26 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bri.i,.29 



STORIES ACCOMPANIED BY TEXTS 



How Shining-heavens caused himself to be born 



[Told by Walter McGregor of the Scalion-town people] 



She was a chiefs daughter at Djfi.' Her father had a shive he 

 owned watch her. Then she said to the shive: "Tell a certain one 

 that I say I am in love with him." And, when she went out with him 

 to defecate next day, she asked the slave if he had told him. And 

 he said to the chiefs daughter: " He says he is afraid of your father." 

 He had not told him, and he lied. 



She told the slave to tell another that she was in love with him, 

 and again he did not tell him. He told her he feared her father. 

 When she was unable to get any of her father's ten nephews she went 

 with the slave. And her father discovered it. 



Then they abandoned her. Only the wife of her youngest uncle 

 left some food for her. 



She went down on the beach to dig. After she had worked for 

 some time she dug out a cockleshell. In it a baby cried. Then she 

 looked at it. A small child was in it. Then she took it to the house. 

 She put something soft around it, and, although she did not nurse it, 

 it grew fast. Soon it began to creep. Not a long time after that it 

 walked al)^)ut. 



One time the child said: " Here, mother, like this." He moved his 

 hand as if drawing a bowstring. When he said the same thing 

 again she understood what he meant. Then she hanmiered out a cop- 

 per bracelet she wore into a bow for him, and another she hammered 

 into arrows. When she had finished [the bowj she gave it to him 

 along with the two arrows. He was pleased with them. 



Then he went out to hunt birds. When he came back, he lirought 

 his mother a cormorant. His mother ate it. The day after he went 

 hunting again. He brought in a goose to his mother. His mother 

 ate it. And next day he again went hunting. He brought in a 

 wren. Then he skinned it. He dried [the skin]. He treasured it. 

 And next day also he lirought in a k!u'tc!ix.u.' That, too, he skinned. 

 That too, he dried. And the next day he brought in a blue jay. He 

 skinned and dried that also. The day after that he brought in a 

 woodpecker. That he also skinned. That he also dried. 



One time some one was talking to his mother. The house creaked 

 moreover. v\nd when day broke he awoke in a fine house. The 

 carviiigs on the house posts winked with their eyes.^ Master Carpenter 



