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fishing. There she took sahnon out of the net, strung them up, and 

 cut them open. 



She did the same thing- again. The owners of the net picked up 

 gravel and threw it seaward at the net [exclaiming:] ""Sand-fleas' 

 insides. '"'''•' One night when she swam out some one threw a stone at 

 her. [The scoter] gave forth a dull sound and disappeared from 

 sight. On the next day a woman lay there with a string of salmon. 



After that some time passed. There was a certain man who had 

 many elder brothers, all of whom were married. They fished at 

 night. One after the other came home, and they roasted the salmon. 

 The}' ate with their wives. He wanted to do the same thing, and he 

 also married. 



After he had brought home his wife he went fishing with them, and 

 he came back in the night and roasted a salmon. When it was cooked 

 he awoke their wives. "Come and eat," he said to her (his own wife). 

 " Land otters eat at night" [she said], and she made her husband 

 ashamed. 



The next night he went to fish Avith them again. And when they 

 came home the}' roasted another. When it was cooked, she kicked 

 her husband in the back with her feet, but he said to his wife: "Land 

 otters eat in the night." He made her ashamed also. 



They then built a house in the town. They had the front of it 

 covered with feathers. When it was finished they called it Feather- 

 house. Afterward, although it stood back from the shore, the tide 

 rose to it. When it got even with it it began to fall. They told each 

 other that on account of that house they had almost had a flood. ^" 



One day, after they had been fishing, they came in. The wife of 

 one of them lay with her back to the fire. A man had his arms around 

 her. Then he cut his hand off. But it was his wife who got up 

 crying. He did it by accident to her.^^ 



One autumn a person went to Falling-forward to fish for silver 

 salmon. And at night his daughter fell asleep in the bow. He was 

 afraid then to awaken his child and ran the bow into the cla}'. He, 

 too, fell asleep. When he awoki^. in the morning he called to his 

 child. His child was gone. He then saw the tracks of a black bear 

 leading inland from the canoe. 



At that time the town people became angry with the Black-bear 

 people. They reared a large number of dogs, and they made many 

 deadfalls.^- There was not a trail without its deadfall. Immediately 

 they began to kill them. 



After they had killed them in this way for a while the dogs started 

 after the bears. One day the dogs started right fi-om the houses after 

 something. The people followed them. The bear climbed a tree 

 standing near. Her two young ones were with her. 



They then spanned their bows. When they were ready to shoot 



