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food comes your way!" And poor Marten walked away slowly, 

 and went into the woods. 



Then Q!a'nexe £ naxw walked on again; and he saw another man, 

 very stout. He was sharpening something that looked like a black 

 stone, and his look was veiy angry. Q!a'nexe £ naxwwentup to him, 

 and said, ' 'Man, what are you doing V and the angry-faced man said, 

 "Don't you know that there is a man coming, whose name is Qla'ne- 

 xe £ naxw, to do mischief to us all ? The two stone hammers I am 

 making are to fight him with." And Q!a'nexe £ naxw said, "Letmesee 

 them, so that I myself may also make two of them." And the man 

 gave the two black stone hammers to mm; and then Q!a'nexe £ naxw 

 took them and said, "Let me try them on your hands!" and he stuck 

 them on the angry-faced man, and said to him, "Now hereafter you 

 shall be a bear (tci'mis)." And the Black Bear walked away into 

 the woods. 



Q!a'nexe £ naxwkept on doing this to all the other animals, until he 

 came to Yogwat, the place where we are living. Then he saw Deer. 

 He went up to him, and he saw that man also hard at work sharpen- 

 ing two shell knives; and Q!a'nexe £ naxw asked him what he was 

 doing; and Deer said, "Where have you come from, that you do not 

 know what is known all round the world? Don't you know that 

 Q!a'nexe £ naxw is coming to do mischief to us all ? and these two war- 

 knives are to fight him with." Then Q!a'nexe £ naxw said, "How 

 will you fight him with those two knives?" and he replied, "I will 

 cany one of these knives in each hand, and stab him when he comes 

 near me." And Q!a'nexe £ naxw said, "Do you think you can fight 

 him in that way ? You ought at least to have one hand empty; but 

 I think if you had both hands empty, and had those two knives tied 

 on the top of your head, you could fight him better by catching hold 

 of him with both hands and butting at him with the two knives on 

 your head." Then Deer looked at him, and asked him where he 

 came from and who he was; and Q!a'nexe £ naxw said, "I am only 

 trying to find some one to make friends with;" for at that time Deer 

 was thinking that it was Q!a'nexe £ naxw who was speaking to him. 

 Then he began to rub his two large mussel-shell knives on the sand- 

 stone. Then Q !a'nexe £ naxw spoke to him, and said, ' 'Deer, let me see 

 your knives!" Deer, looking up, said in an angry way, "I don't 

 want you to have them, for I know that your name is Q !a'nexe £ naxw; " 

 but Q!a'nexe £ naxw only laughed, and said, "I just want to see your 

 knives, so that I may make two of the same kind for myself to fight him 

 with whenever he comes." And Deer looked at him once more. Then 

 he handed his knives to him; and as soon as Deer had given the two 

 knives to him, he lost his power. ThenQ!a'nexe £ naxw said to him, 

 Now, put your head down, and let me show you the right way to put 

 on these two knives; then you can fight Q!a'nexe £ naxw or anything 

 whenever they come to fight." This he said as he put the two mussel- 



