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ground." After this had been done, the same speakers went and 

 told Kwa'tiyat' that the boards were all laid on the ground, and 

 then he came.] 



Then the chief said to Kwa'tiyat', "Before we begin to eat, we 

 will play a game; for that is always the custom with my people." 

 Then he called Clam (He'tcin'qas) and one of his friends, and 

 told them to play some kind of game; and they both came. 

 One of them carried a black flat stone. Then they showed it to 

 Kwa'tiyat'; and after he had a good look at it, Clam took it and 

 squirted some water against the flat side of the hard black flat stone, 

 and the water made a hole clear through it. After he had done 

 this, he gave it to his friend; and he also squirted water at it and 

 made a hole through it. After he had done his work, he walked 

 up to Kwa'tiyat' and gave it to him, and said, "Will you also do 

 as we did to this stone? Now, see whether you can make a hole 

 through it as easily as we have!" Then Kwa'tiyat' took the 

 stone; and he took into his mouth water from a bucket, and 

 held the stone in front of his mouth and began to force the water 

 between his lips, and he also made a hole through the stone. Then 

 he threw the stone down. Woodpecker looked as though he were 

 afraid of him, and said, "This man has strong magic in him." 

 Kwa'tiyat' heard him saying all these things, and he began to laugh 

 loud, and said, "What is the matter with you, my master Wood- 

 pecker ? for you do not seem to know your own slave Kwa'tiyat'." 

 As soon as he said these words, his two wives disappeared, and the 

 house also was gone; and Kwa'tiyat' got back his old ugly face, just 

 as he was before he got married to the Sharks' two princesses; and 

 after Woodpecker found out who he was, he took a stick and beat 

 him until he was dead. That ends the story. 



8. How Ya lo £ a Went To Get Married to the Salmon Princess 



Once upon a time there lived two chiefs — one in Yogwat, whose 

 name was Ya'lo £ a', the head chief; and his rival, a chief whose name 

 was Hekwatses. These two chiefs were all the time gambling by 

 throwing eagle-whig feathers ( e e'ttci e naF) at a target; and Hekwatses, 

 the second chief, was always on the losing side. For a long time he 

 tried to beat his rival by playing this game; so he said to himself, 

 "Now, I will go to the lake to wash my body every night with hem- 

 lock branches and water, so as to beat my rival in that game I 

 am playing with him." So in the night Hekwatses left his wife 

 alone in bed; and before he left her he told her that he was going to 

 stay at the lake (or Lli'tsif) all night to wash his body with hemlock 

 branches for good luck against his rival. 



After he had finished telling this, he went out of his bedroom. 

 There was a very old man lying down near the fire. Hekwatses asked 



