They did this, and pretty soon the old chief bear said to his children:  “Go out now, and look around.  The people have finished killing by this time.  See where the nicest pieces are, and bring in some nice back fat.”  A young bear went out of the lodge, stood up and looked around, and when it saw this meat close by, at the old women’s lodge, it went over and began to pull it down.  “Hold on there,” said K[)u]t-o’-yis.  “What are you doing here, taking the old women’s meat?” and he hit him over the head with a stick that he had.  The young bear ran home crying, and said to his father, “A young man has hit me on the head.”  Then all the bears, the father and mother, and uncles and aunts, and all the relations, were very angry, and all rushed out toward the old women’s lodge.

K[)u]t-o’-yis killed them all, except one little child bear, a female, which escaped.  “Well,” said K[)u]t-o’-yis, “you can go and breed bears, so there will be more.”

Then said K[)u]t-o’-yis to the old women:  “Now, grand-mothers, where are there any more people?  I want to travel around and see them.”  The old women said:  “The nearest ones are at the point of rocks (on Sun River).  There is a pis’kun there.”  So K[)u]t-o’-yis travelled off toward this place, and when he reached the camp, he entered an old woman’s lodge.

The old woman set before him a plate of bad food.  “How is this?” he asked.  “Have you nothing better than this to set before a stranger?  You have a pis’kun down there, and must get plenty of fat meat.  Give me some pemmican.”  “We cannot do that,” the old woman replied, “because there is a big snake here, who is chief of the camp.  He not only takes the best pieces, but often he eats a handsome young woman, when he sees one.”  When K[)u]t-o’-yis heard this he was angry, and went over and entered the snake’s lodge.  The women were cooking up some sarvis berries.  He picked up the dish, and ate the berries, and threw the dish out of the door.  Then he went over to where the snake was lying asleep, pricked him with his knife, and said:  “Here, get up.  I have come to see you.”  This made the snake angry.  He partly raised himself up and began to rattle, when K[)u]t-o’-yis cut him into pieces with his knife.  Then he turned around and killed all his wives and children, except one little female snake, which escaped by crawling into a crack in the rocks.  “Oh, well,” said K[)u]t-o’-yis, “you can go and breed young snakes, so there will be more.  The people will not be afraid of little snakes.”  K[)u]t-o’-yis said to the old woman, “Now you go into this snake’s lodge and take it for yourself, and everything that is in it.”