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Then | the Bats flew down, spreading out their blankets. | They used them for wings. The Flying Squirrel pulled out | his skin and used it for wings. He used it to fly with. || All the fish threw themselves 65 down. The Sucker was the | only one who was broken to pieces. All tried to restore him, but it could not be done. All the manitous | touched him; and when some one tried to fix him, he put | pieces of his own flesh on. They thought it would cure him, but he was not cured. | There was Sucker's brother's widow. He always wanted her to touch him. || Then she also went to him, and | his brother's 70 widow touched him. Then he | was well again.

Those warriors who were left behind | did not know how to get back. They said: "Being warriors, we shall finally reach the earth (?)." They were about to start for the place where heaven and earth meet. They were about to go to war. These were the brothers | 75 Woodpecker. They started back to go down to the place | where they had come down. Then they reached the ground. When they came back, | at Nelson they met the manitous, | and were told: "When you go back, you will see a fish. Don't || touch it, wherever you may stay 80 over night." They were also told: | "Don't stay over night where there are thick trees." Then | they bewitched one another. Woodpecker and his | brothers were going along; and while they were going along, they found a charr drifted ashore. | Woodpecker thought he would kill it. He said to Flicker: "Many things || have been done. 85 Have you a great name, and is it right that you make trouble? (?)" | Flicker was just about to touch the charr when it | went back into the water, and he did not touch it. It happened that the water was rolling in toward the shore, | and without his knowing it he was swallowed | by the Water Monster. Then the other one started and went along. || He came to a place where there were thick woods. 90 It was getting evening, | and he camped there over night. Then, while he was asleep, | a little toad went under his blanket. Woodpecker thought | what he had been told did not mean anything, and he did not mind what was said to him. Then he went to sleep. The little toad stuck on his body. || It was always like that. At one time 95 the younger brother | Woodpecker died. The Water Monster had killed him. A law had been made | for Woodpecker (?).

He said: "We will go around the mountains." | Then they went hunting. When the food was done, they started to come back | to the lake. They came up and sat down. || Then he saw Nałmu′qtse.^[1] 100 Nałmu′qtse was a large | man. He was going about giving names | to the country. He followed this Kutenai River. He saw Woodpecker | and his brothers, and said to them: "O nephews! give me some food." | Woodpecker hated his uncle Nałmu′qtse. || He was angry at 105 him, and took a whetstone, threw it into the fire until | it was red-hot. He took the heart of a Mountain Goat and put | the whetstone into