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When Wolf old woman came back, she found her two children smoth- 

 ered to death. So Wolf old woman ran after Deer old woman's chil- 

 dren. Deer old woman's cliildren came to a bunch of blackbirds and 

 asked them to help them run away from Wolf old woman. So they 

 put them inside of a football and kicked the football down south. 



By and by Wolf old woman came to the blackbirds and asked them 

 had they seen Deer old woman's children run by. The blackbirds did 

 not answer. Soon Deer old woman's children came to a river and 

 they told Beaver to take them across. When Wolf old woman came 

 there, she asked Beaver to take her across. After Wolf old woman 

 got on Beaver's back, he began to dive, and it took them a long time 

 to cross that river, and by that time Deer old woman's children got to 

 the cave where the other deer were living, and they told deer what 

 bad happened to their mother. Then all the bucks began to sharpen 

 their horns to wait for Wolf old woman. Soon Wolf old woman came 

 in. They told her to pass in. Deer old woman's children were in 

 there. As soon as she came dowTi they caught her on their horns and 

 killed her, and they made soup out of her. All the deer were told to 

 be careful and not drop any on the floor. If they did some wolves 

 would come out from the den. One of the deer children happened to 

 drop some soup on the floor. From that a lot of wolves came running. 

 Ever since that time wolves and deer have been enemies. 



17. The Girl Who Married a Bear 



Natoai there were Uving a woman and a man and they had one 

 daughter. Ever since she was a child she knew how to grind and 

 make blue bread (pakushin). When she became grown (chi^pe'che- 

 bak, after first menstruation), and while she was still living with her 

 father and mother, the boys (owan) would come and ask her to marry 

 them. She was very strict with boys. She wanted to marry nobody. 

 She would say she Mould rather marry a bear. She was already a 

 grown woman (tahu raweai), and her father and others would tell her 

 it was proper for her to marry, her father and mother were getting 

 older every day. She said she would not do it; she would rather 

 marry a bear than one of those boys. So one night when the dance 

 was going on in the tula, and everybody was in there dancing except- 

 ing this girl, this bear came to the door. The girl went and opened 

 the door to see who it was. Bear old man, koahiH, said to the girl, 

 "I have heard so much about you who wanted to marry a bear. Do 

 you really mean it, or are you just sajang that?" The girl said, "I 

 mean it; that is why I said it." And she was not afraid of that bear 

 at all. Bear old man said to the gii-1, "I will give you four days to 

 think it over, and I wall be back on the fourth night." And so Bear 

 old man left, and the girl stayed home as happy as could be. Wlien 

 her father and mother (berka'a berkye) came home from the dance, 



