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manitou power, | and I should go right up this precipice.” | Then 
Wolverene Hat was asked: ‘‘What would you do?”’ He said: || “I 
should work my manitou power, and I should go back | the same 
way we came through.”’ | 
It was not long before one of them looked, and he saw | that already 
they were pursued by enemies. The way they came | was a narrow 
ledge (good place). Then the enemies came. They said to each 
other: || “We are attacked.”’. Both stood up quickly. | One climbed 
Up the precipice. | The other one, when the attacking party came, 
went back. | When the enemies saw them stand up | at the place 
where the two stood, a lamb was seen going up, || and a wolverene 
also came from there. | The wolverene had in its mouth the brisket. 
They were not looked at. The | wolverene went past the place where 
the crowd was. | They thought it was a wolverene, and they also 
thought | it was a lamb, and then they were not looked at. When || 
they arrived at the place where the fire was, they looked about for 
them. | They looked all over. There was nothing. They said to 
one another: ‘Maybe | that wolverene that went past us was he, and 
maybe | the lamb that went by was he.’”? Then the lamb went out of 
sight. It | went around and went down. Then it became a man 
again. The other one || went along the bottom, below the precipice, 
and also became | a person again. Then there was no lamb, and the 
other one | was no longer a wolverene. Then they met again. | 
They spoke the truth when they said they would work their manitou 
power. Then they started. | 
Now, the enemies of the friends were Kuyo’kwe. || Then the 
Kuyo’kwe looked for the tracks of the friends; and they saw | that 
the lamb had become a person, and that the | wolverene—what they 
thought was a wolverene—was the other one. | They looked carefully 
for the tracks. They knew that when | the lamb and the wolverene 
had gone out of sight, both had become || men again. They looked for 
their tracks and followed them. | Then they met again. The two 
went back. They were pursued | along their trail. | 
The friends went back. They saw a lake. They went out to the 
water. | They saw a man on the shore of the lake. They went there. 
They knew || it was Pine Cone. Pine Cone was an old man. He was 
hunting | muskrats. When they arrived, they said to him: “Run 
away! They come | in pursuit of us.’”’ Pine Cone said: ‘You tell a 
lie, Lamb | Hat.’”’ He was told: “We tell the truth. The Kuyo’kwe 
come | in pursuit of us.’”’ Pine Cone said again: ‘You tell a le. | 
Where should they come from to pursue us?’ Then | the friends 
looked back, and where they had come from they saw them. | The 
Kuyo’kwe came out tothe lake. Pine Cone was told: | ‘‘Look! There 
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