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and said: "Say! ln'othor," did 3-011 eat all tho things I roasted?" "No; 

 shortly after you went out someone came in, gathered them up in his 

 hands, with those above, and put them into his mouth." "I thought 

 it was you." 



Now, he did not care about the salmon. Nor did he go out to cut 

 up the lish. He felt badly. He sat waiting. He was going to watch. 

 He wantcMl to see who this person was. In the evening he brought 

 out his bow. spanned it. brought out two arrow-boxes, put one on 

 the left side near the door, and sat over the right-hand one with 

 his bow. 



After he had sat there in the dark for a while he saw two pieces of 

 burning i)itchwood side of the house. When they came around to the 

 front of the house something wonderful entered and stood there. 

 Something witii tire hiiniing in its eyes came in and stood there. 

 After it had stood there for a wdiile it gathered tlie roasted salmon 

 together and swallow^ed all. After he had stood looking at those above 

 for a while he gathered them also together and swallowed them. As 

 he turned away from this he (the boy) shot him under the armpit and 

 from the other side as well. That was (jra'ogila.^ 



When he turned about he shot him repeatedly. He shot him 

 repeatedly. AVhen one arrow-box was exhausted, as the animal 

 turned around, he went to the other also, and after he had shot from 

 it for a while midnight came and he went out. 



At once he pursued him. He stuck the arrows into his quiver, and 

 kept shooting him through his back and his breast. After some time 

 had passed, lo! he had passed to the other side of a mountain as 

 ([uickly as if it had been thrown l)ack from him. Then he returned. 



He entered and took his younger l)rother on his knee. He also 

 called the dog to him, and the latter licked his lips. Then he turned 

 over the drum that had ))elonged to his father and placed it over his 

 younger brother and the dog. And he went away. 



As he went he picked up the shafts of his arrows [which had fallen 

 from the heads]. After he had run along for a while he heard a noise. 

 Then he stood still. After he had listened for a while he heard a 

 sound like that of a hammer. Now, he went in that direction. Lo! 

 some one was working out the inside of a canoe. Onl\" the top of his 

 head was visible. He looked at it fixedly. 



He walked slowly in that direction. His head entirely disappeared 

 within the canoe while his hammer lay outside of the canoe. Then 

 he reached for it and took it with him under a bunch of ferns near b}'. 

 After he (the boy) had looked at him for a while he stood up in the 

 midst of his work and looked about for something. He cleared awa}' 

 the chips. [The boy] was looking at him stealthily. 



He sat still and put his finger-nails between his teeth. By and b}'^ 

 he said: "My grandson, come to me. News of you has come. News 

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