Then the Red Men again began the gamble stick chant. This time Left-Handed guessed the hand that held the gamble stick and Wook-ya-koots threw over a count stick and also the gamble sticks. Chief Yee-khoo and his braves became the guessers.
So the game went on until Chief Yee-khoo’s side had ten count sticks stuck in the ground before them. Then they took them all down and put up one large count stick. When Chief Yee-khoo’s men had three of these large count sticks the game ended and he and his braves carried off all the rich robes and food and blankets which they had gambled for. This they did the next night and for many nights after. Each night Left-Handed and his brothers and sisters made a great feast for them.
Always Left-Handed and his brothers lost until Chief Yee-khoo and his men had won everything they possessed except one small club made of bone.
Left-Handed took this and said, “This is the only thing we have left. It is worth many blankets, for with it we can kill our enemies. We shall gamble for this and this time we may be lucky and win.”
Chief Yee-khoo and his braves began to jeer and ask, “How can a bone you can cover with one hand kill anyone?”
At last Left-Handed said, “If you do not believe me I shall show you.”
He raised the little bone club and slew Chief Yee-khoo and [[13]]one after another all of his men except one who made his escape and aroused the people of Tee-hi-ton. They rushed across the creek and fell upon Left-Handed and his brothers and sisters with such fury that they were almost overpowered.
“Unheeded the salmon might leap in the stream while the Red Men played the Gamble Stick Game”
Then Left-Handed remembered the little box “tsow” which his grandfather, the Almighty One, had given them. He took the box and opened one end. At once the worldly people were as the “dry leaves in autumn when a puff of wind crumbles them into dust.” [[14]]