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there heshook the claws | and sang, saying: “Qwa, qwa, Jack Rabbit! | 
Qwa, qwa, Jack Rabbit! Bring the game!”’ | 
The two old women saw the game going by.'| They said to each 
other: ‘‘The game is passing along.’ The one shook || the bladder. 
It made no noise. It had burst. | The other one went to get the 
claws. Theywere not there. She looked for | the dog. Shethought 
she would send it in pursuit to get them back. | It was not there. 
Then she knew that he was singing, and that he was the one. She 
said: | “Why did you take that little dog? He hasdone it. He has 
stolen || our game. I knew by his eyes that he was Jack Rabbit. | 
Therefore I put him into the water, and you brought him in.”’ | 
Then the two old women took hammers, and they went | to the 
trail of the game in the snow. They stood on each side, ready to 
strike with their hammers. | They thought they would strike Jack || 
Rabbit. | 
One scabby bull was left behind. The youth came back, | and saw 
the two women ready to strike him. | Then he ran after the scabby 
bull. He transformed himself into a | jack rabbit. He held on with 
his teeth to the bull’s testicles, and was || hanging down between his 
legs. One of the old women struck it | and flattened out one leg (of 
the scabby bull). The other old woman struck him | on the other leg 
and made it flat. Then | all the parfléches in the tent began 
to roll out; and | because the fat and marrow began to roll, the other 
old woman ran after it. || She caught it, and it dragged her along. | 
The other one ran after it, and the fat and marrow were rolling this 
way. She took it, | and it dragged heralong. They could not hold 
it. | They fell down crying. 
Now I have told how Raven stole the game. | 
66. THe DELUGE! 
Well, ’ll tell how Chicken Hawk | killed the Water Monster. { 
There was the tent of Chicken Hawk and his wife Grouse. | 
Chicken Hawk went hunting, and Grouse picked huckleberries. || For 
several days Grouse picked berries near a lake. | Then she would 
start again. She perspired and wanted to drink. | Grouse went to 
the water of that lake. Then | she drank and sheswam. After swim- 
ming, | she went tothe shore again. Then she noticed that the water 
was rising. || She looked at it, and there it was where something came 
ashore. | She saw that it was the Water Monster. He came ashore, 
and | said to her: “I want you; I’ll take you!”’ She loved | Chicken 
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