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He was the buzzard. The boy took the wings and tail that he had cut 

 oflF from him to his father, and told him to make arrows from them. 

 They went on again. The old people and his sister camped before they 

 reached the large camp ; the boy went on towards it. When he reached 

 the camp a young man met him and said to him: "Clot-chiid, there 

 is a woman who has heard of you and speaks badly of you. She says, 

 *I think that thfs man spoken of so much is ugly.' " This woman con- 

 stantly worked quill embroidery. Her name was Beaver- won. an. 

 When young men went by in order to attract her attention, she rolled 

 up her work and went inside her tent. She was very hard to marry. 

 Then Clot-child looked for some one who would receive him as rela- 

 tive. He went to an old woman's tent. She called him grandson. 

 There he was given pem.mican. He asked her for meat. She- said : 

 '"The bear people in tic !ribe are selfish. They have it all. They will 

 allow no one to have meat." Then he sent her to ask for meat. The 

 old woman went to the bear who was guarding the meat and asked him 

 for some. He spoke to her so angrily that she fell down from fear. 

 She returned and told Clot-child. Then he went himself and took of 

 the meat. The bear went to attack him. When he approached Clot- 

 child he leaped, but Clot-child dodged him. Again the bear leaped, 

 but was avoided, until he became tired, when Clot-child took his bow 

 and shot him. One after another the bears came out to attack Clot- 

 child and he shot them. All the fierce ones were dead. The survivors 

 tied. He shot them also. There was only one that he did not shoot. 

 Jt took refuge in the brush. "Spare me, I am alone," it said. "Well, 

 then, remain there," said Clot-child, "You will be in the timber." 

 The bear said : ''When you are unaware, but I see you, I will attack 

 you and will kill you." "Very well," Clot-child answered. "But you 

 will not see far. Your eyes will not be good." "But I .shall smell you," 

 the bear said. Clot-child answered : "Very well. But live alone. You 

 will be by yourself, in the woods." In the morning he went to where 

 he knew Beaver-woman was, in order to pass by before her. She 

 looked at him, rolled up her work, and went indoors. "If that is Clot- 

 child, I do not wish him," she said. He heard her. He said : "It is 

 easy to get that woman. I know how to do it. Her heart is not 

 strong." He took stems of small vines (biiteisana'^ku) and stripped 

 them, and rubbed them with sap of ha"wa*'itu. At night he put an end 

 of the vine at her tent, and laid it along the ground. He tied the end 

 to his flute. Then he blew his flute. His playing charmed the woman. 

 She thought : "I have never heard such flute-playing before. Many 

 young men have passed by, but they never played like this. Let me 



