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sewed together. And she said to him, "Come in to me, grandson. 

 News has come that you want to borrow something of me." 



Then she hunted in her box. She l)it off part of something for him. 

 "Now, my son, here it is." And she said to him: "When you get 

 home and go up to Clu'lga lake, take along your bow. There you will 

 shoot a mallard. Blow up its stomach and put its grease into it. 

 1 know that what destroyed your younger brothers li^-es there. You 

 are going to restore your younger brothers. Eat some [of the 

 grease]." 



He went home and entered the house. After he had remained seated 

 there for a while, he went to bed. And next day early in the morn- 

 ing he went up to Gil'lga lake.'" Male and female mallards'' were 

 there. They were pretty. He prepared his bow and shot just over 

 the head of one of them. It fell as when something is dropped. Then 

 he got it ashore, made a tire for it, plucked and steamed it. He saved 

 its entrails. 



Then he went down upon the beach and picked up a l)ig clam shell. 

 Then he steamed the duck and put the duck grease into the clam shell. 

 He took out the duck meat to eat. Then he put a [hot] stone into the 

 duck grease. At that time the duck grease boiled over. All the 

 things that live in the forest said: " Be careful! the duck grease might 

 spill." Thus they made him ashamed. He did not eat the duck meat. 

 When the duck grease settled down, he put it into the entrails. 



This is why, when the earth quakes, the Raven people tell [him] to 

 be careful of the duck grease. They say so because Sacred-one- 

 standing-and-moving was a Raven. 



Then he went away. He saved the feathers and the duck grease. 

 And he came home. Then he went to bed. 



When next morning tore itself, he went to Gu'lga, took two children 

 thence, and went into the Avoods at the end of Sealion-town. When 

 he came to the lake, he looked about, pulled up two cedars entire, 

 fastened them at the butt end with twisted cedar limits, did the same 

 at the top, and held the two truidvs apart by means of a stick. He 

 laid it in the lake, ]x)und the legs of the two children, and placed them 

 between.'^ 



When they moved, a wa'sg.o" came out on the surface in the space 

 between. Then he knocked out the stick and his head was caught, but 

 he pulled [his trap] under. The cedar came to the surface broken as 

 when something is thrown upward. 



Then he went home and stood up tiie dead children with the pole in 

 front of the house. He kept them for the next day. And again he 

 went thither and took the two chddren. After he had looked around 

 for a while, he puUed out a large two-headed cedar, stump and all. 

 After he had split it, a wren jumped around him chirping: "Tc!e 

 tc!e, n\y smews." 



