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nized his sister-in-law. As soon as he saw her among the olachen, 

 he took her out and threw her into the water again. That is the 

 reason why the blue-side cod is the prettiest of all the fishes, for it was 

 a princess. 



Halus's mother-in-law was very sad because she had lost her beau- 

 tiful daughter. She came home full of sorrow; but, for fear of her 

 son-in-law Tsauda, she did not dare to look angry, lest he transform 

 her into a fish. 



Now Tsauda's wife was with child, and gave birth to a beautiful 

 daughter. Tsauda said, "This is my sister-in-law come back again 

 through my wife;" and the girl had four holes in each ear and a hole 

 in her lip and in the septum of the nose, as a sign of her high rank. 

 Then they gave her a baby girl's name, Another Dear Girl (G'ik-lu- 

 da'°lk). Tsauda gave this child to his mother-in-law, and she took 

 comfort because her daughter had come back to her again. She 

 loved her more than her own daughter whom she had lost. 



Soon the people had finished boiling their fish, and they moved 

 down to their village. Tsauda's father-in-law also moved; and 

 when they arrived at home, Tsauda said to his father-in-law, "Soon 

 I shall go away to my own home with my wife. When she has 

 another child like herself, I will come again and give it to you, so that 

 you may have another girl like the one you had before. You shall 

 call her Moon." 



On the following day Tsauda went away to his father's home with 

 his wife; and when he arrived there, his own father was much pleased 

 to see his son and his wife; and after they had been there a while, 

 Tsauda's wife gave birth to another child, and Tsauda took the child 

 and gave it to his mother-in-law, as he had promised before he left 

 them. 



When Tsauda and his daughter flew toward his father-in-law's home, 

 the child was grown up to be a woman; and when Tsauda arrived 

 there, he took her out from under his wings, and a young woman 

 came out, whom he handed to his mother-in-law. They received the 

 child joyfully, and named her Moon, as Tsauda had requested. 



These two girls grew up to be very beautiful young women, like 

 their lost aunts. Tsauda, however, went, and never came back 

 again. His wife also never came back. This is a story of the Wolf 

 family. 



When the elder girl was married, she told her husband that her 

 father, Tsauda, told her of a good copper in the Copper Creek at 

 the head of Skeena River. Therefore the prince called his three 

 young men to go with him to see the good copper at the head of that 

 creek; ami when they were going in their canoe up the river, they 

 smelled sweet-smelling scents: and when they went farther up, they 

 smclled still more fragrant odors; and they went on and on, and the 



