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At once he bought hide trousers. He also bought moccasins, 

 immediately he started off. He put the hides into a sack. Then he 

 landed where he used to put it (the wolf) off and followed its tracks. 

 He followed its footprints upon the snow lying on the ground. 



Now, as he went, went, went, he spent man}' nights. He wore 

 out his moccasins and threw them away. All the while he followed 

 his son's footprints upon the snow. He went and went, and, when his 

 moccasins and trousers were almost used up, he heard man}^ people 

 talking and came to the end of a town. 



Then he hid himself near the creek, and, when one came after water, 

 he smelt him. Then he saw him and shouted to him: " So-and-so's 

 father has come after him." At once they ran to get him. His son 

 came in the lead. They were like human beings. Then he called to 

 his father. He led him into the house in the middle. The son of 

 the chief among the wolf people had helped him. The house had a 

 house pole. 



Then they gave him food. They steamed fresh salmon for him, 

 and, when the}' set it before him, his son told him he better eat. Then 

 he ate. And, after they had fed him for a while, they brought the 

 hind quarter of a grizzly bear, already cooked, out of a corner. Then 

 they cut off' slices from it and gave them to him to eat. 



He kept picking them up, but still they remained there. They set 

 the whole of it before him with the slices on top. He did not con- 

 sume it. It is called: "That-which-is-not-consumed." 



After he had been there for a while they steamed in the ground 

 deer bones with lichens ^ on them. And next day they began to give 

 them to him to eat. Then he did not pick them up, but he said to his 

 father: "" Eat them, father." He was afraid to eat them because they 

 were bones. Then he picked one up. But, when he touched it to his 

 lips, it was soft. 



Every morning they went after salmon. They put on their skins. 

 Then they came home and brought three or four salmon on the 

 backs of each. They shook themselves, took off their skins, and hung 

 them up. 



Presently he tokl his son that he wanted to go away. Then they 

 brought out a sack and put grizzly-bear fat into it. When the bottom 

 of it was covered they put in mountain-goat fat. There was a layer 

 of that also. After that they put in deer fat, as well as moose fat. 

 They put in meat of all the mainland annuals. 



After it was filled, and they had laced it up they gave him a cane. 

 It was so large he did not think he could carry it. And, when he 

 started to put it on his back, his son said to him: ''Push yourself up 

 from the ground with your cane." Then he did as directed. He got 

 up easily. 



