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"I want to give you the work of going round and summoning the 
wolves and foxes, all the good-looking foxes. I shall be sitting here on this 
knoll, ready to preach to you, to tell you good tidings.” 
So that wolf went off to call the wolves and foxes. Indeed, many 
wolves came. In great numbers they sat round in a circle, to listen to 
Wisahketchahk, exactly as if he were a missionary. 
This is what he said: “My brothers, the tidings which you hear you 
should accept, and then no one will ever kill you, if you take on religion. 
But if you do not believe, someone will kill you. Look upon these things, 
these here!” As the wolves and foxes looked at those pieces of fat, “Now, 
then, if anyone eats this which I shall place between his teeth, long will 
he live,” spoke Wisahketchahk. 
Then all the wolves cried, “I, I!” glad that they were to live long. 
“Here you are!” and he gave them the fat. 
A wolf would eat it; then he would go. 
He placed it in their mouths one by one, round the circle, the foxes’ 
too, using up all the fat. 
“So now long shall you live, brothers, now you have accepted this 
faith.” 
Just like a priest was Wisahketchahk, as he gave religious instruction 
to the wolves. Presently, as Wisahketchahk sat there, all the wolves 
leaped up in the air and fell down, poisoned, and they all died. 
“These stupid fools! I surely did need something to pay my debts 
with!” Wisahketchahk must have said to those wolves. 
Then he skinned them and took their skins home, and all the foxes’ 
too. Having taught the wolves religion, he killed them all. In this way 
he paid all his debts, by deceiving the wolves with talk. 
That is all. 
(5) Wisahketchahk Stabs a Buffalo and Both His Arms 
Coming-Day 
kd-kisikdw-pihiukdw. 
kdtahtawd pimuhtdw imsahkdtsdhk ; mdka nilnah ndhtdhkatdw. kltah- 
iawd wdpamdw rnustuswah nlsu, takwahnawah pdyak, pdyak iydpdsisah, 
dmisi itdyihtam : “ tdnisih nika-nipahdwak ? ” iidyihtam. 
nama kdkway pdskisikan aydw, dkwah sipwdhtdw, dh-wdpamikut, 
udh-tapasiyiwah. 
“ tsdskwah, ni^mitik ! miywdsin dtsimuwin k-dtsimustdtindwdw. ” 
isdskwah nlpawiwak mustuswak ; iiamuwya tapa^wak. dkwah takuh- 
tdw udsahkdtsdhk. 
dmi^ itdw : “ ayisiyiniwak dh-itwdtsik, ‘ takwahnaw vnhkimdkusiw ; 
miyusiw, ’ dh-itwdtsik, kutakak ayisiyiniwak dmisih itwdwak : Hydpdsis 
miyusiw ; u^hkimdkusiw, ’ dh-itwdtsiky dh-klh-klhkihtuisik. dk dhtsi 
wih-kisiwdsiwak. ‘mahti tsdskwah niyah nika-wdpamdwak ; awinah wihki- 
mdkusiWy niiitwdn, kd-pd-nitawdpamitakuk, ” d-vnh-waydsimdt dhih mus- 
tuswah. 
tdpwdh tdpwdhtam awa musius, dkwah tdhkindw ; umis Isi miydhtam 
utsihtsiy ; kutakah minah dh dtd, umdhkumdn utinam. 
umi^h itdw : “ kiya kiwihkimdkusin ; kiyah kimiyusin, ” itdw iydpd- 
sisah. 
