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It was in his hand. It was soft. It felt like fur. It was like some- 

 thing phosphorescent. 



Then he skinned it and used salmon-berrv bushes on which to 

 stretch it. But lo! it was slack in the middle. Then he put it on a 

 larger one. And he laid it out in the sunshine. He was going to 

 make blankets out of it. It became nearly dry. He was glad. And, 

 when it was nearl}^ dry, things from the noi'th end of the island and 

 the south end of the island shouted " Wa-a-a-a-a, Supernatural-being- 

 who-went-naked is stretching his sky blankets.'" The}' laughed at 

 him. Then he bent down his head. After he had sat there ashamed 

 for a while he left his blankets. ^" 



Now he started on. He traveled around and around this island. 

 One time, after he had traveled for a while, he heard some one so])bing 

 bitterly. He went thither. A house stood there. He ran to it so 

 fast that he kept falling. Then he looked in. In the rear of the 

 bouse stood one with tears running down and pitch on his face. 

 His earrings were long. From the ends of them small human beings 

 hung. Their throats hung doAvnward. Their arms were moving as 

 they hung. 



He struck the ground with his baton and cried hard. " Thinking to 

 restore his younger brothers again as he had twice revived them, the 

 supernatural being started after them. While he was going, the 

 supernatural being went on forever." So he heard him put words 

 into the song about himself as he wept. 



And his boxes all had their ends toward the lire. There were four 

 tiers of them. Then he wanted to look into them. And he ran about. 

 After he had run around looking for something for a while he found 

 a big rock, long and narrow, and he put it on his shoulder. Then he 

 threw it up on top of the house. He pulled himself up after it. Now 

 he made a hole above him and let the stojio fall in. It struck his head. 

 He dropped dead without moving. 



Then he jumped down. He entered the door. He opaned the box 

 lying nearest to him. It was all full of moose hides."" Then he went 

 to the rear of the house also. There, too, he opened some. 'I'hen he 

 put live [hides] upon his back and went away. After he had run along 

 for a while, lo! he heard his baton sound. Then he came near him and 

 took one of his hides back. He put it on his shoulder. He did the 

 same to all five and went away from him. And he looked in the place 

 where he had been. He had vanished. 



Then he went after him. Lo! he was crying out the same words as 

 before. Then he turned back quickly and picked up a larger stone 

 than the one he had before taken upon his shoulders. Now he put it 

 on top of the house and pulled himself up after it. Then he made a 

 hole right above him. He dropped the stone in. He fell down. 



At once he jumped in, piled five blankets one over the otlun-, and 



