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wipAga'k'^" ahapAskinAnicigawatc' "^ ameskowig'^^ ta'tupAgon.'"^ Ini^* 



red at the leaf when they put to lie on top of then bloody became leaves That 



tagwagigin' wiitcimeckwipAga'k''"' me'tegumicyan'^'' na'ka^^ 



in the fall why the leaves became red oaks and 



ma'komicyan'.^^ 



sumachs. 



Ina'kwitc'.^^ 



That is the end. 



[Translation] 



They who are in Pursuit of the Bear 



It is said that once on a time long ago when it was winter, 

 when it had snowed for the first time, while yet the first fall of snow 

 lay on the ground, there were three men who went forth to hunt for 

 game early in the morning. At a place on the side of a hill where 

 there was a thick growth of shrub did a bear enter in, as was shown 

 by the sign of his trail. One (man) went in after him and started 

 him going in flight. "Away toward the place from whence comes the 

 cold is he making fast!" called he to his companion. 



He who had gone round by way of the place from whence comes 

 the cold, "In the direction from whence comes the source of the 

 mid-day time is he hurrying away!" he said. 



Then another who had gone round by way of the place from 

 whence comes the noon-time, "Toward the place where (the Sun) 

 falls down is he hastening away!" said he. 



Back and forth for a long while did they keep the bear fleeing 

 from one and then another. After a while, according to the story, as 

 one that was coming behind looked down at the earth, lo! the surface 

 of it was green. For it is really the truth that up into the sky were 

 they led away by the bear. While about the place of the dense 

 growth of shrub they were chasing him, then was surely the time 

 that into the sky they went. 



Thereupon he who came behind cried out to him who was next, 

 "O Union-of-Ilivers, let us turn back! Verily, into the sky is he 

 leading us away!" said he to Union-of- Rivers, but no reply did he 

 get from him. 



Union-of-Rivers, who went running between (the man ahead and 

 the man behind), had Hold-Tight (a little puppy) for a pet. 



'" watci- as in notes 21, 26, 30; meckwi- blood, same as meskwi (see § 9); -pA- as in tc^tupAgoni leaves 

 -jfa-(§20); -•i^■(§29). 



91 a— watci (§29;) -ga- (§20); -ci- for -cm- (§ 20); loss of n (§ 12); -h- presumably a glide (§ 8) 

 apAskiuAni same as apAckiriAni in ahapAckinAni-hawdtc above (see note 90). 



92 ameskowigi a variant for ameskowi'ki; a—'ki (§29); mesko- for meskw' (note 90, § 12 near the end) 

 -wi- (20). 



93 Plural of tii'tupAgwi (see §§ 12, 42 ); -pA- as in watcimeckwipAga'ki. 

 9« See note 3. 



95 For mi a'kwitci (§ 10); ci—td (§29). 



