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doing so you shall go in to a woman. Then you shall get everything 

 you want; but do not get married as long as you want to get riches, 

 lest she be not true to you and you have bad luck. Do not marry 

 soon, lest she be unfaithful! Count your days in months and years, 

 and you shall be blessed ; but if you lust for woman's beauty, you shall 

 be poor. I will meet you once more." Thus spoke his supernatural 

 father, and then he vanished from his sight. He did not see him 

 any more. 1 



The young man went back to his companions' camp. On the fol- 

 lowing morning they went hunting, and he killed a great many ani- 

 mals. He did all that his supernatural father had told him, and all 

 the animals of the woods heard that the young man was a very good 

 hunter, and he was very successful. He made traps and snares for 

 foxes and martens, and traps for grizzly bears and black bears, and 

 so on ; and every time he went out to look at his traps and snares, 

 each trap and each snare had caught an animal, and he became richer 

 than any one else. 



Now another year came. 2 Then the time of observing the taboos 

 was ended, and he went up to set his traps and snares, and he made 

 some more; and after he had finished he went home. After four 

 days he went out again to see if anything had been caught, but there 

 was nothing. All his traps had fallen and his snares had been broken. 

 The bait had been eaten out of the traps by the mice. He repaired 

 them all and renewed the bait. He spent two days working, and 

 then he finished and went home very sad. 



After four days he went up again, and he found nothing. All the 

 traps and snares had been broken and the bait was gone. He repaired 

 them and renewed his bait. He worked hard and went home full of 

 disappointment. Early the next morning he went into the woods, 

 looking for devil's-club, but he did not find any. Late in the evening 

 he came back home; and after he had washed his body, he went up 

 a little hill, and, behold ! there was a large tree. He went toward it ; 

 and before he reached the foot of the large tree, a supernatural being 

 came around to meet him. When he saw him, he said, "Is that 

 you, my son ? Tomorrow you shall cut down this large tree, which 



1 Full version of this paragraph: 



" Ada dEm gani m wula u\'l>a warns! na-ksi'\vut. Ada dzE lalu-hui'tripa n:i- -ft '■ ni \v;idi-txas-a'°tk, da 

 dEm la'xsEnt a q!ala-ts !Em-hu'ts!Egat. Ada dEm am-lu-ma 10 ksgun a sga-bu'°dEt. Ami dzE wa-Ia'xsEn 

 a txama'n, am dzE da gu'plEll g-a'mgun, da dEm Lu-ma lo ksgun1 a tslEm-a'ksEt a kpi°l da gii'plEl dEm 

 want. Ads m dEm txal-ga' hana'gat a sga-bQ'dEt. Ks-ga'ga dEm lu-ma'ksgun dam dEm gik txal-ga' 

 hana'gat. dzE la wul'am-ya'°n a ts!Em-a'ksEt. Kpl°l da gu'p!El dEm lu-ma'ksgun a tslEm-a'ksEt. Ada 

 kpi"l da„ d'plElmdEm txal-ga' hana'gat a txas-a'tk. Adaligi-lEpIa'batxanJi-ga'dEm ha'»sagan. Ylagai 

 gila' dzE na'ksEn a sga-na'k'dzE ha'°sagau a dzE ama-wa'°n, op dzEt la-wila '"gut, ada dzE al la-he'tgun. 

 Gila' dzE dilt na'ksEn. DEm li'tsxEn sa/°tga, ga'mgEt, ligi-kla'l. Ada dEm gap-sEin-wI-bEbu'°nt. 

 Ylagait ami' dzE a lu-dza'gEm ga'°dEn a hana'gat ama-p!a'SEt, da dEm gap-ga-gwa'°nt; gimga(?) 

 K!E'rEl n dEm gik txal-wa'°n." Gwai hau'sga nEgwa'dEm nExn6'xt, da sa-dzi'°pt. A'lgEt nl'st. 



2 The season for hunting Is in the fall; and the spring of the year was also a hunting-season, when the 

 fur of the animals is very thick— Henry W. Tate. 



