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Rh mittens, which were mittens of deer (skin). || He threw them on Buck, 55 and said: "Don't | move!" Buck thought: "I thought he | would do something for me, therefore I came in." There was just one mitten | which Fish threw on him. Buck was big, | and his legs stuck out. Then he saw Wolf come in. || Buck thought he would be seen by Wolf, | and did not turn 60 his eyes from those of Wolf, who did not see him. Now Wolf | retransformed himself into a man. When he was about to enter the tent I of Fish, he said to him: "Didn't you see Buck?" | He did not look at him. He did the same as he had done with Buck. || He did 65 the same. (Wolf) was coaxing him. After a while Fish spoke, | and said to him: "Your talk is bad. He is your brother-in-law. | You loved each other. Why are you angry at him? " Fish said: | "Did Buck transform himself into game?" Wolf said: | "Yes, he transformed himself." Fish said: "Why should he || come into my 70 tent if he is a deer? If he should come | into my tent, he would become a man. Go out. Maybe | he went into the water. Game does that." Then Wolf went out. | Fish made a figure of grass. He hurriedly threw it out of the smoke hole. | The figure became a deer, which stood there on the other side of the water. || When 75 Wolf went out, he saw | Buck standing in the water on the other side. Wolf went in again, | and said to Fish: "Give me a canoe. I | see a deer on the other side." Fish said: "You | said you became a Wolf, and Buck became || a deer. Later on, when a wolf runs after a 80 deer and it goes into the water | of a river, then a wolf also will swim across." | Wolf said: "Is that so? " Wolf went out. | He transformed himself into a wolf. He became one. Then he swam across. | Fish had told a lie. It was not a deer standing in the water; || it was grass that he had made into a deer. It was not 85 a deer | that was standing in the water; it was grass. When Wolf had gone out again, | Buck arose, and said to Fish: | "Take me across, so that I may kill him, for he killed all my relatives." | Then Fish arose, took his blanket, || and put it on him. He took his 90 belt and took his hat. He took | his mittens. Buck said: "Hurry up! I He is about to swim across." Fish said: "He is still here." | Then he went out and launched his canoe. | He did not hurry. The Wolf had almost gotten across. || Then Fish and Buck went aboard. | 95 Fish took his paddle, put it into the water, and pushed with it. He almost I caught up with Wolf. Then he put the paddle in on the other side. He paddled, | and caught up with Wolf. Then Buck