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hiintcabiit appeared to Beaver-foot and consented to raise his sister 

 altogether to view. It began to raise her, when suddenly the hunter 

 speared it. It jumped back, and in its movement threw the woman 

 on the bank. Beaver-foot carried her back, put her into the sweat- 

 house, and said : "My sister, come out. I want to go into the sweat- 

 house." Four times he said this. The fourth time she came running 

 out alive. Then she and her brother and the child we'nt into the sweat- 

 house and purified themselves. Then they went back to the tent. Crow- 

 woman said to her : "I am glad to see you ; I was very sorry that the 

 swing broke and that I could not help you out." When the men were 

 away hunting, River-woman said to Crow-woman : "Let us go swing- 

 ing." They went to the pool and there River-woman held Crow-wo- 

 man under the water until she was dead. Then she threw her into the 

 pool, saying: "My grandfather, here is your food." When her hus- 

 band returned, she told him what she had done, and the man said : 

 "Well, so you have killed her ! Indeed, it is well." Soon she saw tears 

 on his cheek. "Are you after all sorry for what I have done?" she 

 asked. "No," said the man, "it was only our boy playing who hit me 

 across the eyes with a stick." Really he was mourning for his wife. 

 The next morning the man left the tent, but soon returned, saying: 

 "The waters are rising." Then Beaver-foot said to them: "Go to the 

 top of the highest mountain. Give me black, yellow, white, and red 

 paint. I will cause the tent to go to the top of the mountain." So they 

 went, but he caused the tent to reach the top of the mountain before 

 them. There it stood, covering the very peak. He followed them 

 leisurely, shooting about him as he went. The man looked back, and 

 seeing the waters coming like a high bank, called to Beaver-foot : 

 "Hurry !" Beaver- foot ran a little, then dallied and began to shoot about 

 him again. Four times his brother-in-law called to him and he ran 

 and then delayed again. At last he reached the tent. Then the water 

 rose to the pegs of the tent. Beaver-foot put black paint on his right 

 foot, yellow on his right shoulder, white on his left shoulder, and red 

 on his left foot. Then he stretched out his right foot, his right arm, 

 his left arm, and his left foot, successively in the four directions, and 

 as he stretched out each the water retreated before it, and the land 

 appeared again. F^sh, turtles, frogs, and other animals were left lying 

 in various places as the water went down. Beaver- foot said : "Where 

 these are there will be springs, rivers, streams, and lakes." And there- 

 fore there are to-day these bodies of water on the land. — K. 



