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32. CHICKADEE AND ELK ! (No. 14).—Chickadee wishes to cross a river, and asks 
Elk to take him across. While Elk is carrying him, Chickadee kills him. 
33. Frog anp PartripGe (No. 15).—Frog Woman marries Partridge. After a while 
Partridge finds his first wife, and they go back to their children. 
34. Beaver AND TurtLE 2 (No. 16).—Turtle goes after the head of a chief while 
he is asleep. He is captured the next morning. The people threaten to cut off his 
head: Turtle says he does not fear a knife. They threaten to shoot him: he says he 
does not fear a bow. They threaten to chop him up: he says he does not fear an ax. 
They threaten to drown him, and he asks them not to doit. When he is thrown into 
the water, he swims away, shaking the head of the chief. The people try to pursue 
him; but Beaver gnaws through their bows, and the pursuers go back. 
35. SKUNK AND PANTHER ® (3 versions: Nos. 17, 26, and 34). First Version.— 
Panther sees Skunk coming, and pretends to be dead. Skunk carries him on his back. 
Skunk puts Panther down and covers him with his bucket, which Panther breaks. 
When Skunk comes back, he sees Panther’s tracks. Panther climbs a tree. Skunk 
1 Apache, Jicarilla (Goddard PaAM 8:228; Russell JAFL 11:263). 
Assiniboin (Lowie PaAM 4:202). 
Chileotin (Farrand JE 2:40). 
Nez Pereé (Spinden JA FL 21:21). 
Okanagon (Gatschet, Globus 52:137). 
Osage (Dorsey FM 7:15, 16). 
Pawnee (Dorsey CI 59:453). 
Sanpoil (Gould MAFLS 11:107). 
Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:267). 
Shuswap (Teit JE 2:751). 
Thompson (Teit MAFLS 6:76). 
Ute (Kroeber JAF L 14:270). 
Ute, Uinta (Mason JAIL 23:316). 
Wichita (Dorsey CI 21:271). 
Zuni (Cushing, Folk Tales 243). 
See also Caddo (Dorsey CI 41:99); Maidu (Dixon BAM 17:83). 
2 Biloxi (J. O. Dorsey JAFL 6:49). 
Blackfoot (Wissler PaAM 2:160). 
Cherokee (Mooney RBAE 19:278). 
Cheyenne (Kroeber JA FL 13:189). 
Dakota (Wissler JA FL 20:126). 
Hopi (Voth FM 8:182). 
Kickapoo (Jones PAES 9:39). 
Laguna (Parsons Pueblo-Indian Folk-Tales, No. X, JAFL 31). 
Menominee (Skinner PaAM 13:392). 
Micmac and Passamaquoddy (Leland 56). 
Natchez (Swanton JAFL 26:193). 
Ojibwa (Jones JAFL 29:368; PAES 7 [pt. 2]: 117, 343; Radin GSCan 48:61). 
Okanagon (Gatschet, Globus 52:138). 
Osage (Dorsey FM 7:16). 
Pawnee (Dorsey MAF LS 8:275; CI 59:469). 
Ponca (Dorsey CNAE 6:275; JAF L 1:207). 
See also Celebes (Revue des traditions populaires 14: 547); Philippine I. (Bayliss JAFL 21:47); Visayan 
(Millington and Maxfield JAFL 20:316); Ceylon (Jataka No. 543, ed. Fausb6ll, 6.161, 12); Burmah 
(Journal Royal Asiatic Society n. s. 24); China (Stanislas Julien, Les Avadénas 1.201); Angola 
(Chatelain MAFLS 1:154; A. Seidel, Geschichten und Lieder der Afrikaner 153); North American 
negroes (Harris, Uncle Remus 53; Parsons JAFL 30:171, 181, 225, where other references to Ameri- 
can negro versions will be found). 
Compare the corresponding tale of the crayfish (Schildbiirgerbuch, edited by Bobertag 41) and of Brer 
Rabbit (JAFL 1:148; Harris, Uncle Remus 25; Fortier MAFLS 2:35; Parsons MAFLS 13:15); Brazil 
(Herbert Smith, Brazil, The Amazons and the Coast 551). (Quoted after Dihnhardt, Natursagen 4:44.) 
See also Chinook (Boas BBAE 20:121); Quinault (Farrand JE 2:91); Snohomish (Haeberlin, personal 
information). 
3 Okanagon (Hill-Tout JAT 41:148). 
Sanpoil (Gould MAFLS 11:106). : 
Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:271). 
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