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Snake. “Wonderful! My friend, very late in the evening yesterday, when I sat in 
an eddy at this place behind us, I saw the shadow of a person,” said the Frog. “Yes, 
my friend, it was he. I seek him,” said the Snake. So the Snake went to that side 
up-stream. Again he departed, following the course of the stream. And in the very 
thick green scum of a lake the Big turtle was walking, pushing it up. The Snake sat 
suddenly on his back. ‘My friend, I will question you. Do emerge from the water,” 
said he. “¢Why! what will you ask me? Though the person is moving here, when 
you do not recognize him, he will kill you. Therefore quit it,” said the Big turtle. 
The Snake sat drawn up, very much coiled up, with his head high. He sat thinking 
that the Big turtle was the one whom he sought. ‘“ My friend, tell it to me accurately,” 
said the Snake. ‘No. Why! what I have told you, I have told truly. Do not do so. 
Though the person is movine there, when you do not recognize him, beware lest he kill 
you,” said the Big turtle. Yet again the Snake sat raising himself. ‘This one is 
that!” thought he. ‘Come, my friend. Why! tell me,” said the Snake. “TI have 
suffered very much. Tell me.” ‘ Wonderful! Truly he does not listen to his friend,” 
said the Big turtle. ‘“T will tell you,” said he. ‘Do your best,” said the Snake. ‘The 
person whom you seek lies in that very large stream which you saw formerly. Do 
your best,” said the Big turtle. ‘My friend, do you tell the truth?” said the Snake. 
“There he lies. Do your best. If you do not recognize him, he will kill you,” said the 
Big turtle. “TI will go thither,” said the Snake. ‘Do your best. If you do not recog- 
nize him, he will kill you,” said the Big turtle. He was going in the midst of the large 
stream. And there lay the person who was sought. And the Snake went thither. He 
arrived at the eddy of the stream. At length it had gone, carrying him underneath the 
water. It was the person who did not love him, that had changed himself into water 
(i. e., the eddy). Notwithstanding the Snake wished to reach the surface, the eddy 
kept him under. So he died from suffocation. The young man killed the Snake. 
Then he went homeward. And he reached home. 
THE BEAR-GIRL. 
ToLp By NUDA™-AXA. 
yi diiba yf amima. Ki mi”jinga na™qti-biama. Ki iha™ aka 
Lodge some pitched they say. And gil fully grown, they say. And her the 
tents mother (sub.) 
. . , . me . , Fpdoh PEP an is AO in 
gidhe-hna™-biamé. Wé¢é a¢a-biama. Ki najiha qade fbistiqti aki-biama. 
used to comb her hair, they say. To get she went, they And hair grass pressed she reached, 
(wood) say. tightly against home, they say. 
Ega™da™ja itea"qtci najiha gidhe ¢a”cti. Piaiji inahi* eha™+, A-biamad 3 
! 
Though so just now hair combed heretofore. Bad indeed said, they 
for her say 
. sy . om . One Puy , *n/ = , 
iha” aké. Egi¢e Mattet ¢inké mi™jinga pi¢é akama. Nut wi" can’ge uné 
her the Behold Grizzly bear the one girl was loving, they Man ono horse seeking 
mother (sub.). who say. it 
ahi-biamé. Ma*teti ké f¢a-biamdé. Gatédi Ma*tei édedi-ké. Macan‘de 
arrived, they say. Grizzly the he found, they In that place Grizzly there he is lying. Den 
bear (ob.) say. bear 
