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the burning fire. Thus he made a thick smoke in the house of the 

 Master Of The South Wind. The Master Of The South Wind began to 

 cough and to sneeze. Then Red Cod jumped out again. Now the 

 chief, the Master Of The South Wind, coughed and sneezed very hard. 

 He arose, and kept going backward, on and on. He stumbled because 

 he was coughing so hard. He came to the door of his house; and 

 when he stepped on the Halibut, he slipped on him, and slid right 

 down to the Killer-Whale canoe. Then Devilfish sucked, and kept 

 him from going back. TxamsEin said to his people, "Kill him with 

 stones, kill him right away!" Thus spoke TxamsEm to his com- 

 panions. Then he spoke again, and said, "Go on, warriors, club and 

 kill him!" Then the chief, the Master Of The South Wind, spoke at 

 once, and said, "O Chief TxamsEm! why do you intend to do this to 

 me?" TxamsEm said at once, ' ' O chief, Master Of The South Wind ! 

 I do this because we always have bad weather." Then the Master 

 Of The South Wind spoke again, and said, "There shall be alternately 

 one fine day and one bad day." TxamsEm said at once, "Kill him! 

 for what is the use of one day fine and another bad weather ? What 

 does that help us ? " Then the chief, the Master Of The South Wind, 

 spoke again, and said, "There shall be two good days in succession." 

 TxamsEm said, "I don't want that, either. Go on, kill him!" Thus 

 spoke TxamsEin to his warriors. Then the chief, the Master Of The 

 South Wind, said, "It shall always be su mm er in your world." 

 TxamsEm said, "That is too much. It is enough to have four days 

 fine weather at a time." Thus said TxamsEin to the chief, the Master 

 Of The South Wind. Then TxamsEm said again, "O chief, Master 

 Of The South Wind ! don't lie, else we shall come again and make war 

 on you." Now, Devilfish let go of him. He went up to the beach, 

 and entered his house. TxamsEm called Halibut and Devilfish and 

 Eed Cod. They all went aboard the canoe and returned home. 

 When they arrived on the beach of TxamsEm's house, TxamsEm 

 said at once, "Go to your places, for I have been to make war against 

 the Master Of The South Wind, and he promised that it would be good 

 weather for four days at a time." Thus spoke TxamsEm to them 

 before they left him. Each went to his own house. Soon some 

 went to dig clams, others went to get bait; and others went to 

 search for their own kind of food. Still others went fishing; and 

 therefore nowadays we have good weather in our world. 



(24) TXA'MSEM MAKES A GIRL SICK AND THEN CURES HER 1 



TxamsEm went on, not knowing which way to turn. He was very 

 hungry, staying in a lonely place. After a while he came to the end of 

 a large town. He saw many people walking about, and he was afraid 

 to let himself be seen. TxamsEm sat down there; and on the folio w- 



1 Notes, p. 722. 

 50633°— 31 eth— 16 6 



