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you to restore your mother to life." At once she pushed the canoe 

 off and vanished downstream with the eui'rent. There was no trace of 

 her left. 



After that the elder brother's wife lived as a chief's wife. Then 

 she became prei^nant, Sciao-.afs daut^hter did. She bore a boy. Again 

 she was pregnant; She bore another l)oy. [She l)ore seven boys.] 

 There was one girl. 



Sqiig.ars children made their town at Q!add', opposite Metlakatla. 

 Their mother and their sister lived with them. All eight went out to 

 a beaver pond to hunt. When they had at length come to the lake, 

 and had made a hole in one end of the dam, a stick was carried into 

 the shoulder of the eldest by the force of the current. He died there. 



Then they went away. And at midnight they came behind the 

 house. Then they sent out the j'oungest and gave him the following- 

 directions: "Speak to our mother. And also watch your elder 

 brother's wife. She must be unfaithful to him. She nuist ])e going 

 with another man. That is why our brother is [deadj.'' 



He went off, entered his mother's side of the house, laid his hand 

 on his mother's head, and said to his mother: "The beaver dam 

 drifted down upon my elder brother. One piece drifted into his neck. 

 He dropped dead without speaking a word.'' Then she said: "Alas! 

 ra}^ child." "Stop! we do not want him spoken of before the people. 

 Do not say a word." 



When she had Avakened the people in the house by her exclamation, 

 they asked her: " What made you say that?" and she said, "I dreamed 

 of something terrible. I dreamed that a beaver dam floated into my 

 eldest son and he dropped dead without saying a word. .That was 

 what made me cry out." 



After he had lain fiat on the floor near his mother, and midnight had 

 come, he heard some one talking with his elder brother's wife. When 

 it was near da^dight, they stopped whispering. Then he crept over 

 to them. And as the man slept he cut ofl' his head. 



After they had sat there in the woods for a while day came, and 

 they went- home. They had a real human head in their hands. The 

 youngest l)rotlier put his head above the door. Out of it blood oozed 

 in drops. 



The chief's son [in Metlakahtla] was lost, and they were looking for 

 him everywhere. They stopped inquiring for him. The town of 

 Metlakahtla lay there. By and by a north wind began to blow. The 

 sea surface froze, even to Q!ado'. Thev began to walk to and fro to 

 each other on the ice. 



Very early one morning a slave went to the town of Q!ado' for 

 live coals. "Enter the middle house," they said to him. And when 

 he went in l)lood dropped upon his feet. When he pushed the charcoal 

 into the lire, he turned his head around from looking at the side oppo- 



