SWAN-TON] HAIDA TEXTS AND MYTHS 181 



"Do not kill us. \\'t> :ir«* .u'oino- to look ;it 3'()iir youiij^or brother." 

 'I'luMi ho stopped. 



They wont up toiiVth(M' iuul sat over his younger l)roth('r. (la'ogila's 

 (luuglitei' took soiiu'thiuii' out ot" her l)<)x and hit otl' the end of it. It 

 was hluc. 'I'hon Master ('ar})entei'"s duughtiM" hi-ought out a mat with 

 edges lik(^ cunudus clouds, and tliev laid his younger brother u[)on it. 

 (xa'ogila's daughter spit under it many times. 



Then she told Ga'ogihi's daughtei- to hurry. Her copartner in 

 marriage'* said to her: '' Do so yourself, woman. Hurr^' your own 

 mind.'' Then she pulled ott' the mat. He rose out of the place [where 

 he had been lying]. Th(> dog, too, was glad to see him. 



Then they unloaded ])oth canoes. There were plenty of canoe men. 

 There wei"e a crowd of those whom his fathers-in-law had given to 

 him. And next dav the}^ enlarged the house. They finished a large 

 house for him. The front was sewn together [in the old style]. 



In his house they ate nothing but good food day after day. When 

 they were through eating deer fat, mountain-goat fat was ])rought out, 

 cut up. and distributed. They held this by the fire to roast. They 

 ate it. 



One day they said to their husband: "(to and get digging sticks for 

 us." Then he was glad. And he climbed a tree. He cut ofi' limbs. 

 He made them, and the}" were finished. The digging sticks he made 

 while still in the woods were parti}' bloody looking [where the inside 

 bark was reached]. When he came in with them, instead of l)eing 

 pleased, they laughed at him and said, "Get a real digging stick like 

 father's. ■' He went away agai n and used cedar limbs. Those the women 

 also rejected. He got all sorts of sticks. He was unsuccessful. Then 

 he got the side shoot of a yellow cedar. He finished it roughly on 

 the spot. Then he brought it liome and worked it up. The women 

 said to him: "Make the lower part red; make the upper part bine." 

 They wer(» hung in the rear of the house. The upper ends were 

 made like round knobs. 



Next morning they ate. The crowd of people was like stirred up 

 salmon eggs. The young people played with his wives. But he said 

 nothing. Then the two women put the digging sticks on their shoul- 

 ders, but they did not take baskets. 



Then he also went with them. The clams were shooting water. 

 And he said, "Dig right here." When the women went there, he 

 heard them laughing, and they made him ashamed. But, after they 

 had moved about for a while, they separated and started inland. Then 

 they stood still opposite each other at the ends of the town. They 

 ran their digging sticks into the ground. When they pried up they 

 made the town larger than it was before. They brought up his 

 father-in-law's village. 



