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Rh Hawk when the Water Monster spoke to her. She was afraid that he would | kill her. Then she thought thus, she was told: "I'll eat || huckleberries." Then she gave them to him. In the evening | she 15 started back. She loved her husband, Chicken Hawk. | There were no huckleberries which Chicken Hawk was to eat. Even though she had picked until the evening, | she had done badly. Then she went back to her tent, | and arrived when it was very dark. When she arrived, Chicken Hawk || was already there. She gave it to him. She 20 was afraid. She said to him: "I did not | get many huckleberries. I felt ill. I did not pick berries. | I have been lying down all day." When Grouse was going back, | she saw the bird grouse, who was | her manitou. Therefore she was called Grouse. She knocked it down. || She took it, and at night she took a piece of it into her. mouth. | She 25 said: "I have a headache; I will not eat." | She lay down. She groaned. After a little while | she got up again. She vomited. She vomited yellow water. | That was the bird that she had swallowed. II She was not sick at all. She did so because she was afraid 30 of I her husband, whom she deceived. |

In the morning Chicken Hawk went out hunting. Grouse said: "Even I though I am not feeling well, I'll go to pick berries. | Yesterday I did badly picking huckleberries." Grouse left, and || she did the 35 same with the Water Monster. She did also the same, and | picked berries for Chicken Hawk. When she arrived at the house, she groaned still more. | Early the next day Grouse said: | "Although I am sick, I'll go and pick berries. | If I should happen to die, you would not eat any more of the fruit that I pick." || Then Grouse 40 started again. | Chicken Hawk felt uneasy. He thought : "Maybe | my wife is not sick. I'll go there | where she is picking berries." Chicken Hawk started. He came to | the place where his wife was. She was singing. He thought || he knew that she was not sick. He stood there. 45 When it was almost | evening, Grouse started for the lake. | She said: "I'll give something to eat to my husband the Water Monster." |

Chicken Hawk looked on, (and saw) his wife going and singing. | She went to the shore. He saw the Water Monster coming out of the water. || Grouse went there. She carried the huckleberries. | When 50 the Water Monster came ashore, he opened his mouth, and she emptied | the huckleberries into his mouth. Then Grouse sat down. | The Water Monster was coming ashore. Then Grouse shouted, | and she and the Water Monster laughed and made noise. || When it was almost 55 evening, the Water Monster went back into the water. | Then Grouse started for home. She sang. She said: | "It is getting evening,