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into the canoe. Then go to sleep and wait!" The old man did so. 

 And after he woke up he found his trap full of herring. So he took 

 them out with the dipnet, filled the canoe, and went home; whereupon 

 the whole village had as much food as it wanted. 



As soon as night came the visitors filed into the house, and the 

 guessing game was begun. At first the villagers let the visitors win. 

 But about midnight the brothers told their uncle, "Double now thy 

 bets, and we will help thee!" The visitors were continually making 

 fun of the two boys. Soon after midnight the villagers, with the aid 

 of the boys, began to win back their previous stakes, and before morn- 

 ing the former winners were practically cleaned out. The visitors 

 were angry and said to the boys : ' ' We will play shinny in the morning. 

 You may help your uncle again, and we shall see if you are as good 

 at that game." The boys said nothing. After breakfast everybody 

 went to the shinny grounds, and the game was started. At first the 

 visitors were winning. But after the boys joined the game the visi- 

 tors were helpless. The younger brother would take the ball from 

 one end of the field to the other without any serious interference on 

 the part of his opponents. Thus they played throughout the day. 

 The visitors were badly beaten. At night they played the guessing 

 game again, and once more the boys proved themselves unbeatable. 

 Then the visitors said: ''You must be good at target shooting. Let 

 us try that contest and see whether you can beat us." So they shot 

 at the target a whole day, and the visitors were again beaten. In the 

 afternoon the visitors proposed a game of dice, in which they were 

 also bested. Then they tried their skill at throwing spears. In this 

 contest, too, the boys proved themselves superior. Finally, the visi- 

 tors declared they had had enough. 



The next morning the boys went back to their parents and told 

 them how they found their grandfather and uncle and how they had 

 helped them in various games. So a few days afterward, the parents 

 of the boys went back to their old home and were once more united 

 with their relatives — and tribe. ^ 



' The .narrative seems to have much in common with the story of the Dog Children so prevalent 

 among the tribes of the North. See particularly Farrand: Traditions of the Chilcotin, p. 7; Tradi- 

 tions of the Quinault, p. 127; Teit: Traditions of the Lilloet Indians, p. 310. 



