boas] APPENDIX I NOOTKA TALES 905 



One day his mother put abalone shells on his ears, and one on 

 his nose, and made her little son AndaokH look very pretty with 

 paint on his face. That same day Andaok u t disappeared, and his 

 poor mother and father began to think that he had gone up the river 

 £ mo £ wi'n £ fs to see the Woman Of The Woods. 



Now, they were right in guessing that he had gone up that river. 

 He had not gone far, when he came to a well or spring near a large 

 house; and alongside of the spring stood a tree. He said to himself, 

 "This is the well where the great Woman Of The Woods comes to get 

 water to drink: so I will climb up this tree and sit on the top of it, and 

 wait until she comes for water." He climbed the tree to a fork on 

 top of the tree; and he had not staid there long, when he saw the great 

 Woman Of The Woods come out of her house, carrying a large box to 

 fetch water in. When she came under the tree, she saw the reflection 

 of Andaok u t in the spring. Then she stopped and looked at the 

 pretty shadow in the water, with abalone shells on its ears and nose ; 

 and she said, " Oh ! I did not know that I was so pretty as that, and I 

 did not know, either, that I had abalone shells in my ears and nose." 

 She was saying this while she was feeling of her ears and nose for the 

 shells. After a long while Andaok u t took some moss (sate'wa) and 

 threw it down on the great Woman Of The Woods. Then she looked 

 up, but Andaok u t hid himself; and again the great Woman Of The 

 Woods said, "Oh! it's my own reflection, only I never had a chance 

 to see how pretty I look." Again Andaok u t took some moss and 

 threw it down at her, and again she looked up; but Andaok u t did the 

 same thing as before, and she did not see him, for he hid himself in 

 the fork of the tree. Once more the great woman looked upward to 

 see who threw down the moss; but, as before, she did not see him; 

 and she said to herself, " It is my own reflection that I see." A third 

 time Andaok u t took some moss and threw it down on her; and before 

 she looked up he hid himself, and she did not see him this time; and 

 again she said the same thing as before. The fourth time he threw 

 down the moss he did not hide, but he let her see him. When she 

 saw him, she said, "Ah, come down and be my husband!" Then 

 Andaok u t came down the tree; and the first thing the great woman 

 said to him was, " How pretty you are! What did your mother do to 

 your face to make it look so pretty?" Then he said, "It's no good 

 for me to tell you (for at one time I was very ugly), for you could not 

 stand being killed first so as to make your face the shape of mine." 

 Then the great woman said, "Now, tell me about it, for I can stand 

 any pain to become as pretty as you are! " Then Andaok't said, 

 "My mother took a large flat stone to lay my head on; and she took 

 another one and hammered my head with it, and kept on hammering 

 until my skull was all pounded to pieces. After that she began to 

 squeeze my head until I was made as pretty as I look now. Then I 



