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tahi kd-miyu-pimdtisin ; nama wihkdts ka-tahkwamdwak aytsiyiniwak. 
hdy niya ! * wlntsuyd^ ’ kik~dtikwak aytsiyiniwak ; kika-mowikwak. ” 
sipwdhtdw. 
“ dkwah niyah waidw ; mihkuh uma^ watdw niyah. dkusi dkwah nama 
kdkway. 
dkusi dkwah nama kdkway dtsimuwin. dkuyikuhk dh-iskwdk dtayoh- 
kdwin. 
Once upon a time there dwelt somewhere Badger and his wife, Skunk, 
and they had no children at all. This Skunk-Woman’s elder brother was 
Grizzly, and he was a terrible glutton, who always in a jiffy ate up all their 
food. And this Grizzly was not good at killing anything. So Badger 
went hungry much of the time; he nearly starved to death. 
This is what Badger said: “Wife, we shall be starving to death. We 
had better go away from here,” he said to her; “I shall tell your brother 
so; perhaps he will be willing to let us go. Only in this way can we stay 
alive.” 
“Yes, do that!” 
So he called his brother-in-law. Grizzly. 
When he came into the tent, “Good, come in!” said he to his brother- 
in-law, Grizzly; thus he spoke to him: “Brother-in-law, I am disappoint- 
ing you; it is not to a meal that I am calling you. I have nothing to eat; 
it is only to tell you something, that I have called you: now, brother-in- 
law, hear me with pity; take pity on my plight. I beg this of you; let me 
go; let me go away from here; let me look for something to eat. Your 
sister here is almost dead from hunger. If, in time, I find something for 
us to eat, if I kill some buffalo, I shall come back here and bring meat,” 
he told his brother-in-law; “for hereabouts there are no buffalo at all,” 
he told his brother-in-law, meaning to deceive him ; because the other too 
cruelly abused him, was why he wished to go away. 
“Very well,” said Grizzly; “Indeed, brother-in-law, it will be well 
if you kill a buffalo. At present I too have nothing to eat,” said Grizzly. 
Truly, glad was Badger that his brother-in-law gave him leave to go. 
So then they went to bed and slept. In the morning, at early day. Badger 
made ready to move camp. 
Then, as they set out, then Badger spoke thus: “Now then, when I 
set out, let there be foul weather; let it snow!” he spoke. 
So when he departed, really, he had not gone far, and already it was 
snowing. It was not cold. He went along with his camp all day, until 
there was no trail at all in the place where he marched. At last night 
came. Still they marched on ; they tramped on till dawn, he and his wife. 
When they had marched all of that day, too, as evening came on, he saw 
some buffalo. 
“There, old woman, now we can live; I shall make a killing of these 
buffalo,” said Badger; “There, go camp over in that grove,” he told his 
wife. 
And he went to try and kill the buffalo. Indeed he threw his spear 
at them and killed them all. He was glad when he saw that he was going 
to get all of them. Then it stopped snowing. Then they cleaned them 
and took off the hides and took all the flesh; they wasted none of it. No 
