ing home all bent
over with the meat he kill. So they mak' haste to cook for him. After he
done eating he go up on the hill and sit down on the skull. Wah! the
sticks break, and he fall in pit. His wives are watching him. When he
fall in they take down the lodge, pack everything, and travel to the
main camp of their people. When they get near the big camp they begin to
cry loud and tear their clothes.

"The people come out. Say: 'Why is this? Why you cry? Where is your
husband?'

"Women say: 'He dead. Five sleeps ago go out to hunt. Never come back.'
And they cry and tear their clothes some more.

"When that man fall in the pit he was hurt. Hurt so bad can't climb out.
Bam-bye wolf traveling along come by the pit and see him. Wolf feel
sorry. 'Ah-h-woo-o-o! Ah-h-woo-o-o!' he howl. Other wolves hear. All
come running. Coyotes, badgers, foxes come too.

"Wolf say: 'In this hole is my find. It is a man trapped. We dig him out
and have him for our brother.'

"All think wolf speak well. All begin to dig. Soon they dig a hole
close to the man. Then the wolf say: 'Wait! I want to say something.'
All the animals listen. Wolf say: 'We all have this man for our brother,
but I find him, so I say he come live with the big wolves.' The others
say this is well, so the wolf tear down the dirt and drag the man out.
He is almost dead. They give him a kidney to eat and take him to the
lodge of the big wolves. Here there is one old blind wolf got very
strong medicine. Him make that man well, and give him head and hands
like wolf.

"In those days long ago the people make little holes in the walls of the
cache where they keep meat, and set snares. When wolves and other
animals come to steal meat they get caught by the neck. One night wolves
all go to the cache to steal meat. When they come close man-wolf say:
'Wait here little while, I go down and fix place so you not get caught.'
So he go and spring all the snares. Then he go back and get wolves,
coyotes, badgers and foxes, and all go in the cache and make feast and
carry meat home.

"In the morning the people much surprise' find meat gone and snares
sprung. All say, how was that done? For many nights the meat is stolen
and the snares sprung. But one night when the wolves go there to steal
find only meat of a tough buffalo-bull. So the man-wolf was angry and
cry out:

"'Bad-you-give-us-ooo! Bad-you-give-us-ooo!'

"The people hear and say: 'It is a man-wolf who has done all this