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the first chamber one of the young men said: ‘I am going to take these bracelets to show that we are telling the truth.’

    "’No,’ said the other three, ‘this being the abode of some Great Spirit, you may have some accident befall you for taking what is not yours.’

    "’Ah! You fellows are like old women,’ said he, taking a fine bracelet and encircling his left wrist with it.

     “When they reached the village they reported what they had seen. The young man exhibited the bracelet to prove that it was the truth they had told. Shortly after this, these four young men were out fixing up traps for wolves. They would raise one end of a heavy log and place a stick under, bracing up the log. A large piece of meat was placed about five feet away from the log and this space covered with poles and willows. At the place where the upright stick was put, a hole was left open, large enough to admit the body of a wolf. The wolf, scenting the meat and unable to get at it through the poles and willows, would crowd into the hole and working his body forward, in order to get the meat, would push down the brace and the log thus released would hold the wolf fast under its weight.

     “The young man with the bracelet was placing his bait under the log when he released the log by knocking down the brace, and the log caught his wrist on which he wore the bracelet. He could not release himself and called loud and long for assistance. His friends, hearing his call, came to his assistance, and on lifting the log found the young man's wrist broken.

    “’Now,’ said they, ‘you have been punished for taking the wristlet out of the chamber of the mysterious butte.’

    “Some time after this a young man went to the butte and saw engraved on the wall a woman holding in her hand a pole, with which she was holding up a large amount of beef which had been laid across another pole,