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it belongs to him. In the evening the Panther comes home and orders 
the Owl, his slave, to carry in the elk, which the latter does reluc- 
tantly. After three days the woman, who is hidden behind a matting, 
makes a hole and sees the Panther. She discovers that she has made 
amistake. The Panther wonders why the Owl obeys him reluctantly, 
and one day returns at noon. The Panther asks him why he is 
whispering every evening, and the Owl replies that he is dreaming. 
One night the Panther hears him talking to the woman, and becomes 
very suspicious. The woman is tired of her husband. She pulls 
out two hairs, which she ties round a piece of elk’s marrow. The 
Panther, when eating the marrow, finds the hairs, and thus learns that 
a woman is hidden in the house. On the following day he returns 
before the Owl, searches all over the house, and finds the woman. The 
Owl is very angry and prepares to fight with the Panther. They put on 
their armor, and in fighting fly upward. They tear each other. Their 
flesh is falling down. The woman keeps all the red flesh, and burns 
all the green flesh. She burns all the green bones, and keeps all the 
white bones. The intestines look just alike, and she cannot distinguish 
them. She burns part of them. Then she throws the meat and bones 
that she has preserved into the water, and the Panther arises, but by 
mistake she has burned his intestines. He sends her to all the animals 
to ask for half of their intestines. They do not fit, and are returned, 
until finally those of the Lynx fit. After a while the woman has two 
children, an Owl and a Panther, who grow up as friends. 
17. TH Raccoon—Raccoon and his grandmother are hungry. She 
offers him all kinds of food, but the Raccoon refuses everything 
except acorns. She tells him to get some from their cache. She has 
five caches of acorns. Raccoon eats all the contents of the caches. 
The Crow observes him and tells what he is doing. His grand- 
mother takes a stick to strike him, but he hides among the wood in 
the fireplace. She finds him, and strikes his face witha firebrand. He 
climbs a hawthorn tree. His grandmother follows him, searching 
for him. She asks him to throw down some fruit to her. He tells her 
to lie on her back and open her mouth. Then he puts thorns into the 
haws and throws them into her mouth. She cries for water. Wings 
grow on her, and she is transformed into a bird. Raccoon travels 
on and reaches the house of the Grizzly Bear. He tells the Bear 
that somebody painted him and made him look pretty. The Grizzly 
Bear requests that the same be done to him. Then Raccoon boils 
some pitch and pours it over his face. Raccoon runs away, pursued 
by the Bear. He meets Coyote and asks him to let him pass, and 
promises to gather food for him. Coyote directs him to his house, 
and orders him to heat ten stones and to cover himself with a kettle. 
When Bear comes, Coyote spits and makes his saliva look like the Rac- 
coon, thus making the Bear believe that he has eaten the Raccoon. 
