When they noticed him, they said: “You are our enemy, we saw you fighting against us.”
“Oh, no,” said Bat, “I am one of you; I don’t belong to those beasts. Did you ever see one of those people who had wings?”
They didn’t say anything more; they let him stay with them.
So Bat went back and forth as long as the war lasted. At the end of the war, birds and beasts held a council to see what to do with him. At last they said to Bat: “Hereafter, you will fly around alone at night, and will never have any friends, either among those that fly, or those that walk.” [[214]]
WUS WANTS TO MARRY A BUTTERFLY
CHARACTERS
| Djáudjau | Flying Squirrel |
| Wálwilégas | Butterfly |
| Wus | Fox |
Wus and his mother lived at Wusnésee. Wus was a middle-aged man. There was a spring of water right by their house, at the foot of a high mountain. It was a nice place to live, and Wus and his mother had been there a long time.
One day Wus asked his mother: “Is there a swimming pond on any of the mountains around here?”