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Then, “Little brother, shall you win?” he asked him. 
“No. Doubtless the other is too formidable,” Silly-Fellow was told. 
He was very much distressed. 
Then Silly-Fellow's father had the first turn. His opponent was in 
the shape of a great diver-duck, crushing through the ice wherever it went; 
and Silly-Fellow's father was one of those that are made merry over. Then 
from wherever the other came to the surface, from there Silly-Fellow's 
father would emerge after his dive. 
“Ho, truly they are beaten!” said the others. 
For he was but following the other's lead. Then the opponent who 
was paired with Little Snow-Dart, he too began to sing, saying, “I am a 
beaver, I!” 
Very large was the beaver. Whenever it struck anything with its 
tail, in all directions it went crashing. It dived from the other direction, 
and always the ice went breaking, wherever it came to the surface. Sud- 
denly it came to the surface right there, very close to the shore. 
Thus he spoke to his big brother and to that beaver: “When I arrive, 
you may begin to slay them, in case I cannot surpass what has been done. 
Not before I arrive; I shall be sure to know it, if anyone before that strike 
down any other. If that is done, things will not go well,” he said. 
He sang: “I am a white loon, I!” he sang, as he alighted on the ice. 
He walked about on the ice, crossing it in every direction, until at 
last water began to seep through the ice. Whenever he struck the ice 
with his beak, on all hands it would move with crashing noise. Unceasingly 
the loon gave its call. At last the water stood on top of the ice, as he un- 
ceasingly gave his call. At last a wind began to blow. Then Silly-Fellow 
whooped. 
“It is not they are making the water to be! It is my brother is making 
the water to be! But, ‘Not before I arrive,' said my brother! Two of 
them I shall pick out to eat, fat ones. For it was I adopted him as my 
little brother,” he cried. 
The loon dived, and lo, yonder on the far shore a loon was giving its 
call, and over here another. At last the lake ran to high waves. At last 
the ice was gone. Suddenly he bobbed up right close by. 
As he came to the surface from the water, “Now, then, all of you, 
come here! Let none of you slay anyone! Come here!” he ordered them; 
“Now as many as cast up these bits of entrail, let them stand off to one 
side. And as many as do not cast them up, let them too stand to one side,” 
he ordered. 
Then some of them threw them up. 
“Now then, when the order of things is completed, as many of you as 
have cast it up, trees shall be your food, and grasses, of some. For, ‘Go 
lay down a law!’ I was told. You, my brother, when mortal men grow 
forth and flourish, ‘Lynx,’ they will call you; you will find your sustenance 
in the woods; and so you, my brother, have found your place. And you, 
my father, ‘Mink,’ mortal man will caU you; by the water you will have 
your domain; but all kinds of things you will eat, the flesh of little snakes; 
from whatever creature has flesh you will get your life. So now in different 
directions, into the form of different animals you will all go. When mortal 
