8WANTON] HAIDA TEXTS AND MYTHS 333 



How ONE WAS HELPKD BY A LITTI.K AVOLF 



[Tokl by Tom Stevens, chief of Those-born-at-House- point.] 



A certain person was a ^'ood hunter with dogs. He also knew other 

 kinds of hunting, but still he could not get anything. They were starv- 

 ing at the town. And one time, when he went to hunt, he landed below 

 a mountain. And when he started up some wolves ran awa}^ from him 

 out of a cave near the water. In the place they had left a small wolf 

 rose up. Then he tried to catch it, and the wolf tried to fight him. 

 Then he said to it "I adopt you," and it stopped fighting. 



Then he put it into a bag he had and went home with it, and he hid 

 it in a dry place near the town. After that he dreamed that it talked 

 to him. It said to him: "Go with me. Put me off under a great 

 mountain where there are grizzl}^ bears and sit below. Then I will 

 climl) up from you toward the mountain and, when a big grizzly bear 

 rolls down, cut it up. And, when another one comes down, split it 

 open, but do not touch it." 



At once he took it away and put it off under a mountain. Then he 

 went up, and, while he sat beneath, a big- grizzly bear came rolling 

 down. While he was cutting it up another came rolling down, and he 

 split it open. 



Immediately afterward the small, wet wolf came down. It yelped 

 for joy. It shook itself and went inside the one that was split open. 

 At once it made a noise chewing it. It ate it, even to the bones. 

 Although it was so big it consumed it all. Only its skin lay there. 



Then he put the parts into the canoe and brought them to the town. 

 And they bought them of him. When they were gone he took it (the 

 wolf) off again. They kept buying from him. 



When his property was fully sufficient his brother-in-law borrowed 

 it. Then he gave him directions. "Cut up the one that rolls down 

 first, but the last one that rolls down onl}^ cut open." Then he gave 

 it to him in the sack in which he kept it. 



Then he started with it and put it off beneath the mountain. Soon 

 after it had gone up a grizzly bear rolled down, and he cut it up. 

 Afterward another one rolled down, and he cut that up also. Then 

 the wolf came down. After it had walked about for a Avhile it began 

 to howl. Then it started away, so that he was unable to catch it. It 

 went along on a light fall of snow. 



And, when he go<^ home and he (the owner) asked for it, he told him 

 it got awa}'. He handed him only the empty bag. 



