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wh}" is your brother-in-law so heavy F' Then Raven said: "Yoii 

 always talk nonsense. This is not the first time a chief who has been 

 killed is heavy/' The rocks put into him made him heavy. 



After they got him into the house they had Mallard-duck '^'^ doctor 

 him, and when he came in, and had gone around the fire for a while, 

 he said: "Ha" ha" ha" ha" ((juacking of duck), his brother-in-law, his 

 brother-in-law." And Raven said: '" [Speak] differently, great doctor. 

 [Speak] difi'erentlj." Then again he said, " Ha" ha" hii" Im", his 

 brother-in-law took out his insides." Then he kicked him into the 

 fire. And just before he flew out he said the same thing. So they 

 came to know that he had killed his brother-in-law. 



One time he let Cormorant marry Siwa's, because he was the best 

 fisherman. And he went out fishing with him, and (^ormorant alone 

 caught halibut. He (Raven) caught only a small one. Then he went 

 toward the bow to Cormorant and said to him: " Let me see what is 

 upon your tongue." And when he ran his tongue out he pulled it out, 

 and his voice was gone. That is why the cormorant has no voice. 



Then he pulled the halibut round toward himself [so that their 

 heads lay in his direction] and turned the small one toward him (Cor- 

 morant).''' Then they went home, and he pulled off- the hali})ut. 

 Cormorant motioned his wife to the halibut, and his sister asked: 

 "Say, chief, why does he motion me to the halibut?" Then Raven 

 said: " He is trjdng to say he wants the head of a h'lg one." And she 

 asked her brother again: "Say, chief, what has happened to your 

 brother-in-law?" " Why, while I was fishing with him his voice left 

 him." He wanted to eat all the halibut. That is why he took it out. 



After he had gone on for some distance a sea anemone (?) looked 

 out from under a rock. He became fascinated at the sight of the 

 corners of its eyes, which were bluish, and said to it: "Say, cousin, 

 come and let me kiss you." And the sea anemone said: "I know 

 your words. Raven," and made him angry. Then he threw aside the 

 stones from it and steamed it [in the ground]. When it was cooked 

 he ate it while it was still hot. Then his heart was burst with the 

 burning. That is why ravens do not eat sea anemones. 



After he had gone along from there for a while he came to a town. 

 Having looked into the house [he saw] no people there. Then he 

 entered. Halibut and slices pf smoked hair seal lay on the drying 

 frame, Onlv old wedges lay near the fire. But when he started to 

 carry ofi' the hali})ut and slices of seal a wedge threw itself at his 

 ankle bone; on the other side the same thing happened, and he fainted 

 with the pain. Then he threw them from his shoulders and went 

 out. And he looked into a house near by. And he entered that, too. 

 There were plenty of hair seals and halibut there. On the wall was 

 some design drawn with finger nails. Then he start(>d to carry some 

 out. When he came to the door something pulled his hair. He saw 



