190 BURKAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [buli,.29 



SACliEI)-ONK-STANI)ING-AND-MOVINO, StONE-RIBS, AND UPWAUD 



|T<ilil liy .Tdlin Sky of Tliose-born-at-Skerlans] 



In Scalion-town' one began to ))athe for supernatural power. All 

 sorts of weak things came through him [making him worthless]. He 

 stayed witli his eight younger brothers and his mother. 



By and by liis younger brothers disappeared. It was not known 

 whither they had gone. Morning came and his mother wept. Again 

 when day broke she wept. One day, when she stopped crying, she 

 said: "My eldest boy is as if he did not exist. When morning comes 

 my mind is always the same" (i. e., without gladness). 



vifter she had said this to him for some time he got tired of hearing 

 it and said to his sister: "Sister, pour salt water into the box my 

 mother owns so that I may bathe in it." Then she put on her belt. 

 She laid her mother's stone box down near the door and poured water 

 into it. 



Then her brother crept over to it and just managed to crawl into it. 

 After he had stayed in it for a while he could not keep his buttocks 

 under water. Then his sister pressed down on his back with the poker 

 which lay near the fire. After she had pressed down upon him for a 

 while she took away the stick. There was a small depth of water over 

 his back. Now she pressed him down again, and, when she removed 

 it from him, his back was well under the water. Then he broke the 

 sides of the box by stretching. 



And again he called to his sister: "Sister, pour some water into 

 another of your mother's l)oxes." Then she again poured some into 

 one. He got into it and stretched his knees out in it. He broke that, 

 too, at the joints. 



And again he called to his sister: "Sister, pour some water into 

 another." Then he broke that also at the joints. He did the same 

 thing to another one. He broke four with his knees. 



Then he went into the sea. After he had remained there for a while 

 something just touched him. He reached for it. He seized the tail 

 of a flounder. Now he called to his sister: "Sister, roast and eat 

 this.'' 



And after he had been in the water a while longer something again 

 touched him. He reached for it. He seized half a halibut and threw 

 it over to his sister. Then he said to his sister: "Roast that. Do not 

 steam it." 



