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go away from home years ago, being angry ? " Then all the people in 

 the village were full of joy. Some cried, some shouted, and some 

 were amazed. They all went down to the beach to call the canoes 

 ashore; and when they came there, they took the blanket on which 

 the princess was seated and put it down at the edge of low water. 

 Then she stood near the stern of the two canoes, and all the people 

 carried up the fishes from the canoes; and when the fishes were all 

 out, the princess shook the canoes, and they were full of seals, and 

 they carried these up to the chief's house. When the seals were all 

 out , she shook them again, and they were full of sea-lion blubber, and 

 the people carried this up to another house; and after they were 

 empty of the sea-lion blubber, she shook them again, and they were 

 full of whale blubber, and the people of the village filled another 

 house with the whale blubber. Four houses were filled with pro- 

 visions which they had brought home. 



After this the young people of the tribe took up the plank; but 

 before the young men took up the plank, the princess shook the stern 

 of the large canoes and whistled, and the canoes went back rapidly 

 to their home out in the ocean. 



The young men took up the plank with the prince and the princess 

 seated on it, lifting it above their heads, and put it down by the side 

 of the chief's great fire. 



The princess Peace Woman wore a large plume behind her ear, 

 and she was always carrying her pretty little root basket from which 

 she drank water. She would not allow any young man to fetch 

 water for her except her husband. As soon as her husband came in 

 from drawing water, she took off the plume and dipped it into the 

 water which her husband had just brought in, and the water dropped 

 down in clear drops. Then she drank it. 



Now, the former wife of the young man tried in every way to talk 

 to him, but he refused to do so; and his former wife tried to meet 

 him, but the young man would take his son along. Peace Woman 

 loved her husband's son. 



Not many days had passed when the people of different tribes 

 gathered to buy food from the prince who had just come back. They 

 brought skins of elk, marten, and sea otter, canoes, raccoon skins, 

 and all kinds of goods to buy provisions, and the young man became 

 rich. Therefore he invited all the tribes and gave a great feast to all 

 the chiefs, and gave away property and food; and he gave a great 

 feast to his own tribe. Then all his goods were gone, and his pro- 

 visions were exhausted. 



Just before full moon he told his father's wood-carvers to make 

 six digging-sticks, each six fathoms long. Therefore his six wood- 

 workers went, and each of them made one stick. Late in the even- 

 ing, when they had finished them, they came home. The princess 



