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When they had thrown down all they had killed, they refreshed 

 themselves; and TxamsEm gathered all the game, covered it with 

 hemlock leaves, and left only four or five uncovered. When the 

 two young men had refreshed themselves, they went down, and found 

 very lew carcasses. TxamsEm sat there without saying anything. 

 They asked him, "Are these mountain sheep all that came down ?" — 

 "Yes, that is all." Then the two young men raised their noses to 

 smell, and soon found the pile of hemlock leaves. They scratched 

 them off, and found the animals. Then they asked TxamsEm, 

 "Who hid those animals here?" — "Where?" said he. "I did it, 

 for I was afraid that some one might come and take them away, for 

 you staid away a long time." So they took them all out, and 

 gathered them in one pile. TxamsEm was ashamed. Therefore 

 the two young Wolves went away, howling, until all the Wolves 

 gathered together to carry the carcasses down. They all took them 

 down to the chief's house. 



TxamsEm came down also. Now, Chief Wolf's house was full of 

 mountain sheep, and all the Wolves were glad. TxamsEm sat there 

 alone. No one spoke a word to him. Then the chief gave a great 

 feast to his people. TxiimsEm looked pitifully at the chief's face: 

 therefore Chief Wolf fed him with good food. When the feast 

 was over, two young men went secretly to the chief, and told him 

 that his friend had hidden the animals that they killed before they 

 came down. After these men had spoken, Chief Wolf asked his 

 friend how he liked hunting. TxiimsEm said, " It delighted me very 

 much, sir." -"Will you go again with these men?" — "Yes," was 

 his answer, "but I w T ant to go alone." — "All right! you shall go." 

 On the following morning the men started oul hunting again, and 

 TxamsEm went last. He followed secretly behind them. Soon two 

 young men saw that on the top of a mountain there were many 

 mountain sheep. They went up, and TxamsEm looked at them 

 secretly. They killed as many as they could, and let them slide 

 down the side of the high mountain. Then they lay down on the 

 ground on top of the mountain to refresh themselves. After they 

 had been there some thne, TxamsEm took many carcasses down to 

 the beach and hid them from the Wolves. The two young men 

 missed some, of the mountain sheep; but they smelled all along the 

 way that TxamsEm had dragged them, and so they soon found the 

 pile of carcasses. They questioned TxamsEm, who was standing by 

 these carcasses. "Who dragged them down here? Where are 

 they?" — "I killed them myself." — -"No, you dragged them down 

 here." These two young men were angry with him. So one of 

 them went away, and the other one remained to watch over the 

 game; and the one that had gone away began to howl. Soon all 

 the Wolves came that way, howling; but TxamsEm stood there, 



