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the}^ took him up upon a tall tree. And after he had been there a 

 while he began eating the tree from the top. lie finally got down and 

 went away. He could not climb trees. 



Tcliu is the Haida word for beaver, but I do not know the meaning of (ja^-idjit. 

 This probably was originally a Tlingit story. 



^ These words are spoken ironically. 



