The next morning the young man said to his father: “I am going to carry my wives’ clothes and beads and porcupine quills to their mother.” When he got to Máidikdak’s house the two sisters were off gathering wood. The old woman saw him sitting on top of the house and she asked: “Who are you?” “I am one of the five brothers who live in the north.” “Are you the youngest?” “Yes, I have brought back your shells and porcupine quills. Wus changed your daughters to ducks.” “Come in, son-in-law, my daughters have gone for wood.” The young man was glad. When the girls came, he said: “I have left my father and brothers. I will live here now.” Ningádaniak. [10] WUS KUMUSH AND TSMUK CHARACTERS Kaiutois Wolf Nátcaktcókaskĭt Tsmuk Darkness Wus Kumush Wuswelékgăs Wus’ Old Woman Old man Tsmuk and his wife had three sons and one daughter. The daughter was always thinking about Wus and singing about him. Wus heard her, but he didn’t know how to get to her, for everywhere around Tsmuk’s place it was dark. He tried in all directions, but couldn’t get there. He listened to the girl’s song. At last he thought: “I can do anything I want to; I am Wus. I will make a place where that girl will come, and I can see her.” He burned over ground and made it ready for ges. [11] Then he thought of ges, and it grew there right away. One day, when the three sons of old man Tsmuk were starting off to hunt deer, they asked their sister: “What will you eat while we are gone?” “I have nothing to eat,” said the girl. “Not far from here,” said the brothers, “there is ges growing; you can dig that.” And they told her where the place was. Wus saw her digging roots and singing, and he thought: “How can I get near her without frightening her?” He turned himself into an old woman, put his bow and arrows and quiver into a basket, tied bark around his legs and head, just as an old woman does, and went to the girl. He talked like a woman, spoke kindly, asked her who she was, and where her home was. The girl was tired; she complained because she had to come so far for roots. “Are you very far from home?” asked Wus. “I have to camp one night on the way back,” said the girl. When she started for home, Wus hurried the sun down, made night come quickly, then he said: “Let us sit down and sing songs.” While they were singing, Wus wished her to sleep. She went to sleep right away. Then he built a brush house over her; he worked all night, and in the morning the house was finished. When the girl woke up, she was in a bright, many-colored house, and she wondered where she was. When she remembered, and looked around for the old woman, she saw a handsome young man; his clothes were covered with beads. The next day Tsmuk’s daughter had a child. It was like any child, except that it had fox ears. The mother cried.