128 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY Lbull.29 



[Told by Abraham of the Qlil'dAsg.o (ic'R.Hwa-i] 



When he first started he decked out the birds. They were made of 

 different varieties, as the}^ now appear to us, in one house. Then, as 

 soon as he had dressed up the birds, the}^ went out together. At that 

 time he refused to adorn two of them. When the liouse was too full 

 they said to those who sat next to the walls: ''Let your heads be as 

 thin as the place where you sit.'' Those have thin heads. 



The two he had refused to adorn went crying to the [various] 

 supernatural beings and came to Rose Spit, where they heard a drum 

 sound toward the woods. They went thither. When they came and 

 stood before Master Carpenter"^* with tear marks on their faces, he 

 asked: "What causes your tear marks F' They then answered: 

 ^ Raven ■'^■'^ decked out the other birds. He said we were not worth 

 adorning.'"' "And yet you are going to be handsomer than all 

 others'' [he said], and, having let them in, he painted them up. He 

 put designs on their skins (feathers). Those were the Q!e'da-k!o'- 

 xawa,"'^ 



[Continued by John Sky] 



He went thence by canoe, and came to where herring had lieen 

 spawning. He then filled the canoe with herring, dipped them out 

 of the place where the bilge water settles and threw them toward the 

 shore. "" Future people will not see the place where you are."" 



[Continued by the chief of Kloo of Those-born-at-Skedans] 



And when he went awav he came to where a spider crab sat. And 

 he said to it: "Comrade, do you sit here? Don't you know that 

 we used to play together as children?" He then put his wings into 

 its mouth and took them out again. "A little farther off, spider 

 crab," he said to it, and it closed its jaws together. It began at once 

 to move seaward. And he (Raven) said to it: " Comrade, let me go. 

 When about to let me go you used to look at me with eyes partly 

 closed [as you are doing] now. Let me go. It will be better for us 

 to play with each other differently. Let me go." By and b}" the sea 

 water flowed over him. Then it let him go. 



And after he had traveled for a while he pulled off' leaves from the 

 salal-berr}^ bushes, stuck spruce needles into them, and came to where 

 an old man lay with his back to the fire. And he entered and sat 

 down on the side opposite him. "He," he said, as if he, too, were 

 cold from going after something. Then the old man looked over to 

 him and said: " Have 1 stretched out m}' legs, that one keeps saying 

 he is getting cold?" He then stretched out his legs, and it became 

 low tide. And, with Eagle, he brought up sea eggs to the woods. 

 [Raven also brought up a red cod, but Eagle brought up a black cod.] 



They then made a camp tire. And Eagle roasted his.'^*' It began to 

 drop fat into the fire. Then Raven roasted his, but it became drj^. 



