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toward it, drying herself, she saw a fiue large trout jump, and exclaimed, " I would like 

 well to have that fish for my hiisbaud." Twice again the trout jumped, and she repeated 

 her wish, but on the fourth occasion she felt something touch her back, and turning 

 round saw a fine young man standing beside her, who said, " You wished me for a hus- 

 band ; now I am come to take you." She readily consented to go with him, so he took her 

 on his back and told her not to open her eyes till he gave her permission to do so. Then he 

 sprang into the river and dived toward the bottom, but halfway down the girl opened 

 her eyes, when instantly she found herself on the bank again. This occurred three times, 

 but on the fourth trial she managed to keep her eyes closed till her lover ordered her to 

 open them. Then she found herself with her lover in a good country, something like 

 that which she had left, but not the same. 



In this country the two lived for some time, and two children were born to them, a 

 boy and a girl. There were other people in this under-water country, however, and when 

 the children began to grow large they were taunted by being told that they had no grand- 

 mother, and came to their mother to ask her why this was. She told them that they had 

 a grandmother, bvit that she lived in the upper country. They might, if they pleased, go 

 up there, and if they did so would see an old woman digging roots on the hillside who 

 was their grandmother. They were not to speak to her, but might go to her house and 

 take there whatever they could find to eat. This pleased the children, who accordingly 

 thrice went up to the upper country, and each time having noted the old woman to be 

 hard at work on the hill, went to her house and helped themselves to food. The woman, 

 however, when she returned from her work, found that food had been taken and saw 

 the footprints of the childen, and said to herself that none but her daughter's children 

 would visit her house in that way. So she prepared some potent " medicine," and then 

 going to a stump on the hillside where she was accustomed to work, told the stump that 

 when the children appeared it must move and seem to be a woman digging. The woman 

 then concealed herself in the house, and when the children came the stump acted as she 

 had bidden. The children spied about, and the boy was satisfied that he saw the old 

 woman at work on the hill, but the girl was suspicious, so the boy went first alone to the 

 house, but soon he persuaded his sister to follow him. As soon as both were in the house 

 the woman threw the medicine upon the children. It fell all over the boy, but only a 

 part reached the girl, and so the former was changed to an ordinary human being, while 

 the girl became a little dog. 



The woman kept the boy, whose name was Ta-kutl'-pie'-e-has'k, and the dog, and took 

 care of both, but the boy did not know that the dog was his sister, and the women never 

 told him this, but bade him on no account to beat or ill-use it. The boy soon began to 

 shoot with a bow and arrows, and one day was shooting the red-headed woodpeckers. 

 Three times he killed one of these birds, but each time the dog ran on before him and ate 

 the bird. Then he became angry, and when the same thing happened a fourth time he 

 struck the dog, beating it with an arrow. Then the dog spoke, saying, " Why do you 

 beat me, your own sister ? " and ran from him. The boy followed, but before he could 

 catch the dog it turned into a chickadee and flew away. Very sad, the boy returned to 

 his grandmother and asked her why she had not told him that the dog was really his sis- 

 ter, but she said to him, " If I had told you perhaps you would be more sorrowful than 

 you now are." She then went on to tell the boy, that if when shooting, his arrow should 



