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takes the form of a large jelly fisl), and although I go hunting it is this 

 being that secures my game for me. I became accustomed to the 

 darkness after a time, but the exposure to the continual b'ackness has 

 made my face and hands as you see, and that is the reason why I told 

 you not to go outside." 



Her husband then told her to follow him, and he led her into the 

 entrance way of the storeroom, which was full of furs, and then he 

 opened a door into another room full of tine furs of the rarest kinds. 

 He then told her to take the ear tips from these skins and i)ut them 

 into her dish with the, beads she had found on the shore, and she did 

 so. Then the man said, "You wish to see your old home and I also 

 wish to see my friends, and we will part. Take your boy upon your 

 back, shut your eyes, and take four steps." She did as he told her, and 

 so soon as she had opened her eyes she was obliged to close them, 

 for they were dazzled by the bright sunshine about her. When her 

 eyes became used to the light, she looked about and was greatly sur- 

 prised to see her old home close by. She went at once to her mother's 

 storehouse and placed in it her wooden dish containing the beads and 

 ear tips she had brought with her. Then she entered the house and 

 was received with great joy, and the news of her return quickly spread 

 through the village. Very soon her former husband came in and she 

 saw with pity that his eyes were red and inflamed from constant 

 weeping for her. He asked her to forgive him for being so harsh, and 

 promised if she would return to him as his wife that he would always 

 treat her kindly. When she had considered this for a long time she 

 finally consented, and for a time she lived happily with him. At length, 

 however, his old habits returned and his wife became unhappy. 



Her son became a young man and his mother showed him the beads 

 she had brought from the land of darkness, and also a great pile of 

 rich furs, for every ear tip she had brought back with her had now 

 become a full-size skin. These she gave to her son and then went 

 away and was never seen again by her people. Her son afterward 

 became a headman of the village from his success as a hunter and 

 the wealth of furs and beads given him by his mother. 



THE RAVEN AND THE MARMOT 

 (A woman's tale, from Norton bay) 



Once a Raven was flying over a reef near the seashore, when he was 

 seen by some Sea-birds that were perched on the rocks, and they began 

 to revile him, crying, " Oh, you offal eater! Oh, you carrion eater! Oh, 

 you black one!" until the Eaven turned and flew away, crying, " Gndk, 

 gnak, gndJc! why do they revile me?" And he flew faraway across the 

 great water until he came to a mountain on the other side, where he 

 stopped. 



Looking about he saw just in front of him a marmot hole. The Haven 

 stood by the hole watching, and very soon the Marmot came back 



