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13. SEAL AND CraB—The Seal and the Crab are sisters. The Seal 
catches salmon and asks her sister to carry them up to her house. 
They break her fingers off. The Seal puts them on again. Then the 
Crab teases her sister, saying that she will eat the whole salmon. 
After they have eaten, the Seal closes the door and all the chinks of 
her house, and forbids her sister to go outside. She, however, dis- 
obeys and goes down the river, where she is seen by the people. The 
Seal goes to catch her and they hide. The people go and find them. 
They make the Seal vomit the salmon and take it home, where they 
eat it. 
14. Myra or THE Minx—Mink is maltreated by the people with whom 
he has gambled. He is hungry, and Panther, his brother, sends him to 
a lake, instructing him to stretch out his hands. When he does so, a dish 
filled with food stands near him. He thinks it is not enough, but is 
unable to empty the dish, for as soon as he has eaten its contents 
it becomes full again. His brother tells him to take the dish back 
to the lake. Then Mink and Panther begin to travel. They meet 
a person who is sitting on a log overhanging a river. Mink tries 
to push him into the water, but the man takes hold of: him, kills 
him, and throws him away. His brother resuscitates him. They 
come to a person who threatens to kill them with his long nails. 
Mink tries to push him into the water, but is killed. His arm is 
torn out. Then his brother takes a squirrel’s arm, puts it onto him, 
and resuscitates him. Next they go to a lake on which a two- 
headed swan is swimming. Mink tries to catch it, but is devoured 
by a monster that lives:in the lake. The brother dries up the lake 
by throwing red-hot stones into it, cuts up the bodies of the monsters 
that he finds on the dry bottom, finds his brother, and resuscitates 
him. In the evening they camp, and Mink is hungry. He is 
instructed to strike the spruce trees in order to make a deer come 
out. He mistakes various animals for deer, and is instructed by his 
brother. Finally the deer comes, and is shot by his brother. He 
demands the antlers, which look greasy when brought near the fire. 
When they are going to sleep, he asks the name of the place, but his 
brother tells him that if the name is mentioned it will begin to rain. 
Mink learns the name and at once shouts it at the top of his voice. 
It begins to rain. Mink’s brother gathers a large pile of sticks, on 
top of which he sits down. Mink is too lazy to do so, and is carried 
away by the floods. He is drowned, after which he is resuscitated 
by his brother. They reach the house where the brother’s wife is 
living. Mink teases her father, who tries to kill him. They go out 
intending to fell a tree, and the old man tries to make a tree fall on 
him. They load the wood into their canoe, and the old man places Mink 
with the stone hammer in a basket on top of the wood. He makes the 
basket fall into the water, hoping to drown Mink, who, however, 
escapes. They try who is able to stay awake longest, and Mink 
