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The old woman said, “Grandson, please let me live!” 
“Yes,” said Clotkin. 
With that he took the old woman, holding her by the feet. 
Thus he spoke: “Now, old woman, off in the future there will be 
mortal men; this they will say”^ — and he flung her down; only one foot 
could be seen of that old woman — “ Tig-vermilion,’ they will say!” 
“Come here!” he said to the woman who had scorned him. 
Weep as she might, he took hold of her; w^here a tree stood, he flung 
her against it. 
“This is where you will stay fast; ‘Glowing fungus,’ the people will 
call you. You will not be good for anything; you are too conceited. — 
Now, come hither, all you people! Now then, my father-in-law, you, 
your children, and your wife, now, depart! Be off! Off in the future 
mortal men will name you ‘Bears.’- — ^And you” — to the others — “you 
they will call wolves, and you others foxes, and you others lynxes, and 
you coyotes!” 
So in this wise he made all the animals. Then he went from there; 
he went home; he took his wife with him. When they had been two 
nights on the way, he came to his father. Badger. Badger was glad that 
his son had come to him. 
Then when he had been there one night, he said to him, “Now, father, 
you have been too good a creature. So now, mortal men in the time to 
come will say of you, ‘Badger,’ these mortal men. They will eat you, 
because you have been a good creature. — And you”-~to his mother — 
“ ‘Skunk,’ they will say; a very good creature you will be; never will you 
bite people. There, go! ‘Polecat,’ mortal men will call you; they will 
eat you.” 
She departed. 
“As for me, a blood clot, blood am I, And, therefore, nothing at all.” 
And so there is nothing at all of my tale. This is where the sacred 
story ends. 
(18) Fisherskin-Hat 
Coming-Day 
kd-klsikdw-pihtukdw. 
kitahtawd pdyak awa ndpdw kwah pdyak iskwdw, uvnkimdkanah, 
nlsiwak. kitahtawd awdsisah aydwdwak. dkutd dkwah dh-ay-dydtsik, 
pisisik mdMw awa ndpdw. piyisk wdparndwak awdsisah, ndpdsis. dkwah 
dkutah ay-aydwak. piyisk misikitiw awa ndpdsis. poti miyusiw awa 
ndpdsis. miywdyimdwak ; sdkihdwak ukusisiwdwa. namuya kdkway 
atuskdw awa ndpdsis. tahkih miywdsiniyiwa utayowinisa, d-kaskikwdtahk 
aiD iskwdw ukusisah utaydwinisiyiwa. dkusi piyisk uskinlkiw aw dwdsis. 
dkwah awa uskinlkiw omis Itwdw ; “ mahtih kakwd-nipah utsdk, ” 
itdw dhtdwiya. 
miydklkih ^ awa ndpdw wlh-kakivd-wdpamdw utsdkah. Jdtahtawd 
wdpamdw utsdkah ; nipahdw. dwakunih u^hdw aw dskinikiw. dh-klsihdt, 
utasiutiniw. mlna atsusisah aydw, nikikwaydnah dh-uplhtatwdnit, dkutah 
^ Apparently a particle; meaning? 
