398 THE BELLA COOLA INDIANS

string he felt better. Then he began to fill his sack with rocks, leaving
only a small space at the top in which he put the suet, so that it entirely
covered the stones.

When Raven arrived home in the evening he hung his pack on a pro-
jecting beam of the house; it was so heavy that it jarred the whole
building. As he was eating the scanty supper his wife had prepared for
him, he told her to bring in the sack. As she lifted it from the support,
it fell with a crash; it was so heavy that she could hardly drag it inside.
She took out some of the suet, which Raven told her to divide equally
among the family. Soon each of the little Ravens was busily toasting his
portion on a stick in front of the fire. But as the meat warmed, Raven
felt pains in his own stomach as if the meat being toasted were still con-
nected with his nervous system.

“Oh! Oh?” he cried out. ‘“Take it away from the fire; it’s too hot.”

Then he thought of the pain he would suffer if his suet were actually
eaten, so he flew away and never came back.

RAVEN AND WOLVERINE
(Second Version)

Raven and Wolverine with their respective children shared a house
near ariver. Raven used to spear small fish and toast them at the fire
for his little ones, while the young Wolverines looked on hungrily.. Raven
never gave them any of his food and used to rap their knuckles if they
came too close while he and his family were having a meal.

One evening Wolverine said to his wife:

“T want to go hunting, please make a cedar-bark quiver for me.”

While she was engaged on this he busied himself making a bow, four
obsidian-pointed arrows, and a bow-string of bark. Very early the next
morning Wolverine set out for the mountains where he met Twa/di#it, the
supernatural hunter who always lives there. Twa/difit greeted him and
asked who made the four arrows which he was carrying. Wolverine was
wily.

“Twalditit made them,” he replied.

This pleased and flattered Twaldi#it, who answered:

“Tf that is so they will kill goats when they are thrown.”

So he took the arrows and threw, not shot, them carelessly in four
directions; they transfixed and killed four large mountain goats. Twa/-
aitit helped Wolverine skin and cut these up and they stuffed the meat
into the quiver. Under ordinary circumstances this would have been
impossible and, even if it could have been done, the weight would have
been more than Wolverine could bear, but, owing to supernatural strength