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house. The slave was very skillful in shooting wild ducks with his 

 arrows, and Dirty liked to eat the wild ducks. The slave gathered the 

 oil of the wild ducks in a root basket. 



Now, all the animals heard that this young man was the strongest 

 person that ever lived. Therefore all the strongest animals came to 

 his door and caUed him out to fight with them. First came the 

 Black Bear. Duty came out and killed the Black Bear as one kills 

 mice. Next came a Sea Lion and stood at his door. He called Dirty 

 out to fight with him. The young man came out and killed him as 

 one kills mice. Next the Grizzly Bear came and stood at his door. 

 He called Dirty out to fight with him, and he came out and killed 

 him as one kills mice. Then the Xa°l came. (A zaPl is a very 

 strong and large animal. He is stronger than all the other animals 

 in this country. Sometimes he will kill many grizzly bears at one 

 time.) The Xa°l also came and stood at the door of Dirty 's house, 

 and called Dirty out to come and fight with him. So he came out, 

 fought with him, and killed him. Thus all the strongest animals 

 came to him, and he killed them all as one kills young mice. 



Then Dirty said to his slave, "When you see that my back is 

 bent, then come and rub it with the oil of wild ducks that you have 

 gathered in your root basket." 



When all the animals had failed, the strong trees came. First the 

 Crabapple Tree came to his door and called him out to fight with 

 him. He came out and pulled it out with the roots as one plucks 

 out grass; and thus all the strongest and greatest trees came. He 

 pulled them out and broke them to pieces. 



When all the trees had failed, the strong birds came and tried to 

 beat him. First the Thunderbird came and stood at his door, and 

 called Dirty out to fight with him; and when Dirty came out, he 

 threw'his bolts of lightning, but Dirty took hold of him and killed 

 him as one kills a fly; and thus all the strongest birds came. 



Now, when all the living beings had come, Dirty had a short rest. 

 Next mornhig a long, broad Mountain stood at his door and called 

 him out; and when Dirty came out, the large Mountain said to him, 

 "I am the last one of your enemies. If I throw you down, you will 

 die; but if you throw me down, I shall die. Then you shall take my 

 life away from me, and you shall live as long as the world stands." 

 After the Mountain had spoken, they joined. Now, Dirty's back 

 became bent, for the Mountain was leaning on him; and Duty's slave 

 came to him with the root basket filled with oil of wild ducks, and the 

 slave rubbed it over his back. This strengthened him, and Duty threw 

 the high Mountain and broke itto pieces. It became the sandbarwith 

 large rocks at the beach of Sandy Shore. Thus Dirty took the 

 Mountain's hfe. 



