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full that it looked as if some one were shaking- it. There were plenty 

 of salmon in it, and in the lake very many small canoes were passing- 

 one another. Several points were red with cranberries. Len " and 

 women's songs ^" resounded. 



Then he pulled out the fish trap, folded it together, and laid it 

 down at the edge of the lake. He rolled it up with the lake and house, 

 put them under his arm, and pulled himself up into a tree that stood 

 close b}'. They were not heavy for his arm. 



He then came down and straightened them out. And he lighted a 

 fire, ran back quickly, brought out a salmon, and cooked it hurriedly. 

 He ate it quickly and put the fire out again. Then, sitting- beside it, 

 he cried. 



As he sat there, without having wiped away his tears, the}^ came 

 in. "Well, why are you crying?" '"1 am crying because the fire 

 went out some time ago." They then talked to each other, and one 

 of them said to him: "That is always the way with it." 



They then lighted the fire. One of them brought out a salmon 

 from behind [the screens] and they cut it across, steamed, and ate it. 

 After the}' had finished eating cranberries and the inside parts of a 

 mountain goat they went to bed. The next morning, very early, after 

 they had again eaten the three kinds of food, they took their 

 gambling-stick bags upon their backs and went off. 



He at once ran inside. He brought out a salmon, cooked it, and 

 ate it with cranberries and the inside parts of a mountain goat. He 

 then went in and pulled up the fish trap. He flattened it together 

 with the house. 



After he had laid them down he rolled the lake up with them and 

 put all into his armpit. He pulled himself up into a tree standing 

 beside the lake. Halfway up he sat down. 



And after he had sat there for a while some one came. His house 

 and lake were gone from their accustomed place. After he had looked 

 about the place for some time he glanced up. Lo, he (Raven) sat 

 there with their property. Then he went back, and both came toward 

 him. They went quickly to the tree. They began working upon it 

 with their teeth. When it began to fall, he (Raven) went to another 

 one. When that, too, began to fall he sat down with his [burden] 

 on one that stood near it. After he had gone ahead of them upon 

 many trees in the same way they gave it up. The}' then traveled 

 about for a long time, they say. After having had no place for a 

 long time they found a lake and settled down in it. 



Then, after he (Raven) had traveled around inland for a while, he 

 came to a large open place. He unrolled the lake there. There it 

 lay. He did not let the fish trap or the house go. He kept them to 

 teach the Seaward (xMainland) people and the Shoreward (Queen Char- 

 lotte islands) people, they say. 



