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Rh on account of thirst. | Chicken Hawk did it. He said: "I'll try to get back the water. | If I am clever, we shall drink again, but | it is dangerous. The Water Monster may make war on me in another way." || Chicken Hawk sang, then he went along to the place where | the 105 Water Monster lay. Chicken Hawk pulled his arrow | out of the wound of the Water Monster. Then the water came flowing out, and | the people drank. They were all saved. Then | the people of the town went back to the shore. ||

Now, it was seen that the water was rising. They went farther 110 away from the shore. | The water reached up there. They went still farther away from the shore, and again the water reached there. | They climbed the mountains. The water rose, | rose, rose. They went to the top of a mountain. | It was still rising, and it seemed that in a little time all the land would be gone. || Then Chicken Hawk 115 sang in the same way. The chicken hawk was | his manitou; that is, the bird chicken hawk. Therefore he was called Chicken Hawk. | He opened his sacred bundle (which contained) the tail of the bird chicken hawk. | He placed it upright, and said to the people: "Watch this | tail. If the water passes the three stripes of the tail, || then the world will come to an end. We shall all be drowned. | The 120 Water Monster will kill us all. If I am clever, | the water will go down, and we shall be saved. ^' Then they watched | the tail that Chicken Hawk had put up. Chicken Hawk sang. | Then the water reached the first stripe. || The water also passed the second stripe. 125 Chicken Hawk was singing, | and the water also reached the third stripe. Then it was seen | that the water ceased to rise. They said to Chicken Hawk that it had ceased to rise. He said: | "Watch it!" Chicken Hawk was singing. He was told: | "The water is going down again." Then he said: "Now we shall not die." He sang. || Then the water went down. Then they all went down. | They came 130 down to the foot of the mountain. Then the water I reached back to its own place, and everybody was glad. |

Now I have told you what Chicken Hawk and the Water Monster did in olden times. |

Well, now I will tell you what Wolf did | long ago. |

There was a town, and a man was named Wolf. He was married to a woman in another camp. Her name was Doe. || When his wife 5 made moccasins for him, they wore bad. When she made moccasins for her elder brothers, | they were good. Wolf was angry. He left his wife. I He went back to his town. When he arrived, he said: "Let us start for | my wife's town. Let us fight them!" Then | they started. When they arrived, his brother-in-law knew it. He had manitou || power. Therefore he knew that they were angry at him.