BOAS] KUTENAI TALES 931 
was about to shoot | Wolf, who did not see him. He touched his 
canoe, || and it made a little noise. Wolf heard the canoe. | He looked 
at it, and Buck was standing in the water, | about to shoot him. 
Wolf said to him: ‘“O brother-in-law! I love you. | Don’t kill me!”’ 
Buck said: | ‘‘T shall not take pity on you, for you have killed all 
my relatives.” || The Wolf was shot and killed. Tish said: | ‘‘Go 
back to your wife. Your son is poor.” | 
Now I have told all that happened in olden times. | 
68. SKUNK 
Well, V'll tell you what happened, what the brothers | Skunk and 
Fisher did long ago. | 
Skunk and his brother lived in a tent. Fisher was his younger 
brother. | There also was the tent of Frog and her granddaughters, 
Chipmunk and || Big Chipmunk. | 
Chipmunk was hungry for meat, and said: ““Haom, | haom!”’ Her 
grandmother said to her: “O granddaughter, granddaughter! | what 
do you mean?” Chipmunk said: ‘‘I am hungry.” | Her grandmother 
said to her: ‘“‘Také whatever you hunger for.” || Chipmunk said: 
“T am hungry for meat.’ | Her grandmother said to her: “Take a 
little piece of dried meat. .Eat it.” | Chipmunk did not take it. 
She was told: “‘Do you want fresh meat?’ | She replied: ‘Yes.’ 
Then her grandmother, Frog, said to her: ‘Go to | Fisher. He shall 
be your husband. Don’t look at || Skunk. He is bad. Only Fisher 
shall be your husband. | Fisher never is hungry. He is a skillful 
hunter.” | 
Then the sisters Chipmunk and Big Chipmunk started. | Their 
grandmother said to them: ‘‘When you get there, stay at a distance. 
After awhile, | inthe evening you willsee Fisher coming back. Then || 
you may go near.’”’ When the sisters arrived (at the tent), | they 
staid at a little distance. Skunk knew already | that the two girls 
were coming. He had manitou power; therefore | he knew that 
they were there. He was always pounding bones. He worked | his 
manitou power. He took his younger brother’s blanket, put it on, 
and went out, || and his manitou pounded bones. Chipmunk said: | 
“Let us go near! There is Fisher. | He is at home.” She was told 
by her elder sister: ‘That is not Fisher | who came out, it is Skunk.” 
Chipmunk said: | ‘Where Fisher came out, there is always the noise 
of Skunk pounding (bones) || inside.’’. She was told by her elder sister: 
“Tt is not Skunk who | makes the noise. Skunk’s manitou does it.”’ 
After a while | Chipmunk insisted. Then her elder sister said: 
“Well, | let us go, but do not feel badly about it if it is not Fisher. | 
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