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over upon the ground. As he did so the older Skunks got up and killed 
the Beaver with clubs. Then the young Skunk became well. The older 
Skunks then skinned the Beaver and cooked the meat and ate it. They 
were careful not to throw the bones out of the lodge, but to place the skin 
and all the bones and the entrails together, and then they took them and 
dumped them into the river. 
The next day theysent the old woman again to thelodgeof the Beavers. 
When the woman entered, she sang again, telling the Beavers that the 
young Skunk was very sick; that they wanted a doctor to come and allay 
her pain. The older Beavers said: ‘‘What is the matter? The Beaver 
who went to doctor that child is the best one we had.’’ The woman then 
said: ‘‘ He failed to cure her and felt so ashamed that he has gone to another 
place to make his home.’’ Then the Beavers said: ‘‘We will send the 
next best man.’ The old woman Skunk went to their lodge and said: 
‘“Another one is coming.’”’ Then the young Skunk was put upon the 
ground and she began to cry with pain again. She stretched out her legs 
and the other Skunks held her down. The Beaver came in and they led 
him to the young Skunk. The Beaver touched the earth, then began to 
feel the young Skunk all over the body. When he got his hand upon the 
rectum of the Skunk, he said: ‘“‘It is true. The young Skunk is with 
pain in the rectum. I will cure her by placing my mouth upon the rec- 
tum.’ Then the Beaver reached down his head, and as he was about to 
put his mouth upon the Skunk’s rectum the Skunk made a discharge and 
blinded the Beaver, when the older Skunks took up sticks and killed the 
Beaver. The Skunks skinned him, cooked the meat, and saved all of 
the bones. The bones they placed in the skin and threw them into the 
water. The Skunks were getting fat. They sent for another doctor the 
next day, and he also came and was killed in the same way as the other 
two. The Skunks saved the bones and put them into the skin and 
threw them into the water. The next day they went for another doctor. 
The Beavers wanted to know where the other doctors were, but the 
woman Skunk said: ‘‘ They were ashamed of themselves, for they did not 
cure our Skunk, and so they have gone to make their home in another 
place.’’ Another one came and was killed in the same manner as the 
others. The meat was cooked and eaten; the bones were saved and all 
placed in the skin and thrown into the creek. 
They kept on going for the Beavers until they had killed all but one, 
the one little one. Then the woman Skunk said: ‘‘There is but one little 
Beaver there and we will let it alone.’’ They said: ‘‘Very well.’’ The 
young Beaver became lonely and it came out of the lodge and went 
towards the creek. It sat upon the bank andcried. A diving bird came 
