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for he had a new eye, and he loved his wife very much. The woman 

 loved him really until their salmon was all dried. 



Then TxamsEm went into the river and clubbed all the salmon. 

 He built two large houses, and filled them with good dried salmon. 

 Now TxamsEm's food became plentiful, for his wife was drying sal- 

 mon, and she was roasting some of them. Their three houses were 

 full, and there was no place where TxamsEm did not put away the 

 dried salmon. Bright-Cloud Woman did thus so many times 

 throughout the year, that there was no room for any more dried 

 salmon. All the storehouses of TxamsEm were full of bundles of 

 good dried salmon. Therefore they ceased to make more dried 

 salmon. On the following day he went and took a walk on the sandy 

 beach next to the house. Bright-Cloud Woman staid at home. 

 In the afternoon TxamsEm came home, and his wife stepped up to 

 him and asked him whether he wanted his supper. When TxamsEm 

 said "Yes," Bright-Cloud Woman gave him to eat. The following 

 morning he went out very early, and came back in the evening. His 

 kind wife was ready to give him supper. For four days they acted 

 this way. Then TxamsEm became proud because he had so much 

 food. He spoke angrily to his wife when he came home late in the 

 evening. Finally he asked his wife, "Did any one visit you while I 

 was away ? " Thus spoke TxamsEm to his fair wife. Then his good 

 wife spoke with kindly words. "O master, what do you think! 

 Who should visit me in this lonely place?" But TxamsEni was 

 angry. Bright-Cloud Woman said to her husband, "Have pity 

 on me, my dear! No stranger has done any mischief to me. I love 

 you most. " Thus said Bright-Cloud Woman to her husband. Then 

 TxamsEm said, "I have been gambling every day, and at one time 

 I was always gaining; but now I am losing everything I have. So 

 I know that some man is visiting you." Thus spoke TxamsEm to 

 his wife. The good woman wept. TxamsEm arose, went out, 

 and his wife followed him secretly. TxamsEm had gone to the first 

 point where he sat down and was gambling with a stump. Bright- 

 Cloud Woman came secretly to where he was, and saw her husband 

 gambling with the large stump. She went away secretly. In the 

 evening TxamsEm came home to his kind wife in a rage. 



One day TxamsEm dressed up. He was going to take a walk. 

 His wife combed his hair as she used to do every morning. He 

 arose, and tried to go out; but the backbone of the spring salmon 

 caught in his hair, and he scolded it. He took it and threw it into 

 the corner of the house, saying, ' ' You come from the naked body of 

 a woman, and you catch my hah!" Bright-Cloud Woman just hung 

 her head and cried, but TxamsEm laughed at his wife and went out. 

 Just before evening TxamsEm came in, and again the backbone of 

 the spring salmon caught in his long blond hah. TxamsEin was very 



