36 SELISH MYTHS. 



the Panther said, "Salmon, you broke the horns, you take 

 my daughter for your wife." Then the Salmon took the 

 Panther girl under his arm and with his companions, started 

 for home. They had not gone far, before the Wolf and 

 his elder brothers followed the Salmon and began to fight. 

 They fought two days and two nights, during which time 

 the Salmon and his friends gradually worked their way 

 toward the river. On the third morning, just as the 

 Salmon reached the bank of the river, the Rattlesnake, 

 who lived on the opposite shore and who was a cousin to 

 the Wolf, came out of his lodge, and seeing his cousin the 

 Wolf fighting, took an arrow and shot it at the Salmon 

 striking him in the side of the neck. The Salmon fell 

 down near the water's edge, while his friends were com- 

 pelled to leave because the Wolf and his elder brothers 

 came and took away the Salmon's wife and went home. 



The fishes came and threw water on the Salmon, which 

 kept him alive, and after a while he worked his way into 

 the water and swam down to the Fish Hawk's camp. The 

 Fish Hawk welcomed the Salmon and healed his wound, 

 though he remained there a whole year. 



When the summer came again, the Salmon said to the 

 Fish Hawk, " Fish Hawk, when you fly away from home, 

 do you ever see anything of my enemy, the Wolf?" " Yes," 

 said the Fish Hawk, " I see him sometimes ; he is a great 

 hunter and kills many deer." Then the Salmon took the 

 arrow with which he had been wounded, and set out to 

 visit the Rattlesnake, who lived in a grass lodge. When 

 the Salmon came near the lodge he listened and heard the 

 Rattlesnake singing, telling how he killed a great Shaman, 

 the Salmon, and gave the Wolf the victory. Then the 

 Salmon went nearer to the lodge, coughed so as to attract 

 the Rattlesnake's attention, when the Rattlesnake peeped 



