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thought it was | a line. It was painted red. He put it on his back. 
When he arose, | the tump line broke. Then Skunk said: ‘Oh, | I 
broke my brother’s tump line!”’ Then it became cold.|| 
When Skunk started, Fisher said: ‘‘Now | come out! Why did you 
come here early? Later on, | when I came back, then you ought to 
have come. Now eat meat! | After you have eaten, we will move 
away.” Then the sisters ate | meat. | 
When they had eaten, they were told: ‘‘ Now let us move! Skunk 
is bad. | He has manitou power. He will kill usall.”’ Fisher said: | 
“There in the corner of the tent are all his rotten bones. Take 
them all out.” | Then the sisters took out Skunk’s | bones. | 
Fisher said: ‘‘Where shall we go? Skunk knows the place where 
my tent is.” | Chipmunk said: ‘‘Let us go to my tent!’ | Then 
they started. They entered; but Fisher could not | go in, for it was 
too small. Then Big Chipmunk said: “Let us go | to my tent!” 
When they arrived, they went in, but Fisher could not go || in. Fisher 
said: ‘Then let us go to my tent, | although Skunk knows the place 
of my tent!’’ | Then Fisher worked his manitou power, and two trees 
stood there. He transformed himself, | and became a real fisher. He 
transformed one | of his wives, and she became a real big chipmunk;|| 
and he transformed his other wife, and she became | a real chipmunk. 
Then they climbed one of the trees. | 
They staid there. Then Skunk, when there was a wind storm, | 
which Fisher had made, and therefore it was cold, thought his | elder 
brother would cause him to freeze to death. Then Skunk was cold. || 
He left his tump line at the door. He did not know that it was 
entrails. | He thought: “Tl leave this meat.” | Then, when it was 
dark, he left it. He went on. When he came back, | he knew that 
they had moved camp. There was no fire. Then | he cried. He 
thought: “Dll die, because it is cold.” |] Skunk said: (2) “Chief, 
chief!”* | He looked for his rotten bones. They were all gone. 
Then he saw | that there was one rotten bone ina hole. He went in. 
He was glad. | He thought: “Now I am saved.” | He staid there 
that night. Early in the morning he was heard talking. || Then the 
sisters were asked: ‘Big Chipmunk, did you take out all | his rotten 
bones?”’ Big Chipmunk said: “I took them all.”” | Chipmunk said: 
“There is one bone that I did not take.’’ Then Fisher said: | ‘Then 
Skunk will kill us all. He is bad. | That rotton bone is his manitou. 
Now he can not die. || He will make war on us.”’ | 
Skunk came out. Hesang. He worked his manitou power. | Then 
he became a real skunk. Long ago the skunk was large. | He killed 
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