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Rh You urge me very much. Our grandmother said after a while, in the evening, || when Fisher comes home, then we should go there." | 35 Then they started. When they arrived, they entered, and saw | Skunk alone, nobody else. Skunk gave them meat. | Then they ate. He said: | "Your grandmother wants me to marry you." Skunk prepared a place in the rear of the tent. || He said to them: "Stay 40 here." Then the sisters | went to the rear of the tent and staid there. Skunk was | pounding dried meat all the time. | Then Fisher came home. He said to his elder brother: "Go | and get some water. I want to drink." He threw his drinking horn to him. || Fisher's water was far away. Skunk thought: | "Fisher might take 45 the girls." Then he arose. | Skunk took dried meat and threw it backward to | the sisters. Skunk said: "Divide-de-de-de it." | When he was almost going out, he said: "Don't move-ve-ve-ve!" || Then 50 Skunk started. He thought: | "Fisher's water is far away. I shall go to my water." Then he arrived there | and dipped it up. Skunk started to run. He thought: "I | want to get back quickly. He might take those girls." | He came back and gave the water to his younger brother. Fisher took it, || and knew that it was Skunk's 55 water. Therefore he threw it back. | Skunk was told: "This is not my water, | it is your water." He was given another horn, | and was told: "Draw some of my water." Skunk started. | He just dipped up the water and came back. He came back quickly, || and 60 spilled it while running. Now there remain many little lakes, the result of I what Skunk spilled while walking. Then he came home and gave | the water to his brother. | After Fisher had drunk, he said to Skunk : "Go and get my game," | Fisher had known while he was away that the two girls had arrived, || and that they wanted him, and that Skunk had already taken them. 65 Therefore | he was angry at his elder brother. Fisher took entrails. | He painted the entrails of the game red. These entrails | are called "rectum." Then Skunk was told to bring in | the meat. He was given the painted entrails. He was told: || "Go quickly, because the 70 sun is getting low." Then Skunk thought | that Fisher might take those two girls. | Again he took dried meat and threw it backward. | He said: "Divide-de-de-deit. Don't move-ve-ve-ve!" | Then Skunk started. When he came to the place where the meat was, || he 75 tied it with that line. I He did not know that it was entrails. He