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in a canoe and take him along. The prince lies down and sleeps in the canoe, until 

 they arrive at a village. The Mouse Woman tells him that this is the town of Chief 

 Peace, and advises him to give the chief presents of fat, tobacco, and copper. When 

 placed on a mat, these presents are enlarged in size. In return Chief Peace gives him 

 his only daughter in marriage. The young man is homesick. The chief loads two 

 canoes with food, which magically decreases in bulk. The canoes are alive, and 

 have to be fed. When the prince arrives home, he is recognized. The daughter of 

 Chief Peace shakes the canoes, and the food assumes its normal bulk. The princess 

 is placed on a plank and taken down to the low-water line, where by means of 

 digging-sticks made of ash she digs out whale, sea lion, seal, halibut, cod, and bull- 

 head. The following day she digs out six whales, which she presents to her hus- 

 band's relatives and to the people Ts 207. 



The end of the Tlingit story of the rejected lover (see p. 767) is 

 probably identical with the story here discussed. 



After the girl has induced the young man to pull off all his hair, she leaves him. He 

 is found by the Loon, which takes him out to sea, dives with him several times, until 

 they reach the village of Chief Calm, who gives him his daughter in marriage. The 

 youth is homesick, and is sent home by his father-in-law with many presents Tl 244. 



Her husband has to bring water for her in her root basket, which she tests by dipping 

 into it a plume which she wears behind her ear. As long as he is true to her, the water 

 remains clear. One day he Bpeaks to his former wife. When the daughter of Chief 

 Peace dips the plume into the water, it is slimy. She feels insulted, and leaves him, 

 walking over the water. Her husband follows her. When he tries to hold her, his 

 hands pass through her body, which has become like a cloud. She orders him to go 

 back. When he does not obey, she looks back, and he is drowned. She reaches her 

 father weeping. He opens the floor of his house, catches the bones in his bag net, and 

 revives the young man Ts 213. 



In the Kwakiuth tale of Scab, the daughter of the heavenly chief carries her 

 husband to the sky. On the way he loses his hold', drops down, and is drowned. 

 The story is clearly related to the northern version K 9.79. 



The incident of the water test is of very common occurrence in 

 the talcs of northern British Columbia, and occurs in many different 

 connections (Ts 1.113; Tl 245; Tl 256; M 424; Sk 223; BC 106; BC 

 5.255; Chil 39; Lil 321; Se 54). In the story of Asdi-waT (Ts 1.111) 

 it occurs in exactly the same form as in the present story. In Sk 223 

 the same incident occurs in a slightly different form. 



The man getB water in which a hawk feather is floating. When the woman pulls 

 out the feather, clear drops of water fall off. When he is not faithful to her, the water 

 adheres to it. She cries, takes a white powder out of her box, spits it on her hands, 

 and rubs her feet with it. Her husband imitates her actions. She goes back over 

 the sea. The rest is as before. 



In M 424, the same story as Sk 223, it is told that the woman dips her feather into 

 the water, and that the water is slimy when her husband is unfaithful. 



In Tl 245 the water becomes slimy when the woman puts her quill into it, while at 

 other times it is pure and drips off like raindrops. The end, the restoration of the man, 

 is omitted. The story ends with his drowning. 



In P,C 5.255 he smiles when he sees his former sweetheart; and when he carries the 

 water to his wife, it is red. She disappears. 



In BC 106 the woman forbids the man to let smoke touch her blanket. He talks to a 

 girl; and when he comes back, his wife touches the left side of her neck with her 

 finger. The finger becomes red; and when she dips it in the water her husband has 



