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Again the Mother Wolf said, "Give me my child's body!" The 

 prince replied, "No, I will not give it to you; I will keep it in good 

 order, because I made a mistake in killing him. Therefore I will 

 keep his body, his cleft-foot garments, his long-ear armor, and his 

 wolf-tail hat. I will keep them all and I will give a great feasl ; and 

 I will take his name, because he is my brother." 



Then the Mother Wolf began to howl, and sang her own mourning- 

 song. She sang the song of the cleft-foot garment, and the song of 

 the long-ear armor, and the song of the wolf-tail hat. All the wolves 

 were very quiet. 



After she had sung her song, she said, "You are my son. Today I 

 will take you; and you shall take my brother's place, because he was 

 a great prince among the animals, and all the animals of the wood 

 honored him. They shall honor you also, and you shall have your 

 brother's place; and when I die, my words shall be accomplished." 



Then all the wolves made a great noise, and they ran home howling. 



Now the great prince gave a feast. lie invited all the tribes that 

 lived in the channel of Metlakahtla; and when all the guests were in, 

 the great prince had much property piled up. Then he came out 

 from the inner room, wearing his brother's adultery garment of cleft 

 feet. He sang a song, and he went back into the inner room. Then 

 he came out again wearing the long-ear armor, and he put on his 

 wolf-tail hat. Then they sang the armor song and the wolf-tail hat 

 song; and after he had given away all his property to his guests, he 

 took his new name, the name of the prince whom he had slain the 

 other day. His name was Ate The Whole Deer. 



He was a very successful hunter in every way. The Wolf Mother 

 always helped him when he was hunting. 



One time after he had given many feasts, his father and his old 

 mother died, and the prince was lonely. In the evening the Wolf 

 Mother came mto his house, and said, "I have come to take you to 

 my house for a while." Then the prince went with her; and when 

 they arrived at her home, he saw many animals in the house. The 

 Mother Wolf said to her attendant, "Go out and call all the wild 

 animals! I will show them my adopted son." They went, and all 

 the wild animals came in — panthers, grizzly bears, black bears, white 

 bears, wolverenes, and many others; and when all the wild animals 

 were in, she said to them, "I am glad that you have all come to my 

 feast. I will show you my adopted son, who has taken my own 

 son's place. You shall honor him, and you shall not hurt him, and 

 I will give my brother my two daughters to be his wives." Then 

 she fed her guests with all kinds of meat and all kinds of tallow, and 

 she gave them all kinds of fresh salmon to eat, and so on. 



The prince loved the two girls who had become his wives, and the 

 two girls loved him. He had not been there many days before the 



