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Then the wolf chief said, ''There is some human being looldng in 

 liere. Clear away from before liis face." Upon this the little wolf 

 ran right up to him, smelt of him, and knew him at once. The wolf 

 chief said, "I feel well disposed toward you. I let my son live among 

 you because your uncles and friends were starving, and now I am very 

 much pleased that you have come here after him." By and b}^ he 

 said, "I think I will not let him go back with you, but I will do some- 

 thing else to help you." He was happy at the way the man had 

 painted up his son. Now he did not appear like a wolf but like a 

 human being. The chief said, "Take out the fish-hawk's quill that 

 is hanging on the wall and give it to him in place of my son." Then 

 he was instructed how to use it. "Whenever a bear meets you," he 

 said, "hold the quill straight toward it and it will lly out of your 

 hand." He also took out a thing that was tied up like a blanket and 

 gave it to him, at the same time giving him instructions. "One side," 

 he said, "is for sickness. If you put this on a sick person it will make 

 him well. If anyone hates 3"ou, put the other side on him and it will 

 kill him. After they have agreed to pay you for treating him put 

 the other side on to cure him." 



Then the chief said, "You see that thing that the boys are playing 

 with? That belongs to me. Whenever one sees it in the evening it 

 means bad weather; whenever one sees it in the morning it means 

 good weather." So he spoke to him. 



Then they put something else into his mouth and said to him, 

 "Take this, for you have a long journey to make." He was gone up 

 there probably two years, but he thought it was only two nights. 



At the time when he came within sight of his town he met a bear. 

 He held the quill out toward it as he had been instructed and sud- 

 denly let it go. It hit the bear in the heart. Still closer to his town 

 he came upon a flock of sheep on the mountain, and sent his quill 

 at them. When he reached them, he found all dead, and, after he 

 had cut them all open, he found the quill stuck into the heart of the 

 last. He took a little meat for his own use and covered up the rest. 



Coming to the town, he found no one in it. All had been destroyed. 

 Then he felt very sad, and, taking Ms blanket out, laid the side of it 

 that would save people, upon their bodies, and they all came to life. 

 After that he asked all of them to go hunting with him, but he kept 

 the quill hidden away so that they would not bother him as they had 

 before. When they came to a big flock of mountain sheep, he let liis 

 quill go at them so quickly that they could not see it. Then he went 

 up, looked the dead sheep over, and immediately cut out the quill. 

 All liis friends were surprised at what had happened. J^ter they had 

 gotten down, those who were not his close friends came to him and 

 gave payment for the meat. 



