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liiin, driven by a man. The pheasant killed it, and when he was skin- 

 ning it the man stood watchiug him and said, " Well, pheasant, you 

 can shoot straight;" but the pheasant thought it was not so. So» 

 when the man saw that the i^heasant was not proud, he said that the 

 latter would be able to carry the deer nearly home, only when he should 

 almost reach his house that it would become very heavy. And so it 

 was; for when he was almost home it became so heavy that he could 

 not carry it. He laid it down, and his wife came and helped him. 

 When the raven heard that the pheasant had killed a deer he sent liis 

 sons to carry some fishes to the pheasant, so that he might receive 

 some meat in return; but when they were going incothe pheasant's 

 house the pheasant drove them out. Then the raven told his children 

 to fight with the children of the jiheasaut, and they had a battle. The 

 raven's children threw fishes at the pheasant's children, who, in return, 

 threw the grease of the deer at the raven's children. The raven sat 

 between the two armies, and when the little pheasants threw any 

 grease the raven caught it and at« it. After a time the raven went to 

 hunt deer. While he was travelling lie met and shot a deer, driven by 

 the same man whom the pheasant had met. W^hile he was skinning it 

 the man, acting as if he was surprised, said, "The raven can shoot 

 straight." The raven was proud, and said, " I can shoot straight, be- 

 cause I am a raven." When he was about to carry the deer home the 

 man said that when he should nearly reach his house it would turn 

 into something else. So, when the raven had almost got home, he 

 dropped his game and went and told his wife where to find it. She 

 went to the place where he had left the deer, but when she arrived she 

 found it had all turned to rotten wood. 



A u'oman and her husband. — At one time there was a woman living 

 at ber father's house, and after awhile a man came by night and took 

 her for his wife, but soon afterwards he deserted her. After a time she 

 took some of her father's slaves and went to the other side of the water 

 to hunt for the man, but was unable to find him. So she started for 

 home, but after having gone some distance she looked down on the 

 bottom of the canoe and saw a man smiling at her. She knew it was 

 her husband; he pulled her down, and the slaves saw her no more. 

 Some time afterward she made a visit to her parents. At a second 

 visit a child was born to her. On a third visit her face was covered 

 with some kind of moss. During her second visit her parents wished 

 to deceive the man, hence they took a slave with a face exactly like 

 that of t^e married woman and started to carry her to the man, but a 

 sea-gull cried out and said it v.as not the right woman, so they took 

 the true wife and restored her to her husband. This man killed a 

 great many fishes and sent them to his father-in-law. After a time 

 the woman died and there was afterwards heard a voice crying, which 

 was the woman's voice. When this woman's tribe go off to sea they 

 always capsize. (Some Indians believe this to be true.) 



