282 TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY tBTH.ANN.31 



place where a few trees were. The young man heard the dogs 

 barking up there. Then he stopped crying, and looked up to the 

 place where his two dogs were barking. Then he saw them run 

 about barking and wagging their tails. Therefore the young man 

 tried to climb the mountain. He put on his snowshoes, which 

 hunters use when they climb mountains, put the points of mountain- 

 goat horns under his snowshoes, four horn-points on each side. Thus 

 the young man was trying to reach the place where his dogs were 

 barking, and he was using his own staff. 



(Hunters' staffs are seven or eight feet long, and have a horn at one 

 end. They use these when they walk over sliding show, so thai they 

 will not slip.) 



He climbed; and it was very hard to go on quickly, for the snow 

 was slippery. 



The dogs were still barking, but the young man could not go on 

 any farther. He was always sliding back, for the snow was very 

 soft. Alas ! he stood there not halfway from the foot of the slippery 

 snow, his face directed to the place where his dogs were barking. 

 He was thinking that he could not get up there. Then he wanted to 

 turn back. 



At this time his sister looked down at him. She stretched out 

 her hand, took some snow, pressed it, and it rolled down. The 

 young man saw the small ball of rolled snow coming down. It struck 

 the front end of his snowshoe. The young man took it up and looked 

 at it. Behold! there were the impressions of four fingers of some 

 person in the snow. Then he tried again to climb up, and finally he 

 reached his two dogs, who were still barking. They had their ears 

 down and were wagging their tails. 



He came to the opening of a den; and when the dogs came to the 

 place where the young man was, the princess recognized her brother's 

 dogs, Eed and Spots, and the princess called them by their names Red 

 and Spots; and therefore, the dogs wagged their tails, and their ears 

 drooped, for they knew her also. Still the dogs saw the Black Bear 

 seated with her, and therefore they barked. Now the man came up, 

 and he also saw his sister in the Bear's den. Then the princess called 

 him in, and she said, "Wait, brother, until I give birth." She gave 

 birth to two children, and handed them to her brother, who was 

 standing outside the den. So he took them and put them inside his 

 hunter's garment. Then the princess came out of her den, and said 

 to her brother, "Now, my dear, do not kill your brother-in-law with 

 knife, spear, or arrow. Just make a smudge in front of the den." 



Then the young man said to his sister, "I will kill him;" but the 

 princess said, "No, not so, my brother! Kill him, only do not use 

 your spear if you kill him, that you may not die." Therefore the 

 young man made a fire at the mouth of his brother-in-law's den, and 



