They left and nobody ever saw them again. The young man’s friends hunted for them and got other people to help, but they could never find their home or see them. Lok Snewédjas took back all her seeds; she didn’t leave one of them, so no one has ever tasted of that kind of food. To this day people can hear voices on that mountain. They are the voices of Lok Snewédjas and her children, but nobody ever sees them. SNAKE TRIES TO MARRY SQUIRREL’S DAUGHTERS CHARACTERS Djáudjau Flying Squirrel Gäk Crow Gapni Louse Juljulcus Cricket Kāhkaas Stork Kai Rabbit Káwhas Blackbird Kékina Lizard Kískina Beetle Leméis Thunder Lóluk Fire Tcoóks Crane Tusasás Joker (Skunk) Wálwilégas Butterfly Wámanik Bull Snake Weketas Frog (small, green) Wekwek Magpie Wískäk Cedar-bird Wisnik Garter Snake Wûlkûtska Marten (black) Wus Fox Wámanik lived at Wiwĕnsi, in a hollow between two mountains. There was a creek near the place, with lots of fish in it. Wámanik caught fish and ate them. That was the way he lived. East of Wiwĕnsi lived a great hunter who had four children, three daughters and a son. This man and his son each had a song that they sang while they were hunting. Wámanik was a good hunter, too. One day, he went, with two other men, to hunt deer. When he was on the south side of a mountain looking for tracks, he heard a man singing. He thought: “It must be a beautiful man who has that nice song. This is the first time I have heard any one sing on this mountain. I would like to see that man, but maybe I’d scare him.” He went up a little higher; he looked around everywhere, then waited. At last he saw a young man coming along the trail with a deer on his back. He passed near where Wámanik was hidden in the grass, but Wámanik didn’t see his face. He ran ahead to get where he could turn and look back at the man, but even then he couldn’t see his face. The young man thought: “I feel scared, as if somebody were looking at me. I never felt this way before.” When Wámanik got back to his party, each man had killed a deer; and they were roasting meat. They asked: “Didn’t you find a deer?” “No,” said Wámanik, “I didn’t see a track.” Just then the men saw Tusasás coming along with a fawn. They said: “There is the young man who always talks smart.” Tusasás came up and threw the fawn on the ground. “Here is meat,” said he. “Cook it for yourselves.” He felt proud. Wámanik said: “Go home and get something cooked for us.” (Wámanik was chief). When they started for home, Wámanik asked Wisnik, one of his kin, to go with him by another trail; then he asked: “Have you ever seen, on the mountain, a young man who sings all the time he is hunting?”