BOAS] ; KUTENAI TALES Zao 
You urge me very much. Our grandmother said after a while, in 
the evening, || when Fisher comes home, then we should go there.”’ | 
Then they started. When they arrived, they entered, and saw | 
Skunk alone, nobody else. Skunk gave them meat. | Then they ate. 
He said: | ‘Your grandmother wants me to marry you.” Skunk 
prepared a place in the rear of the tent. || He said to them: “Stay 
here.” Then the sisters | went to the rear of the tent and staid 
there. Skunk was | pounding dried meat all the time. | 
Then Fisher came home. He said to his elder brother: ‘Go | and get 
some water. I want to drink.’’ He threw his drinking horn to him. || 
Fisher’s water was far away. Skunk thought: | ‘Fisher might take 
the girls.’ Then he arose. | Skunk took dried meat and threw it 
backward to | the sisters. Skunk said: ‘“‘ Divide-de-de-de it.”” | When 
he was almost going out, he said: ‘‘Don’t move-ve-ve-ve!”’ || Then 
Skunk started. He thought: | ‘‘Fisher’s water is far away. I 
shall go to my water.’ Then he arrived there 
and dipped it up. 
Skunk started to run. He thought: ‘I | want to get back quickly. 
He might take those girls.” | He came back and gave the water to 
his younger brother. Fisher tookit, || and knew that it was Skunk’s 
water. Therefore he threw it back. | Skunk was told: ‘This is not 
my water, | it is your water.’ He was given another horn, | and 
was told: ‘“‘Draw some of my water.’”’ Skunk started. | He just 
and 
dipped up the water and came back. He came back quickly, 
spilled it while running. Now there remain many little lakes, the 
result of | what Skunk spilled while walking. Then he came home 
and gave | the water to his brother. | 
After Fisher had drunk, he said to Skunk: ‘‘Go and get my game.”’ | 
Fisher had known while he was away that the two girls had arrived, || 
and that they wanted him, and that Skunk had already taken them. 
Therefore | he was angry at his elder brother. Fisher took entrails. | 
He painted the entrails of the game red. These entrails | are called 
“‘rectum.’’ Then Skunk was told to bring in | the meat. He was 
given the painted entrails. He was told: || ‘‘Go quickly, because the 
sun is getting low.””. Then Skunk thought | that Fisher might take 
those two girls. | Again he took dried meat and threw it backward. | 
He said: ‘‘ Divide-de-de-deit. Don’t move-ve-ve-ve!”’ | Then Skunk 
started. When he came to the place where the meat was, || he 
tied it with that line. | He did not know that it was entrails. He 
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