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And he said to him: "Come, let me whip you, grandson/' He 

 went to him and faced him. Then he struck him with th(> knot. He 

 did not feel it. Instead, it ])r()ke in pieces. And he sti'uck him also 

 with the g'.odanxo'sgi. He did not feel it. And he also struck him' 

 on his back with the kwe'aogia'gadafi. Ho did not feel it. Then he 

 struck him with the seaweed. He almost touched the earth with his 

 head. 



Then they seized each other. He pushed Greatest-strong-man 

 down. Then he smiled at him, and went toward the woods upon the 

 ice. Landward stood a dead tree on the sea side of w^hich a dead 

 limb stood out which he tried to pull otf. He could not do it. But 

 he (the human being) went over to it and pulled it out. And he said 

 to him: "Now, grandson, go home, for your things are there.'' And 

 he went down the inlet. 



After he had swum along for a while, he stood up at (xu'lg.a. And, 

 after he had stood near the door for a while, he entered and dried 

 himself near the lire. He asked of his mother, who was weaving near 

 the wall: "Mother, have 3^ou any?" "Yes, chief, my son; when 

 something made you and shut you in the womb I had some made for 

 you. They are here.'' Then his mother hunted in a box, brought 

 out two sky blankets," and gave them to him. 



Then he sat down on one of the l)edsteads belonging to his younger 

 brothers. He broke it by sitting. And he broke another by sitting 

 on it. After he had broken all by sitting on them he made one 

 for himself. And he also broke that b}^ sitting on it. And, after a 

 stronger one with yellow cedar corner posts was linished, that, too, 

 broke down. And he gave it up. Then he fastened the pokers l3Mng 

 near the tire together in the shape of a cross, laid dead salmon-berry 

 bushes across them, laid the i)lanks on top of these, and sat down upon 

 them. That, however, was strong. Then he went to l)ed. 



Very early next day he went out toward the woods. After he had 

 traveled along for a while upon a faint trail, [he came toj a dead fallen 

 tree lying across the trail. There a shrew'" with cranberries in her 

 mouth was vainly endeavoring to climb over it. Then he put her 

 over and passed by her. 



He came to a mountain covered with devil's-clul) and began eating- 

 it. And when he was half through evening' came upon him, and he 

 stayed there over night. And next day he again began eating. When 

 evening came he had eaten all. 



And the last he ate he spit out and said: "Perhaps I shall become a 

 wa'sg.o if I swim about so nuich." Then something up the inlet said 

 to him: "Ah! Hed-backed-grouse " hears ycmr voice." From down 

 the iidet something else said: "Ah! L!uqaA'ndas'- hears your voice." 

 Then he went home. 



