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and I have done badly picking | huckleberries for my husband 
Chicken Hawk.”’ | 
Then Chicken Hawk was angry. He went back. Chicken Hawk 
thought: ||‘‘TVll kill the Water Monster. He is bad. He kills people. | 
He wants to kill me doing this to my wife.” Then | he went back 
He arrived at home. After a while, | when it was dark, he heard his 
wife groaning on the trail. | He knew that she was not sick. Grouse 
came in. || Her head was tied up. She gave huckleberries to her 
husband, | and said to him: ‘‘I was still more sick, | and the berries 
are bad.’’ Chicken Hawk did not eat the huckleberries. | He put 
them back, and said to his wife: “I'll not eat them. | The leaves 
and twigs are bad. If you want || me to eat them, wash them. Then 
I’ll eat them.’’ Grouse lay down. | She said: ‘I will not wash them. 
Tam very ill. | I will he down.” Then, after she had slept, in the 
morning | Grouse said: “Tl pick berries again. There are many | 
huckleberries. I like to do it.”’ | 
Chicken Hawk said: ‘‘Take care!’”? Chicken Hawk did not say | 
anything else. Then it was said that Grouse | and the Water Monster 
should die. Grouse started. Chicken Hawk took | his two arrows, 
and he worked his manitou power over his arrows. | The Water Mon- 
ster is skillful. Therefore Chicken Hawk worked his manitou power | 
over his arrow, toshoot the Water Monster with it. Then he started. | 
When he arrived where she was, he heard Grouse singing along. | 
Then he went there. The Water Monster also came ashore. | Then 
they met onshore. He arrived there. They did not see him | when 
he came there. The Water Monster had already eaten the huckle- 
berries || which Grouse had picked. Chicken Hawk arrived. He said 
to him: “O friend!’ | The Water Monster looked at him, and at 
once he shot at him. The Water Monster said: | ‘“‘V’ll swallow him.” 
Chicken Hawk was not afraid of him. The Water Monster was hit. | 
Then he went towards the water. Grouse went to | Chicken Hawk, 
and said to him: “‘My husband Chicken Hawk, I love you.”’ || Chicken 
Hawk said: ‘I will not take pity on you. | You brought me into 
trouble.”’ Grouse was shot and | was killed. There where Grouse lay 
a bird flew up. | Chicken Hawk said: “You shall be grouse. | You 
shall be eaten.”’ | 
Then Chicken Hawk started. When the Water Monster sank 
down | in the water in the middle of the lake, he lay down, | for he was 
wounded in the belly. After a while he died. He drank | the whole 
lake. He drank all the rivers and all | the creeks and little lakes, 
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There was no more water. || For several days the people looked for 100 
water, but everything was dry. | They were about to die; it happened 
