boas] APPENDIX I NOOTKA TALES 899 



Then Keel Cod said, "Now, my friend Raven, you see what I 

 have done for you — how I have fed you and our friend Sea Egg with 

 my ten children, and how, after you had eaten them, they all came 

 to life again; and there they are now, making mats. Now, you 

 have children also. Why can't you do as I do ? Whenever I am 

 hungry, I go and get one of them and cook her; and after I finish 

 eating her, she comes to life again. They are everlasting things," 

 said he. Kaven never said a word, but he and Sea Egg went out of 

 the house. 



As soon as Raven had gone out of the house, Red Cod said to his 

 friends, "Now I think I know what Raven is going to do; for he lias 

 sixteen children, and I think he will try to cook them as I did my 

 children." He was just putting away the mats, when Sea Egg came 

 back into his house, and said, "Red Cod, I have come for my friend 

 Raven to tell you that he wants you to come with me now." 



Then Red Cod took his skin bed-blanket and put it on, and he 

 went with Sea Egg. When he entered Raven's house, he saw that 

 his daughters were washed clean and their hair combed. As soon 

 as Red Cod was seated on the new mat spread down at the rear of 

 tbe house, he saw Raven go out of the house with a large basket in 

 his hand. Very soon he came in again, bringing it full of stones. 

 He put it down alongside the fire, which was built on purpose for the 

 stones. Then he poured the stones out, and went out again and 

 brought in a basketful. He put it down, as he had the first lot. 

 This he kept on doing until he had brought in four basketfuls of 

 stones. Then he put the stones on the fire, and went and got some 

 old mats and put them alongside the fire. After that he took a 

 large bucket from the corner of the house and went out. While he 

 was gone, Red Cod looked at the young women, and said to himself, 

 "Poor things! I bet Raven is going to cook them, as I did my 

 children, but they will never come to life again." 



Then Raven came in bringing a bucket of salt water, for he did 

 everything that lie saw Red Cod do; and he put that also alongside 

 the fire. Then with a pair of tongs he took the fire from the red-hot 

 stones. After that was done, he called twelve of his children and 

 told them to stand round the red-hot stones. Then he took them 

 one by one and threw them on the heap of red-hot stones, and threw 

 the bucket of water on them. Then he took the mats up and covered 

 them up to keep the steam in. Then he went and sat down for a 

 little while. He seemed to be uneasy about it, and said, "They must 

 be cooked by this time." He uncovered them; but he found that 

 they had not turned into fishes, but were twelve dead women. As 

 soon as he saw them, he began to cry over the loss of his twelve 

 daughters. Then he asked Red Cod if he could bring them to life 

 again. Red Cod said, "No, it is only mv children that I can bring to 



