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tent. | Raven brought out the musk bag. He worked over it, | and 
it became a pup. Skunk did not go in. | The pup was tied up at the 
doorway. It went tohim || and was glad. Hesaid: “What did they 
do to me, Tso't?”’ It knew him; | therefore it did so. But Raven 
did not know that it was he. 
Then Skunk sat down. He was given 
food. Then | he ate. The food was bad, for there was nothing | in 
him. He did not eat much. He did not eat more, because his in- 
sides were bad, || because he was dry inside. He was told by Grizzly 
Bear: | “You should go on.’’ He arose. Skunk went out, and 
where | he stood up, there was meat. A child said: | ‘There lies 
some meat.’’ Raven said: “Don’t | eat it. He dropped it from 
his mouth. Children must not eat it. Tl || eat it myself.” Skunk — 
entered Grizzly Bear’s tent and | was given food. Here again he 
could not eat much. When he stopped, | he went out; and there 
was meat again where he stood up, | and Grizzly Bear himself ate it. 
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It was what Skunk had eaten. | Because he had no belly, when he ° 
ate, || it went right through him. | 
Then, when it was about evening, Raven went out. | He said: ‘‘Come 
out and play! | You have a toy.” Then they all went ouf. Then | 
they brought out the pup. A little distance away they put it down. | 
Then they kicked it. It ran, and they ran after it. | When they 
caught up with it, they kicked it. Then Skunk had pity | on his 
musk bag. When it saw him, it almost | ran up to him. Then he 
nodded his head the other way. Skunk thought: | “I am thirsty. 
It might hurt me. Later on, to-morrow, || V'll take it back.” At 
night they stopped playing. Then | skunk went to the river. He 
jumped in and soaked himself. | In the morning and all day he 
soaked himself. When the sun was going down, | they played again. 
He thought: “T’ll take back | my musk bag.’”’ They went on play- 
ing. Then Skunk || sat down a little ways off. He thought: | ‘It 
might hurt me.” They chased it toward him, and it went there. | 
Then it turned back and came back. Then he nodded his head to 
it, | and it came running this way. It came, and they could not 
Skunk turned himself toward it, and his 
musk bag went to him. || It got into him again and threw him down. 
Skunk got up. | They said to one another: “Don’t look at him, for 
it is Skunk. | He himself took back his musk bag.’ Their toy was 
gone. | : 
Now I have told what Skunk and his brother did. | 
catch up with it. Then 
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