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has come, grandson, that they abandoned you l)ecau.se you ate the 

 hair seal's flipper, which your father sent home from the feast. If it 

 is you, come to me.'' 



He went out quickly and stood there. And he handed his hamnicr 

 to him. At once he stepped out to take it. That was Master Car- 

 penter^" making- a canoe. 



•■'Say! go and get four ))ent wooden wedges. Put two rings of 

 cedar bark in the front part of the canoe and two in the stern. Then 

 3"our canoes will come apart." He was unable to make two canoes as 

 he was trying to do, one inside the other, because his wedges were too 

 straight. 



He went to get the wedges, and while he was away the otlier had 

 already put rings on the canoe. He brought them (the wedges) along. 

 Then he told him to put them in the bow and the stern. Then he 

 began hammering on them. After he had busied himself going l)ack 

 and forth from one to another for a while, lo! they started to sep- 

 arate. After doing so for a while, he hammered them apart. He 

 thought: "1 wonder where the salmon are for which he wants these.'' 

 He did not think about his younger brother. Then [the man] said 

 to him: "Now, grandson, come with me. You shall marry my 

 daughter." 



Now he went with him. Wfi, the smoke the}^ came in sight of was 

 like a comb. That was his town. He went with him into the middle 

 house, which belong;ed to Master Carpenter. Between the screens, in 

 the real" of tiie house, sat a wonderful creature, as ])eautiful as a 

 daughter of one of the supernatural beings. Then her father said to 

 her, "Chief-woman,^^ my daughter, come and sit near your huslmnd." 

 At once she arose and sat down near him. 



After his father-in-law had given him something to eat repeatedly, 

 evening came and she said to him, "Let us go out [to defecate]." *'! 

 do not know where they go out." Then she said to him, ''Why! do 

 3^ou not know where they go out?" She said to him, "1 will go with 

 you." It was evening, and she went out with him. She went sea- 

 ward with him, and the}' defecated. They came in and sat down. 

 Straight across from the town a drum sounded. 



His father-in-law treated him well. Every evening he went out 

 with his wife, and the drum kept sounding there. He became tired of 

 hearing it and once, after he had gone out and was seated with his wife, 

 he questioned his wife, "Say! why is that drum always beating?" 

 "They are trying to cure the town chief." Then he said to his wife, 

 "Come! let us go over and look." 



Then they came in, and she asked her father: "Father, do you own 

 a small canoe?" "Yes, chief-woman, ni}^ daughter, one is l.ying down 

 on the beach." Then two youths carried the canoe down on their 

 shoulders, but they (the man and his wife) walked. They got into it, 

 and only the youths paddled, while he and his wife sat in the middle. 



