swANTON] HAIDA TKXTS AND MYTHS 1(53 



At tho siiiiie plac«% bes'uU' ihv hull pine, they lay witli (^icli other. 

 The 'J'liii<iit woniiin sat down at lici- feet. T\\o KwakiutI vvoniaii sat 

 at her lit'ad. Thcn-c llicv kept lookino' at lici-. VVIhmi tlio sun was set 

 all four went honu\ Tlien slie entered Ikm" father's lious<>. As she 

 went in she eoneealed lier husl)and uiuhM- her hhuikets. Her father 

 liad his eyes fixed upon her and |sai(l|: "Myehihl. wliat makes you 

 lanieT" "Father, a shell made my foot sore hy cutting" into it." 

 Then they went in together beiiind the screens. 



And in the evening- the chief's child lay behind the screens. Then 

 he lay with h(M-. and h(> (her father) heard someone talking with his 

 tlaughtei- in the night When day broke the chief commanded them 

 to put wood on the lire, and two slaves put wood on the fii'e. After it 

 had begun to ])urn up he sai(,l: ^'Come! look to see who is talking' with 

 my child." Then a young man \vent thither and said: "Someone is 

 lying here with her." And her father said: "Alas! I wonder what 

 roaming supernatural l)eing it is! Perhaps it is ' He-who-had-Pauther- 

 womau-for-his-mother,' whom I wanted 1113^ child to marry." "He 

 saj's he is the one, father [said his daughter]." 



Then he spread out a mat next to himself and said: "My * hild, come 

 and sit down near the tire wdth your husband." Shortly she came 

 down and sat there with him. The}' put four hard stones into the tire. 

 \\'hen they became reddiot he put them into a dish standing near the 

 wall with the tongs. Then he had it set before his son-indaw\ A 

 spoon made out of Avhite rock was stuck into it. She was crying. 

 "Ha liA Iia!" she wept, "he is going to do again as he always does 

 when I try to get married. That is how he kills them." Then he 

 said to his wife, " Do not utter a word." 



Now^ he took the spoon, picked up one of the reddiot stones and 

 swallowed it. His insides were not aU'ected. He handled all four in 

 the sanu' way. He finished with them. 



This was because his supei'natural powder was strong. H his super- 

 natural power had been weak, he would have been killed. Because his 

 supernatural power was strong he let him marry his daughter. 



While he was living with this woman he and his 3^ounger ))rother, 

 who had become the husband of Mouse- woman, forgot how their 

 mother had begun to act strangely. 



One dav he la}' abed a long time. He lay until evening. He was 

 there w hen they went to sleep. Next da}' he again lay abed. Again 

 he was there till they went to sleep. He lay abed two days. " My 

 child" [said his father-in-law], "why is your husl)and feeling badly?" 

 She said: " I do not know." 'IIkmi she weiit over to her husband, sat 

 down at the head of his l)ed, and talked a while to him. Then she 

 said to her father: "He has suddeni} l)ecome desirous to see his 

 younger brother, whom he left just above liere." "Now, chief- woman, 



