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eaten the snake meat began to turn into a snake. After another day 
and night he had completely turned into a snake. He told his friend 
to go to the mountain and find a hole for him to live in. The friend 
found a hole and carried the snake to it. The snake told him to go to 
their village and tell his people what had happened to him, and to tell 
them that whenever they went to hunt to stop and offer presents to him 
and he would help them inthe hunt. The snake lived there for many 
years, until the lightning killed him. 
39. THE WOMAN WHO TURNED INTO A SNAKE.* 
A long time ago there lived a man and his wife and a dog. At that 
time the animals talked like human beings, and sothe dog talked to the 
manand woman. Every day the man went out to hunt, and as soon as 
he was gone his wife always went away and never returned until even- 
ing, just before her husband came. Hedid not know that she left home 
in his absence until one time his dog said: ‘‘ I believe you ought to know 
that your wife goes away and stays all the time that you are gone.”’ 
The man told his dog to follow her the next time she went away. 
Early the next morning the man started out hunting and the woman 
left home as usual. The dog followed her, but stayed a good distance 
behind, so that she did not know that he had followed her. She went 
to the large timber and stopped at one of the large trees and stood there 
looking up, and then after she had stood there for some time she whis- 
tled once, and then again and again. ‘The third time she whistled the 
dog saw something moving out from a large hole in the tree, and finally 
the dog saw that it wasa big snake. ‘The snake came down to the 
ground and went straight to the woman, and began crawling up on her 
and coiling round and round her body. Finally the snake began to 
move away from her and crept back to the holeinthe tree. That night 
the dog told the man what he had seen. ‘The next day the man made 
many arrows and told his wife that he and the dog were going out fish- 
ing. Instead of going down to fish they went to the place where the 
snake was, and when they were there the man went near to the tree and 
whistled three times. The snake began to creep out, and when it had 
reached the ground the man shot it and killed it, and then cut it up in 
very small pieces, so that the pieces looked like pieces of fish. They 
went down to the river and began to fish, and they caught a few small 
fish and took them home. When they arrived at their home the man 
told his wife that he was going to cook the fish himself, and told her to 
go in the grass house until the dinner was brought to her. She went, 
*Told by Annie Wilson. 
