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BOAS] KUTENAI TALES 105 
He entered the old man’s tent and lay down. He threw | some- 
thing warm on himself and lay there. Then it became very cold. | 
Twice he heard the bursting of eyes of the || old man. Ya.uk'e’;- 
ka'm said: “Don’t let it be cold any more.” | He arose. Ya.-uke’;- 
ka‘m went across. | He went up, and there he waslying. The old man 
had turned into a mountain sheep. | Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m chopped off its 
his arrow straightener. Then he started, 
horn, which was to be 
and he also killed that || which was to be killed by the people. Then 
he went back to | his grandmother. He staid there. | 
(€) YA.UK°E’;KA°'M OBTAINS SINEW 
He said: “If there were simew, I should put feathers on my 
arrow.”’ | Frog said: ‘“‘O grandson, grandson! there is no sinew. | Go 
there. There is a tent. The name of the man is Mouse. || His tent 
stands there. Bull Moose almost breaks | his tent. You will kill him. 
You will take | the smew.” Then Ya-uk"e’;ka-na started and came | 
to the tent of Mouse at A,‘qo'la’ka’s.'_ He entered. Mouse said: | 
“What do you want?’ He knew it was Ya.ukte’;kam. || He had 
heard that there was a youth named Ya.uk%e’;ka‘m | who was to be 
chief. When Mouse spoke to him, ‘‘What | do you want?” he 
whispered. Ya.ukte’;ka‘m said: ‘‘I have come.”’ | When Ya.uk*e’;- 
ka'm spoke, he spoke loud. Mouse said: | “Don’t speak loud. Bull 
Moose might break our tent.” || Ya.ukve’;ka°m said: “Give me | your 
bow.” Hegaveitto him. He looked at it. | It was bad. (Mouse’s) 
younger brother carried meat. He said to the one who brought the 
meat: | ‘Give me your bow.” He gave it to him. He looked at it. 
It was almost | good. Then Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m went, out. He shot || the 
Bull Moose, shot it again, and killed it. He said to them: | “Take 
the meat andthe skin. Youshall split | this skin. I shall take only 
one thing. I shall take the sinew.” | Then Mouse and his brothers 
cut it up. | Ya.uk"e’j|kavm went back, and arrived at his grand- 
mother’s (tent). || He staid there. Then he made an arrow. 
Then it was all finished. | 
(f) YA.UK°E’,KA'M OBTAINS FLINT 
-He said: “If I knew where there is some flint, I should get it.” | 
Frog said: ‘‘O grandson, grandson! | it is far away where the flint is. 
The flint isa man. | Itisastone. When a person arrives and intends|| 
to take it, then thestone becomes a man. | Then it can not be taken.”’ 
Ya.uke’;ka‘m thought: ‘‘Tli | go after that stone.” Thenhe started, 
1This is a small hill on the south side of St. Marys River, an isolated part of the lowest terrace in the 
valley of the Kootenay River. The hill is called A,‘qo‘ta’ka’s. 
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