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throw one over to me, I will give you light." But they said: "" Ha 

 hfi'-il-a, he who is speaking is the one who is always playing tricks." 

 He then let a small part shine and put it away again. They forth- 

 with emptied their canoe in front of him several times. 



He then called a dog and said to it: "Shall 1 make (or ordain) four- 

 moons?" The dog said that would not do. The dog wanted six. He 

 (Raven) then said to him: "What will 3'ou do when it is spring?" 

 "When 1 am hungry 1 will move my feet in front of my face." And 

 he made it as he (the dog) told him to do, they say. 



He then bit off a part of the moon. After he had chewed it for a 

 while he threw it up [into the sky]. "Future people are going to see 

 you there in fragments forever." He then broke the moon into halves 

 by throwing it down hard and threw [half of] it up hard into the air, 

 the sun as well. 



Thence he traveled northward. The smoke of House-point was 

 near him. He then pulled off his hair ribbon and threw one end of it 

 over here. He at once ran across on it. And he walked about the 

 town, peering in [through the cracks]. The wife of the town chief of 

 House-point had given birth to a child. And he waited until evening. 

 Then, at the time when they went to bed, he entered [the child's] skin 

 and himself became newly born. 



Every morning they washed him, and his father held him on his 

 knee. After a while his aunt came down to the tire. They handed 

 him to his aunt. After she had held him for a while he pinched her 

 teats. "Ha'oia," she said. "Why do you say that, L.a?"''' " Wh}^, 

 he nearly fell from me." The town chief was named " Hole-in-his- 

 fin," and his nephew was named " Fin-turned-back." 



After a while he thought: "I wish the village children would go 

 picnicking." And on the next day the children of the town went picnick- 

 ing. They brought along all sorts of good food. And his aunt brought 

 him to the same place. When they had played for a while they went 

 away. After they had all gone his aunt sat there alone. He looked 

 about, entered his own skin quickly, and seized his aunt. And his 

 aunt said: "Do not take hold of me. 1 am single ])ecause your father 

 is going to eat my gifts."'" 



Then, as soon as she started off, he became a baby again. His aunt 

 was crying and as she went had it on her mind to tell what had hap- 

 pened. He wished his aunt would forget it when she went in. Antl 

 she went in. After her brother had looked at her a while he asked: 

 "What is the cause of those tear marks?" " Why, I discovered him 

 eating sand. That is why I am crying." 



He then started along by the sea and, having* punched holes in the 

 shells brought up b\^ the tide, he made two dancing rattles. And he 

 ran toward the woods. He took grave mats, frayed out the ends, and 

 fastened shells upon these. He made them into a dancing skirt. And 



