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husband's crabapple ground and knife grass ground (?). 1 Two large 

 canoes full of young men and young women started to pick crab- 

 apples for the second wife of the young chief. They went up 

 shouting for joy. 



When they had gone, the supernatural being came to his secret 

 wife, and asked her, "Did you go with your parents when they went 

 to pick wild crabapples?" She said, "No," because she was much 

 ashamed because the second wife of the young chief had made fun of 

 her. Then the supernatural being said to her, "You must go with 

 them, for my father's slaves will pick wild crabapples for you." 

 Therefore she went with them; and the supernatural being said to 

 her, "Take many mats with you, many boxes, and many baskets!" 

 and she did what the supernatural being had told her to do. They 

 took a large canoe and went up above the high rock and camped 

 there. Then the supernatural being came to them on the camping- 

 ground. They saw a crabapple tree full of crabapples; and the 

 supernatural being said again, "I give these to my child. Clear 

 the ground at the foot of the crabapple tree, and spread your mats 

 all around it." She did so; and after she had cleared the ground, 

 she spread the mats. They sat down on the beach, her parents a 

 little beyond their daughter, who had gone to pick the large crab- 

 apples. Then all the leaves of the crabapple tree began to shake, 

 although the young woman did not see any one on the tree. 



She loved her supernatural husband. In the afternoon he said to 

 her, "Go and see what has happened to your crabapple tree." She 

 went up to the foot of the crabapple tree, and saw a great pile of 

 crabapples on every mat which she had spread there, and there were 

 no small leaves. She ran to the place where her parents were, and 

 called them, "Come, parents, and look here!" Her mother came 

 down from the tree, and she ran to her daughter, and they saw great 

 piles of crabapples on every mat, and she saw the leaves in heaps by 

 themselves on one side of the tree. She called her husband, and the 

 old chief came to her and saw these things. 



Then the supernatural being spoke again to his wife, and said, 

 "Tell your parents to cook these crabapples tonight, before they 

 waste away!" Therefore the old chief built a large fire, put stones 

 into it, put water into a square box, threw the red-hot stones into it 

 to make it bod, and when the water was boiling, they threw the 

 crabapples into the hot water and covered the box. They finished 

 this during the night. They filled ten or more large baskets. 



The slaves of the supernatural being were the silver-blue cod, and 

 these had picked the crabapples. They were the slaves of the super- 



