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The old man then swam up the river, like a king salmon, to the bear's 

 house, where the bear was spearing salmon. The bear tried to spear him for a 

 salmon, but he grabbed the spear point, broke it off, and swam to his canoe 

 and hid the spear point under the bow. Having disarmed the bear he now 

 knew that he was safe. So he got in his canoe and went down to the bear's 

 house to call. He concealed the fact that he had broken the bear's spear, but 

 the bear believed that he did it, nevertheless. The bear wanted the old man to 

 marry his daughter. The bear pointed to a mountain about a mile away, 

 ■where there was no timber, and said that it was a good hunting place for bear, 

 since a bear came up there every day. The old man went to the woods to 

 -get material to make some arrows. The bear had everything fixed dan- 

 gerous about there, so that when a man touched a tree stump it would fall 

 on him. The old man was cautious and would touch a stump and dodge 

 when it fell. Then he secured the wood for arrows from the fallen stump. 

 Now he wanted some feathers and the bear took him to a place said to be 

 good for getting them. Here were big eagles that would kill men! The old 

 ■man went to an eagle's nest in a big tree, where there were two young ones. He 

 asked them which one could talk most. One said that he could talk most, and 

 would tell the father and mother eagle about everything, so tlie old man killed 

 him so that he couldn't tell. He asked the other young eagle how he knew 

 when his mother was coming, and was told that she always followed a gust of 

 snow. He asked when the father eagle came, and was told that he always 

 followed a gust of hail. Then the old man hid under the nest with his spear. 

 Then came the snow and the mother eagle appeared, carrying the upper half of 

 a man. She asked the young one, "Where is your brother?" and he said, "It was 

 too warm here and he went down where it was cool." She said, "I smell 

 something here; what's the matter?" The yoimg eagle said, "You smell that 

 half a man ;" but the mother eagle said, "I smell something different." Then 

 the old man under the nest speared the mother eagle, piercing her from belly to 

 crop. Then came the hail, and the father eagle followed and asked the same 

 questions as the mother. He said to the young one, "Where is your mother?" 

 and the young one answered, "She went down to look for brother." The father 

 eagle brought witli him the lower half of the man. Then he said, "I smell 

 something," and the young one replied the same as to his mother. The old 

 man was watching from imder the nest, and he speared the father eagle too. 

 This father eagle would kill any man he saw. The old man saved the young 

 one. He got enough feathers to make his arrows. When he came back the 

 bear said, "You're all right," which he always said. The old man wanted some 

 pitch to stick the feathers to the arrows. The bear, as usual, led him to a 

 dangerous place, where he told the old man there was plenty of pitch. Here 

 the old man found a lake of pitch boiling like water. The old man wouldn't 

 go near it, but took a long willow switch and dipped it into the lake. With 

 this switch he threw the pitch all over the spruce trees about him. The spruce 

 trees theretofore had never yielded pitch, but have done so all over the world 

 ever since. Then the old man gathered enough pitch from a spruce tree and 

 returned. Now he wanted sinews to bind the feathers and heads to the sticks 

 of his arrows. 



The bear led him to a moose lick where there was a bad moose. The moose 

 didn't have much flesh, but was mostly bone and skin. Tlis hide had such 

 stiff hairs that it was hard for an arrow to penetrate. This moose would kill 



