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the bark into its mouth. After a while she dies. The brothers see dead 

 bodies in another house, and revive the people who had been killed by the 

 old woman and the frog Ts 128. [They reach a house in which a woman and 

 her daughter live. The young man goes to the daughter behind the screen. 

 He puts on her belt. When the old woman believes them to be asleep, she 

 goes to swallow his heart, but mistakes her daughter for him and kills her 

 Sk 332.] [Rotten Feathers meets Great Goose on one side of a canyon. She 

 warns him, telling him that the bridge across the canyon will break under 

 him, and that the chieftainess on the other side will kill him. He crosses by 

 means of his feather. He goes in to the daughter of the chieftainess, and 

 when she is asleep arranges her hair like his, and his own hair like hers. At 

 night the chieftainess (Knife Hand) cuts off her daughter's head. The 

 young man takes her labret and receives the name Labret N 234. 



The same incident occurs in a different connection among the Tlingit and 

 theSkidegate. 



An analogous Tlingit tale belongs to the Raven cycle. The witch wipes 

 perspiration off Raven's body, places it in a barnacle shell, intending to de- 

 posit it on the beach. Raven exchanges it for some of her own perspira- 

 tion. When the tide covers it, the witch dies Tl 5.318. A number of brothers 

 arrive at the house of a certain person. They go to sleep. The owner of the 

 house pretends to be asleep in a corner. When he thinks the brothers are 

 asleep, he ties fine cedar bark to the end of a stick and lets the brothers 

 breathe on it. He goes to a cedar which is full of holes, pulls out a plug, and 

 pushes the cedar bark into it. One of the brothers watcheshim, but runs back 

 and pretends to be asleep before the host enters the house. When the host 

 is asleep, the same brother in turn lets him breathe on cedar bark, pulls out 

 their own bark, and puts the other into the cedar instead. The following 

 morning the host dies Sk 258. 



4. The Cave (see also p. 798). 



A t the end of a narrow canyon they reach a cave which opens and closes. 

 They try to pass through it, but they are all crushed. Little Feather is the 

 last to try. He flies through, rescues his brother's bones, and revives them 

 by swinging the plume over them Ts 130. [They reach the edge of the sky. 

 Two of the brothers are killed. Two escape and see Bill Of Heaven Sk 332.] 



5. Marriage with the Winds. 



The Tsimshian version ends with the marriage of Mucus to the daughter 

 of North Wind, of Grindstone to the daughter of South Wind, of Crabapple 

 to the daughter of East Wind, and of Little Feather to the daughter of West 

 Wind. Each of the brothers travels with his wife. The mucus of Mucus 

 becomes ice on account of the cold wind: therefore north wind is accompanied 

 by ice. Grindstone lets water collect in his mouth, and sprays it out: hence 

 ruin aecom panics south wind. Crabapple Tree does not want to accompany 

 his wife, and can not be uprooted until a whirlwind blows: hence whirlwinds 

 accompany east winds. Little Feather moves along quickly: then fori' the 

 west wind blows gently Ts 131. 



6. In the version N 234 the second incident of the adventures tells 



that Grindstone eats berries and is transformed into a moun- 

 tain. 



7. They meet a mountain that obstructs their way, but melts down 



when the plume is waved against it. The molten rock may 

 still be seen. After this follows incident 3, p. 736, N 234. 

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