Kumush said: “I don’t hear any noise; maybe your husband is dead.”
The woman said: “Wait a little; don’t open the place yet. If he is alive, he will kill us.”
When Kumush opened the sweat house, he saw a beautiful young man lying on the ground; but he was dead. Kumush felt sorry. The woman felt sorry, too. Kumush took the body out of the sweat house; then he piled up logs and burned it. When it was burning, he said: “Hereafter, people will do this way: When their friends die, they will burn them as I am burning this man.” And that is the way we did till white men came. [[191]]
WUS AND HIS TROUBLES
CHARACTERS
| Kuyas | Red Ants | Tálwas | Hot-Water Baskets | |
| Pshagéknik | Gopher | Wus | Fox | |
| Slikwis | Fire-drill |
Ten Tálwas brothers lived in two houses, five in one house, and five in the other; near by, in two other houses, lived the ten Slikwis brothers. One day Wus came from the west and went into the house of five of the Slikwis brothers.
“Oh,” said Wus, “what are these nice long sticks here around the fire for? They would make good gambling sticks. I will take them. If I meet people, I can gamble with them and beat them with such nice sticks.”
He took all five of the Slikwis brothers in one hand.