Boas] KUTENAI TALES 4] 
26. SKUNK AND PANTHER?! 
There was Skunk. He was not afraid of anything. He went 
along. | He saw Panther. He was afraid of Skunk. He thought: 
“Skunk is bad; | Skunk may kill me.’”’ He lay down. Skunk went 
along, he saw | Panther. He looked at him. Hethought: ‘Panther 
is smart; what || may have kilied him?’ Skunk took Panther. He 
put him into his bucket. | He carried him on his back. He started. 
He went along. Panther thought: ‘What | may frighten Skunk?”’ 
Skunk said: ‘I am afraid of one thing— | whistling.” He went along. 
He put him down. He went along. Skunk squirted out his fluid. | 
He stopped there. Somebody whistled, and Skunk was scared. 
Skunk started. || Panther broke his bucket. Panther started. He 
thought | Skunk was bad. Panther started. Skunk was afraid. 
Panther went along. | There were trees where he went. He came 
back here. | When he went along, he came back where there were 
many tracks. Skunk went along. | He thought Panther had lied 
and that he was not dead. (Skunk) started again. || He got back to 
his bucket. His bucket was broken. Hesawno | Panther. He knew 
that he was not dead. He saw histracks. He started | (following) 
his tracks. Skunk went. There were many tracks. He did not | see 
where Panther was. He looked for him. His tracks were many. 
He saw his tracks. There were tracks. He went. He went quickly.| 
He thought: “I'll kill Panther.’’ Panther came to a river. | He 
climbed a tree. Skunk arrived. He drank. He saw | Panther 
in the river. He shot him. He broke much wind. | He had 
no more fluid. He took back his fluid. He did it | and he broke 
wind again. Hewastired. Helay down. Then he saw Panther || in 
the tree. He shot him. Skunk killed Panther. | 
27. THe DELUGE ? 
There was a camp. There were many who picked huckleberries. | 
Chicken Hawk had a wife. She picked huckleberries. Chicken 
Hawk went. | He saw his wife. He did not know that | Yawo’nik! 
had taken his wife. Yawo/nik! had taken her. || He was angry. He 
shot him. He hit him. Yawo’nik! drank water. | There was no 
more (water). He took it again. There was no more water. | 
Yawo’nik! drank. Then Chicken Hawk took (pulled out) his arrow. 
Out came | the water. There was a flood. All the people went up 
the mountains. | The water reached there. All the people thought] 
they would die. Chicken Hawk took off his tail. He put it up. | He 
said: ‘If there is no more tail, then we shall all be lost.’’ | The tail 
had four stripes. Then there was one left. | He said: ‘If there is no 
stripe on my tail, then we shall all die.’ | It reached there. The 
water stopped. Then || it went down. The people went down.? | 
1See pp. 23, 48. 
2 See p. 218. 
8’ Chicken Hawk put up his tail, and said that if the water should cover the four stripes on the tail, 
then the people would all die. 
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