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8. — The Bear and the Wolf. 



The Bear and the Wolf once met by a creek. The Wolf said, 

 "Hello, brother." 'The Bear said, "Hello, brother." "Where do 

 you live?" said the Wolf. The Bear said, "Quite a way along the 

 creek." The Bear said, "W r ell, I must go. Come over and see me." 

 So the Wolf said, "All right." 



Next morning, the \\ olf went over to see the Bear. The Bear 

 had some young ones. He killed four of them and cooked them 

 for the Wolf. The Bear said to his wife, "Brother has come." So 

 she prepared the meal for him. The Bear said: "Go ahead and eat 

 your dinner. Swallow no bones, because it would make my young 

 ones crippled." The Wolf said, "All right," but he swallowed two 

 bones, one knee, one wrist, and one ankle. When they were 

 through eating they were talking, and the Bear told his wife to call 

 in his young ones. She did so, and ever}- one was crippled. One 

 was crippled in the rib, another in the wrist, another in the ankle, 

 and another in the knee. The Wolf said, "Brother, I am going; 

 the young ones must be afraid of me." He went, but told his 

 brother, the Bear, to come and see him. The Bear said, "All right." 



The next morning the Bear went to see the Wolf. Old she 

 Wolf was with him. When the Bear got there, the Wolf said, "I 

 have not got much to eat, but I will do the best I can." So he 

 cooked four of his young ones. When they were done the Bear 

 began to eat, and the Wolf said, "Brother, do not swallow any 

 bones ; it makes my young ones crippled." The Bear said, "All 

 right." He got through eating without swallowing a bone. He 

 handed the dish back, and the Wolf said to his wife, "Well, go and 

 get the young ones." So she went after them, but could not get 

 them back. The Bear said, "Well, brother. I must go ; those young 

 ones must be afraid of me." 



9. — The Raccoon and the Wolf. 



The Raccoon and the' Wolf once met. The Wolf said: "Hello, 

 brother. I suppose you are going to fool around." The Raccoon 

 said. "I am studying something that we all ought to do." The 

 Wolf said, "What is it?" The Raccoon said, "Let us have con- 

 nection with one another." The Wolf said, "All right." The 

 Raccoon jumped on the Wolf and the Wolf began to defecate. The 

 Wolf said, "You are making me defecate." The Raccoon said, "I 

 am making that noise with my feet." The Wolf stretched back his 



