BOAS] KATHLAMET TEXTS 255 
the river to a town. He makes the people believe that a war party is 
coming. They run away, and he steals all their salmon. When his 
mother returns, she begs him to desist. After five days he goes again 
to make war vpon the people. This is repeated four times. The fifth 
time an old man does not run away, but hides and sees that it is 
nobody but the Rabbit. The people catch him and skin him. His 
body is thrown into the water. His mother finds him. She takes 
him into her canoe and resuscitates him. He says that he has no 
blanket and feels cold. He goes back to the village of his enemies 
and asks for his blanket. They are afraid because he has come back 
to life, and offer him all sorts of skins, which he refuses. Finally the 
people give him half of his own skin, the other half having been used 
for some purpose. He stretches it and puts it on. For that reason 
the Rabbit’s skin is very thin. 
11. Coyorr anpd Bapgrer—Coyote and Badger were catching birds 
all the time. One day they agree to invite various animals in order 
to kill them. Coyote steps near the water and invites the Sturgeon. 
When he enters the house, Badger lies down and pretends to be sick. 
Coyote asks his visitor to help him to carry Badger out of the house. 
When they do so, the Badger breaks wind, and the stench kills the 
Sturgeon. In this manner they kill the Seal, the Porpoise, and the 
Sea-lion. Then the people become suspicious, and nobody ventures 
near their house. They begin to shoot birds again. Badger is 
successtul, while Coyote is unsuccessful. Badger kills them by 
means of his wind. Coyote asks for the loan of his anus, and finally 
induces Badger to give it to him; but he does not know how to use it, 
and is unsuccessful. Then Badger grows angry and throws Coyote’s 
anus into the river. Coyote pursues it, and sees the children at 
the various villages trying to hit it with sticks and spears. Finally, 
when he succeeds in obtaining it, it is all torn. He curses Badger, 
saying that the stench of his wind shall be feared, but that he shall 
not be able to kill anything with weapons. 
12. PanrHerR anpd Lynx—The Panther goes out bunting every 
day, while.the Lynx is watching the fire. He plays, and when on his 
return he finds the fire extinguished, he swims across the river and 
steals a firebrand from the fires of the Grizzly Bears, which were 
watched by an old woman. When she feels that one of the fire- 
brands has disappeared, she accuses her vulva of having eaten it. 
When the Panther returns, he notices by the smell that a new fire has 
been started in his house. The next morning the Grizzly Bear, who had 
learned that his fire was stolen, swims across the river to fight with the 
Panther. The Lynx is covered withadish. The Grizzly Bear attacks 
the Panther, and when the latter is almost killed the Lynx jumps 
out from under the kettle and breaks the Bear’s leg with anax. Thus 
all the five bears are killed, and then the Panther burns their house. 
He curses the Lynx for haying caused so much trouble, and leaves him. 
