The Thunders intended to test Fish by making him kill these four creatures. They gave him a spear and told him that whatever he speared with it would die. They gathered about over the great fish, and struck the ground, to cause it to come to the surface. Fish struck it with his spear and killed it. The water all about was boiling hot and steam rose. He pulled out the spear and the heart of the great fish came with it. All the Thunders gathered around, looked at the heart, and said they would cut it up and eat it.

The Thunders gathered about the place of the dangerous rattlesnake and struck the earth where it was hidden, Fish thrust his spear into the ground and killed the rattlesnake. He pulled the spear out and simultaneously the heart of the snake. All the Thunders congregated and ate the heart.

Gull reminded the Thunders that their head man had said that four things were to be accomplished; it was now time to perform another feat. While the Thunders were passing over a large patch of bush, they said that the second rattlesnake was under a designated tree; they would strike the tree and shatter it; and then Fish could thrust his spear under its roots. The Thunders struck the tree and shattered it into splinters. One Thunder broke off the top, another demolished the remainder as though it had been split into small pieces with an ax. Fish then thrust his spear into its roots. The rattlesnake, hearing the Thunders strike the tree, was about to move from the place, but Fish transfixed its head with the spear, and pulled the rattlesnake out from under the roots of the tree. They traveled on in search of the creature they were to kill next. While they were crossing a lake, far beneath the surface of the water they found a fish and a turtle, saying that the Thunders could not injure them, for they were deep down. No sooner had they said this than a Thunder told Fish to thrust his spear into the water and try to kill them. All the Thunders struck the ground under these creatures. Fish transfixed the turtle with his spear, and the last Thunder to strike killed the fish that was with the turtle. With his spear, Fish pulled the turtle out, removed the heart and ate it. These four acts which Fish was instructed to perform foretold his fighting the Chippewa, after he had been born and was old enough to fight.

The Canadian Dakota, p. 106