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the contest, and proposed to the wolf an exchange of shirts in token of amity and 

 forsiveness. To this also the wolf consented, but requsted the grasshopper to take 

 off his shirt first as he was the first proposer ; but the grasshopper refused, and 

 wished the wolf to commence the ceremony. 



" The wolf finally agreed to this, and striking himself suddenly on the breast, 

 his shirt immediately flew off. The grasshopper was greatly astonished, and not 

 being possessed of any charm by which he could strip himself so expeditiously, 

 was obliged to take off his shirt in the common way of drawing it over his head ; 

 the wolf now watched hia opportunity, and while the grasshopper had his head 

 and arms entangled in the shirt, he killed him. 



" The wolf having thus got rid of his troublesome and dangerous rival, com- 

 menced his return home. On arriving within a few miles of the "Walla- Walla he 

 saw three beautiful Ki-use girls, with whom he fell desperately in love. They 

 were engaged in carrying stones into the river, in oi'der to make an artificial 

 cascade or rapid, to catch the salmon in leaping over it. The wolf secretly watch- 

 ed their operations through the day, and repaired at night to the dam and entirely 

 destroyed their work. This he repeated for three successive evenings. On the 

 ifourth morning he saw the girls sitting weeping on the bank, and accosted them, 

 inquiring what was the matter ; they told him they were starving, as they could 

 get no fish for want of a dam. He then proposed to erect a dam for them, if they 

 ■would consent to become his wives, to which they consented sooner than perish 

 from the want of food. A long point of stones running nearly across the river is 

 to this day attributed to the magic of the wolf-lover. 



"For a long time he lived happily with the three sisters, — a custom very fre- 

 quent among Indians, who marry as many sisters in a family as they can, and 

 assign as a reason that sisters will naturally agree together better than strangers, 

 — but at length the wolf became jealous of his wives, and by his supernatural 

 power changed two of them into the two basalt pillars, on the south side of the 

 .river, and then changed himself into a large rock, somewhat similar to them, on 

 the north side, so that he might watch them for ever afterwards. I asked the 

 narrator what had become of the third sister. Says he, ' Did you not observe a 

 cavern as you came up?' I said I had. ' That,' he replied, ' is all that remains of 

 her !' " 



Accompanying the portrait of Kee-akee-ka-saa-ka-wow, is a higtly 

 interesting account of the artist's interview with this distinguished 

 warrior, the head Chief of the Crees : who robed himself in his most 

 magnificent costume, and uncovered one of his Medicine pipe-stems, 

 in order to have his portrait taken with full effect. Mr. Kane's 

 ordinary mode of treating his Indian sitters, however, left them little 

 ■opportunity of getting themselves up for the occasion. " Usually,'^ 

 says he, " when I wished to take the likeness of an Indian I walked 

 into the lodge, sat down, and commenced without speaking, as an 

 Indian under these circumstances will generally pretend not to notice. 

 If they did not like what I was doing they would get up and walk 



