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dkwah sipwdhtdw. kdlahtawd kd~pdtsdstamuhtdt : nlsu uskimkisk- 
U'dwak. 
“ dstam, nitsdhkus ! ” 
u'dpisk-atsimu-mdyisah tdpihtdpisowak. dkwah ituhtdwak. takuht- 
dwak ndtd. 
dkwah naha kulak kd-nakatahut takusin dkuta ; kutakah ndpdwah 
miskamdsow. dkwah dh-tipiskdk nlmihitowak. 
dkwah, ” kdya paspdpik kd-wlh-nimihituhk, " itdw wdwah awah sihkihp. 
dkwah dhtsi pikd paspdpiwak dydkunik iskwdwak. pot dniah sihkihpah 
ndh-napu'dkiskdmawah, undpdmixodwah sihkihpah. dkwah iskwdw awa 
pakwdtdw sihkihpah i-dndpdmii. sipwdhtdwak ; kutakah ntaw-undpdmiwak. 
utindwak mistikwah dh-ydskisiyit, manitsdsah dh-mihtsdtiyit ; kawisi- 
munahdwak unipdwiniwdhk. dkwah dkusi sipwdhtdwak. 
dkwah sihkihp dh-poyowihk klwdw. kawisimututawdw pdyak uwlki- 
mdkanah. 
“ nitsdh-t^stinik. — tdnd k-dh-tsdh-t^stiniyan f kiydm, dh-klh~md-manit~ 
sdhkdhk. — mahti kutak. ” 
kutakah mlnah tsdh-Mstinik. 
“ kahkiyaw dkwah kiMstindwdiu, pikuh dh-klh-mmihituhk, ” itdw. 
kdkway itah : “ kayds dmah nitaw-ondpdmiwak ; dh~iah~tahkwamiskik 
anikih manitsosak ; mistikwak aniki kd-kawisimututawatsik. ” 
dkwah mdtdw sihkihp. ntunawdw dkwah. miskawdw kutakah ndpdwah 
dh-mkimdyit. Mskikwdswdw ndpdwah ; nipahdw. kdlahtawd iskwdwak 
pdkupayiwak ; ndpdwah ohi nipahimdtoah. sipwdhtdwak. 
Now another story. 
Hell-Diver wanted to be a man. Once upon a time he made some 
breeches for himself out of cedar bark. Also he made himself a bow and 
arrows. Then he went to this Cree country here. He saw people; he 
went there. 
“What are you after here?” 
He did not understand when they spoke to him. 
“Maybe he is a Stony Sioux,” they said. 
But when they spoke Sioux to him, he did not understand. 
“Shay chah,” he said. 
“Why, it’s the diver-duck!” they said of him. 
He fled, waddling off in no particular direction. 
Now, once there were ten people, men, who spent their time hunting, 
and one woman took care of all these men, who were her elder brothers. 
Then, at one time — -while she gathered firewood every day, her brothers 
went on their daily hunt. Then, at one time, some women came to where 
she was tanning. These women asked her to go away with them. She did 
not listen to them. The others took something away from her; they 
went off with it. Then she pursued them; when they had gone a long 
ways, the others gave it back to her. Then they went from there; she 
accompanied the others. Then they came to a river. 
“It’s a husband we’re going after,” the others told her, “the Bead- 
Man.” 
There by the river they stayed. Presently a little man came in a 
canoe. He beached his canoe where they were. Those two women got 
