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An old man named Wolf lived there. He was an expert || hunter. 80 Therefore he was named Wolf. In the morning Wolf | started for his trap. He got there, and it was broken. | He thought that there must be something in his trap. | He looked down into the pit and saw a small child sitting there. | He said- to him: "You soiled this place for me." The child caused him to think: || "Don't kill me. Go back to your 85 wife, | then come back with her." Wolf started back, and arrived at his tent. | He said to his wife: "Let us go! There is | a child in my trap. We will take him out." Then | the couple went. They arrived, and the old woman looked || for the child. She thought his eyes looked 90 like those of Tree Chief. | The child thought: "Bet who | will get me first. He shall be my grandparent." Then | the old woman said: "Let us bet! Go over there | and start to dig, and I'll go here and || I will also begin to dig. Whoever first gets down to him | shall take. 95 him. If you take him first, you may kill him. | If I get him first, he shall be | my grandson." Wolf said: "Well." Wolf thought: | "The child is bad; I will kill him." Then || the old woman and her 100 husband raced digging. Oh, | the man was digging fast ! The woman was not digging fast. | She nodded her head. Then the old woman began to dig fast, | and her husband was not fast. The old woman just went through | to the pit. She felt of the child || and pulled him 105 out. She pulled him away. Then the old man also | pushed his hand through, but there was no child. He said: " Ya, | I missed it." Then both went out. The old woman looked | at the child. She thought: "Long ago I saw Tree Chief. | His eyes were like those of this | child." 1 10 Then Wolf went back to his tent. He fitted up | his trap. When the old woman brought back the child, | she washed him. She was glad to have a grandson.

Then the child was almost grown up. He said to his grandmother : | "Grandmother, is there no sinew?" She said to him: "O grand- son! || there is none here." The old man said to the child: "Where | 115 should he get it from?" The old woman looked for it and found | a small piece. She gave it to her grandchild, and the child made a netted ring, | He held it outside on the point of a stick. He brought

it in, and it was loaded with birds. ^ | He took them off and held it