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let hiiuselt' hcconie his father. Ho j^ot up and said to him: ''Come, 

 chief, my child, let me dress you u[)/' Then he went to him and 

 he put fair-weather clouds Mipon his face. "Now, chief, 1113^ son, 

 come and sit idle seaward." As soon as he did so, the weather was 

 good. 



One time he asked to go fishing with his father. "We will pull 

 out Devilfish-tished-for." And on their way to fish they pulled it 

 out.' Then they stopped at House-fishing-ground.* He sejited his 

 father in the bow. After lie had looked at the rising sun for a while 

 he said: " Now, father, say ' The chief among them thinks he will take 

 it.''" This his father said. "Say 'The one who comes around the 

 island thinks he will take it,' father." And he said so. " Father, say 

 'The shadow increases upon Tc!i'n}a-i; hasten, chief.'" And so he 

 said. "Father, say 'The great one coming up against the current 

 begins thinking of it.'" So he said, "Father, say 'The great one 

 coming putting gravel in his mouth thinks of it.'" So he said. And 

 again, " Father, say ' You look at it with white-stone eyes (i. e., good 

 eyes).' Father, say ' (xreat entov l)egins thinking of it.' " So he said.^ 



After he had finished sa3dng these things it seized the hook. At 

 once it pulled him round this island. He struck the edges of the 

 canoe with his hands. He said to it: "Master Carpenter made you. 

 Hold yourself up." The thing that pulled him about in the fishing 

 ground again pulled him round the island. 



And when it stopped he tried to pull in the lines. He pulled out 

 something wonderful, head first. Broad seaweeds grew upon its lips. 

 It lay with halibut nests piled together [around it].^ He began to 

 put the hali))ut into the canoe. When the canoe was full he pulled 

 the canoe out to make it larger. After he had put them in for a 

 while longer his canoe was full, and he released it. 



Then they went away. He brought halibut to his wife. She dried 

 them. Then he again called for his son, and when he had finished 

 painting him up he said to him: " Now, chief, ni}" son, go over there 

 and see your uncles." So he started thither. He came and sat down 

 at the end of the town. After he had sat there for a while they 

 discovered him. They came running to him. They then found out 

 who he was. And they again moved over to where his mother lived. 



After they had lived there for a while he went out wearing his wren 

 skin. He said: "Mother, look at me." Then his mother went out 

 after him. He sat as broad, high, cunuilus clouds over the ocean. *• His 

 mother looked. Then he came in and asked his mother: "Did 1 look 

 well ?" "Yes, chief, my son, 3'ou looked well." Then he also took 

 the blue-jay skin, and he said to his mother: "Look at me." Then 

 she went out after him. Her son sat blue, broad, and high over the 

 sea. Then he came in and said: "Mother, did 1 look well? " " Yes, 

 chief, ni}' son, you looked well." And he also went out with the 



