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Then Wisahketchahk said, ‘‘Heavens! Truly, he has given me a 
shock, throwing my sisters in a way to cause me shame!” he said of him; 
“Whereto in all the extent of the earth will you flee? I shall go out to kill 
you, Flute-Bearer! You have put me to shame!” 
Then he made search, running round about, like this, looking for 
where the other should come to earth. Presently he found the place from 
which the other apparently had started to flee. Then he tracked him. 
“Not by any chance shall I lose track of you, I who created the earth!” 
he called to him, as he pursued the trace of him. 
Then, in time, he was about to overtake him. 
Then, when Wisahketchahk came noisily near, “Now, let there be 
an old arrow here!” said Flute-Bearer, taking off his moccasins, and saying, 
“Now, my moccasins, flee!” 
“Yoho!” cried Wisahketchahk, when he saw that arrow; “Ho, it is 
you, Flute-Bearer!” he said to the arrow, as he examined it; “Yah, but 
there go his tracks yon way! No, when my grandfathers fought here of 
yore, they must have missed a shot with this arrow!” he said. 
So he threw it aside, and went on with his chase. As soon as he was 
over the hill, Flute-Bearer ran off in some other direction. Wisahketchahk, 
as soon as he had got to where those moccasins had come to rest, turned 
about and came back. 
“Oho! So this was the way Flute-Bearer disguised himself!” he cried; 
“You shall not again get away from me!” he told him. 
When he got there on the run, there was no trace of the arrow, it was 
plain that he had fled ! 
“Filthy scab!” cried Wisahketchahk, and again gave chase. 
Presently, when again he was about to overtake him, and was close 
upon his heels, Flute-Bearer said, “Now, let me be a woman! ” 
Truly, he took that form. When he came over the hill, there was 
a woman walking about. 
“This time you shall not deceive me! It is you, Flute-Bearer! Now 
I shall club you!” 
That woman wept. 
“So it seems that this one, too, will not take pity on me! That one 
who ran by here, even though I said to him, ‘Do not leave me! I will 
marry you, if you like!’ yet he gave me no heed! A long time ago, when 
we went to dig tubers, I got lost,” said the woman; “Even though I said 
this to him, he said to me, ‘No, Wisahketchahk is too hot in pursuit of 
me, to kill me!’ ” Thus spoke the woman. 
“Oh, no! You shall not deceive me! This is you, Flute-Bearer!” he 
told him. 
“Do take pity on me! Do not leave me! If you like, I will marry 
you!” he said to Wisahketchahk. 
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he said to him; “Wait here for me; I am going off to kill Flute-Bearer; 
the fact is, he has greatly shamed me by throwing down my sisters. Do 
not go off anywhere!” he told him. 
“Very well! But come soon,” he answered him. 
“Yes, wait here for me, my wife!” he said to him, 
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