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will call ‘saskatoon willow,’ and with it will preserve his life. Now then, 
go home, my brother-in-law. Go to the land of mortals. Do not act wan- 
tonly. Do not kill,” his brother-in-law said to him; “And as for you, who 
have come here to engage in contest, go to the wooded country of the 
north. And let your sisters set out toward the south. For you are ever 
too eager to engage in contests, now that it has been arranged that the 
earth is to be good, so that man may be plentiful upon earth,” he said; 
“And as for me, I shall return here to the ground. All mortal men shall 
take pity on me and on my wife. And you, my brother-in-law, the long- 
tailed mice, of these you shall be. And I, those whom men call ‘sharp- 
nosed mice,’ such a one I shall be!” 
He threw himself down; he turned into a mouse, and so did his wife; 
they were very tiny. 
That is the end of the sacred story. 
(23) Thunderbird and Winter 
Mrs. Maggie Achenam 
kd-mhkaskusahk . 
dkwah kutak. 
kltahtawd dsah ndtukdsiw utdnisah imkimaw. dkunik uyah} ndhiyawak. 
dkwah ndhidhkatdwak, ukiniyah pikdh dh-mdwatsihdyit utdnisah, nipihk 
dh~pakdsimdyit, dydkunih pikd dh-mowdtsik ; wi-npahdhkatusdwak. 
Jdtahtawd sipwdhtdw uskinlkiskwdw, ukiniyah dh-ppd-mdwatsihdt, 
kd-wdpamdt dh-minahuyit. ituhtdw. namuy dhpoh wih-kitdpamik. sosk- 
wdts kahkiyaiv wiydsah dsihtdyiwah. sipwdhtdyiwah dkwah. wiya kutak 
mdsahkindw watdwah, d-mh-muwdt. kxwdw. dkwah dyakunih okimsah 
mitsimdpohkdw, mltsimdpuy dyakd dh-mltsitsik, dyaku pikuh. 
dkwah dh-wdpahk sipwdhtdw ; mlnah sipwdhtdw. dsa mlnah mustus- 
wah nipahdw ndpdw. mituni kisindw. uskinlkiskwdw dh-papdmuhtdt, 
okiniyah dh-papd-mdsahkindt, ituhtdw dhi ndpdwah. 
“ kimdkwdskamdn dh-minahuhk, ” itdw ndpdw awa ; “ manisdwdh 
pikw iyikuhk. ” 
dkwah uskinlkiskwdw miywdyihtam. 
“ dkwah nikdwiy ta-mltsiw mistahi wiyds ! ” tdyihtam. 
sdskwdts pdyak mustitswah miyik. klwdw ; iyawis wiyds klwdhiatdw. 
dkwah dh-takusihk vnkiwdhk, mistahi mltsisowak. miywdyihtam ndtukdsiw. 
“ mlnah sipwdhtdhkan ; mdskdts mlnah ka-wdpamdw ta-nipahdt. ” 
sipwdhtdw. wdpamdw dh-nipahdyit mustuswah. dsay mlnah iyawis 
miyik. miywdyihtam, 
dkwah dkutah, “ kdndpdmin fsZ f ” 
“ namuy a, ” itdw. 
“ dkusi mdkah kah-mkimitin. ” 
“ tsdskwa pitah, ” itdw ; “ nikdwiy pitah nha-wlhtamawdw. tdpdyi- 
mutsi, ka-vnkimitin. wdpahki ka-vnhtamdtn. ” 
“ dha ^ , ” itwdw ndpdw ; “ nimiywdyihtdn. ” 
dkusi sipwdhtdw. dkwah dh-wdpahk, ndtukdsiw utdnisah kakwdtsimik. 
“ nka-^kimdw dydkd ndpdw, ” itik. 
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