEN HE WAS READY TO START,       TH12700910
NTCIMI'KEN AND HIS WIFE GAVE HIM DIRECTIONS HOW TO GO, WHERE TO       TH12700920
CAMP, AND HOW TO MANAGE WHEN DANGER THREATENED HIM. THE WOMAN         TH12700930
GAVE HIM A PRESENT OF FOUR GOAT-HAIR BLANKETS  WHEN HE WAS LEAVING,   TH12700940
AND NTCIMI'KEN GAVE HIM A PAIR OF SNOWSHOES AND TWO DEER'S TRIPES.    TH12700950
HE TURNED THESE INTO DOGS, WHICH FOLLOWED HIM. THE FIRST NIGHT HE     TH12700960
CAMPED ON A HIGH MOUNTAIN  NEAR THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE. HE LIGHTED   TH12700970
A FIRE AND SAT DOWN NEAR IT, WITH THE DOGS ON EACH SIDE. PRESENTLY    TH12700980
FOUR  MYSTERIOUS PERSONS (XAXA')  APPROACHED THE CAMP. HE SAID TO     TH12700990
THEM, "SIT DOWN ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE FIRE," (WHICH WAS NEAR    TH12701000
THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF,) "FOR MY DOGS MAY BITE YOU IF YOU COME TOO     TH12701010
CLOSE." THEY SAT DOWN AS DIRECTED. THEN HE GRADUALLY PUSHED THE       TH12701020
FIRE NEARER TO THEM, AND THE DOGS ALSO MOVED TOWARDS THEM FROM        TH12701030
EACH SIDE. THEY GRADUALLY BACKED AWAY FROM THE FIRE AND THE DOGS,     TH12701040
AND EVENTUALLY FELL OVER THE CLIFF.                                   TH12701050
     THE LAD THOUGHT HE HAD KILLED THEM, BUT THE FOLLOWING NIGHT      TH12701060
THEY APPEARED AT HIS CAMP AGAIN. HE REPEATED HIS TACTICS, WITH THE    TH12701070
SAME RESULT. HE DID THIS FOUR NIGHTS. THEN THE XAXA' ATTACKED HIM.    TH12701080
HE LEFT HIS DOGS BEHIND, AND JUMPED FROM ONE MOUNTAIN-PEAK TO         TH12701090
ANOTHER; BUT THE XAXA' FOLLOWED HIM, AND GRADUALLY GAINED ON HIM.     TH12701100
HE THREW AWAY ONE BLANKET AFTER ANOTHER TO MAKE HIMSELF LIGHTER,      TH12701110
BUT STILL THEY WERE GAINING ON HIM.                                   TH12701120
     NOW, THERE WERE TWO WOMEN ENGAGED IN MAKING BLANKETS IN A        TH12701130
HOUSE NEAR BY, AND, THROUGH THEIR MAGIC, THEY KNEW OF HIS DISTRESS.   TH12701140
THEY SAID, "HE WILL SOON BE OVERTAKEN. LET US HELP HIM." SO THEY      TH12701150
TOOK A HAMMER AND CHISEL AND RAN TO MEET HIM. HE SAW THEM, AND        TH12701160
SAID, "AUNTS, HELP ME]" THEY ANSWERED, "WE HAVE NO NEPHEW." HE        TH12701170
SAID, "ELDER SISTERS, HELP ME]" BUT THEY ANSWERED, "WE HAVE NO        TH12701180
YOUNGER BROTHER." THEN HE SAID, "WIVES, HELP ME]" AND THEY            TH12701190
ANSWERED, "WHY DID YOU NOT SAY THAT BEFORE?" THEY SPLIT THE TRUNK     TH12701200
OF A TREE AND HID HIM INSIDE, THE CRACK IN THE TREE CLOSING AGAIN.    TH12701210
NOW, THE XAXA' ARRIVED AND ASKED THE WOMEN IF THEY HAD SEEN A MAN     TH12701220
PASS BY THAT WAY. THEY SAID, "NO." BUT THE XAXA' WERE NOT SATISFIED   TH12701230
WITH THEIR ANSWER, FOR THEY COULD NOT FIND THE FUGITIVE'S TRACKS      TH12701240
FARTHER ON. THEY COMMENCED TO SEARCH AROUND THE PLACE WHERE THE       TH12701250
WOMEN WERE. THEN THE LATTER ATTACKED THEM WITH THEIR HAMMER AND       TH12701260
CHISEL AND KILLED THEM. THEY THREW THEIR BODIES INTO THE WOODS,       TH12701270
SAYING, "HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL SIMPLY BE SPIRITS OF THE FOREST, AND    TH12701280
SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO CHASE PEOPLE."                                   TH12701290
     THE LAD WENT HOME WITH THE WOMEN TO THEIR HOUSE. UPON            TH12701300
ENTERING, HE SAW SOME WATER IN A VERY SMALL BASKET. HE SAID, "I       TH12701310
WILL DRINK IT ALL, BECAUSE I AM THIRSTY." THEY ANSWERED, "DO SO IF    TH12701320
YOU LIKE: IT DOES NOT MATTER." HE DRANK HIS FILL, BUT THE WATER       TH12701330
REMAINED UNDIMINISHED. THEN THE WOMEN TOOK ONE DRINK EACH AND         TH12701340
FINISHED IT. ON LOOKING AROUND THE INSIDE OF THE LODGE, THE LAD       TH12701350
SAW A GUN NEAR EACH OF THE WOMEN'S BEDS. HE SAID TO HIMSELF,          TH12701360
"THESE MUST BE THEIR HUSBANDS," CONSEQUENTLY HE WAS AFRAID. BUT       TH12701370
THE WOMEN KNEW HIS THOUGHTS, AND SAID, "THESE ARE NOT MEN. WE HAVE    TH12701380
NO HUSBANDS." NOW THE YOUNGER SISTER WASHED THE LAD AND GAVE HIM      TH12701390
NEW CLOTHES TO PUT ON, AND HE BECAME THEIR HUSBAND. EACH SISTER HAD   TH12701400
ONLY ONE BALL FOR HER GUN. THEY SHOWED HIM HOW TO USE THE GUNS.       TH12701410
THEY SAID, "WHEN YOU GO HUNTING, ALWAYS STALK THE DEER FROM BEHIND.   TH12701420
WAIT UNTIL YOU GET THEM IN LINE, ONE IN FRONT OF THE OTHER, THEN      TH12701430
SHOOT AT THE BACKSIDE OF THE LAST ONE, AND THE BALL WILL KILL THEM    TH12701440
ALL. BUT YOU MUST PULL THE TRIGGER VERY GENTLY, THEN YOU WILL BE      TH12701450
SURE TO FIND THE BALL IN THE BREAST OF THE FOREMOST ONE, WHERE IT     TH12701460
WILL REMAIN. IF YOU PULL THE TRIGGER STRONGLY, THE BALL WILL PASS     TH12701470
THROUGH THEM ALL, AND WILL GO VERY FAR, SO YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO    TH12701480
FIND IT." THE LAD WENT HUNTING, AND, SEEING A BAND OF DEER GOING      TH12701490
ONE IN FRONT OF THE OTHER UP A MOUNTAIN-SLOPE, HE FIRED AT THEM       TH12701500
FROM BEHIND. HE PULLED THE TRIGGER WITH GREAT FORCE, AND WHEN HE      TH12701510
HAD CUT UP THE DEER, HE COULD NOT FIND THE BALL. HE WAS VERY SORRY    TH12701520
BECAUSE OF LOSING THE BALL, AND WOULD NOT SPEAK WHEN HE CAME HOME.    TH12701530
THE WOMAN SAID, "I TOLD YOU WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU PULLED THE       TH12701540
TRIGGER WITH FORCE." THEN SHE HELD OUT HER HAND AND SHOWED HIM        TH12701550
THE BALL, SAYING, "IT CAME BACK TO ME WHEN IT LEFT THE DEER."         TH12701560
     BEFORE LONG HIS WIVES EACH GAVE BIRTH TO A CHILD; AND THE        TH12701570
CHILDREN, WHEN THEY WERE ABLE TO WALK, CRIED TO SEE THEIR             TH12701580
GRANDPARENTS. HE ASKED HIS WIVES IF THEY HAD PARENTS ALIVE, AND       TH12701590
THEY ANSWERED, "YES." THEN HE SAID, "WE WILL TAKE OUR CHILDREN TO     TH12701600
SEE THEM." THEY WENT TO WHERE THE OLD PEOPLE LIVED, AND SHOWED        TH12701610
THEMSELVES FIRST TO A PUBESCENT GIRL WHO WAS WASHING HERSELF, AND     TH12701620
TOLD HER TO TELL THE PEOPLE TO CLEAN THEIR HOUSE FOR THIER            TH12701630
RECEPTION. WHEN THIS HAD BEEN DONE, THEY ALL WENT IN AND LIVED        TH12701640
THERE.                                                                TH12701650