BOAS] KUTENAI TALES 59 
[Nos. 46 and 47. Told by Pierre Numa and Pierre Andrew] 
46. Frog AND CHIPMUNK! 
Frog was living in a tent, and her granddaughter was Chipmunk. 
Chipmunk | went around. She looked for everything. Frog said to 
her granddaughter: | “Don’t go that way.’”’ Then Chipmunk went 
about again. She thought: | “What did she mean me to do, that I 
should not walk there?’? Chipmunk || thought: “T will go that way 
where she told me not | to go.’”’ Then she went. She saw Owl. | 
Owl spoke, and said: ‘‘I shall bite the child.” | (Chipmunk) wag 
picking partridge berries and rose hips. On account of what had been 
said she did not move. Owl spoke, and said: ‘‘ Your mother says we 
shall go || home.’”’— ‘“‘My mother died long ago.”’ He said: ‘Your 
sister (says) | we shall go home.’”’ She said: ‘‘My sister died long 
ago.” | He said: ‘‘ Your mother’s sister (says) we shall go home.’’— | 
“My mother’s sister died long ago.” He said to her: ‘ Your father’s 
sister says we shall go home.’’— | ‘‘My father’s sister died long ago.”’— 
“Your younger sister ||says we shall go home.’’—‘‘My younger 
sister died long ago.’’ Chipmunk spoke, | and said to Owl: ‘You 
look terrible; you have big eyes. | Cover your eyes with your hands, 
then [ll go along.’”’ Owl covered his eyes with his hands. | When 
Owl had covered his eyes with his hands, Chipmunk began | to run. 
Owl tried to kill-her, and scratched || Chipmunk. Owl looked at his 
claws, and he licked off the blood that was on his claws. | Then she 
got back to her grandmother. She said: | ‘Grandmother, Owl is 
pursuing me.” She said to her granddaughter: “There is no place 
where I can hide you.” | Frog took her granddaughter and put her | 
in a birch-bark basket. Chipmunk made a noise inside || that 
basket. Frog thought she would hold her in her mouth, but it was 
very bad. | Then she took her out of her mouth. There was soup of | 
rotten bones. She dipped her into it. Then Frog just sat down. | 
Owl came in. Owl spoke, and said to Frog:? | “Did you see the 
child?” Frog said: ‘‘I did not look around. || [ did not see her.’? Owl 
said: ‘There are her tracks.” | Frog said: ‘I did not see’ the child.”’ | 
Owl said: ‘“‘Is there no water? I am thirsty.”’ | Frog said: ‘There 
is no water.’? Then Owl said: | “Is there no soup?” Frog said: 
“There is no fluid. This is || rotten bone.”’ Owl said: ‘Tl drink 
of it.”’ Frog said: | ‘Leave some fluid for me.’”’ Then Owl began to 
drink. | He saw the child was inside. Owl said: | ‘‘She is inside; you 
told me a lie; you said that you had not seen her.’ Frog spoke, | 
and said to him: ‘You shall preserve her bones.’’ Then || Owl bit 
the child. Then he ate her. After he had eaten, | he went out of 
the house. Then Frog began to cry because her granddaughter was 
1 See p. 46. 2Frog is Owl’s sister. 
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