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it. Then he told him to open his mouth. | Then he threw it. 
Nalmu’qtse knew that he was | angry with him. He nodded his head, 
and (the whetstone) stood there just alongside of him. || He said: 110 
“He’he he’he he’!’”’ He said;| ‘My brothers are angry with 
me. I have escaped.’ |The name of that place was Little 
Heart.!| Then he came down the lake and | saw a Water Bird? and 
. Water Ousel. He spoke to them and gave them | food. He 
said to them: “You will go along each side of the lake. You will 
say, || ‘You are invited, you are invited, you are invited, | you are 115 
invited, you are invited.’’’ They were told: “If you don’t come 
to me, your lake will be dried up.” | Then those who went on each 
side of the lake said so. | Wherever there is a bay here, there they 
danced. | He said to them: ‘‘All the fish shall come ashore to the 
tent of || Woodpecker to eat (his food).”” Then, when he came back, | 179 
all the fish came ashore, there at the tent. Woodpecker | was told: 
“The chief has not come back yet. He will | tell you something.”’ 
They waited for him, and the fish* arrived. | When he arrived, he 
was given a pipe. Then he, ||'Woodpecker, and his brothers, smoked. 125 
They were all men. | Only one of them was a woman; namely, their 
younger sister (a bird with yellow breast and gray feathers). | Then 
the sister herself saw the fish smoking | and moving his eyebrows 
while he was smoking. | Hesaid: ‘‘Where is our grandson?’ Then] 
he moved his eyebrows in this direction. He moved them a little 130 
ways. | Then he told them that (the grandson) was on this lake. | 
He finished telling the news. Then he was told: ‘‘Now | I am glad. 
Now go!” Then the fish went back into the water quickly. | Then 
he had some food. || The fish is like that. He is red on each side; | 135 
that is the meat, the food (that he was given). 
Now they made ready to kill | the Water Monster. Woodpeckersaid: | 
“Tl go into the water; | Pllsearchfor him.” Nowtheysaw one person 
named Long Legs. | He went intothewater andsaid: ‘I am Long Legs, || 
Tam Long Legs.” He was proud of himself. “He had not gone | far 140 
from the lake shore when he sank down. Next Woodpecker himself 
went along the lake shore | and went into the water. He searched for 
him. | Then hesaw (themonster). He thought he would kick him dead 
in the water. He intended to kick him | on the head, but the blow 
glanced off from the head. || He missed it. Then (the monster) was 145 
chased this way along the | other big river. It came back this way by 
way of Windermere. | It came backto Red Water. It thought it would 
go along that river, | but it was stabbed by Woodpecker. The mon- 
ster | escapedagain. It was hit on the foot. There was some blood, || 
and the water turned red. Therefore it is named Red Water. | It 150 
1 Name of a place east of Nelson, which was given its name by Natmu’qtse owing to this incident. 
2 A small gray bird living on the lake shore. 
3 A small fish with large head and small tail. 
