Boas] '  KUTENAI TALES TC 
Then | the Bats flew down, spreading out their blankets. | They used 
them for wings. The Flyi ing Squirrel pulled out | his skin and used 
it for wings. He used it to fly with. || All the fish threw themselves 
down. The Sucker was the | only one who was broken to pieces. 
All tried to restore him, but it could not be done. All the manitous | 
touched him; and when some one tried to fix him, he put | pieces of 
his own flesh on. They thought it would cure him, but he was not 
cured. | There was Sucker's brother’s widow. He always wanted 
her to touch him. || Then she also went to him, and | his brother’s 
widow touched him. Then he | was well again. 
Those warriors who were left behind | did not know how to get back. 
They said: ‘Being warriors, we shall finally reach the earth (?).’’ | 
They were about to start for the place where heaven and earth meet. || 
They were about to go to war. These were the brothers | Wood- 
_ pecker. They started back to go down to the place | where they had 
come down. Then they reached the ground. When they came 
back, | at Nelson they met the manitous, | and were told: ‘‘When you 
go back, you willsee a fish. Don’t || touch it, wherever you may stay 
over night.’’ They were also told: | ‘Don’t stay over night where 
there are thick trees.’’ Then | they bewitched one another. Wood- 
pecker and his | brothers were going along; and while they were going 
along, they found a charr drifted ashore. | Woodpecker thought he 
would kill it. He said to Flicker: ‘Many things || have been. done. 
Have you a great name, and is it right that you make trouble? (%)” | 
Flicker was just about to touch the ohare when it | went back into the 
water, and he did not touch it. It happened that the water was 
rolling in toward the shore, | and without his knowing it he was 
swallowed | by the Water Monster. Then the other one started and 
went along. || He came to a place where there were thick woods. 
It was getting evening, | and he camped there over night. Then, 
while he was asleep, | a little toad went under his blanket. Wood- 
pecker thought | what he had been told did not mean anything, and 
he did not pad what was said to him. | Then he went tosleep. The 
little toad stuck on his body. || It was always like that. At one time 
the y The Water Monster had 
‘killed him. A law had been made | for Woodpecker (?). 
He said: ‘‘We will go around the mountains.”’ | Then they went 
hunting. When the food was done, they started to come back | to the 
lake. They came up and sat down. || Then he saw Natmu’qtse.1 
Nalmu’qtse wasa large.| man. He was going about giving names | to 
the country. He followed this Kutenai River. Hesaw Woodpecker | 
and his brothers, and said to them: ‘‘O nephews! give me some 
food.’ | Woodpecker hated his uncle Nalmu’qtse. || He was angry at 
him, and took a whetstone, threw it into the fire until | 1t was red-hot. 
He took the heart of a Mountain Goat and put | the whetstone into 
1 See pp. 87 et seq. 
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