rds away and held
a council.

As soon as they were a safe distance away, the young man jumped up. He
ran down the hill, and reaching the canoes, jumped into the unbroken
one and began to paddle down the creek.

The Shuswaps turned and saw him. With fierce cries, they began to race
down the hillside, and when they arrived at the spot where they had
left their canoes, and saw what had happened, they filled the air with
their angry yells. The young man was now out on the lake in the canoe,
and they were unable to follow him, as all the other canoes were
wrecked. They ran angrily along the lake shore, thinking he would land
on their side, but instead, he made his way across the lake to the
other side.

When the young man reached the shore, he again seized his tomahawk, and
this time broke the canoe with which he had saved his life. The
defeated Shuswaps, standing on the shore, saw him do this, and again
they filled the air with their angry yells. There was nothing for them
to do but to return to their camp, while the young man made his way
along the lake shore to the village of his tribe. When he reached
there, he found that he was no longer a man without a name. His brave
deed had won for him the name of Kasamoldin,--the canoe breaker,--and
ever afterwards in his tribe, and to others, he was known by this name.

THE OLD STUMP

Long ago there was an old woman called Grizzly Bear. She had neither
husband nor children, and lived all alone in a lodge on the hillside.

As the days went by, she became very lonely, and so she made up her
mind to find a daughter for herself. She took some pitch and fashioned
a girl out of it. Then she put this figure out beside the river, and
it began to move and speak.

"You are my daughter now," Grizzly Bear said to the girl, "and you
shall live with me in my lodge. Every day you may bathe in the river,
but, when you have finished, you must come at once into the shade of
the lodge, instead of drying yourself in the sunshine."

The girl promised to do this and for three days she obeyed her mother's
commands, but on the fourth day she thought she would see what would
happen to her, if she sat on the bank in the sunshine. So, when she
had finished bathing, she seated herself on a stone by the river. The
sun was very hot, and in a few minutes the young girl had melted and
disappeared.

When Grizzly Bear learned what had happened, she felt very sorrowful,
but she was s