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him upon the dead tree. When lie got halfway over he let him go. 

 " Yauwaiya', what I cany on my back is heavy." He burst open 

 below. Then he went down to him and ate his berries. He ate all 

 and started off. 



After he had traveled for a while he came to a w^oman with a good- 

 sized labret weaving- a water-tight basket, and he asked her: "Say, 

 skAn,**" have 3^011 seen ni}' cousin?" She paid no attention to him, and 

 he again said to her: "Say, skAii, have you seen my cousin?" Again 

 she paid no attention to him. "SkAn, I can knock out your labret." 

 "Don't. Over yonder is a qla'Ja**' point, beyond which is a spruce 

 point, beyond which is a hemlock point, beyond which is an alder 

 point. At that point in front of the shell of a sqa'djix.u*'^ on which he 

 is drawing is j^our cousin." Then he started over, and it was as she 

 said. "Say, cousin, is that you?" [he said], and he pulled him up 

 straight, and they started off together. 



After they had gone on they came to a town. The}^ (the people) 

 were glad to see them. Then they began giving them food. When 

 they gave them berries to eat they asked Eagle: "Does the chief eat 

 these?" And Raven said: "Say that I like them vei'y much." But 

 Eagle said: "The chief says he never eats them." And the}^ only 

 gave them to him (Eagle). And again they gave him good berries to 

 eat, and he said: "Those, too, the chief does not like."^' 



When he was going on from there he came to a town in which the 

 chief's son, who was the strongest man, had had his arm pulled out. 

 A shaman came to tr}^ to cure him. The chief's son was the strongest 

 man. In trying strength with people of all ages by locking hands with 

 them he covdd beat them. By and by, through the smoke hole came a 

 small pale hand, and [they heard its owner] say: "Gu'sg.a gA'msiwa'' 

 (Tsimshian words meaning "Let us have a try"). And he put his 

 lingers to it. It pulled oft' his arm. They did not know what it was. 

 And he (Raven) alone knew that one of Gu'g.al's**^ sons had pulled his 

 arm off. Then he flew to Gu'g.al's town, went to an old n)an who 

 lived at the end of the town and asked him: "Say, old man, do 3'ou 

 ever gamble?" And he said he did. "They say the}' pulled off the 

 arm of a chief's son. 1 wonder where the person who did it belongs." 

 And he said: "Why, don't you know? It was done by the one of 

 Gu'g.al's sons who is always doing those things. The chief's son's arm 

 is in a box behind the screen in his father's house." And he (Raven) 

 said: "Well, although everybody knows those things, I was asking 

 this." Then he pulled off his (the old man's) skin and entered it. 

 And next day he took a gambling-stick bag and walked with a cane to 

 the middle of the town. When he sat down he heard Gu'g.afs sons say: 

 "You are always on hand, old man; we will gamble with you.'' The 

 eldest wagered him his hair ribbon, and they gambled with him. 

 Thev lost the ril)bon to him. Then it was too late to go home, and he 



