Boas] KUTENAI TALES 2038 
small. || The old woman thought: ‘‘Now my grandson may leave me, | 
because Eagle Chief was not without high rank. | Maybe he did not 
do it.” | 
In the evening he went to get water, and again he saw the girl. | 
He said to her: ‘To-morrow at noon [shall come.’ The girl knew | 
that he had shot the golden eagle. || It was he who had given her 
pemmican. Then she started again. | On the following day he said 
tohisgrandmother: ‘I shallgive you | the golden eagle that I brought 
yesterday. This is what I won | by playing. I won a woman. I 
shall go there.” | The old woman said: ‘‘Whose daughter is she ?”’ 
The youth said: || ‘She is Golden Eagle’s daughter.” The old woman : 
said: | ‘If he were not chief, I should not give you up.” | The old 
woman cried. Her grandson said to her: ‘‘Don’t | cry! I shall not 
leave you.” The old woman said: | “Do you want to carry meat 
along?’’ The boy said: || “To-morrow there will be much meat in 
that town. | I shall make it.’’ The old woman said: “It is well. | 
Your wife will come for meat. The eagle will eat | it.’ | 
In the evening the boy started. || He went behind the tents. He 
made himself look the way he used to be | when he was with his 
mother. His clothing was fringed. | He had a shield and he had a 
tomahawk. | He had a little hammer and he had a war bonnet, and | 
shells. He had 
everything that he used to have | when he was withhis mother. He 
on his head was a sparrow hawk. His saliva was 
started | for the town, and he was a large youth. | When he came 
out of the prairie, he shouted, and the people in the town heard it. | 
They said: ‘Well, Tree Chief arrives.” || They looked at him, and 
they saw him coming. Then | they went out. He arrived. He was 
told: “There is the | chief’s tent.’’ On theday before, | when heshot 
the eagle, he was not recognized. Only the girl and | Golden Eagle 
knew that he was the one who had || shot the golden eagle on the pre- 
vious day. Then the girl | shook his bed. She prepared the seat | 
where her husband was to sit. Then he went there. He entered. | 
His place was prepared. He sat down. | The girl had prepared the 
place for Sparrow Hawk to sit down. || Coyote was sitting there. 
Then there were two | friends who had each a sparrow hawk. After 
some time he spat, 
and his saliva turned into shells. | The Sparrow 
Hawk screeched, flew down, and ate | the shells. Then Coyote was 
angry. He was ashamed. | 
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