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began to moan and appear to suffer so much that the rabbit inquired 

 what was the matter and asked if the beavers had bitten him. The 

 frog said, "Ko, it was you who gave me such a hard push that you 

 have hurt me in the side." The rabbit assured the frog that the injiuy 

 was unintentionally caused. The fi-og then directed the rabbit to pre- 

 pare and cook the beavers. The rabbit went out to fetch them but he 

 began to eat and didnot stop until they were all devoured. After hav- 

 ing finished eating them the rabbit went for a walk. Ere long he 

 noticed a huge smoke curling from the farther end of a valley and be- 

 coming greatly frightened he exclaimed, "I have forgotten my crooked 

 knife and I must go quickly to get it." He dashed into his door in a 

 terrible state of mind. The frog coolly inquired, ''What is the matter 

 that you are so scared? " The rabbit said, "I have seen a great smoke 

 at the farther end of the valley through which the creek runs." The 

 frog laughed loudly at his fear and said, "They are deer; my brothers 

 often had me to kill them, as they could not kill any, when we had no 

 meat." The rabbit was delighted at that so he offered to carry the 

 frog toward the place. The frog directed the rabbit to make a snow- 

 shoe for the one foot of the frog. The rabbit soon had it made and 

 gave it to his brother. The frog then said, "Carry me up towards the 

 smoke." The rabbit slung the frog on his back and away they went in 

 the direction of the deer. The frog then told the raltbit to stand in one 

 place and not to move while he (the frog) would work at the deer, and 

 when he had finished he would call him up to the place. 



The frog killed all the deer in a very short time, skinned them, and 

 stuck the head and neck of one of the deer into the snow so that it 

 would be looking toward the place whence the rabbit would come. 

 The frog then took the lungs of one of the deer and put it out to freeze. 

 The cold turned the lungs white as tallow. The lirog shouted for his 

 brother rabbit to come quickly. When the rabbit came bounding near 

 he saw the eyes of the deer's head staring at him in a queer manner; 

 he was so much alarmed that he exclaimed to the frog, " Brother, he sees 

 me." The frog smiled and said, "I have killed him; he is dead; come 

 on ; I have a nice piece of fat saved for you." (It was the frozen lungs 

 of the deer.) So he gave the rabbit a large piece and told him to eat 

 it all and quickly, as it was better when frozen and fresh from the 

 deer's back. The rabbit greedily swallowed large portions and did not 

 observe the deception. After a time they built a lodge or tent for the 

 night. Some few hours after the tent was made the frozen deer lungs 

 which the rabbit had eaten began to thaw and it made the rabbit so 

 violently ill that he vomited continually the entire night. The frog 

 had served him this trick as a punishment for having eaten all of the 

 beaver meat two days before. 



The wolverene and the rock. — A wolverene was out walking on the 

 hillside and came upon a large rock. The animal inquired of the 

 rock, "Was that you who was walking just now?" The rock reulied, 



