Bat heard them, and he said: “Oh, no! I am one of you; I don’t belong to the bird people. Did you ever see one of those people who had double teeth? Go and look in their mouths, and see if they have. If you find one bird with double teeth, you can say that I belong to the bird people. But I don’t; I am one of your own people.” They didn’t say anything more; they let Bat stay with them. Soon after, there was another battle; in that battle birds won. As Bat’s side was getting beaten, he slipped away and hid under a log. When the battle was over, and birds were going home, Bat went in among them. When they noticed him, they said: “You are our enemy, we saw you fighting against us.” “Oh, no,” said Bat, “I am one of you; I don’t belong to those beasts. Did you ever see one of those people who had wings?” They didn’t say anything more; they let him stay with them. So Bat went back and forth as long as the war lasted. At the end of the war, birds and beasts held a council to see what to do with him. At last they said to Bat: “Hereafter, you will fly around alone at night, and will never have any friends, either among those that fly, or those that walk.” WUS WANTS TO MARRY A BUTTERFLY CHARACTERS Djáudjau Flying Squirrel Wálwilégas Butterfly Wus Fox Wus and his mother lived at Wusnésee. Wus was a middle-aged man. There was a spring of water right by their house, at the foot of a high mountain. It was a nice place to live, and Wus and his mother had been there a long time. One day Wus asked his mother: “Is there a swimming pond on any of the mountains around here?” “Why do you want to know?” asked his mother. “I want to go and swim.” “You are too old to go; only young men, who want to be great gamblers or doctors, go to those swimming places.” Wus had fallen in love with a Wálwilégas girl that he had seen near the spring, but his mother didn’t know that. He kept asking the old woman to tell him where the swimming ponds were, and which were the best ones. She wouldn’t tell him; she always said: “It is too late for you to go to such places. You are too old. You should have gone when you were young. There are no swimming ponds near here.” “I don’t care how far away they are,” said Wus. “I’m going. You must send for old Djáudjau to come and make holes in my ears and nose.” “There is no use in making holes in your ears and nose,” said the old woman. “You are too old to go to the swimming ponds. The earth and the mountains won’t listen to what you say.” When she told old Djáudjau what her son wanted, he said: “It is too late, but let him try; maybe he can get something out of this earth. If the earth pushes him away, he will come home. But I think he is after some woman, and is trying to fool you.” The old man made holes in Wus’ ears and nose, and tied a deerskin blanket around him. When Wus was ready to start, he asked: “Where are the most powerful swimming places?”