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He also startccl away from that place. After he had gone along- for 

 a while he ft)und a flicker's feather floating near the shore and said to 

 it: " Become a flicker." It at once flapped its wings. 



And after he had traveled thence for a while he came to the place 

 where Master Fisherman*^" and his wife lived. He wanted Raven's 

 flicker; so he gave it to him. "Things like this are found on an 

 island that I own." And he said he would show it to him. And after 

 he said he would show it to him Master Fisherman baited a haliVmt hook 

 taken from among those hanging in bunches on the wall. When he 

 had let it down into the hole into which they used to vomit sea water 

 he pulled out a halibut, and his wife split it open and steamed it. 

 When it was cooked the three ate it. 



They Avent to bed, and next day he took him (Master Fisherman) 

 to see the flicker island. Then he arrived there and said to Master 

 Fisherman: " Do not get ofl'." Then he (Raven) landed. He broke 

 off the ends of cedar limbs. And he wounded his nose. As he went 

 along he let the blood run down into his hands. And he threw 

 around the cedar twigs with blood upon them. "Change to 

 flickers," he repeated. Then they flew in a flock. And he brought 

 some in. " Now, get off. There are plenty of them," he said to 

 him. Then he landed. 



[Continnert by the Chief of Kloo.] 



And he (Raven) lay down in the canoe and began to drift away 

 with the wind, and he (Master Fisherman) shouted to him: "Say, 

 you are drifting away. You are drifting away." He paid no atten- 

 tion to him.''* He got far off. Then he started away [by paddling]. 

 Then he made himself appear like Master Fisherman, and landed in 

 front of his wife's [house]. And he said: "Behold, it was the one 

 always doing such things. There is not a sign of the things he went 

 to show me." And after he had had her as his wife a while he said: 

 "My child's mother, differently from nw former state, 1 am hun- 

 gry." Then she steamed a fat halibut for him, and he ate it. After 

 he had remained sitting for a while, he said: " My child's mother, dif- 

 ferently from my former state, I would like it."*'' Then he again 

 drank salt water. And after he had drunk salt water he baited the 

 halibut hook and let it down into the hole where sea water was vomited 

 out. The same thing as before happened. He pulled a halibut out. 



And when his wife went after some water, lo, her husband sat near 

 the creek and said to her: "That was the same one who is always 

 doing such things. Stop all the holes in the house. As soon as he 

 drifted away from it (the island) I wished my hair-seal club would 

 swim over to me." And to him it swam out. Then it brought him 

 to the land, they sa}'. 



Then he ran in with the hair-seal club. And he (Raven) ran 

 squawking about the house. By and by he knocked him down with 



