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i(, and, behold! the salmon was transformed into copper. So he 

 took it up to the camp of his men and showed it to them, and they 

 were all very happy. In the night they got ready for the next morn- 

 ing. They spent the whole night making a new pole and new darts 

 to be used the next day. Before daylight they all went to sleep, and 

 the prince took his copper and put it under his head as his pillow. 

 Late on the following morning, when the sun was high in the sky, the 

 steersman woke up and aroused his fellows; and when the breakfast 

 was ready, they called the prince. Then they found that he was dead. 

 They wept over him; but the wise man said to his fellows, "He died 

 because the live copper killed him. Let us burn it!" Thus said the 

 steersman. 



They threw the copper into the lire to be burned, took the bark of a 

 dried spruce tree, and started a large fire, and the live copper was 

 melting; and when the fire had gone out, the pure copper remained 

 in the ashes like a pole. They saw that the copper was very good 

 and soft. They took it and put it into a bark bag, took the prince's 

 body down to the canoe, wrapped him in a new cedar-bark mat, and 

 caiiicd him in their canoe down the river. 



When they arrived at home, and the prince's wife saw him dead 

 and saw the melted copper, she felt very sad. She went into the 

 woods weeping for her husband. 



While she was sitting at the foot of a large white-pine tree, she 

 heard a noise on the tree above, and saw a shining light. There was 

 a man who came down from the top of the whit e-pine tree and smiled at 

 her, and said, "My dear daughter, what ails you ?" She said, "My 

 beloved husband is dead." And Tsauda replied, "Don't feel sorry 

 for him! If you want bun alive again, I will resuscitate him, my 

 dear daughter!" 



Now, Moon knev T that her father had come down to visit her. 

 Therefore she stopped crying, and said, "Bring him back to life for 

 my sake!" Tsauda said, "Call out all the people, and I will bring 

 him back to life." So she went into the house. She sent out all 

 the people. Tsauda came in and took the cold water of life from the 

 spring and sprinkled his face with the water. He slapped the dead 

 man on both cheeks with the palms of his hands, and said, "Come 

 back to life from death, son-in-law!" and the prince sat up, and his 

 wife came to him and embraced him. 



Then Tsauda said, when the young man was alive again, and when 

 all the people had come into the house, "Be careful of the living 

 copper of that river! Let nobody go there, but my son-in-law and 

 his descendants! I shall teach them how to kill the live copper and 

 how to make costly coppers. Then he shall teach his children as I 

 taught him." Thus spoke Tsauda to the people; and when his 

 speech was at an end, he called his son-in-law aside, and also his 

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