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woman rau ahead of lier grandson, who carried the rest of the elk. 

 They went home. After a little while he came near his grandmother, 

 who had put her load on the ground and pushed it to and fro, singing 

 at the same time [page 114, line 23]. 



He reached her and asked: ''What are you doing there, grand- 

 mother?" " It pulled me down headlong, grandson." Then she took 

 it again on her back and ran. He went on. Then he saw her again 

 sitting down and pushing her load to and fro and singing [page 115, 

 lines 3 j. [He asked:] "What ar^e you doing there, grandmother?" 

 " It jjulled me down headlong, grandson." Five times he overtook 

 her, when they reached home. 



[Entsx said:] "Now go and bring some water, grandmother, we will 

 boil the elk." His grandmother took live buckets and went out. She 

 went a short distance, urinated and filled all the buckets. Then she 

 went home. Her grandson asked her : " Where did you get that water, 

 grandmother?" She named a river. Then he took up another bucket 

 and asked: Where did you get this water, grandmother? "This I 

 took from the upper fork of Bear creek," she rejilied. Thus she named 

 a new creek for each bucket. 



Now they boiled the elk. The old woman turned her back toward 

 the fire and made holes in Entsx's shell spoons, wooden spoons, and 

 horn dishes. When the food was done they took it away from Ihe fire. 

 Entsx said: "Bring me my shell spoon which 1 used when 1 was a 

 child." "There is a hole in it, grandson." "Then give me my wooden 

 spoon which I used when I was a child." "There is a hole in it, grand- 

 son." "Then give me the spoon made of mountain-sheep horn." 

 "There is a hole in it, grandson." "Then give me my toy canoes which 

 I used when I was a child." "There are holes in them, grandson." 

 "Have they all holes?" he said. Then he took the boiling food and 

 poured it over his grandmother. She was scalded and her legs and 

 arms became doubled up. Then he rolled her up in the elk skin, threw 

 her into the river and she drifted down to a place where Winter Robin 

 and Blue-Jay were fishing with a dipnet. 



Robin saw an elk skin drifting down and said: "Ah! an elk comes 

 down to me." Then Blue- Jay said: "Robin, do you hear? they call 

 us?" Then Robin said: "Ah! an elk comes down to me." Then Blue- 

 Jay said: "Ah! hahahaha." Five times Robin said: "An elk comes 

 down to me." Then Blue-Jay understood what he said and called 

 himself: "Ah! an elk comes down to me." "Where does it come?" 

 [Blue jay j)ointed out.] "Here, here, here" [pointing in all directions 

 because he did not see it]. Then they saw the elk and took it. They 

 put it into their canoe [and saw that] it was tied uj). They unfastened 

 the strings and [out came] their aunt. " Oh, behold our aunt ! " "How 

 shall we wail for her, Robin?" Then Robin sung: "O, Entsx, Entsx, 

 he killed her, he killed her, our aunt, our aunt." "That is a good song," 

 said Blue-Jay. Now they went home, and when they came near their 



