ON THE ETHNOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA, 579 
Spate looked as if he did not believe him, but said nothing. Snikia’p 
presently took his leave, carrying the remains of their dinner home with 
him in the Bear’s dish. The very next day Spatc took it into his head to 
return Snikia’p’s visit and get back his dish. So just before dinner-time 
he dropped in on Snikia’p. The latter made a great show of welcoming 
‘him, and presently, when dinner-time came, got up to get the dinner. 
Having no berries, he put the empty dish before the fire as he had seen 
Spate do, then washed his paws, and, seating himself before the fire, held 
them towards the flames. In a very little while the heat began to try 
him and his paws began to smart ; but he would not let Spatc see it, and 
continued to hold them before the fire. Presently the pain made him 
groan and writhe. ‘What is the matter?’ said Spatc, who had been 
closely observing him, Answered Snikia’p, ‘The grease does not run 
freely this morning, and I feel the heat a little.’ ‘You do not put them 
close enough to the fire,’ replied Spate. Snikia’p put his paws still closer 
to the fire, and kept them there till the pain made him howl with agony. 
Spatc, in the meantime, smiled grimly, and when Snikia’p would have 
given up he grasped his paws in his own and held them before the fire till 
poor Snikia’p’s flesh was burnt and his muscles drawn and twisted by the 
great heat, saying as he did so, ‘Let me hold your paws for you, dear 
friend.’ When he thought Snikia’p had been sufficiently punished fer his 
humbugging and insincerity he let him go, and picking up his dish went 
off home, leaving Snikia’p in a sad and disabled condition. It was some 
time before his paws healed up, and even then they were not as before. 
The cords and muscles had been so severely scorched that they remained 
contracted, and he could never again stretch out his paws as before. 
Thus was Snikia’p the impostor punished by Spatc, and thus it is that 
the Coyote’s paws are contracted and bent to this very day. 
Story of Ha'nni’s Wife and the Revenge of her Son. 
A long time ago there lived at Tl’k-umtcin (Lytton) a chief who had 
an only daughter who was very beautiful. The girl led a very secluded life, 
never being permitted to mix with the other girls or leave the house 
except at night. The maid gets very tired of this dreary kind of life, and 
one day begs her mother to allow her to go out and bathe in the river. 
The mother at length consents to her going. She chooses a secluded spot 
on the river’s bank, disrobes there, and enters the water and swims about. 
As she was thus engaged the young men of the Salmon tribe came up the 
river. They came with the intention of seeking her in marriage, so 
renowned had she become on account of her beauty. Four of her salmon 
suitors came up in their canoe. Three of these were named respectively 
Koié'ya (spring salmon), Swaas (‘Sockeye’ salmon), and Ha’/nni (hump- 
back salmon). They happened to land just where the girl was bathing. 
At first she did not see them, but presently, when they had landed and 
she was about to come out of the water, she caught sight of them. Being 
naked, she feels abashed and ashamed, and sits down in the water to hide 
her person, and asks them to give her her clothes. The salmon reply that 
they have come to take her away. They give her the clothes and take her 
away with them to the coast without further ceremony. They cast lots 
whose wife of them she shall be, and Ha/nni the Humpback salmon gets 
her. She becomes his wife, and a son is born to them. In the meantime 
the parents and friends of the girl make diligent search and inquiries for 
her everywhere, but can hear nothing of her. They suppose she has been 
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