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Then N'AfikT'IsLii.s said to Supeniatural-being-who-wont-naked: " Now 

 you ])ottor i>(). The one your mind is troubled al)out lives near l)y. 

 When the servants come for water throw yourself into the water and 

 make yourself appear like one through whom worthless things come. 

 The ones coming tirst will not want to touch .yoii; the last one will 

 take good care of you." 



Then he started and sat down b}' a water hole near Kaisun,'""' on 

 the west coast. After he had sat there a while they came after water. 

 Then they landed. They picked up the bucket. They came near 

 him. And, when they got near him, he made himself like those into 

 whom worthless things come and threw himself into the water. And 

 he la\' floating about in it. 



Then the one who came tirst threw herself backward. " Yuwai'j^A, 

 something is floating about in her water (i. e., the chief -woman's)." 

 Then the middle one said: ''Throw him out with a stick." Now the 

 last one, who was lame, said: ''flandle him carefully. After he has 

 drunk whale soup he will become stronger." 



Then they broke off the stalk of a salmon-berry bush and took him 

 out carefully. Now the}' got the water, and, after they had taken it 

 down to the canoe, they remembered him. The lame one brought him 

 in \\ ith a stick and put him in the bailing hole. 



.Vnd after they had landed they carried up the water. They steamed 

 the whale. Again they forgot about him. Then she who was lame 

 thought of him and said: "We haue forgotten about a crooked thing 

 which floated about in the chief-woman's drinking Avater." 



Then the daughter of The-one-in-the-sea said: "Hurry and get 

 him." And the lame one went and got him. She brought him up 

 with a stick. He was bent across the salmon-berrj" stalk. Then they 

 had him sit on the side toward the door. He Avarmed his hands at the 

 tire. Then they handed him whale soup, but, while he was reaching 

 for it and was moving it toward his mouth, he spilled it all. Then 

 they all laughed at him and gave him some more. The same thing 

 happened to that. 



The chief -woman lived at Tcll'da."'' And next day the}^ went fishing 

 with a net. They pulled in a whale. And they cut it up. 



While they were awaj' he warmed himself on the side of the house 

 toward the door a while and said: "Chief-woman, you [let me get some- 

 thing]." Then she said to him: " Go and get what you are talking 

 about." But he crept over to her. He touched the chief -woman. 

 Then she seized him on each side of his head near his ears and knocked 

 him against the floor planks, holding him by the hair. And she said 

 to him: " Go and sit on the side toward the door, you common thing." 

 And he crept over there. Again he sat near the door. 



After he had sat there for a while the chief-woman said to him. mak- 

 ing the sound of throwing out saliva between her teeth: " Gitgit," 

 the slave the}' sa}^ I am without, go and get firewood." Then he crept 



