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dsiylhkdtikwak ; kiya sakdhk kik-dh-pimdtsihun ; dkusi kiya, nistdsd, 
dsay kikls-oyapin. dkwah kiya, nohtdh, ‘ sdkwds, ' kik-dsiylhkdtik aylsiy- 
iniw ; nipdhk kik-dtaskm ; mdka nandtuhk kdkway kika-mltsin, kindpikusak 
wiyds ; kd-tahtd-wiydsiwit kik-dh-pimdtsihun. hd, dkusi nandnis, nandtuhk 
kik-dsi-pisiskiwindnaw. ayisiyiniwak nihtdwikitwdwi, kahkiyaw kika- 
sdkdtsihikunawak. niva, ‘ kihtsi-wdpi-mdkwah, ’ nik-dtikawin. mdka namuy 
otah niunh-aydn. kd-misdk nipiy dkutd niwih-aydn , ” itwdw. 
dkuyikuhk dskwdk dtaydhkdwin. 
Once upon a time some people dwelt in a place, and there were two 
chiefs, and one of them was Silly-Fellow’s father. Then at one time many 
of the children played at throwing snow-darts. 
“Let us all try to outdo each other throwing snow-darts, and see who 
is the best at it, whose snow-dart lands farthest away,” said one child, 
who was being brought up by his grandmother. 
So they threw their snow-darts. Then they went and picked up their 
snow-darts one after the other, as they came to them. At last only one 
boy’s snow-dart was left lying on the snow. They went after it. 
“Let no one go home before we have got it!” he said. 
At last they found that it had gone into a wood. As they followed 
the track of that snow-dart, across a far stretch of prairie there, into the 
woods it had sped. 
Presently, as evening came on, they were deep in the woods. It was 
near sunset; there, standing straight upright in the snow, like this, was 
the boy’s snow-dart. Just then the wind began to blow; it snowed. 
“Let us stay here. We might freeze. Let us set up a shelter; let us 
build a hut of wood. Some of you are to gather grasses. Make our hut 
big,” he said. 
Accordingly, they built it. At last, when night came, they had finished 
it. The next morning it was still very stormy weather. 
“Let us not go home. We should freeze,” he said; “Gather fire^yood. 
And here by the door, dig away the snow. All of you bring me your snow- 
darts,” he said. 
They were given to him. Then he stuck all the snow-darts on end into 
the floor, opposite the doorway. Then, early in the morning, he went 
out, taking all the snow-darts. He sang. 
“Be off! Hunt!” he sang whose snow-dart had been followed to that 
place, had been pursued across the land. 
The storm kept on. 
Then, in the evening, “All of you come indoors. Form two lines from 
the doorway to the opposite wall,” he ordered. 
Soon they had done this. Then presently the snow-dart of him whose 
snow-dart had been tracked, came flying into the hut. In the order in 
which their snow-darts had gone, in that order they now came, one follow- 
ing the other. All the snow-darts were stained with blood. 
“Do not go out of the house!” he said. 
Presently some things were falling with a repeated thud. 
When those things had fallen with a thud, “There, now go out!” said 
he whose snow-dart had been tracked. 
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