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nose. Then ho said to his cousin |Eaole|: '''' When I pass in front of 

 the town, cousin, sa}": ' Wfi-a-fi '", one o'oes along- in front of the town 

 with a weasel hanging from liis nose.' "^ And when he passed in front 

 of the viUage [he said], " Wri-a-a, one passes in front of the town with 

 the milt of a salmon hanging from his nose."" Then he went back 

 to him and said: " Cousin^ sa}", ' Weasel, weasel.' '' Rut when he went 

 again he said the same thing. Then he made him ashauK^l, and lie 

 went right along [without stopping]. 



And after he had gone along for a while he met some people coming 

 back from the hunt with many hair seals. Then he changed himself 

 into a woman. And he found a long, slender rock and said to it: 

 "Change into a child,'"' and it became a human IxMiig. "Say, you 

 who are coming, come and marr}' me." Then the canoe was pointed 

 toward her. And she picked up stones, too, they say. After they 

 had gone along for a while she said: "The child wants hair seal. He 

 is crying for it." Then one cut off a piece for it. Then she wished a 

 mist to fall, and it happened. Then they put mats over her, under 

 which she ate it. And she put grease on the stones and threw them 

 overboard. And she kept saying that it was the hair seal. Then they 

 gave some to her again. 



Then they gave her as wife to one of them. Some time after he 

 had married her they gave her salmon roe to eat. And she saw 

 where they kept it. Then she went to the place at night. And 

 she ate in it. But when she lay down afterward she found that her 

 labret was lost. And when they went [to the box] to get some again 

 in the morning they found her labret in it. Upon this she touched it 

 quickly with her lips and said: "Lg.A'nsal sta'-is'^ was flapping her 

 wings all night in my lip as she always does when she wants some- 

 thing that smells bad." Then the}' handed it to her, and she put it 

 back into her lip. 



And one day, when she went out with others to defecate, and stood 

 up, the tail coming from her buttocks was visible a moment. "Ai-I, 

 w^hat is that sticking from m}" son's wife's buttocksr' " Wh}', this is 

 not the first time a Tlingit woman's tail stuck out from her buttocks.'' 



By and ])y she told her husband they were about to come after her, 

 and she made them bring together tirewood in preparation for it. 

 Then she changed excrement into people and made them come b}" 

 canoe. Then they landed; but wdien they came in and sat down they 

 began to perspire. Right there they were melted. And she became 

 ashamed. Then they w^ere completely melted. And she iiew away. 



And after he (Raven) had traveled on from that place he came to 

 where Water-ouseF" lived. And he (the bird) gave him food. By 

 and by he drove a stick into his leg, out of which salmon roe [such as 

 has lain some days after hatching) ran in a stream. He gave it to 

 him to eat. Then he started from that place. After he had traveled 



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