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Rh people. They went there, | and started a fire. Then they saw tracks of people. | Wolf Hat said: "Let us start, here | where I am going. You go along." It was very dark. Then | Wolf Hat started. He went along. Wolf Hat smelled || the people. They went along. 110 Then | in the morning the wide trail of the warriors was seen. | There also were warriors. They were going to fight against the Kutenai. | They followed the trail, going along. |

The friends went ahead to see what was going on. One was named || Lamb Hat, the other was named Raven Hat. | They went to a valley 115 and went on. After they reached the other side, | one of them said: "Go, friend! I can not do much with you, | friend." He saw that down below there was a town. | They were about to put up a tent. One man pointed right toward them. || Then Lamb Hat and 120 Raven Hat stopped. | They stood there. When the one person pointed their way, | many looked at them. | Lamb Hat was standing there. He said to his friend: "You might be in some difficulty." | His friend said to him also: "You might be in some difficulty." || Then the one 125 standing ahead was looked at. | He jumped around, and a lamb started up the mountain. | Lamb Hat had become a lamb. | Then the one standing behind stood there. Then a bird flew that way. | A small magpie flew that way to the head of the one standing there. |f It stopped there and flew away again. | Then Raven Hat had turned 130 into a stump. | The people all laughed, because that man had made a mistake | when he said that people had appeared on the one side. | They said to him: "We shot the parents of the lamb. || Therefore it 135 is there. The other one is a stump. | You see, a bird flew to it." | Then they laughed. The one who had seen it thought: | "They were persons. When the lamb goes behind there, | it will become a man; and when the bird flies away, || it will also become a man again." | 140

Then the friends Lamb Hat and Raven Hat | saw each other. They said: "Indeed, I did something." The other one | said; "Indeed, I also did something." They talked together. | "Indeed, let us watch for a while!" Then they looked secretly || at their enemies. 145 After a while they saw | that they were beginning again to make their tents ready. They said to each other: "Let us | start back!" Then they started and went along. |

When it was almost dark, their many | friends saw them coming. When they arrived there, they said: "We saw || our enemies. They