Grizzly Bear and Doe, the two wives of Chickenhawk, were pounding
acorns. When they had finished, one of them said, "Let us go down to the
creek and leach the meal." While they were waiting for the meal to soak,
they agreed to hunt one anther's heads for lice. Doe looked first in
Grizzly's hair. "You have no lice," she said. "Well then," said Grizzly,
"I will look in yours." When in her search she reached the Doe's neck
she sprinkled in some sand. "You have many lice," she said, "I will chew
them." "Ukka! ukka!" cried Doe, "hold on there." Biting her head off,
she killed her. Taking Doe's head and both lots of acorn meal she went
back to the house. She put the head in the fire and when the eyes burst
with the heat she told the children it was only the white oak log
cracking in the fire. "I think it is our mother's head," said one of the
Doe's children. "Go a long way off and play," said Grizzly. "You won't be
permitted to live long," they heard their mother's hair so say to them.

The two bear children and the two fawns went out to play. "Let us play
smoke-each-other-out in this hollow log," suggested the fawns. The
bears agreed and the fawns went in first. "That's enough, that's enough,"
they cried. "Now you go in," they told the bears. The fawns fanned the
smoke into the log until the bears were smothered. Going back to the
house, one of them held out what she had in her hand and said, "Here is a
skunk we killed in a log." "Very well," said the bear mother. Then the
other fawn held out hers and said, "Here is a skunk we killed in a
log." "Thank you, my niece; after awhile I will make a meal upon them,"
replied Grizzly.

"She is eating her children," she heard some one say. "What did you
say?" she asked. "First you killed a person, and now you are eating your
own children's hands." She ran after the children who had been taunting
her. When she came near them she called in a pleasant voice, "Well,
come home." They ran up on a ridge and barely escaped being caught.
Finally they came to a place where Crane was fishing by the river.
"Grandfather, put your neck across and let us go over on it. An old woman is
after us. Put your neck across."

They crossed over safely and running to the top of a ridge hid in a
hole in a rock. When Grizzly came, Crane put his neck across again for a
bridge, but when she was half way over he gave it a sudden twist. She
went floating down the middle of the stream.