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little boy to the salt water; and as soon as he went into the water, 

 he would turn into a salmon. Then they would catch him and cut 

 him open, and either roast him or boil him in the steaming-box with 

 red-hot stones. After Ya'loV finished eating it, they would pick up 

 all the bones and skins and put them all back into the salt water. 

 Then the boy would come to life again. 



Now, Ya'loV was very happy with his wife, for now he was treated 

 as a chief by all the Salmon people. Very soon his wife was preg- 

 nant, and she delivered a baby-boy. Then the chief of the Dog 

 Salmon one day saw Ya'loV look as though he were downhearted, and 

 he told his daughter to ask him what was the matter. When she 

 asked him about it, he said, "Nothing; I am only thinking about my 

 poor parents." She told this to her father; and he then said to his 

 daughter, "Tell your husband that I will send four of my men to go 

 and see how they are getting on ; and when they come back and tell 

 us how they are, then we shall know what to do about your husband." 

 Then he called the Fast Swimmers, and told them to go and see his 

 son-in-law's father and mother and find out whether they were well 

 or not. Then these four men said that they would go in the morning 

 very early, so as to be home in four days' time. 



Early in the morning they started; and after four days they came 

 home and told their chief that they had found Ya'loV's father and 

 mother living in a small house down close to the beach, and that they 

 had their hair cut short on account of the death of their son Ya'loV 

 and that the people did not treat them as they do a chief. 



After these four men finished telling this to their chief, he called 

 Ya'loV and his wife and told them the news. Then he asked Ya'loV 

 if he wanted to go home; and Ya'loV said, "I don't know how to go 

 home. I should like to go and see my parents if I knew the way." 



Then the chief told the four speakers to call his people into his 

 house; and the four speakers went and stood outside of the house 

 and called out to the people and told them that the chief wanted 

 them to come into his house. It did not take them long to come in; 

 and when they were all inside, the chief spoke, telling the. people, that 

 his son-in-law wanted to go home to see his parents. "Now," said 

 he, "I want you to make ten large canoes for us all to go with him, 

 his wife and his two children. I want these ten large canoes to be 

 ready in three days' time, so that we may start on the fourth day." 



All the people were pleased to hear him say this, for they had heard 

 so much about this part of the world that they wanted to go and 

 see it. In three days' time the canoe was ready; and the chief called 

 his people into his house again, and asked them if they requested 

 anything of Ya'loV before he was taken home; and the wise man of 

 the Dog Salmon said, "We had better tell Ya'loV what we want 

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