BOAS] KUTENAI TALES 159 
He was going to attack | Fox and his friends. He thought he would 
kill them, because he had been beaten || when he had gone to play 
with them. (I have been all the time making a mistake. | It was 
Young Coyote who paddled, and Fox | who speared the salmon.) 
Then they paddled along. | They saw a salmon. Fox knew it was | 
the youth who had come out the day before. He knew || that he had 
turned into a salmon. When Fox was ready to throw his spear, | 
the boy put the torch to the other side. He did this so | that Fox 
should not hit the salmon, | for the one to be speared was his elder 
brother. Fox knew what | the boy was domg. He thought: “T’ll 
fool him!” || The fish was coming along on one side, but he pointed 
the other way. | He said to the youth: ‘Salmon is coming there.”’ | 
He fooled him in regard to the side whence it was coming. | The 
youth turned the torch, and Fox speared him. | When the youth saw 
that Fox had fooled him, || he said to him: “Don’t hit it in the belly; | 
hit its tail!” The youth thought | the salmon would. kill Fox if he 
should hit its tail, | because then he would upset the canoe. When 
Fox was told: | ‘“Don’t hit its belly,’ he would not listen, but he 
hit it || inthe belly. The salmon at once turned sideways. | The boy 
saw that his brother was killed. Then | he stepped on one side of the 
canoe, fell into the water, | and became asalmon. | Then he went back 
to his tent and arrived there. Then || he said: “ They have killed us.”’ 
He thought the one remaining might also be killed, | as two had been 
killed. Then three had been killed.! | Then Fox and his friends went 
on paddling. | The youth who had been killed wore ear ornaments. 
They cut off his head | and put it intothe canoe. He also had a long 
braid. || (In olden times the people used to do this. When they 
made war and some one killed | achief, they cut off his head and took 
it back to their country.) | Then in the morning Coyote and his son 
were told: ‘Don’t | look back!” They paddled on. At sunrise | 
many people from a large camp || came to make war on Fox. Coyote 
thought: | “They are already paddling after us.’’ He looked back | 
and said: ‘A great many are making war on us.” | Fox told him: 
“Why don’t you obey me and do | what I tell you? Don’t look 
back!”” Then || Coyote and his friends stopped. Nomatiter how hard 
they tried, | they could not move their canoe. Then the warriors 
arrived. | (Fox) took the head of the youth. | He lifted it up and 
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