Before
humans, Raven was tired of Wolf eating his friends, so he began to make
Wolf different kinds of food. Wolf wouldn't eat the animals, so Raven
became furious and tried to trap and kill Wolf.
First he
used a bear to track Wolf down and tear him up, but that didn't work.
Then Raven set a lot of wolf traps and put them around Wolf's den, but
Wolf just jumped over them. Raven put bait on the traps and Wolf was
almost caught, but got the bait without setting the traps off.
Raven
created Lady wolf and sent her to meet Wolf. When Wolf saw her, he was
speechless. She had a coat that was silver that shone in the light, and
she was as big as he was.
When Wolf could speak, he said, "Where did you come from?"
Lady said, "Raven made me to come and kill you, but I won't."
When
Raven heard what Wolf did he decided to invite Wolf and Lady to his
house and have supper, and put poison in their food. When they got
there, Raven quickly invited them in. He brought them to the dining
room immediately.
Wolf smelled their food and said, "Something's wrong with the food, Lady."
Raven asked, "What's the matter?"
Lady answered, "Something's wrong with our food."
He
took a bite and swallowed some of it and spit some out. Raven started
laughing and fell on the floor and realized that he put in laughing
pills.
Wolf and Lady returned the next day to Raven's
house. Samuel, Raven's brother, was with them. "Wolf told me what you
did and how rude you were," Sam said.
Raven answered in whisper, "I tried to poison them by putting rat poison in their food, but they were laughing pills."
"You are a disgrace to our family," Samuel said firmly.
Raven
was so mad it started raining. It rained for three weeks. Raven was
disappointed because he couldn't apologize to Wolf and Lady.
Raven
went looking for the wolves. He couldn't find them, so he used his
magic. When he found them, they were chasing caribou. His magic was
used to kill a caribou. They all ate and fell asleep where they were.
Raven was so full he didn't speak, and he hasn't spoken since then.
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