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large fire, and melted much fat, and ate it all. Then she felt satisfied 

 and drank much water. She went toward an old log, lay down across 

 it, and her body broke apart. She was transformed into flint, which 

 is still lying there at the foot of the higli mountain. There is flint 

 all over it, and a white stone like white marble is inside. 



Waux himself was transformed into stone, with his hunting-hat 

 and his mat blanket and his pole, and his dog also was transformed 

 into stone. He is standing there up to this day. The reason is that 

 he forgot to take his spear. He had used the spear often before 

 when some mountains were shaking. He just put the spear across 

 the chasms between rocks after they had shaken, and a way opened 

 for him; but this time he had no way, and his wife misunderstood 

 his request to offer to a supernatural being. 



37. The Blind Gtt-q!a" > da i 



In a camp at the mouth of a creek was a blind man. He used to 

 camp there before he was blind and when he was a hunter. His 

 wife and little son, who loved him very much, were with him. They 

 were camping there, waiting for the salmon-run. They had a good 

 little hunting-hut. They waited there a long time for the salmon, 

 until the fall. Then, when the salmon were in the brook, the woman 

 and her son went up the brook and caught a few salmon, striking 

 them with a harpoon. Then they carried them down to the hut 

 where the old blind hunter was. This was while the leaves were 

 falling and before the wild animals got into their dens. 



Early one morning the woman said she would go to gather bark 

 for winter fuel. She did so. She would always go with her little 

 son. Late in the evening they came home. They did so every day. 

 Very early one morning the boy went out; and while he was sitting 

 outside, he looked across the brook, and, behold! a great grizzly bear 

 was coming down to the stream, looking for old dead salmon, which he 

 intended to eat before his long sleep in his den in the long winter. 

 Therefore the boy ran in and told his blind father that a great grizzly 

 bear was coming down on the other side of the, stream. The blind 

 man said, "Take me out!" So the boy took him by the hand and 

 led him outside. He said again, " Run in and bring my bow and my 

 good arrow!" The bo} r did as his father had said. He brought him 

 the bow and the good arrow, and gave them to his blind father. 

 Then his father said, " Now take the end of my arrow and point it 

 at the shoulder of that great grizzly bear, that I may hit its heart!" 

 The boy did as his father had told him. He took the point of the 

 arrow and directed it toward the grizzly bear's shoulder. Then the 

 boy said, "Now shoot!" The old hunter used all his strength to pull 

 his bow, and he shot it. The arrow went right through the great 



1 Notes, p. 825. 



