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meat, as she was nearly starved. He went out and brought in a large 

 piece of fat. The wife devoured such a ([uantity of it that she became 

 very ill, and suffered all through the night. In the morning the wol- 

 verene stated he would return for the meat which he had stored away 

 the previous day. He started in the early morning, so as to return by 

 daylight. 



As soon as the wolverene looked upon the sled loaded with meat 

 the spell was broken. One of the old wolves ordered the young wolves 

 to go and destroy the meat and fat which the wolverene had left on 

 the stage. They eagerly set out on the track of the sled, and soon 

 saw the staging where the wolverene had stored the remainder of the 

 food. When they came up to it they fell to and devoured all but a few 

 scraps of it. The wolves then went away, and in a few hours the wol- 

 verene returned. Fie saw what had happened and exclaimed: "My 

 brothers have ruined me! My brothers have ruined me! " He knew it 

 had been done because he had looked back at the sled, although 

 strictly enjoined upon not to do so under any circumstance. He gath- 

 ered up the fragments which the wolves had left and returned home. 

 When he arrived there he informed his wife that his brothers had 

 ruined him, because they had eaten all the meat which he had stored 

 away while out hunting. 



The starrimj Indians. — A band of Indians, who had neglected to store 

 away a supply of food for a time of scarcity, were upon the point of 

 starvation. An old man who lived at a little distance from the camp- 

 ing place of the band, had wisdom to lay by a good store of dry meat 

 and a number of cakes of fat, so that he had an abundance while the 

 other improvident people were nearly famished. They ajiplied to him, 

 begging for food, but they were refused the least morsel. One day, 

 however, an old man came to him asking for food for his children. The 

 man gave him a small piece of meat. When the man's children ate 

 this food they began to cry for more. The mother told her little boy to 

 stop crying. He iiersisted in his clainor until his mother asked him : 

 "Why do you not go to the old U' sets kwa n6 po?" (the name means 

 One whose neck wrinkles into folds when he sits down). This old 

 man heard the mother tell her child to go to him, and muttered to him- 

 self, "That is just what I want." 



The little boy went to the old man's tent door, and lifting aside the 

 flap, said : " I want to come in." He went in and the old man addressed 

 the boy by his own name, saying : " What do you want, U' sets kwa n6 po V 

 in such a kindly voice that the boy felt assured. The boy said: "I 

 am very hungry and want some food." The old man inquired in an 

 astonished voice: "Hungry? and your meat falling down from the 

 stage ?" The old man bade the boy sit down, while he went out to the 

 stage and selected some choice portions and brought them into the tent 

 and gave them to the boy. The old man then asked the boy if he had 

 a sister. The boy said that he had a father, mother, and one sister. 



