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head was || toward the door, and his legs lay toward the mountains. | 
Then the sisters went out again. They sang. | They worked their 
manitou power, and the size of Big Chipmunk’s hole | was almost the 
size of Skunk. The stones squeezed him all over. Then | Big Chip- 
munk and her sister went back to where Fisher lay. | 
When they got there, they restored him to life; and when Fisher 
arose, | he saw his wives. He said to them: ‘‘Where is | Skunk?’ 
They said to him: ‘He is in a hole in the mountain.” | He said to 
them: ‘Let us go to a far-away country. | Skunk is bad. No matter 
how strong the stones || you made, he will break them, he will come out 
again.’’ Then | Fisher and his wives started and left the country. | 
Skunkwasasleep. He wokeup, and knew | that his wives hurt him. 
He said: ‘Move away a little! | You hurt me!”” They did not move; 
and 
he said again: “Move away alittle!’”? He pushed them, | and 
he noticed that (what he touched) was hard. Then he moved, | and 
everything was tight on his body. He was in a hole in the rock. It 
was all | around him on each side of his body and on top of his body. 
He could not move. Then he cried. || He thought: ‘I must die.” He 
knew that he even | used to break rocks. Then he sent out his fluid. 
He went on sending out his fluid, | sending out his fluid, sending out 
his fluid. After he had sent out his fluid for some time, | he could 
move a leg. He went on sending out his fluid, and | he could move 
all around. For a leng time he sent out his fluid, and then the space 
was large. || He could not see the daylight. He thought: ‘“‘Let me | lie 
the other way,” and he turned the other way. Then he sent out his 
fluid again. | After some time he saw a little hole. The rocks opened. | 
He said: ‘Oh, it looks like a star!” | He sent his fluid again. Then 
the hole was larger. Now || he was tired sending out his fluid. He 
thought: “Now let me see | how large the hole is.” He took out his 
musk bag and put it on the end of | his bow. He stuck it out. | 
Raven was going along at this time. He saw what Skunk was 
doing. | He stood there outside; and when Skunk put out his musk 
bag || here in front of Raven, he passed it in front of him. | He did not 
look at it. After some time Skunk took his musk bag in again. | He 
smelled of it, and said: ‘It might smell like the eye of Raven. | 
Maybe he is coming this way. He is one who is always going about.”’ 
(Raven) had not looked at it, | because he knew that (Skunk) would 
smell of it. Therefore || he had not looked at it. (Skunk) put it out 
again. Skunk sang, | and said: | 
‘“‘Hap ho he ha! hap ho he ha! hap ho he ha!”? | 
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