MAN'S FIEST GEIEF 



at them and found that they were really water. 

 Then, without any wish on his part, loud cries 

 began to break from him, and the tears ran down 

 his face as he went homeward. 



When his son saw him coming he called to his 

 wife and mother to see Man coming along mak- 

 ing such a strange noise. When he reached them 

 they were still more surprised to see water run- 

 ning down his face. After he told them the story 

 of his disappointment about the seals, they were 

 all stricken with the same ailment and began to 

 wail with him, and in this way people first 

 learned to cry. 



A while after this the son killed another seal 

 and they made more reindeer snares from its hide. 

 When the deer caught this time was brought 

 home, Man told his people to take a splint bone 

 from its foreleg and to drill a hole in the large 

 end of it. Into this they put strands of sinew 

 from the deer and sewed skins to keep their bodies 

 warm when winter came, for Raven had told them 

 to do this; and the fresh skins shaped themselves 

 to their bodies and dried on them. 



Man then showed his son how to make bows 

 and arrows and to tip the arrows with points of 

 horn for killing deer. With these the son shot his 

 first deer, which was easier than snaring them. 



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