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“Cook me.” The woman said: | ‘Bring wood.” He gathered 
wood. Thenshe made | a pit (it was a pit for cooking). The woman 
pulled out grass. | She took stones. She took wood. Then the 
Giant lay down. | Then soil was taken. The woman threw it on 
top. || She set fire to it. Then the Giant said: ‘Iskuku’, iskuku’, | 
iskuku’!”” Then the Giant spoke no more. Then he was dead. 
The woman | started to go back. She said: ‘‘Look! I killed the 
Giant.”” Enough. | 
31. Tot Two Tsa’KAP 
There were two Tsa’kap, brother and sister. (The brother) was 
told: | “Don’t go there!’”” He thought: “I will go there.” || He 
started. He went along. There was a squirrel sitting on a tree. | 
He shot at it. He did not hit it. He took his manitou arrow and 
shot | and hit it. He killed it. He watched. There was a lake. 
Just | in the middle he took off his clothing. He swam. | A little 
Ways out in the water there was a charr. It swallowed him. | 
There was his sister. The Tsa’kap had disappeared. That woman 
thought: | “Why is there no Tsa’kap?”” The woman started to | 
the lake. She looked at the fish-line. She pulled it up. | She pulled 
the charr out of the water. She cut it open. The Tsa’kap spoke 
(inside). He said: | ‘Split it.” Then she split it. She split the 
belly. || The Tsa’kap arose. They two, the Tsa’kap brother and 
sister, went back together | to their tent. She said to him: “Don’t 
go there.” He thought: | “I will go.”’ He went. There was a 
squirrel on a tree. He shot at it. | He did not hit it. He took his 
manitou arrow and shot. He hit it. | He looked for his arrow. He 
went along. There was a tent. He entered. | A woman was 
sitting there. She said to him: ‘‘ What is it?’’ He said to her: 
“TY am | looking for my arrow.” She said to him: ‘Let us go! 
We'll go swinging.” | He said to her: ‘“ Well.” She said to him: 
“You first.” | He sat down. He said to her: ‘‘ You first.’’ She 
said to him: “You | first.”’ Then the Tsa’kap swung. (The rope) 
did not break. || The Tsa’kap went down again. He said to that 
woman: “Now you | swing!” (The rope) broke, and the woman 
was dead. | The Tsa’kap went on and arrived at his tent. | 
He was told by his sister: ‘“Don’t go that way.”” He started. | He 
saw a manitou looking for beaver. There were many || manitou 
people. He said: “Let me take a beaver.”” He killed it. | He took 
it. He started back. The Tsa’kap was pursued. He was told: | 
“Put it down, it belongs to me; you stole it from me.’ He said: 
“No; | it is mine.” He went home to his tent. He said to his 
sister: | ‘Have we no father?” She said to him: “No.” He 
thought: | ‘Oh, if I had a father!” On the following day he said 
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