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blood?" TxamsEm replied, saying, "As I was going to get my 

 bunting-gear, I met a person on the way — a man and his wife and 

 his two children. He asked me to accompany him to his hunting- 

 ground. I did so, and went with him. One morning I went hunt big 

 with him, and I killed more mountain sheep than he did, and also 

 some black bears. Then I went home to fetch my family to our 

 camp. On the following morning we went again to his hunting- 

 ground, and I killed more than I did before. Therefore he was 

 angry with me, and struck me with his club: and I fell to the ground, 

 and lay there for a while. He also cut my belly and took out my 

 intestines, and he threw me down a steep cliff. I must have lain 

 there a long time; but at last I revived, and I tried to get up, but I 

 was weak. After a while I felt a little better. I remember that you 

 were a kind friend to me, and so I have come here to see you before I 

 die." 



Then Chief Wolf questioned him, and asked, "How far is that from 

 here?" — "Oh, it is quite a long way off." — "How many days since 

 it happened?" He answered, "Four or live days ago." — "Have 

 you had anything to eat since that time?" — "Oh, no!" Chief Wolf 

 took pity on TxamsEm when he told his story, and he asked TxarasEm 

 whether it was a long way off, because he wanted to take revenge on 

 TxiimsEm's enemy. Chief Wolf believed the deceitful TxamsEm. 

 Now, Chief Wolf ordered his attendants to give his friend TxamsEm 

 fat food, and they did as the chief had ordered them. They gave 

 him all kinds of rich meat and fat. Therefore TxamsEm became well 

 again, for he was eating rich food every day. 



He staid among the Wolves for a long time. Every house was 

 full of rich meat and of fat; but he was not satisfied, for he wanted 

 the rich food for himself. So, on the following evening, as soon as 

 he had finished eating, he said to Chief Wolf, "I will go out with 

 your young men when they go out hunting. I think I can do better 

 than they." Thus he said. Chief Wolf smiled, and said, "All 

 right, friend! I hope they won't leave you behind, for my attend- 

 ants run as quickly as birds fly, so I am afraid that they will leave 

 you behind." In the evening all the young men made ready for 

 the next day, and very early the following morning they started. 

 TxamsEm was up also. They all went, and TxamsEm accompanied 

 two young Wolves. As soon as they arrived at the foot of one of 

 I he high mountains, they looked up, and, behold ! the top of the moun- 

 tain was full of mountain sheep. TxilmsEm said to his companions, 

 " I will remain here while you go up there." The two young Wolves 

 consented. They climbed up one side of the high mountain, trying 

 to get up to the mountain sheep. Soon they arrived there; and the 

 two young Wolves killed almost all of them, and threw them down 

 one side of the high mountain, letting them slide down to TxamsEm. 



