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*'My friend, where is that porcupine? I am the one who caught it." 

 But the crow said : "No, I am the one who first caught the porcu- 

 pine." "You do not speak the truth," Spring-child said again, "I saw 

 you take it out of my trap." ''I will not give it to you," said the crow. 

 "I will tell my grandmother that you stole my porcupine," said Spring- 

 child, and they both went home. And after he had get back, the crow 

 said: "I caught the porcupine," and he went to give it to the man 

 that had the daughter. Then he was straightway given that man's 

 oldest daughter to marry. After the crow had married this girl. Spring- 

 child told his grandmother : "It is I who caught this porcupine ; I saw 

 the crow take it from my trap. He took it away from me. Grandmother, 

 go over to this man and tell him that it is I who caught the porcupine, 

 and that the old crow took it away from me." "Yes, I will go there, 

 my grandson," his grandmother said to Spring-child. Then she went 

 to tell the man that her grandson had caught the porcupine. When 

 she came to the tent of this man that had the daughter she told him : 

 ""Spring-child asked me to come ; that is why I came. I want to tell 

 you what this poor boy said; he said: 'I caught that porcupine; really, 

 it was I who caught it.' This my grandson said." When the old 

 woman had told the man this, he said : "Very well, it is good ; your 

 grandson shall marry my younger daughter.'* "Thanks," Spring- 

 child's grandmother said to the man. When she came back, she said to 

 Spring-child : "My grandson, you will be married ; they give you their 

 youngest daughter. 'Tell him to come immediately, this very day; as 

 soon as he comes he shall be married,' this man said to me." "Thanks, 

 it is well ; I will go," Spring-child said to his grandmother. Then he 

 went to the man, and as soon as he arrived he was immediately married 

 to the other of his daughters. That is how he was married. 



After he had been married some time, he became a handsome 

 young man at night. His wife told her elder sister : "My sister. Spring- 

 child is different at night; truly he is beautiful, and his nose and his 

 eyes really are not dirty then ; he is clean when he goes to bed." "It can- 

 not be that he is clean," said the elder one. "I am sick when I look at 

 him. It cannot be ; I do not believe what you say about your husband." 

 "You shall see him. The time will be when everybody will see 

 him," she told her elder sister ; but her sister only laughed. 

 "Well, you can ridicule my husband if you like," said the younger one, 

 Spring-child's wife. "You ought to be ashamed of your dirty hus- 

 band," said the elder one. Soon after Spring-child said: "Now, old 

 woman, to-morrow morning get up early and bring water, and wash 

 with it. I know you are hungry, and I will make buffalo a little dis- 



