BOAS] KUTENAI TALES 921 
Hawk when the Water Monster spoke to her. She was afraid that 
he would | kill her. Then she thought thus, she was told: “T’ll eat |{ 
huckleberries.””. Then she gave them to him. In the evening | she 15 
started back. She loved her husband, Chicken Hawk. | There were 
no huckleberries which Chicken Hawk was to eat. Even though she 
had picked until the evening, | she had done badly. Then she went 
back to her tent, | and arrived when it was very dark. When she 
arrived, Chicken Hawk || was alreadythere. Shegaveittohim. She 20 
was afraid. Shesaid to him: ‘I did not | get many huckleberries. I 
felt ill. I did not pick berries. | I have been lying down all day.” 
When Grouse was going back, | she saw the bird grouse, who was | her 
manitou. Therefore she was called Grouse. She knocked it down. | 
She took it, and at night she took a piece of it into her mouth. | She 25 
said: “I have a headache; I will not eat.’ | She lay down. She 
groaned. After a little while | she got up again. She vomited. 
She vomited yellow water. | That was the bird that she had swal- 
lowed. || She was not sick at all. She did so because she was afraid 30 
of | her husband, whom she deceived. | 
In the morning Chicken Hawk went out hunting. Grouse said: 
“Even | though I am not feeling well, I'll go to pick berries. | Yester- 
day I did badly picking huckleberries.”” Grouse left, and || she did the 35 
same with the Water Monster. She did also the same, and | picked 
berries for Chicken Hawk. When she arrived at the house, she 
groaned still more. | Early the next day Grouse said: | “Although I 
am sick, I'll go and pick berries. | If I should happen to die, you 
would not eat any more of the fruit that I pick.’ || Then Grouse 40 
started again. | 
Chicken Hawk felt uneasy. He thought: ‘Maybe | my wife is not 
sick. Ill go there | where she is picking berries.”’ Chicken Hawk 
started. He came to | the place where his wife was. She was sing- 
ing. He thought || he knew that she was not sick. He stood there. 45 
When it was almost | evening, Grouse started for the lake. | Shesaid: 
“Tl give something to eat to my husband the Water Monster.” | 
Chicken Hawk looked on, (and saw) his wife going and singing. | She 
went to the shore. He saw the Water Monster coming out of the 
water. || Grouse went there. She carried the huckleberries. | When 59 
the Water Monster came ashore, he opened his mouth, and she emp- 
tied | the huckleberries into his mouth. Then Grouse sat down. | The 
Water Monster was coming ashore. Then Grouse shouted, | and she 
and the Water Monster laughed and made noise. || When it was almost 55 
evening, the Water Monster went back into the water. | Then Grouse 
started for home. She sang. She said: | “It is getting evening, 
