0ld Man went up there and saw their tracks on the sand, where they had beenplaying, and he turned himself into a rotten tree. By and by the bears cameout, and when they saw the tree, the Chief Bear exclaimed: "Look at that rottentree. It is 0ld Man. Go, brothers, and look at if it is not." So the twobrothers went over to the tree, and clawed it; and they exclaimed, "No, brother,it is only a tree." Then the Chief Bear went over and clawed and bit thetree, and although it hurt 0ld Man, he never moved. Then the Bear Chief wassure it was only a tree, and he began to play with his brothers. Now whilethey were playing, and all were on their backs, 0ld Man leaned over andshot an arrow into each one of them; and they cried out loudly and ran backon the island. Then 0ld Man changed into himself, and walked down along theriver. Pretty soon he saw a frog jumping along, and every time it jumped itwould say, "_Ni'-nah 0-kyai'-yu_!" And occasionally it would stop and sing:--

"_Ni'-nah 0-kyai'-yu! Ni'-nah 0-kyai'-yu!_ Chief Bear! Chief Bear!_Nap'-i I-nit'-si-wah Ni'-nah 0-kyai'-yu!"_ 0ld Man kill him ChiefBear! "What do you say?" cried 0ld Man. The frog repeated what he had said.

"Ah!" exclaimed 0ld Man, "tell me all about it."

"The Chief Bear and his brothers," said in reply the frog, "were playing on thesand, when 0ld Man shot arrows into them. They are not dead, but the arrowsare quite near their hearts; if you should shove ever so little on them, thepoints would cut their hearts. I am going after medicine now to cure them."

Then 0ld Man killed the frog and skinned her, and put the hide on himselfand swam back to the island, and hopped up toward the bears, crying atevery step, "_Ni'-nah 0-kyai'-yu!_" just as the frog had done.

"Hurry," cried the Chief Bear.