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much pleased to see them come home again. His father-in-law was 

 glad to see his lame daughter transformed into a beautiful woman as 

 fair as her husband. He loved Tsauda more than his elder daughter's 

 husband. 



One day his father-in-law said, "Tomorrow, when my son-in-law 

 Halus comes home, let him bring some firewood. I intend to invite 

 my people. I want to tell them that I am going to invite all the 

 chiefs from every village to the marriage feast." Halus awoke early 

 in the morning and went for wood. He came to a sandy beach and 

 gathered the driftwood there, filled his canoe quickly, and came back 

 early in the forenoon. The great chief sent down his young people, 

 and they carried the wood to the chief's house. 



Tsauda just blew some water from his mouth, and said, "The 

 driftwood that Halus brought will just smoke in the house." When 

 the young men piled up the driftwood on the fireplace, it began to 

 smoke very much. 



Halus's mother-in-law loved him, while the chief loved Tsauda 

 better. Now the mother-in-law's eyes were full of smoke. There- 

 fore she threw the driftwood away from the fire, and said, "Oh, that 

 common man Halus brought this smoking driftwood!" and Halus's 

 beautiful wife began to cry, because she was very much ashamed. 



Early the next morning Tsauda went out to get wood; and when 

 he reached a rocky place, he went up into the woods and brought down 

 dry pitch wood. Soon he had filled his large canoe. His wife was 

 with him. They came home during the forenoon, and many young 

 men came down and carried up the good firewood to the chief's 

 house. They piled it up on the fireplace, and the pitch wood burned 

 like fat. Then the chief loved Tsauda still more, and the chief gave 

 a great festival to all the fellow-chiefs from all the tribes because his 

 two daughters were married. 



Early in spring all the Tsimshian were ready to move to Nass 

 River for fishing; but the north wind was still blowing hard, and when 

 they arrived outside of Port Simpson, they could not round the long 

 point there. All the canoes of the Tsimshian were on the south side 

 of the long point. So Halus said, "Tsauda, let us throw our sling- 

 stones through that rock, that our way may open!" and all the people 

 shouted because Halus had a magic sling. Then Tsauda said, "You 

 throw first, and I shall throw afterward!" Then Halus stood up 

 on top of a large box and put his stone in a sling. Tsauda blew water 

 out of his mouth, and said, "Let Halus's sling-stone pass through his 

 mother-in-law's lip-hole." 



(What I mean by lip-hole is this. The old women in our country 

 had a queer custom, that every woman should have a hole in her 

 lip. When a girl was able to walk and had no hole in her lip, they 

 would call her a slave. Therefore when a girl was able to walk, 



