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child I'rom continually openino^ the door in that wa3^'" "Why, chief, 

 I never can stop him." " Just hear what she says. What a common 

 child is continually doin^- the supernatural beings ever fear to do.'" 

 On another day, while Great-breakers was lying down, he banged 

 the door again. He said to the mother: '' Flood- tide-woman, a 

 common child is doing the same thing again. Try to stop him." 

 " Why, chief, I can never stop your slave nephew." 



And where he was sitting with his mother by the fire, on the side 

 toward the door, right there he defecated. And his uncle's wife made 

 a pooping sound at him. " I shall indeed go with that husband's 

 nephew," he heard his uncle's wife say.^" 



On the next da3\ very, ver}?^ early in the morning, he started oft'. 

 After he had gone along for some time he came to some persons who 

 burst into singing sweet songs and danced. They then asked him : *" Tell 

 us, what are you doing hereabout?" " I am gathering woman's medi- 

 cine." " Well, what do 3'ou call woman's medicine? Is woman's medi- 

 cine each other's medicine?" "Yes; it is each other's medicine." 

 Those women chewed gum as they sang. Then one of these gave him 

 a piece. "This is woman's medicine." And one of them gave him 

 directions: " Now, when you enter the house, pass round to the right. 

 Chew the gum as you go in. And when 3'our uncle's wife asks it of 3'ou, 

 by no means give it to her. Ask of her the thing her husband owns. 

 When it is in your hands give the gum to her." And he went away 

 from the singers. When he entered the gum stuck out red from his 

 mouth. Then his uncle's wife said to him: " I say, NAnki'lsLas-hna'-i, 

 come, give me the gum." He paid no attention to her. He then sat 

 down beside his mother, and to his mother he said: "Tell her to give me 

 the thing ni}^ uncle owns. I will then give her the gum." Then his 

 mother went to her. She told it her. And to her she gave something 

 white and round. He then handed her the gum. While his uncle's wife 

 chewed it and swallowed the juice he saw that her mind was changed. 



Some time after that his fathers^' went b\^ on the sea. And he said 

 to a dog sitting near the door: " NAfiki'lsLas-iina'-i says he desires the 

 place where his fathers now are to dry up and leave them." And 

 immediately it went out and said so. The tide left them high and dry, 

 and they were in great numbers. They made a scraping sound in their 

 efl'orts to move. He then said to his mother: " 1 say, go and pour water 

 upon my fathers." She then went down to them, and she did not look 

 upon her husband. She poured it only upon Fin-turned-back. A nd he 

 went to his mother and told her to pour water upon his father. She 

 acted as if she did not hear his voice. They were going to the super- 

 natural V)eings of Da'osgen^'* to bu^^ a whale, they say. 



Then he came in and said to the dog again: "Go and say, ' NAfiki'- 

 IsLas-iina'-i says he desires the tide to come in to his parents.'" He 

 then went out quickly and said it. X.u-u-u-ri-u (noise of the waves 

 coming in), and they at once were moving along far off on the water. 



