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village, he sucks the arm and begins to sing. The arm gradually comes in through 

 the smoke hole, is put in its place, and healed on by the Snail Co 5.78. A man 

 marries a Bear. When he is not true to her, she tears off one of his arms. One time 

 he finds his Bear wife and her two children. The Bear Woman gives him food, which 

 he eats with one hand. At night she places the arm under his pillow, and puts it on 

 again Chil 23. 



It is doubtful whether the following story is analogous to the pre- 

 ceding one. 



An ogre tries to carry away a crying boy. She puts her arm down through the 

 smoke hole, and the boy tears it off. A dance is held, and the five ogre sisters 

 appear. They dance, and sing, " Give me my arm! " When the people return the 

 arm, the ogre women become excited, dance, and do not notice that the people close 

 the house and set fire to it. Thus they are burned Wasco 281. 



Grizzly Bear tears off Fox's arm and hangs it up in his lodge. Crow (Raven?) 

 and Sparrow Hawk go to recover it. Crow begins to tell stories to Grizzly Bear until 

 the latter falls asleep. Then he steals the shoulder and restores it to Fox, Loucheux. 



(48) RAVEX IS SET ADRIFT 



(3 versions: Tla 12, 17; T16 121) 

 Raven steals his companion's grease. When the latter finds out what has hap- 

 pened, he puts Raven into a box. Raven asks him to tie it up with straw, not 

 with a rope. Then Raven's companion kicks the box into the sea, and Raven flies 

 out Tla 12, 17. After Raven has been gathering fish with hiscompanion (see p. 692), 

 he induces the latter to flee, pretending that enemies are coming. His trick is found 

 out. He is put into a box, but he makes a hole in it and escapes T16 121. 



There are a number of other stories referring to a young man who 

 is put into a box and sent adrift. Most of these belong to the story 

 of a youth who visits the Eagle town and marries the Eagle girls 

 (see p. 796). 



(186) TXA'MSEM PRETENDS TO BUILD A CANOE 1 (p. 84) 



Txa'msEm marries a widow 's dpughter, and pretends that he is going to build a canoe 

 for Ids mother-in-law. His wife gives him food, and the women hear a noise as though 

 he were cutting wood. In the evening he asks his mother-in-law to prepare supper 

 for him. He continues this until the provisions are nearly gone. One day the 

 mother sends her daughter to see whether the canoe is nearly finished. Txa'msEm 

 is found beating an old rotten cedar tree with a stone ax. The women move away 

 and leave him alone. 



(187, 188) TXA'MSEM AND THE WOLVES (pp. 94-and 96) 

 Txa'msEm goes to the house of the Wolves and pretends to be a hunter. The Wolves 

 bring in a great deal of food, and Txa'msEm does not know how to get possession of 

 it. (Here follows Ids adventure with Chief Grouse [see p. 716], in which he cuts out 

 his own intestines.) He meets two Wolves, who take him back. Txa/msEm is 

 unable to keep up with them, on account of his wound. He is led to the village 

 by Tomtit, whom he tells that Grouse has been envious of his success in mountain- 

 goat hunting, and has struck him with ;i club and thrown him down a mountain. 

 The Wolves take the scent of his wound, and he says again that he has been hurt by 



i The following incidents, which occur in the Tsimsaian version of the Raven tale recorded in this 

 volume, belong to the scattering episodes of our list (see pp. 572 et seq.). 



