Boas] KUTENAI TALES me | 
Then they filled the pipe for Chief Not-sitting-down-Long. | The 
Chief, said: ““Now speak! Why did you come?” || Little Sun said: 20 
“The chief made a request | that some one should go on the warpath. 
Nobody wanted to come, but I came.’ | The chief was seated. He 
said: “After how many days | shall the warriors start?”’ Little Sun 
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said: | ‘‘He spoke this morning, and said, ‘For three days || work on 2 
arrow wood and bow staves. Put feathers on your arrows. | Then, 
when everything is done, on the fourth day they shall start.’”’ | 
They said to Little Sun: “When did you start?’’ | He said: ‘This 
evening.”” Then it was known that he was a runner. | They said 
also shall start. They 30 
to him: “It shall beso. In three days they 
will all be ready. | On the fourth day they will not go far and stop. | 
On the fifth day they will meet on Low Hills.”’ | 
It was dark, and Little Sun staid over night. He staid there 
in the morning. At noon Little Sun was not ready to go. || At sun- 35 
set he started back, dragging his blanket. | They began to peel their 
arrow wood. In the town Fish Hawk Nest | they played ball in the 
evening. Just when they had finished their game, | Little Sun was 
seen. He came dragging his blanket. | He entered the tent of the 
chief. They assembled, and they were going to listen to what the 40 
chief would say. He said: | “Yesterday after I started, I reached 
there just after the game was over.” | He was asked: “How high 
was the sun when you got there?” Hesaid: | ‘‘I just said so.” He 
was told: ‘“They were playing ball | when you started.” He said: 
“Why, at the place to which I went || they had just finished their game 45 
‘when I arrived.”” ‘Then it was known | that he was a runner. He 
was told: ‘‘What did the chief say?’ | He said: ‘“‘He will do just as 
you will meet at Low Hills. The 
chief will not go, || but his son will go. Now I have told the news.” | 50 
And all said: ‘‘Yes.’’ | 
Then they made arrows and bows. After four days | they went on 
you said. | Four days from to-day 
the warpath. They stopped over night. | The people of Kqawak- 
mituk started also. They did not go far, and staid over night. || In 55 
the morning they went to Low Hills, and just at noon | they met. 
Many started—a crowd—and they went along. | Scouts went ahead. 
They didnotsee | anything. Theywenton. Nowtheywerehungry. | 
There were two friends. One was called Pipe Lighter. Some time 
before this, || Pipe Lighter had told his friend what he wouldde His 60 
