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say that she has been taken away because she made fun of them. The story continues 

 here, telling of the killing of the Bears. For this reason women speak kindly of the 

 bear, and ask it not to take thrm Tl 4] The Mouse Woman asks the girl to throw her 

 ear-ornaments into the fire Ts, Ts 1 [in the winter the Mouse Woman asks her to sacri- 

 fice her ear-ornaments, and tells her tnat Bear is very jealous Ts 5; a woman half rock 

 sits in the corner of the house Ski; woman has pitch running all over her arms, and 

 is stuck to the ground by the pitch Mi]. Sh3 advises her not to eat of the first salmon 

 and first berries. The former is the stomach of dead men; the latter, decomposed 

 flesh and eyes Ts. [Rock Woman advises her to eat only the shadow of food, not to 

 eat the black round things that would make her half rock, to eat only cranberries 

 and drink only water Ski.] 



The girl wears bracelets, pretends they are human excrements Ts 1. [Rock Woman 

 advises her to cover her excrement deep in ground. She puts copper bracelets and 

 copper wire down on surface Sk6. Pitch Woman advises her to hide excrement and 

 put bracelets on top M6. When asked by Bear to defecate, she puts down copper pins 

 from her hair and deceives the Bear four times Ri 5. She tears off small coppers from 

 her neck-ornament and drops these unobserved; then Bear strikes the small of her 

 back, compelling her to defecate BC] The Bear shouts when he sees the copper Sk6 

 {surprised at copper M6; the Bear people watch her cover up her tracks; she wears 

 dentalium shells around her neck, which she drops on her tracks T16]. The eldest 

 Grizzly Bear marries her Ts 1. The male Bears get salmon Ts, Ts 1, Ts 5, T16, Sk&y 

 Ri 5 [at midnight Mi]; females pick berries Ts [women gather firewood Ts 1, T16, 

 Sk&, Ri 5]. 



Here follows the incident of the dry wood that does not burn well 

 (9 versions: Ts 1.153; Ts 5.295; T1& 127; Thi253; M&501; Sk&336; 

 Ri 5.226; — Kai 255; Lil 310). 



Woman is sent to gather firewood and takes dry wood Ts 1, Ts 5, Ri 5 [can not start 

 fire with dry wood Tli]. The Bears, on returning, shake their fur over the fire and 

 extinguish it Ts 1, Ts 5, M&, Sk&, Ri 5. She is ashamed because her fire goes out Ts 1. 

 When the husband scolds her Ts 5, Ri 5, the Mouse Woman advises her to take drift- 

 wood Ts 1, Ts 5 [old woman tells her that she has come into her present state because- 

 she used dry wood, that driftwood will burn T16, M6; woman half rock advises her to 

 take knots Sk&; Pitch Woman tells her to get driftwood and light it with dry wood 

 lib; Bear gets wet wood and strikes fire, which is not extinguished Ri 5]. For this 

 reason it is known that drift wood burns Ts 1. She gets driftwood; and when the Bears 

 shake their blankets over the fire, it does not go out M6, Sk&, Ri 5. [The Grizzly Bear 

 people go after salmon. Her husband gets wet wood. She gathers dry wood, which 

 goes out when the coats ate shaken over it Tlrf.] [The Bears roast the salmon and 

 eat them when only the skin is cooked; she eats only berries, no half-raw salmon 

 M6.] [When the Bear takes her home, he asks her to gather brushwood for their bed; 

 she brings hemlock branches, which he throws away and asks her to gather devil's- 

 club BC] 



A woman who is taken by Land Otters builds a fire of dry wood. It goes out when 

 the people shake the water off their skins, and they scratch her. A woman rooted to 

 the floor tells her to use wet wood Kai 255. Glacier, who has married the daughter of 

 Chinook Wind, sends his sen-ant Water Ousel to get wet firewood, because the fire of 

 dry wood is too hot Lil 310. 



The stories Ts (see p. 834), BC, Ri 5, continue differently, and tell of 

 the events that happen to the woman,- who continues to live among 

 the Bears. Remotely connected with this are the. Chilcotin, Shuswap, 

 and Thompson stories (Chil 19, Sh 715, Ntl Teit 2.72). In the pre- 

 ceding parts of the tale, BC and Ri occupy evidently an exceptional 



