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went oil weeping until she arrived at her father's house on the island; 

 and when she came in, she was weeping bitterly. 



Her father asked her, " Why are you weeping, my dear daughter?" 

 but she did not reply. Again the chief asked her, "Where, is your 

 husband, my dear daughter?" Then she told him that he had died 

 in the sea when she looked back at him. Chief Peace was full of 

 sorrow, because he loved his son-in-law; and after he had cried, he 

 rebuked her for having killed her husband. Therefore he ordered 

 his slaves to take down his long pole with the bag net at one end. 

 They did so. Then he said to his slaves, " Open the privy-hole between 

 the door and the fireplace." They opened it, and the. chief took lus 

 net-pole, put it down into the hole, and after a while he hauled up 

 the net. He had caught the backbone, of lus son-in-law. He let down 

 the net a little, longer, and the head came up with the bag net. He 

 put them together in their proper places, and then let the net down again , 

 and he caught both arms. He let it down again, and he caught the 

 hands. Again he let it down, and caught the legs. He let it down 

 once more, and he caught the. feet. Thus the chief brought up all 

 the members of the body. He put them in their proper places; 

 and when he had put them in order on the wide plank, he leaped 

 over the. body of his son-in-law; and after he. had done so four times, 

 the prince, arose, and the chief gave him again to his daughter. 



So the. young princess was comforted, and she gave a great feast 

 to her people ; and she told them how well pleased she was with her 

 husband's relatives, how her father-in-law loved her as long as she 

 had been with him, and that also her mother-in-law loved her very 

 much, and that the whole family had loved her. Therefore her 

 father, Chief Peace, was glad, and so were all his people. The prince 

 said also, "I will not return to my own home, but I will live here 

 with my wife and with my father-in-law and my mother-in-law." 



29. Sucking Intestines 1 



There was a great town at Metlakahtla, the town of the G - i-spa-x- 

 la'°ts, called the Ked-Bear Village (Lax-mEs-6'1), in which a great 

 chief and chieftainess and the chief's nephew were living. The young 

 man fell in love with the chieftainess. She loved him very much, 

 and the young man loved her, but the chief did not know about it. 

 The young man often went to her while the chief was away. 



After a while she was with child, and the chieftainess resolved that 

 she would pretend to die on behalf of her lover. So they agreed on 

 this plan; and on the following day the chieftainess pretended to be 

 very sick, because she loved the young man better than her husband, 

 and she wanted to marry that young man. 



She had not been sick many days when she said to her husband, 

 "When I die, bury me in a large box. Do not burn my body, but 



i Notes, pp. 634, 781. 



