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them talking in the coffin; and at midnight, when everything was 

 qiriet and they knew that they Were asleep, they clirnbed the tree, 

 threw down the large coffin, and the body of the chieftainess burst, 

 and the chief's nephew also was killed. 



When the men came down, they saw a baby boy among the intes- 

 tines of Ms mother. They went back to the chief's house and told 

 him that it was true, and they also told him that the child was ahve. 



Then the chief ordered them to bring the child to him, so they 

 brought the child to him. It was sucking the intestines of its mother; 

 therefore its name was Sucking Intestines. Then the chief took a 

 good female slave to be its nurse. The child grew up in the chief's 

 house, and the chief loved the little boy very much. When he was 

 able to walk, he would go very often to the little island to get chewing- 

 gum from the spruce trees, for he liked chewing-gum very much. 

 He got it from the same spruce tree on which Ms mother's coffin had 

 been placed when she pretended to make maggots out of herself. 



The cMef took Mm over to the island, and burned some gum for 

 Mm to let the child have the chewing-gum. He did so many times, 

 gomg with Ms slaves. 



One day the boy walked over to the island alone to take gum from 

 the same spruce tree on wMch Ms mother's coffin had been. He liked 

 best to be on the little island where he was born, and played 

 around there almost every day, and the slaves would take him over 

 to the island. He became a beautiful boy, and the cMef loved Mm 

 more and more every day. 



One day the boy said to Ms father, "Let us go to the little island 

 and burn some gum!" So the cMef went with Mm, together with 

 some of Ms slaves. Then the cMef ordered Ms slaves to burn off the 

 gum, and they did so. The cMef was sitting near the spruce tree, 

 while the boy stood in front of Mm. Then a flame of fire, like a 

 tongue, took the boy away from the cMef, and the boy was burned 

 to death. The cMef mourned agam, for the fire had swallowed up 

 the boy. TMs is the end of Sucking Intestines. Nowadaj T s we still 

 call the little island Where She Pretended To Make Grubs Out Of 

 Herself. 



30. Burning Leggings and Burning Snowshoes 1 



There was a tribe, and a great cMef was married to a chieftainess. 

 He loved her very much. After a wMle he was again m love with a 

 young woman, and he expected her to be Ms wife. He loved her 

 better than his first wife, and therefore Ms first wife was very jealous 

 of his new love. 



The young woman had four brothers who were hunters. Every 

 year they would come down to visit their brother-in-law, and brought 

 with them provisions to their dear sister. Therefore the chief hived 



