1913] Chipewyan Stories. 51 



grease as he was unable to do it himself. The rats took it into the water, 

 and spilled it, so making an end of the grease. As he went on still farther 

 he heard some wavies, and brought them a bundle of grass. " Now ", he 

 said to the wavies, "we shall have a feast." He built a place where the feast 

 should be held, after which he took the wavies and entertained them 

 with fresh grass, also playing the drum for their amusement. It was 

 not very long before they all went to sleep, and when they were asleep the 

 man took it into his head to kill them. He set to work and bit off the 

 heads, as he thought, of all of th^m, but he was mistaken, for shortly 

 afterwards one of the wavies woke up, and called to the others that the 

 man was killing them. On hearing this sad news most of them got up 

 and flew away, showing the man that he had killed very few. 



The dead wavies he cached at once, and then walked along the 

 bank of a river. It was not long before he met a Fox with a crippled 

 leg. "Come, my brother", he said to the Fox; " I have a cache not far 

 from here, we will go and have a feast." "But", said the Fox, "I am 

 crippled, and would not be able to keep up with you. " "Take the short 

 cut then", said the man, showing him the way, "and I will goby the track." 

 When they had parted it did not take the Fox long to reach the appointed 

 place. He robbed the cache, and hid the contents in another place. 

 He took the precaution to cut the feet off the wavies, and stuck them 

 in the sand, so that when the Indian came he would see the feet, and 

 think the cache untouched. "Hello", said the man when he came up. " I 

 have beaten the Fox after all, I am before him." He then called out to 

 the Fox, "My brother, come this way, the cache is here". The Fox was 

 too busy just then having a quiet meal off one of the wavies, and would 

 not come. The Indian thought he would have a wavie to eat in the 

 meantime, so he caught hold of one of the legs to pull up the wavie, but 

 instead of the body he only got a leg. " Ho", said he, " the sand has been 

 so hot that they are too much cooked, and that is why the leg pulls from 

 the body so easily." When he had further examined he found that the 

 Fox had been too sharp for him. 



