Boas] KUTENAI TALES BOT 
The two-year-old Buck sang. He said to his wife: | ‘The Wolves 
are mad at us.” 
He dug a hole, | and let his wife and his son go in. 
Then | the many warriors arrived where the young Buck was sitting. | 
Because he was working his manitou power, he had become a deer, | 
and he became what his name was. He went up a mountain. | He 
went up there to the top. Wolf | killed all the people. He looked 
for his brother-in-law. Where those who had been killed were piled 
up, | he did not see his brother-in-law. He knew that he had manitou 
power. || He thought: “I shall not be able to kill him.” He went | 
to his seat and sang. Then he became a wolf. | He looked; and 
because he was working his manitou power, he saw | the tracks of his 
brother-in-law. Then he went that way. | He looked, and saw him 
on top of a mountain. || His brother-in-law was standing there, facing 
this way. Wolf went up. Then the one | who had become a young 
buck saw him. Wolf started to go up to him. | He just began to go up; 
and when Wolf arrived, there was another high mountain. | He went 
down, and went up toward the top. | When Wolf was going down, at 
the place where his brother-in-law had been standing, there were his 
tracks. || He saw another high mountain on the other side, and he 
was standing on top. | Again Wolf went up. The Buck saw | the 
Wolf starting, and went down to ariver. | He thought: ‘“‘Vll go to my 
Fish’s | tent was on the other side of the 
river. When Wolf stepped || down to the place where his brother-in- 
father’s mother, Fish.’’! 
law had been standing, he was not there. | He saw his tracks going 
down. He followed them. Wolf thought: | ‘Fish is bad.’ Maybe 
he will not give him tome. If I | do not catch him, and if he enters 
his grandfather’s tent, I shall not be able to get him.” | He started. 
When the Buck arrived and went in, Fish was sitting inside. || Fish 
was told by his grandson: ‘‘Put me somewhere. | Wolf is pursuing 
me.’ Fish did not look at him. Buck spoke again. | Fish did not 
lookat him. | He said while he wassmoking: ‘‘Sak,sak,sak,sak,sak!’” | 
(Buck) said again: ‘‘Hurry up! The Wolf is close by. He is coming 
along.”’ || Fish said: ‘‘What you say is bad.- He is | your brother-in- 
law. You loved each other. Why is he angry at you?” | Buck said: 
“Hurry up! Wolf has almost arrived. | He’ll bite me.” Fish said: 
“Ts he a wolf?” | Buck said; ‘‘ Yes, he has become a wolf.” || Fish 
said: ‘‘Can you transform yourself into a deer?” | Buck said: ‘“ He is 
just outside. I became | a man again when I came in.’’ Fish 
said: | “Lie down there!’’ The Buck lay down. | Fish touched his 
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