BOAS] - KUTENAI TALES 195 
(c) WOLF RESCUES TREE CHIEF 
An old man named Wolf lived there. He was an expert || hunter. 
Therefore he was named Wolf. Inthe morning Wolf | started for his 
trap. He got there, and it was broken. | He thought that there must 
be something in his trap. | He looked down into the pit and sawa small 
child sitting there. | He said to him: ‘‘ You soiled this place for me.” 
The child caused him to think: || “Don’t kill me. Go back to your 
wife, | then come back with her.’’ Wolf started back, and arrived at 
his tent. | He said to his wife: ‘“‘Let us go! There is | a child in my 
trap. We willtake him out.’’ Then | the couple went. They arrived, 
and the old woman looked | for the child. She thought his eyes looked 
like those of Tree Chief. | The child thought: ‘Bet who | will get me 
first. He shall be my grandparent.’’ Then | the old woman said: 
“Let us bet! Go over there | and start to dig, and I’ll go here and | 
I will also begin to dig. Whoever first gets down to him | shali take 
him. If you take him first, you may kill him. | If I get him first, 
he shall be | my grandson.”” Wolf said: ‘Well.’ Wolf thought: | 
“The child is bad; I will kill him.”’ Then || the old woman and her 
husband raced digging. Oh, | the man was digging fast! The woman 
was not digging fast. | She nodded her head. Then the old woman 
began to dig fast, | and her husband was not fast. The old woman 
just went through | to the pit. She felt of the child || and pulled him 
out. She pulled him away. Then the old man also | pushed his hand 
through, but there was no child. He said: ‘Ya, | I missed it.’”? Then 
both went out. The old woman looked | at the child. She thought: 
“Long ago Isaw Tree Chief. | His eyes were like those of this. || child.” 
Then Wolf went back to his tent. He fitted up | his trap. When 
the old woman brought back the child, | she washed him. She was 
glad to have a grandson. | 
(d) TREE CHIEF PROVIDES FOOD FOR HIS GRANDPARENTS 
Then the child was almost grownup. He said to his grandmother: | 
“Grandmother, is there no sinew?’’ She said to him: ‘O grand- 
son! || there is none here.” The old man said to the child: “Where | 
should he get it from?” The old woman looked for it and found | a 
small piece. She gave it to her grandchild, and the child made a 
netted ring. | He held it outside on the point of a stick. He brought 
it in, and it was loaded with birds.' | He took them off and held it 
1A bird smaller than a robin, yellow at the tips of the feathers, with a single feather on top of its head, 
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