Tcûskai began to kick and scratch, and in a little while he broke the skin; the old man’s stomach shrank up. Tcûskai got up and ran home. Tskel asked: “Where are the reeds? Why were you gone so long?” Tcûskai said: “I met old Sukas and wrestled with him.” “I told you not to go that way,” said Tskel. He was cross and scolded. That made Tcûskai mad. The next morning Tcûskai made arrows for his boy and told him to shoot Tskel’s boy while they were playing. He did, and Tskel’s boy was two days getting well. Then Tcûskai put poison in an arrow and told his son to shoot Tskel’s boy again. Tskel knew what his brother was doing; he put poison in his son’s arrow and told him even if he were dying, to kill Tcûskai’s boy. The next day both boys were dead. Tcûskai and Tskel felt lonesome. Tskel said: “I will go to Lamsewe and swim.”—When people lose their friends and feel badly about it, they go and swim till they feel better.—He told Tcûskai to go to another mountain, but he didn’t go; he followed his brother. When Tskel saw him, he was mad and he said: “You will be a person no longer. You will look funny to people and they will laugh at you when you run in and out of holes. They will think there are five or six of you, but there will be only one.” Tcûskai said: “You will no longer be a person, you will have no power. In winter, when the water freezes, people will hunt for you in the tula grass and will kill you.” All this took place. Those two great powers turned into common little minks and weasels, such as live now and are killed by hunters. Tcûskai was always full of tricks. He taught his son to kill his cousin; and that is why people of kin sometimes kill one another now. GÄK KILLS PAKOL CHARACTERS Gäk Crow Kiúks An Indian Doctor Kumal Pelican Moi Squirrel Ndukis Hawk Pakol Deer Wíle A Fawn Wus Fox Gäk was an old man and he was a doctor; his wife was young. Off in the mountains there was a platform of rocks. Gäk lay on the platform; he was sick. His medicines were the earth and the wind, and he sang to them all the time, trying to get well. One morning Gäk told his wife (Wíle) that he was going to die, and asked her to call to her mother and father and aunts and uncles and cousins, and tell them to come and see him for the last time. Wíle stood on the rocks and called: “My mother, my father, my aunts and uncles and cousins, come and see Gäk; he is going to die.” Her father was away on the mountain, but he heard her and said: “That sounds like my child’s voice.” Right off Wíle saw hundreds of her people gathering and she called to Gäk: “They are coming! They are coming!” Gäk got up, turned around, and lay down so there was just room enough for one person to sit on the edge of the rock. Then he said to Wíle: “When they get here, have the fattest one, the one with the black spot on his forehead, sit here by me. I am going to leave him everything I have.”