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in the water. When the coming people taste of you, they will say:
‘This meat doesn’t taste good,’ and they will spit it out.”

The young woman heard what her sister said. She was mad; she
made a motion up and down with her hands; they were turning to
wings. Right away she became a large, spotted sea bird and swam
off on the lake.

The little sister got dry grass from the mountain and spread it down
on the ground where each house had been. In one day there were
as many houses as there had been before the fire. She gathered all
the bones she could find and put them in a basket of boiling water;
then she said to herself: “I mustn’t get up when they call me. No
matter what they say, I must lie still and not answer.” She rolled
herself up tight in a mat and lay down.

At sunset the people began to come out of the basket. Each person
went to his own house and soon the houses were full again. The five
brothers came back to life. Their father was the last one to get out of
the basket; he stepped on the little girl’s feet, and then she got up.
Her brothers and father and mother were lying by the fire. She saw
smoke coming out of all the houses and knew that everybody was
alive. Then she was glad, and all the people were glad. [272]
[Contents]
 COLTZ AND WUS

CHARACTERS

Coltz Porcupine
Wŏn Elk
Wus Fox

Coltz started to travel. On his journey he came to a deep river; he

followed it up, and then followed it down, but couldn’t find a crossing
place. Then he sat down on the bank, and looking at the water,
wondered what made it so deep. He sat there three days, then some
of the Wŏn people came to the river to cross. One of them, an old
man, traveled slower than the others. He waited, and when the rest
had crossed, he said to Coltz: “Why do you sit there looking at the
water? Why don’t you cross?”

“I can’t,” said Coltz.

“Why don’t you swim, as we do?”

“The water is deep. I feel scared.”

“Get on my back,” said Wŏn, “I will take you over.”

“I am afraid that I would get washed off.”

“Sit behind my head.”

“You might turn your head around and drop me off.”

“Creep into my ear.”

“You might shake your head, and I would fall out.”

“Take hold of my neck and hang on tight.”

“I couldn’t hold on long enough; I should get tired and drop off. Then
I would get drowned.”

“I don’t want to leave you here looking at the water. It makes me feel
sorry. You must come. Hurry, now, my people have left me; they are
far off by this time. Creep into my mouth; I won’t chew you.”

Coltz crept in, then went down and sat right by Wŏn’s heart. [273]

When Wŏn got across the river, he felt sharp things sticking into his
heart; he forgot that he had let Coltz creep into his mouth. The sharp
things hurt worse and worse. He lay down on the ground and died.

Coltz crept out of Wŏn’s mouth and went to hunt for a piece of sharp
rock (obsidian) to cut up the body. As he hunted, he talked to
himself, said: “I wish I could find something to skin Wŏn with. I’ve
nothing to scrape my arrows on.” He said different things, so if any
one heard him, they wouldn’t know what he was talking about.

Wus was near by; he heard Coltz talking and he listened. He

thought: “I wonder what that old man is saying.” He waited, heard
Coltz say the same words again, then he said: “Hach! hach! hach!”
and ran a little nearer. He heard the same words a third time, then he
scratched his head and thought hard. “I believe that old man has
killed an elk,” said he. Then he called out: “Hach! hach! hach!” ran
right up in front of Coltz, and asked: “Old man, what did you say?”

“I didn’t say anything; I’m hunting for a stone to sharpen my arrows

with.”
Coltz was terribly scared.

“No,” said Wus, “you said you had nothing to skin Wŏn with. I’ll lend
you my knife, if you will tell me where your elk is.”

“I haven’t any elk. I was just talking to myself, and making believe I
had one.”

“You have killed an elk. Tell me where it is, and I’ll help you cut it up.
You are an old man, but I am young; I will skin the elk for you.”

“I haven’t any elk. How could I kill a big elk? I have no bow or
arrows.”

“You are wise,” said Wus. “You have power; you can do anything.
You are a big man.”

Coltz began to feel proud. At last he said: “Come and see what a big
elk I have killed.”

When Wus saw the elk, he said: “Now, Coltz, let’s play a game. We’ll
run and try to jump over the elk. The one that [274]jumps best and
farthest will have him.” Wus had made Coltz think he could do
anything.

“How far shall we jump?” asked Coltz.

“Not far,” said Wus.

Coltz said “Chi! Chi! Chi!” and ran. He jumped and fell on top of the
elk. Wus tried; he hit the elk and fell back. (He was fooling Coltz.)

Wus said: “We’ll try again; I’m sure you will beat.”

“It is mine, anyhow,” said Coltz.

Wus ran first, hit the elk, and fell back. Coltz landed on top of the elk.

“You’ll beat,” said Wus.

“What will you bet?” asked Coltz.

“I’ll bet my knife; then the elk and knife will be yours, and you will
have something to skin the elk with.”

Coltz was glad. He wanted the knife. “This is the last time,” said
Wus. “If neither of us get over, we will divide.”

Wus ran hard this time, jumped, and went over. Coltz came down on
the elk. “The elk is mine!” said Wus.

“Let’s try again,” said Coltz. Wus jumped over six times, then he
said: “I am through jumping. The elk is mine.”

“Won’t you give me a piece?” asked Coltz. “Give me the heart.”

“Go away,” said Wus. “If you make me mad, I’ll kill you. This is my
elk. I want it all.”

“Give me a little piece of the fat,” begged Coltz.

Wus drove him away, but he came back. Wus jumped on him, took a
stone and pounded him till he thought he was dead. Then he divided
the meat, said: “This is for my mother; this is for my children; this is
for myself.”

Coltz began to move. Wus jumped on him and pounded him till he
was dead. He made a great pack of some of the meat, and when he
was ready to put it on his back, he took off his cap (it was full of
holes, like a little round sieve), put it down by the elk, and said: “My
cap, if Coltz moves, shout for me.” He put the load on his back and
started.

Coltz moved a little. Cap called out: “He’s alive! He’s alive!” Wus
went back, pounded Coltz, smashed him all up. [275]Then he said:
“My cap, shout if Coltz moves!” He put the pack on and started
again.

Cap called: “He’s moving! He’s alive!” Wus dropped his pack, ran
back, and smashed Coltz up again. But he hadn’t gone far when Cap
called: “He’s alive!”

Wus was mad. He said: “I wonder what kind of old man that is. Why
can’t he die?” He pounded him a long time, broke him all up, then he
threw the pieces away. “He is dead now!” thought Wus, and he ran
off as fast as he could, got beyond the mountain. Coltz came to life,
but he didn’t move for a long time: he was watching Cap.

At last he said: “I’ll kill you, old Cap.” He sprang at it, and before Cap
could shout, he tore it to pieces, and said: “I never heard a cap talk
before. This kind of person has no mind. You’ll never talk again,
you’ll never be alive again!”

When Wus got home, he fed his children. They were glad to eat
meat; they were almost starved. Then he said to his mother: “You
must get up early in the morning and help me pack all the meat
home. We will dry it. There will be lots to eat.”

When Cap was dead, Coltz carried to the top of a high tree, all the
meat Wus had left; he built a fire, and began cooking.

When Wus and his mother and children came, the meat was gone.
Wus tracked Coltz to the tree; he called him “brother,” and teased
him to give him some of the meat. At last he said: “Brother, drop us
down just a little piece. We are hungry.”

“Stand in a row and shut your eyes,” said Coltz. “I’ll throw you a
piece.” When they were in a row, he threw down the backbone of the
elk and killed Wus and his children and his mother.

Then Coltz said to Wus: “As long as this world stands, you will live
by stealing.” Wus’ spirit answered: “Hereafter you will not be a
person. You will never have an easy time again; you will live on
grass and not kill game.” [276]
[Contents]
 THE BAD BROTHER

CHARACTERS

Blaiwas Eagle Sloä Wildcat

Dásläts California Lion Tcakonŭs Duck (gray-headed)
Djáudjau Flying Squirrel Tcûskai Weasel
Kai Jack Rabbit Tohós Duck
Kékina Lizard Tskel Mink
Kúja Rat Wámanik Bull Snake
Kujasûp Rat’s Mother Wisnik Garter Snake
Kówe Frog Wéwenkee Whip Snake
Lok Bear Wŏn Elk
Pakol Deer Wûlkûtska Marten

A woman had two children, a boy and a girl. She lived with them at
Yáni.

The mother gave the boy dry red roots to eat, but she always fed the
little girl fresh white roots; for herself she pounded seeds. The boy
was jealous. One day, when his mother was digging roots, he said to
his sister: “Let us go and play. I am lonesome here.”

While they were playing, he kept saying to the little girl: “Our mother
loves you better than she does me.”

His sister said: “No, she doesn’t; but I am little.” The boy wouldn’t
give up; he kept saying: “Our mother loves you better than she does
me.”
At last the girl said: “I don’t want to play any longer; I want to go back
to the house.”

“All right,” said the boy, “but we will stay where we can see mother.”

When they got to the house, he told his sister to sit where she could
look out, then he began to sing: “Nénûm, nénûm!” (Up, up!) After a
while he asked: “What is our mother doing?” [277]

The girl said: “She is down by the pond digging roots and putting
them in her basket.”

Again the boy sang: “Nénûm, nénûm!” then he said: “Look again.
What is our mother doing now?”

“She is putting the basket on her back.”

“Nénûm, nénûm!” sang the boy. “Look now.”

“She is starting for home.”

“Nénûm, nénûm! What is she doing now?”

“Oh! the pond is coming up!” screamed the girl. “Mother’s feet are in
the water! Rain is coming down just where she is!”

“Nénûm, nénûm!” sang the boy. “What is she doing now?”

“The water is up to her ankles.”

“Nénûm, nénûm! Look again, sister.”

“The water is up to her knees; she can’t walk!”

“Nénûm, nénûm! Look now.”

“Oh, the water is half-way to her body!” cried the little girl.

“Nénûm, nénûm! Look out again, sister.”

“The water is up to her arms.”

“Nénûm, nénûm! Look now.”

“Oh, it is up to her neck!” He kept singing.

“The water is rising fast now; I can only see mother’s eyes!” cried the
girl.

“Nénûm, nénûm! How is it now?”

“Our mother has gone down in the water; I can’t see her!” cried the
little girl, and she fell on the ground and screamed. She cried all day,
cried herself to sleep.

The boy was singing and fixing his arrows. He was glad that his
mother was dead.

The next morning, while his sister was sleeping, the boy shot an
arrow into her leg. When she cried, he said: “Get up! You are a
young woman now. You must go and hire somebody to sing for you,
so you can dance your maturity dance. You must dance five nights
without sleeping.” He gave her rattles, and said: “When you get to a
spring, stand there till Kówe comes for water. She will see you and
take [278]you home with her. When the five nights are over, you can
come back here. I will stay on the mountains while you are gone.”

The girl started; with each step she took she grew a little taller. When
she got to the spring, she was a young woman. She was covered
with red bark. She drank water from the spring, then stood in the low
grass and waited.
Soon Kówe came to get water. As she was starting away, she saw a
shadow in the water and stopped to look at it. “Oh,” said she, “I didn’t
know I was so nice! I’m glad!” She looked a long time, then turned to
go away, but she came back and looked a second time. She looked
a third time, then she saw a beautiful girl dressed in red. She jumped
at her, caught hold of her arm, and said: “Oh, my grandchild, where
did you come from?”

She wrapped her blanket around the girl, took her under her arm,
and carried her home.

That night she called to Tohós and all the Kówe people to come and
sing for her grandchild to dance.—She called the girl grandchild, but
she was no kin to her.—When they came and began to sing, Kówe
danced with the girl to show her how.

Not far from old Kówe’s house there was a village where all kinds of
people lived. They heard Tohós and the Kówes singing and came to
see what young girl was dancing. Kówe hid the girl under her dress,
wouldn’t let them see her. Wámanik tried to peek at her; Kówe
scolded him and drove him away. Other men came, but they couldn’t
see the girl. Kówe hid her under her clothes, and Tohós and the
Kówes stopped singing as soon as they knew that some one was
around.

The third night the Wámanik people tried hard to see the girl, but
Kówe hid her in the straw of the house and put the fire out.

Kówe always knew when people were near. She heard Blaiwas as
he went up high in the air and looked down. Right away the singing
stopped, and the fire went out.

Tskel tried to steal up and look at the girl, but Kówe heard [279]him
and hid her. Gäk said: “I shall see that girl!” But he talked so loud
that Kówe heard him as soon as he started from home. When he got
to her house, nobody was singing, and it was dark all around.

The fourth night Wisnik went to Kówe’s house. He went under the
ground and stuck out his head near her fireplace. It was early, and
the Kówes hadn’t begun to sing. He saw the girl and looked at her till
his eyes got dim. He couldn’t look enough. When he went home, he
said: “There is a beautiful girl in old Kówe’s house; I have spoiled my
eyes looking at her.”

Kówe knew that somebody had been in her house. The girl said: “I
saw a man, but I thought that you knew he was here.”

That morning they held a council in Wámanik’s village, to decide who

should go to Kówe’s house and get the girl for a wife.

Kówe knew of the council and she said to the girl: “Many men are
coming here to get you for a wife. You mustn’t have anything to say
to the men from that village over there. They are not the kind of
people for you. The Wámanik people and the Wéwenkee and Wisnik
people live there. Tcûskai and Tskel and Wŏn and Wus live there,
too. You don’t want any of those men. Far away from here there are
five brothers; each one is a chief and has great power. If they come,
you mustn’t look at them, unless you are willing to marry them.”

That evening all the men in the village went to Kówe’s house. When
the first one came, the house was a little grass hut, but right away it
began to grow big and nice-looking. As the people came, each man
had plenty of room. The largest and most important men came first:
Wŏn, Lok, Kaiutois, Blaiwas and Wámanik. The girl made fun of
them all; she said to Dásläts: “I don’t like you; you are too proud of
your spotted blanket.”
She told Tcûskai his mouth was too sharp! She laughed at Tskel, told
him his eyes were jumping out of his head; to Pakol she said: “You
are proud of your warm blanket.” She told Lok his hands and feet
were too big, and he ate too [280]much. To Tcakonŭs she said: “You
are proud of your white hair.” When Wámanik came, she said: “You
are proud of your spotted blanket and your big mouth.” She told
Wisnik that his eyes were small and dim. When she saw Kékina, she
laughed, and asked: “How could a woman like your big flat feet and
rough skin?”

When the five Wûlkûtska brothers came, they stood outside. The
youngest brother said: “Why should we go into this house? There is
no woman there that we want.” The eldest brother said: “I will go in
and see her; you can stay here.” When he went in, the girl looked up,
but right away she looked down again. She looked at four of the
brothers in the same way. The youngest brother stayed outside a
good while, and when he went in he sat down near the wall, but the
girl looked at him; she was glad to see him.

All the people from the village went away; then the five brothers
went. The eldest went first, then the second and the third and the
fourth; the youngest was the last one to go.

Kówe loosened the girl’s hair, took off her red bark dress, and put on
one covered with beads, then told her to follow Wûlkûtska. When the
girl overtook the young man, he said: “I don’t travel on the ground or
under it. You should have taken some other man. We were visiting
Wus; we didn’t go there to get a wife. Our home is a long way off; I
don’t think you can go there. We travel on the tops of trees; you will
have to look up all the time. You should have taken Kai or Sloä or
Wámanik.”

The girl cried, and said: “I followed you because Kówe told me that I
belonged to you.”
The girl was beautiful. Her hair touched the ground and it was black
and glossy. The young man was sorry for her.

He said: “You can come if you can track us.” Then the brothers
sprang up and began to travel from one tree to another. The girl had
to hurry; she stumbled often, for she had to look up to see which way
the brothers went. When they camped, they waited a long time for
her to come up. The girl followed them for ten days; she was only
skin and bones. The brothers never hunted and never ate anything.
[281]

The tenth time they camped, the youngest brother said: “I feel badly.
I have a nice wife, and she is starving.” The elder brother said: “You
shouldn’t have gone to old Kówe’s. You knew that the girl didn’t live
as we do.”

The younger brother cried, but he said to his wife: “You can’t follow
us any longer. You are skin and bones; you will die soon. We are
only half-way home. Djáudjau is our cousin; he lives near here. You
must go to him; he is a great hunter, and will get you plenty to eat.
He is as good-looking as I am. You will forget me.”

The young man felt lonesome; he liked the girl and didn’t want to
leave her.

The eldest brother said: “Djáudjau’s mother wears a cap made of

deer fat. She is digging roots. You will see her a long way off, for her
cap is white and bright. But the Kújas live around there, and maybe
old woman Kúja will be out digging roots, too. She is thin, and wears
an old cap. When she sees you, she will jump and be afraid; she will
think you are the ugliest thing she has ever seen. But Djáudjau’s
mother will take hold of your hand and lead you to her house.”
When the brothers started off, the youngest one was crying; he
turned back and called to his wife: “You mustn’t care for that man; he
eats only horns. But his mother will be good to you and feed you.”

When the girl looked far off she saw two houses, one was covered
with deer meat, the other was made of sticks and dry grass. The first
woman she saw was Kúja’s mother; she walked up behind her.
When the old woman saw her shadow she jumped and ran away.
Then the girl saw Djáudjau’s mother; she knew her by her white cap.
Djáudjausûp took her by the hand and was glad to see her. She took
off her cap, turned it inside out, and rubbed the girl’s body with it;
then she took her to the house and fed her deer marrow.

Kujasûp stood a little way off and watched; when she saw the
marrow, she said: “That belongs to me!”

Kúja went to the house, and said: “That girl is for me; she didn’t
come here to get your son.” [282]

The old woman said: “You are a thief. You come here every night to
steal our deer meat,” and she drove him away.

When Djáudjau came, he lay down in the house. The girl saw that he
was white and nice-looking, and had long black hair; she liked him.

Old Kujasûp began to quarrel with Djáudjau’s mother; she said:

“That girl must go with me; she is my son’s wife.”

Djáudjausûp said: “You have lived here always. Nobody ever came
to see you or your son. My nephews sent this girl to us. She followed
them, but they travel on the tops of trees. She couldn’t live as they
do, and they sent her to my son.” The Kújas called the old woman
names, said she didn’t tell the truth, said the girl belonged to them.
Djáudjausûp got so mad she called her son and told him to kill Kúja.
The young man shot Kúja in the breast, and said: “You will no longer
be a person; you will be a rat, and you will be a thief, as you have
always been. You will make little houses of sticks, and people will
call them Stcäkaltis (stick houses).”

Kúja and his mother and all their kin became common rats and ran
off to the mountains.

Not long after that, the young woman had a baby. Her husband
asked her if she had a father or a mother. She told him how her
brother got jealous and killed her mother. Djáudjau said: “I want to
see my brother-in-law.”

His mother gave them a bundle of dried deer meat and they started.
When they came to the pond where her mother was drowned, the
young woman cried; she felt badly. Her brother was living in the
house where they had lived with their mother. He was married and
had two children. When they got to the house, he was off on the
mountain hunting deer.

The woman said: “He hunts all the time, but he never kills a deer;
sometimes he gets a rabbit or a squirrel.”

The sister put her bundle of dried meat on the ground. It got big;
there was a great pile, plenty for everybody to eat. Soon the brother
came; he was old and thin. He didn’t say much to his sister or his
brother-in-law.

The next morning Djáudjau went to hunt deer. The brother

[283]asked: “Why does he go? He won’t kill a deer. I am a good
hunter, but I never find a deer.”
That evening Djáudjau came home with ten deer in his belt. He
carried them as other men carried rabbits. The brother looked mad.
He didn’t like his brother in-law.

The sister said to Djáudjau: “We must go home. I want to start now.
My brother doesn’t like you: I am afraid to stay here.”

They started in the night, and early the next morning they came to a
swimming place on top of a high mountain. Djáudjau got some green
twigs, rubbed himself all over with them, then he rubbed the twigs on
the ground, and said: “I have been to see my bad brother-in-law; I
have brought away some of his bad thoughts. Now, earth, take them
all.” Then he swam in the pond and talked to the mountain. The
mountain talked to him like a living person, and he forgot his brother-
in-law.

When they got home, the five Wûlkûtska brothers were there. They
all claimed the child.

Old woman Djáudjau said: “It isn’t right for you to take my daughter-
in-law’s child away from her.”

The young woman said: “You didn’t care for me. You thought you
were better than I was, because you could travel on trees and I had
to travel on the ground. Now you want my baby. Hereafter you will
travel slow, and it will make you sweat; you will no longer be
persons.”

The brothers said: “Hereafter you and your husband and his kin will
be Djáudjaus and roam around in the mountains.”

And so it was. [284]

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