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neaivr wall. But while it was yet luovinj^- alonof inside the farther 

 wall he got up, hit it with a club, killed it, and took it up.'" 



He then called in the crows to help him eat it. They made a tire 

 and roasted it [on hot stonesj. He afterward lay down with his back 

 to the tire. He told them to wake him when it was cooked. He then 

 overslept. And they took everything off from the fire and ate. They 

 ate everything. The}' then poked some of the salmon between his 

 teeth. And he awoke after he had slept a while and told them to take 

 the covering off" the roast. And they said to him : "You ate it. After 

 that you went to sleep.'' " No, indeed, you have not taken the cover- 

 ings off yet." " Well, poke a stick between your teeth.'' He then 

 poked a stick between his teeth. He poked out soine from his teeth. 

 He thereupon spit into the crows' faces and said: "Future people 

 shall not see you ti3'ing about looking as 3'ou do now ." The}' were 

 white, they say, but since that time they have been black. 



And walking away from that place he sat down near the end of a 

 trail. After he had wept there for a while some people with feathers 

 on their heads and gambling-stick bags on their backs came to him 

 and asked him what the matter was. "Oh, my mother and my 

 father are dead. Because they told me 1 was born [in the same place] 

 as you 1 wander about seeking you."' They then started home with 

 him. Lo, they came to a house. Then they made him sit down. 

 One of the men went around behind the screens by the wall passage. 

 After staying away for a while [he came in and] his legs were wet. 

 He brought a salmon with its back just broken. They rubbed white 

 stones against each other to make a tire. Near it they cut the salmon 

 open. They put stones into the fire, roasted the salmon, and, when it 

 was cooked, made him sit down in the middle. There they ate it. 

 These were the Beavers, they say. They were going out to gamble, 

 but turned back on account of him. 



One of them again went behind the screens. He brought out a dish 

 of cranberries, and that, too, they finished. Again he went in. He 

 brought out the inside parts of a mountain goat, and they divided 

 them into three portions, and made Raven's portion big. Then they 

 said to him: "You had better not go away. Live with us always." 

 They then put their gambling-stick bags upon their backs and started off. 



When it was near evening they came home. He was sitting in 

 the place [where they had left him]. Again one went in. He again 

 brought out a salmon. They steamed it. And they also brought out 

 cranberries. They also brought out the inside parts of a mountain 

 goat. After they had eaten they went to bed. On the next day, early 

 in the morning, after they had eaten three sorts of food, they put the 

 gambling-stick bags upon their backs and started off again. 



He then went behind the screen. Lo, a lake lay there. From it 

 a creek flowed away in which was a fish trap. The fish trap was so 



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