BOAS] KUTENAI TALES P31 
they were not perspiring any more. | When they were perspiring, 
they swam in the water, and they stopped perspiring. | The water 
was always cool. TheSundid not talk. Then, | when he went down, 
it was not warm. Then || he went down, and it was not hot. After 
some time | he went down. Some time passed, and it became dark. | 
Then the youth came back. The chief said: | “The Sun is good. 
He shall be the Sun.’”’ The other one was told: | ‘You shall go at 
night.’”’ He was to be || the Moon. Then it was dark. Then the 
other | young Lynx started. He went up, and | the Moon shone 
brightly. Almost everything could be seen | by the Moon. They 
could almost recognize things at a distance. | Then the Moon was 
good, and || he also was taken. He was to be the Moon. | 
Early the next day Coyote started. | He was angry at the Sun, 
because the chief had rejected him. | He arrived at the place where 
aiming at the Sun. Then, || when he 
the Sun rises. He staid there, 
saw the Sun coming up, he was angry. Then (the Sun) | was angry 
with him, and made his arrow burn. (Coyote) saw that | his arrow 
was burning. Then hethrew away his arrow and his | bow. Then he 
ran, after he had thrown away | his bow and his arrow. Then the 
ground began to burn, and | the fire pursued him. He saw that | the 
fire had almost caught up with him. He saw there was a trail. | 
Then he lay down quickly, and his blanket was burned over, but | 
he could not burn, and the fire went by him. | Therefore the trails do 
not burn. || Then the two young Lynxes were Sun and Moon. | 
It is all finished. | 
55. Toe Propite Try ro Kitt Ya.uK°E’,Ka'M 
Now I will talk more about Ya.uk%e’;ka‘m, how he | was killed and 
came to life again. | 
There was a village, and there was the tent of Ya.ukte’;kam. | At 
one time the people became angry at him. He was now | a full-grown 
man, and he knew that he would be killed. He thought: | ‘‘Don’t let 
me be afraid. Don’t let me be angry at my people, only | at those 
bad things that I have killed.” The people were afraid of him, | and 
did not know what to do with him. Then they killed him | and threw 
him into the river. The people were giad || because they had killed 
Ya.ukte’;ka‘m. Then they all broke camp. | Crane was told: ‘You 
shall drag a young tree. | You shall cover our tracks.’”’ Then they 
started. It was | winter time, and they made tracks on the snow. 
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