II. Child-of-Hog-Fennel (Kokwe'laha'it).
(Lower Uta' mqt.)Then all the people crossed the river, deserting Frog. They gave the finest young woman of all the people to be the wife of Child-of-Hog-Fennel. Next night, when Child-of- Hog Fennel was sleeping with his bride, Frog gathered herself up1, and, jumping across the river at one bound, alighted on Child- Fennel's face. Frog stuck there2, and the people tried in vain to get her off, although they pulled and scraped very hard. Thus Child-of-Hog-Fennel, who had been a very handsome man, became disfigured for life.
Some time after this the people wished to make a moon, for hitherto there had been no moon, and they thought they would have a light at night somewhat similar to the sun. They asked Coyote to be the moon, and he consented. The first night he arose in the evening and as he passed overhead, each time that he saw a married couple having sexual intercourse, he cried out, "Ha! you are in the act of having sexual intercourse!" ("Ua'xÉp Lîp kâtîx!") The people were displeased at his thus taking notice of their actions, and said, "He will always insult us thus." Therefore they deposed him, and asked Child-of-Hog-Fennel to take his place. He assented to their proposal and became the moon. He conducted himself properly and did his work well, therefore the people agreed that he should always be the moon, and thus he continues to be at the present day. The frog may still be seen as dark spots on his face.3
12. The Transformer. 4
(Lower Utã'mqt.)A man came up the Fraser River from the lower part of the S'a'tcinko country. He was known as a transformer, and visited all parts of the valley where people resided. Those people who were bad, and did not pray,, he changed into stones, birds, and animals. When the people heard that he was coming, they began to pray diligently, and gathered together for the purpose of having religious dances. They addressed the Transformer himself in their prayers and dances.
One man who was engaged making a canoe would not pray. He said, "I have no time to pray, I am too busy;" so he kept on working at his canoe. He was busily engaged at his work one day when the Transformer appeared to him, but the canoe-maker did not know who he was. The former said, "My friend, I see you are busy. Where are the rest of the people'," The canoe-maker answered, "Oh, they are all over there, praying. They expect a man from below of whom they are afraid. I don't believe such things myself, and have got no time to pray, because I want to finish my canoe.' The Transformer said, "You have got a nice adze. Let me see it!" So the canoe-maker handed it to him. Then he pushed it against the man's nose, and at once he was changed into a woodpecker, and flew up into a tree, which he began to strike with his beak, as he had previously done to the canoe with his adze.
1 Gathered herself together or drew herself up for a spring.
2 They say that Frog flattened out on his face like a large spot of grease.
3 See Thompson Indians, p. 91.
4 I could not learn any proper name for this man. He was simply called Kêx'xo'iêm.