CHARACTERS
| Blaiwas | Eagle | Maûk | Fly | |
| Kaiutois | Wolf | Múkus | Owl | |
| Näníhläs | Bat |
Two Näníhläs brothers and their sister lived together. The brothers were small men. They had no way of killing deer, so they tried to trap them. They dug a hole so deep that if a deer fell into it, it couldn’t get out.
One morning when the brothers went to their trap, they found a deer in it. “We don’t want to shoot this deer,” said the elder brother.
“Why not?” asked the younger.
“Because we want the skin for a dress for our sister. If we make a hole in it, her body will show through. We must catch the deer by the throat and choke him to death.”
“I don’t think we can kill him in that way,” said the elder brother, “but we can try.”
They caught hold of the deer’s throat. The deer ran around in the pit and tried to get out.
“Hold on tight,” said the younger brother. “He will soon die.”
After a while the deer got out of the pit and ran off, but the brothers held on. The deer ran to a mountain where there were trees and tall brush; the blankets and caps of the Näníhläs brothers were torn off and their bodies were scratched, but the younger brother kept calling: “Hold on tight; we will kill him.”