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down. When Raven put his nose there, | then it reached the ground. 
When they were going to start, | Wolverene said: ‘‘Wait for me. 
It will take me two days || to put away my things. It will take me 20 
two days.’’ He was still | putting away his things when they 
started. Then Wolverene became angry | because he was left. 
When they had gone up, he took hold of (the arrows) and | tore them 
down entirely. They all dropped down. Then the women became 
angry | at him because they were left alone in the town. They pur- 
sued Wolverene, || and he was about to be killed. They pursued 25 
Wolverene, and he was out of breath. | He took up his sinews and 
cut himself to pieces. He changed himself | into a squirrel. He put 
it under the belt which was | around his waist. Then he went: back 
somewhere, because he could do no more, | being tired. He went 
around, andsome one said: ‘Here || is Wolverene.” He said: ‘I am 30 
not he; I am called | He-who -wants -to-act -differently-from-others- 
and -who -does-not -care -for-whatever -may -be-done. | I am shooting 
squirrels.”’ 
Now, Muskrat, who had gone up, | started and made a large lake. | 
He built tents for himself, many tents, although he was only one. | 
There was a village. Then the people reached the village. They | 35 
began to make war. They tore up the tents. When the first one 
was broken up, | a left-handed man was seen to come out. | They 
shot (?) him in the stomach. Then, when they tore up another | 
tent, he came out again in the same clothing that he had worn 
before. || His tent was broken, and that left-handed man | was shot(?). 40 
-Then they began to speak, and some one said: ‘‘ Maybe | he is always 
the same one.”’ Then it came to be known that he was always the 
same one; namely, Muskrat. | Some one said: ‘Stop shooting him— 
shooting at his stomach.” | Then they left him. 
Then they started back || to the place where they had come from: 45 
There was nothing. (The arrow chain) was broken down. | The 
manitous did not know how to get down. | The war chief said: ‘“‘“We 
will wait | at the drinking-plece of Thunderbird.”” They waited for 
the Thunderbird and | killed him. Then his feathers were taken off. | 
Then they gave them to every one to be their feathers. | There were 50 
two friends, the Bats; and there were | two friends, Golden Eagle and 
Young Golden Eagle—two of them. Then the good | feathers were 
laid aside. Some one said: ‘“‘Don’t touch | them, they are for the 
friends.”’ The Bat friends || nudged each other. They thought they 55 
were meant. Then | all the feathers were given out. Then the | two 
chief friends were given feathers. They went back to | the place 
where they had come up, and they began to fly down. When the 
Bat | friends were given feathers, they passed them on. || They thought 60 
(the best ones) would be theirs. When (all the feathers) were gone, | 
they knew they were mistaken. There was nothing for them. 
