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A Lynx then came to him, and said, "My Grandfather, the earth 

 is now so dry that neither I nor any of the other animals can travel on 

 it for want of water; we shall all die of thirst; tell me where you put the 

 water". He told the Lynx he had drunk it. Upon this the Lynx asked 

 permission to put a pan on the part of his body where the water was. 

 Having obtained this permission, he put the pan on the man's stomach, 

 and the water began to run over the earth in Rivers, the beds 

 of which the man traced, and formed with his staff. 



The animals now began to get scarce and to die of starvation, 

 especially the deer. Summer hawks could be seen watching for the deer 

 that they might kill them; they always knew where they were by noticing 

 where the crows hovered about. The wolves, foxes, and other animals 

 which prey upon the deer profited by the same signs, but a number of 

 them starved before they came up with the crows, and the rest found 

 that there was a partition between them and the deer. A Whiskey Jack 

 picked a hole through the partition and brought out some fat on his 

 beak for the wolves and other friends. The partition was made of the 

 tripe and inside fat of the deer. A Lynx now got his nose through and 

 received a blow from a deer which caused him to have a dinted, short snout 

 ever since. The deer immediately left the place and spread over the 

 earth. 



CHAPTER II. 



The Age of Man. 



At the first there was a man, an old woman and her daughter, who 

 was the man's wife. These three began to travel. The man came first 

 to the place to which they were going. The old woman who was behind 

 killed her daughter, who was with child ; she skinned her daughter's head, 

 and put the skin on her own head as a mask. X^'^hen the man came home he 

 found her in the tent with her body bent, and he took her to be his wife. 

 He asked her why her head was bent down, and on receiving no answer 

 caught her by the hair to lift up her head, but instead of that he took 

 off the skin that covered it, and found her to be the old woman. 



The man then went in search of his wife and found her body with 

 the head off, and the child, which the old woman had cut out of her 

 womb, lying beside it. He burnt the bodies of his wife and child and 

 lay down to sleep on their bones; when he awoke, his wife and child were 

 sitting beside him. They started back to the tent where the old woman 

 was, and the wife told her husband to mark the ponds and creeks he 

 passed whilst they were travelling. 



