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it is better to stand pain for a short time than to be laughed at by 

 our people until dead." 



"Well," said Bear, "cut away, then! " Then Eaven took hold of 

 his friend's privates and cut them off as quick as he could. After he 

 had cut them off, he said to Bear, "Now go to sleep for a short time; ■ 

 then, when you wake up, you will feel well again;" and he went back 

 to the stern of his canoe. He had not been sitting there long, when 

 he saw Bear give two kicks, and stretch out his body. He was dead. 

 Then Raven went to look at him, and found his friend dead. 



Then he said to himself, "Now I have my wish, for he was a fat 

 man. I will go ashore and cook him and eat him before I go home." 

 Then he looked round, and saw Cormorant close to where he had been. 

 He had heard everything he was saying to Bear before he killed him. 

 So he hauled up his anchor. After he got it up, he paddled to 

 where Cormorant was, and said to him, " What are you doing here V 

 Cormorant said, "I am halibut fishing, but I can not get a bite of 

 any kind of fish." 



All the time, they were speaking to each other, Eaven was wishing 

 in his own mind for Cormorant to ask him for some of his gum; and 

 they had not been speaking long, when Cormorant asked Eaven what 

 he was chewing. Cormorant said, "Will you give me some of your 

 gum, for I have been here so long that I want to drink some water, 

 and where we are I can not get any water to drink; your gum will 

 moisten my mouth." Eaven said to him, "I can not give you any 

 gum unless you will let me take it from my mouth and put it on your 

 tongue, for I am not allowed to put it into your hands," said he. 



Then Cormorant said, "Put some of it on my tongue!" and he 

 put out his tongue as far as he could. Then Eaven took some of 

 the gum from his own mouth and put it on Cormorant's tongue. 

 As soon as he had done so, however, he took hold of Cormorant's 

 tongue, pulled it out, and threw it into the sea. 



Then Eaven said, "Now, Friend Cormorant, speak!" Cormorant 

 tried to speak, but he could not say a word. Then Eaven said, 

 "Now I have punished you for trying to come to spy on me. Go 

 home; but now you can not tell our people what I have done to my 

 friend Bear;" and he went toward the shore of a small bay. Then 

 he went ashore and made a fire. He put stones on it; and while 

 the stones were getting red-hot, he went down to his canoe and took 

 out his dead friend, carried liim up on the beach, and laid him along- 

 side the fire. After he had done this, he saw that the stones were 

 red-hot; he then took the fire away, went for grass and moss, and 

 carried them to the heap of red-hot stones. He laid the grass on 

 the red-hot stones, then put Bear on top of it. Then he took the 

 moss and covered him up to keep the steam in. 



