318 TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY [eth. ass. 31 



Then they walked down with the young man. He wore a garment 

 with cloven feet and an armor with ears of wild animals. Before 

 they arrived at the village, the young man embraced and kissed her 

 twice, and she said, "Will you come to me tonight or some other 

 time?" — "Yes," said the young man. "How long is your husband 

 going to stay away?" — "He will stay away for a month." — "Then 

 I will come every night." Now they parted and went then- ways. 



The same night he came to her house, and ho did so several nights. 

 The princess ordered her maid not to tell any one, and her maid 

 promised that she would not tell any one. 



Now the young prince was unlucky. He always missed when he 

 shot, and he wanted to go back home. Therefore he went home; 

 and before he reached the village he said to his three friends, "Let 

 us wait here, until night comes, for we have no game!" So they 

 camped at the end of the village, waiting until night came. About 

 midnight they went secretly along the beach in front of his father's 

 house. He said to his friends in the canoe, "I will go up to the 

 house, alone, and I will see what has happened to my wife." So he 

 went alone. He pushed the door-flap aside gently and went to the 

 bed of his wife's maid. He woke her gently, and asked, " Did any one 

 come to my wife while I was away ? Don't conceal it from me! I will 

 kill you if you don't tell me the truth! Now tell me!" 



Then the maid said, "Yes, master! As soon as 3-ou left, my mis- 

 tress called me to take a walk around the lake, as we used to do many 

 times when you were gone. I left my mistress and went to pick cran- 

 berries. When I had filled my basket with berries, I went to the 

 place where she was sitting, and I saw a young man, good-looking 

 like you, who embraced her. She sent me to pick some, more berries, 

 and I went and filled another basket. Then when I came to her, I 

 forced her to go homo before dark. We went down, and before we 

 went to our house the young man asked her to let him come the same 

 night, and she agreed, and he has come even- night until now." 



Then the prince went back to his friends in his canoe. He told 

 his three friends, and they went secretly into the house to his mas- 

 ter's wife's bedroom, and killed the man who was lying in his master's 

 bed. They cut his head off, and in the morning they saw the garment 

 of the one they had killed. It was covered with cleft feet of deer 

 and cleft feet of mountain sheep, and his armor was covered with 

 long ears of reindeer and long ears of red deer, and on his hat he had 

 a wolf's tail. 



The prince kept the body of the young man, together with the 

 head, in a box behind the house; and he took all the garments, the 

 .armor, and the hat for his crests. He was not angry with his wife, 

 and still loved her, because he received these costly crests through 

 her. 



