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for a tail. The brothers lead him. Coyote claims the dog as his. The Bears 

 ask the brothers to play with them around a tree the bark of which has been 

 stripped off, and kill them. Coyote goes near the dog, and is cut by its hair. 

 The Grizzly Bears play with the dog and are killed. The Dog resumes its 

 human form, jumps over his brothers, and revives them. The Transformer 

 ordains that the Grizzly Bear shall eat berries and kill man only occasionally 

 Sha645. The Transformers go to the house of Grizzly Bear and Coyote. They 

 cover Le'esa with knives. In a pole-climbing contest the Bears kill the 

 brothers. Coyote touches the Dog and bleeds. The Dog climbs the pole 

 with Bear and cuts him in two. He jumps over his brothers and revives 

 them Shi 5.2 (see also No. 20, p. 812). 



One of the Transformers assumes the shape of a dog. The brothers many. 

 A black bear comes to their village and kills the brothers. The di g jumps 

 over it, and the bear breaks in two. Then the dog jumps over the people, 

 and all break to pieces. He revives his brothers by jumping over them Ntla 

 5.16. 



The youngest of the Transformers becomes a dog. He is covered with 

 atone knives, and his tongue also becomes a stone knife. They visit a village 

 inhabited by people. They are put into different houses; and while they 

 are asleep, their arrow-points are exchanged for pine needles. When going 

 into the woods, they are attacked and killed, except one boy, who runs back. 

 A girl who loves him lets the dog loose, who kills the people and revives his 

 brothers U 223 (see p. 742). 



He assumes the form of a dog. His tail is a double-bladed knife. His ears 

 and claws are small knives. He visits a village in which the people keep 

 bears, grizzly bears, wolves, rattlesnakes, as dogs. They arrange a dog-fight, 

 and the Transformer Dog kills all the animals. The people attack them, 

 and are also killed. Then he resumes his human form, transforms the peo- 

 ple into ants, and the animals into normal animals, Lytton, Ntl6 Hill-Tout 

 1.214. 1 



A bull and cow moose are substituted for the grizzly bear in Chil 13. They 

 race with their visitors, who are killed by the dust they raise. The moose 

 run on each side of the visitor. The Dog Transformer covers himself with 

 arrow-points; and while he is racing, these fly out and kill the moose. He 

 revives them with his magic staff and tells them not to kill men. 



4. The Transformer kills the elk monster Sha 5.2; Shb Dawson 32; 

 She 646; Ntla Hill-Tout 1.203; Ntlft Teit 3.304; Chil 10. 



An elk straddles the river at Savona's Ferry, and kills people by swallowing 

 them. The canoes pass through its body, while the crew is retained and 

 killed. Le'esa alone goes down the river on a raft, which is swallowed. 

 The raft passes through. He starts a lire in the stomach of the elk and squeezes 

 its heart. It begins to sway. When he cuts off the heart, the elk dies. Then 

 the brothers cut the body, and Le'esa comes out. The brothers eat all the 

 meat Sha. After being swallowed by the elk, the Transformer stabs its heart 

 with his "implement," cuts his way out, and says that elk henceforth shall 

 not kill people Sh6. At the outlet of Kamloops Lake the elk stands with 

 his back upstream. The canoes pass through it, the crew is killed inside, 

 Le'esa comes down on a board which passes through the elk. He spreads 

 out the elk by means of his arrow-flaker. The elk begins to stagger, and 

 dies when he cuts off the heart. The brothers skin it She. A moose swal- 

 lows the Dog Transformer, who has tied boughs in his hair. He cuts the 



1 Coyote's dog, which is covered with arrow-heads, is mentioned in another Thompson tale (Teit 2,:ju .. 



