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Rh manitou power, | and I should go right up this precipice." | Then Wolverene Hat was asked: "What would you do?" He said: || "I should work my manitou power, and I should go back | the same 15 way we came through." |

It was not long before one of them looked, and he saw | that already they were pursued by enemies. The way they came | was a narrow ledge (good place). Then the enemies came. They said to each other: || "We are attacked." Both stood up quickly. | One climbed 20 Up the precipice. | The other one, when the attacking party came, went back. | When the enemies saw them stand up | at the place where the two stood, a lamb was seen going up, || and a wolverene 25 also came from there. | The wolverene had in its mouth the brisket. They were not looked at. The | wolverene went past the place where the crowd was. | They thought it was a wolverene, and they also thought | it was a lamb, and then they were not looked at. When || they arrived at the place where the fire was, they looked about for 30 them. | They looked all over. There was nothing. They said to one another: "Maybe | that wolverene that went past us was he, and maybe | the lamb that went by was he." Then the lamb went out of sight. It | went around and went down. Then it became a man again. The other one || went along the bottom, below the precipice, 35 and also became | a person again. Then there was no lamb, and the other one | was no longer a wolverene. Then they met again. | They spoke the truth when they said they would work their manitou power. Then they started. |

Now, the enemies of the friends were Kuyo′kwe. || Then the 40 Kuyo′kwe looked for the tracks of the friends; and they saw | that the lamb had become a person, and that the | wolverene—what they thought was a wolverene—was the other one. | They looked carefully for the tracks. They knew that when | the lamb and the wolverene had gone out of sight, both had become || men again. They looked for 45 their tracks and followed them. | Then they met again. The two went back. They were pursued | along their trail. |

The friends went back. They saw a lake. They went out to the water. | They saw a man on the shore of the lake. They went there. They knew || it was Pine Cone. Pine Cone was an old man. He was 50 hunting | muskrats. When they arrived, they said to him: "Run away! They come | in pursuit of us." Pine Cone said: "You tell a lie, Lamb | Hat." He was told: "We tell the truth. The Kuyo′kwe come | in pursuit of us." Pine Cone said again: "You tell a lie. || Where should they come from to pursue us?" Then | the friends 55 looked back, and where they had come from they saw them. | The Kuyo′kwe came out to the lake. Pine Cone was told: | "Look! There