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Rh head was || toward the door, and his legs lay toward the mountams. | 165 Then the sisters went out again. They sang. | They worked their manitou power, and the size of Big Chipmunk's hole | was almost the size of Skunk. The stones squeezed him all over. Then | Big Chipmunk and her sister went back to where Fisher lay. || When they got there, they restored him to life; and when Fisher 170 arose, | he saw his wives. He said to them: Where is | Skunk?" They said to him: He is in a hole in the mountain." | He said to them: "Let us go to a far-away country. | Skunk is bad. No matter how strong the stones || you made, he will break them, he will come out 175 again." Then | Fisher and his wives started and left the country. | Skunk was asleep. He woke up, and knew | that his wives hurt him. He said: "Move away a little! | You hurt me!" They did not move; and II he said again: "Move away a little" He pushed them, | and 180 he noticed that (what he touched) was hard. Then he moved, | and everything was tight on his body. He was in a hole in the rock. It was all I around him on each side of his body and on top of his body, j He could not move. Then he cried. || He thought : "I must die." He 185 knew that he even | used to break rocks. Then he sent out his fluid. He went on sending out his fluid, | sending out his fluid, sending out his fluid. After he had sent out his fluid for some time, | he could move a leg. He went on sending out his fluid, and j he could move all around. For a long time he sent out his fluid, and then the space was large. || He could not see the daylight. He thought: "Let me | lie 199 the other way," and he turned the other way. Then he sent out his fluid again. | After some time he saw a little hole. The rocks opened. | He said: "Oh, it looks like a star!" | He sent his fluid again. Then the hole was larger. Now || he was tired sending out his fluid. He 195 thought: "Now let me see | how large the hole is." He took out his musk bag and put it on the end of | his bow. He stuck it out. | Raven was going along at this time. He saw what Skunk was doing. I He stood there outside ; and when Skunk put out his musk bag II here in front of Raven, he passed it in front of him. | He did not 200 look at it. After some time Skunk took his musk bag in again. | He smelled of it, and said: "It might smell like the eye of Raven. | Maybe he is coming this way. He is one who is always going about." (Raven) had not looked at it, | because he knew that (Skunk) would smell of it. Therefore jj he had not looked at it. (Skunk) put it out 205 again. Skunk sang, | and said: |

"Hap ho he ha! hap ho he ha! hap ho he ha!" |