THE BIED WIFE 



tween her fingers and the fingers of her child- 

 They were both turned into geese and flew away. 

 When the Inuit saw this they cried, " Itajung^ 

 your wife is flying away." 



Itajung became very sad. He no longer cared 

 for the meat and blubber, nor for the whales 

 spouting near the shore. He followed in the 

 direction his wife had taken, and went over all the 

 land in search of her. 



After traveling for many weary months, he 

 came to a river where a man with a large axe was 

 chopping chips from a piece of wood, and as fast 

 as he chopped them they were turned into salmon 

 and slipped out of the man's hands into the river 

 and swam down to a large lake near by. The 

 name of the man was Small Salmon. 



As Itajung looked at the man he was fright- 

 ened almost to death; for the back of the man 

 was entirely hollow, and Itajung could see right 

 through him and out at the other side. He was 

 so scared that he kept very still and crept back 

 and away out around him. He wanted to ask if 

 the man had seen his wife, for that was what he 

 asked everyone he came to. So he went around 

 and came from the opposite direction, facing the 

 man. 



When Small Salmon saw him approaching he 

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