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to get food for her cliildreii. Now the young' dogs began to grow up. 

 At night when it was low water, she went down to tlie beach carrying 

 a torch, and dug clams. Then she heard a sound like the singing of 

 many children. Ts'u'mkwalaqas wanted to know who the children 

 were. She put her digging stick into the ground, took oif her cape, and 

 hung it over the stick. Thus she made it look like a person. Then she 

 went to see who was singing. She looked through a hole and saw now 

 that her children were all boys. Then she was watching them and 

 learned their song, and the song is sung in the He'iltsuq language: 



1. Spread ou the floor, Aiha! 



2. Down the stream of the world. Aiha! 



Now she jumped into the liouse and said: "You have no father and 

 you are men. I must always work hard to gather food for you." Only 

 the youngest one put on his dogskin in time before the woman had 

 taken the skins and thrown them into the fire. Then the eldest spoke: 

 " Don't let us sit like fools; let us begin to work and help our mother." 

 He continued: "What work shall I do for my mother? I shall be a 

 wood carver." The second brother said : "I will be her canoe builder." 

 The third brother said: "What work shall I do for my mother? I will 

 be the killer of monsters." Then the dog spoke: "I will be her dog 

 and watch that no sickness comes near her. I shall bark when an 

 invisible spirit approaches." Now it grew dark. On the following 

 morning the wood carver carved figures of men and he carved house 

 posts of different forms — in the shape of all kinds of fish and land ani- 

 mals. It is said the i)osts were as long as a forefinger. He made eight 

 houses, and then he made one more house. He made it pretty; it had 

 a front carved in the shape of a raven. He built another one with the 

 front carved in the shape of Wiganx-tx, and he made still another one- 

 eleven houses in all. And the canoe builder built toy canoes. He 

 made many. 



At night the wood carver took the houses and put them on the ground 

 on each side of his mother's house. The large house was in the middle 

 of that village. Then the canoe builder put his toy cauoes in front of 

 the houses. In the morning Ts'u'mkwalaqas went out. What should 

 she see but many people and large canoes. Now she was rich. The 

 wood carver went to the small river near by and made a salmon trap. 

 He carved salmon of alder wood. Therefore the flesh of the salmon is 

 red. On the following day he went to look after his salmon trap. He 

 found one fish in it and gave it to his mother, who cut it open and dried 

 it. On the following day he went again to look after his salmon trap. 

 He found eight salmon. He went home, carrying them on his finger, 

 and gave them to his mother. Then he told his mother to look after 

 the trap from time to time. The killer of monsters had killed by this 

 time all the monsters living in the sea near the coast. 



Then the brothers said they would go into the woods. In the morn- 

 ing they went, and the wood carver was the leader. At night they 



