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Rh and I have done badly picking | huckleberries for my husband Chicken Hawk." |

Then Chicken Hawk was angry. He went back. Chicken Hawk thought: || "I'll kill the Water Monster. He is bad. He kills people. | He wants to kill me doing this to my wife." Then | he went back. He arrived at home. After a while, | when it was dark, he heard his wife groaning on the trail. | He knew that she was not sick. Grouse came in. || Her head was tied up. She gave huckleberries to her husband, | and said to him: "I was still more sick, | and the berries are bad." Chicken Hawk did not eat the huckleberries. | He put them back, and said to his wife: "I'll not eat them. | The leaves and twigs are bad. If you want || me to eat them, wash them. Then I'll eat them." Grouse lay down. | She said: "I will not wash them. I am very ill. | I will lie down." Then, after she had slept, in the morning | Grouse said: "I'll pick berries again. There are many | huckleberries. I like to do it." ||

Chicken Hawk said: "Take care!" Chicken Hawk did not say | anything else. Then it was said that Grouse | and the Water Monster should die. Grouse started. Chicken Hawk took | his two arrows, and he worked his manitou power over his arrows. | The Water Monster is skillful. Therefore Chicken Hawk worked his manitou power || over his arrow, to shoot the Water Monster with it. Then he started. | When he arrived where she was, he heard Grouse singing along. | Then he went there. The Water Monster also came ashore. | Then they met on shore. He arrived there. They did not see him | when he came there. The Water Monster had already eaten the huckleberries || which Grouse had picked. Chicken Hawk arrived. He said to him: "O friend!" | The Water Monster looked at him, and at once he shot at him. The Water Monster said: | "I'll swallow him." Chicken Hawk was not afraid of him. The Water Monster was hit. | Then he went towards the water. Grouse went to | Chicken Hawk, and said to him: "My husband Chicken Hawk, I love you." || Chicken Hawk said: "I will not take pity on you. | You brought me into trouble." Grouse was shot and | was killed. There where Grouse lay a bird flew up. | Chicken Hawk said: "You shall be grouse. | You shall be eaten." ||

Then Chicken Hawk started. When the Water Monster sank down | in the water in the middle of the lake, he lay down, | for he was wounded in the belly. After a while he died. He drank | the whole lake. He drank all the rivers and all | the creeks and little lakes. There was no more water. || For several days the people looked for water, but everything was dry. | They were about to die; it happened