Boas] KUTENAI TALES 949 
at the large stars. | Now, these were the young men. The little | 
stars were the old ones. Then the girl | cried when she saw that she 
had [left] been taken away from her country. She staid there. ||’ 
The star women were digging roots. The girl went along with them. | 
She was told: “Don’t break the ground where | there is a tree.”’ 
The girl thought: ‘“What do | the stars mean?’”’ There was a tree, 
and she dug up | the ground. The ground was just thin. She thought 
she would look, || and down below she saw this world. She recog- 
nized | her relatives walking about. Then she cried. | She made some- 
thing, and tied herself to it, and let herself down. | Then she met 
her relatives. They said to her: ‘““Where did you go? | We lost 
you.” She said: “When I said || I would marry the little star, then 
after I had slept, | when I woke up, Isaw astar coming down for me. | 
I married the star, That little one was an | old man. The large 
stars were young people.’’ | Then she told what she had done and 
how she had come down. || The Star noticed that the girl was not 
coming back. He looked for her. She had gone down again. | At 
night they slept. The next morning when they got up, | it was 
noticed that the girl would not rise. They looked at her for a long 
time. | Then it became known that she was dead. She was killed 
by the Star | whom she had left. He struck her down. | 
Now I have told you what a | girl did. | 
71. Lirrite Sun’ 
Well, Til tell you about Little Sun. | 
There was a town, Chicken Hawk Nest. The chief said: ‘“T’ll | go 
out to fight. Who among the young men can run fast?’ | Little 
Sun said: “Vl start.’’ It was already || noontime, but he did not 
start. They thought he would start. | When the sun was nearly 
setting, they began to play ball. | When they had finished, Little Sun 
went there. They thought he would | not get there, for it was far. 
The place where he was to go was called | Kqawakmituk ([ 7] River). 
There was a town at Kqawakmituk. || When the sun was setting, 
they played football. The game was going on, | and Little Sun was 
seen going along dragging his blanket. | They thought: ‘‘He must 
have started from Fish Hawk Nest.’’ | He did not look as though he 
were strong. Hewassmall. They did not know that he was a fast 
runner. | They said to him: ‘‘There is the tent of the chief.” The 
name of this chief was || Not-sitting-down-Long. Hewentin. Then 
they all went in | to hear the news. The chief from whom | Little 
Sun came was called Crazy Old Woman. | 
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