74 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 29 



Near the crock a person was walking a])out. He laid down some- 

 thino- he held in his hand and stretched it out. He threw wooden 

 floats over the creek. The}" ])ecanie saw])ill ducks. '^ They flapped 

 across with it. When they got across they became wood once more. 

 They floated about. Then the man pulled it toward himself. One 

 saw him take two brig-ht salmon out of it. He then laid the net to 

 dry on two alders standing- there, took the two salmon, and went 

 toward the woods with them. 



Now he (the on-looker) went down to the net. He counted its 

 meshes.'^ There were seventeen (ten and seven), and he repeated the 

 number: "Fifteen and two.'' Then he started away. "Fifteen and 

 two," he said. He kept falling down; so he went back and counted 

 them again each time and started ofl' anew. "Fifteen and two," he 

 said. Then he fell down and went back again. Again he counted 

 them, and he started off. He fell down. Then he forgot. That is 

 why, when one goes along over ground with which he is not familiar, 

 he always falls there. 



At last he came away with the information, and the Food-giving- 

 town people came to own the net. 



After this the people moved back to the towji of Sqe'na. And the}^ 

 made forms around which the meshes are twined. They made them 

 in preparation for making nets. And they also took the bark of the 

 laI.^^ When they had finished gathering these the Food-giving-town 

 women began to make nets. 



At GwfgwAnsLli'n," near the town of Sqe'na, spring salmon ran into 

 a certain creek at that time. A man of the Food-giving-town people 

 owned the creek, but he gave it to his son. For that reason his sisters 

 began to put dirty things into the creek, ^^ The supernatural being 

 of the creek then put on his clothing and his black-bear hat.^^ He 

 had four dorsal fins. He started seaward along the bed of the creek. 

 And he became a rock close in front of it, and remained there, and 

 the creek was gone. The supernatural being of this creek was named 

 "Supernatural-being-of-the-four-days." 



After that they moved to Tclig.ogl'ga.^' Then, when spring came, 

 they began to fish for flounders. One day they killed one of these. 

 They roasted it. When some persons cpiarreled in the town, and all 

 ran to see, a boy remained sitting l)y the flounder.^** Lo, something 

 ran out of it. It came out quickly. The boy cried, saying that the 

 food had flown awa3\ 



And after they had fished for another space of time, one day, when 

 they were out fishing, something pulled hard against them. Then 

 they pulled it up. They did not know what it was. They came 

 home, and they carried the flounders on their backs. Then they 

 handed the thing they had pulled up back and forth. And a certain 

 person came to them. He looked. He said, "A-a-a aidja'si k!uda'-i 

 gua idja'."^'-' 



