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mittens, which were mittens of deer (skin). || He threw them on Buck, 
and said: ‘Don’t | move!”? Buck thought: ‘I thought he | would 
do something for me, therefore I came in.’ There was just one 
mitten | which Fish threw on him. Buck was big, | and his legs 
stuck out. Then he saw Wolf come in. || 
Buck thought he would be seen by Wolf, | and did not turn 
his eyes from those of Wolf, who did not see him. Now Wolf | 
retransformed himself into aman. When he was about to enter the 
tent | of Fish, he said to him: ‘“Didn’t you see Buck?” | He did 
not look at him. He did the same as he had done with Buck. || He did 
and 
said to him: “Your talk is bad. He is your brother-in-law. | 
thesame. (Wolf) was coaxing him. After a while Fish spoke, 
You loved each other. Why are you angry at him?” Fish said: | 
“Did Buck transform himself into game?’ Wolf said: | ‘Yes, he 
transformed himself.” Fish said: ‘‘Why should he | 
come into my 
tent if he is a deer? If he should come | into my tent, he would 
become a man. Go out. Maybe | he went into the water. Game 
does that.” Then Wolf went out. | Fish made a figure of grass. 
He hurriedly threw it out of the smoke hole. | The figure became 
a deer, which stood there on the other side of the water. || When 
Wolf went out, he saw | Buck standing in the water on the other side. 
Wolf went in again, 
a deer on the other side.”’ Fish said: ‘You | said you became a 
and said to Fish: ‘‘Give me a canoe. I | see 
Wolf, and Buck became || a deer. Later on, when a wolf runs after a 
deer and it goes into the water | of a river, then a wolf also will swim 
across,’ | Wolf said: ‘Is that so?”’ Wolf went out. | 
He transformed himself into a wolf. He became one. Then he 
swam across. | Fish had told a le. It was not a deer standing in 
the water; || it was grass that he had made into a deer. Jt was not 
a deer | that was standing in the water; it was grass. When Wolf 
had gone out again, | Buck arose, and said to Fish: | ‘Take me 
across, so that I may kill him, for he killed all my relatives.”’ | 
Then Fish arose, took his blanket, 
}and put iton him. He took his 
belt and took his hat. He took | his mittens. Buck said: ‘Hurry 
up! | He is about to swim across.’”’ Fish said: “He is still here.”’ | 
Then he went out and launched his canoe. | He did not hurry. The 
Wolf had almost gotten across. || Then Fish and Buck went aboard. | 
Fish took his paddle, put it into the water, and pushed with it. He 
almost | caught up with Wolf. Then he put the paddle in on the 
other side. He paddled, | and caught up with Wolf. Then Buck 
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