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country. He did not arise when he was going about, | but crawled 
on hands and feet. It was almost the best way, || for theré is water 10 
now where he crawled along. Therefore the rivers have that width.! | 
He crawled along, even where there was much water. He saw Wood- 
pecker and | his brothers sitting in a row on the top of a mountain: | 
Woodpecker was still angry at Muskrat, who | had lied at the time 
when the warriors started off, at the time when the warriors went 
up (to the sky), || and when Wolverene tore their trail, | and they knew 15 
that Muskrat had told a lie. When they wished to come down again, 
Wolverene had torn the trail, and they could not go down. | They 
shot the thunderbird, and they were given its feathers and | down. 
There were none for Woodpecker and his brothers. || Then they got 20 
angry. They went tothe place | where the sun goes down, and there 
they came down and returned | to their country. When they saw 
the people, as they were going home, | they killed all. Then they saw 
a mountain goat not far from | a lake, and they ate the goat. | 
They saw below Natmu’qtse crawling along. | Woodpecker was still 25 
angry; and when he saw the old man, | he hated him. He knew 
that Nalmu’qtse was still giving names | to the country. Then he 
wished to kill his uncle. He said to him: | ‘“Unele!’? Natmu’qtse 
heard his nephew. He said: || ‘‘Hai!’? Hewas told: “T’ll give you 39. 
toeat. Maybe you are hungry on account of your | going about and 
giving names to the land.”” Natmu’qtse said: | “Oh, I am glad!” 
He was told: ““Open your mouth.’’ Woodpecker | put a stone into 
the fire and put | the hot stone into the heart of the mountain goat. 
Then Natmu’qtse opened his mouth, || and Woodpecker threw the 35 
heart into it. Woodpecker had manitou | power, and Naimu’qtse 
was the same way. | When Woodpecker reached him, Nalmu’qtse 
knew that his nephew was evilly disposed | toward him. He nodded 
to the heart, and it | fell down on one side. Nalmu’qtse said: ‘E, | 
you will be named Little Heart.’”’ Even though somebody was 49 
angry with him, | he gave names to places, because he was walking 
about this world | in order to give names. | 
(Woodpecker) was told: ‘Don’t sleep where there is a | thick’ 
forest.”’ (Natmu’qtse) turned around, and said also: ‘Don’t touch 
the || charr while it is rollimg in the water.” Then Natmu’qtse 45 
crawled along in the water, | and there it was where Flicker was 
swallowed by the | Water Monster. | 
Nalmu’qtse went along. He thought:. “T’ll stand up fora while. | 
Pll stretch myself.” . He stood up and || stretched his back. (I said 50 
Nalmu’qtse was large. When | he stood up, his war bonnet touched 
the sky.) His | war bonnet fell down; and when his hat fell down, | 
1That is, the rivers were formed on the trail which he made by crawling along. 
