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out and came out of his skin outside. Then he seized with })oth hands 

 a spruce, good for burning- and covered with dead limbs mingled witii 

 green ones, which 'stood upon a knoll, and he pulled it up, roots and 

 all. Then he threw it down from the knoll. It was broken in pieces 

 below. TliCn he collected the pieces. And he carried up the bark, 

 crept in, aitd put it into the tire. He piled [the wood] there, end up 

 [in the usual way]. 



The servants had pulled in a whale. They were happy. Then, 

 after he had tried to communicate with the lame one for a while, he 

 told her about himself. ""I have firewood' for 3'ou back here. " (to 

 and get it. I am Supernatural-being-who-went-naked. Do not tell 

 any one about me." 



Then the slaves were told to get firewood, and they brought it in. 

 And [the chief -woman] again made a noise with her lips. "I guess 

 it must have been Gitgit who chopped down this firewood/" she"'' said 

 to him. 



One day he crept out. He got out of his skin. Then he stopped 

 making himself old. He determined to marrj^ the chief-woman. 



Then he put upon his face the painting that NAfiki'lsLas had placed 

 there first. He put on his two sky blankets'. And, after he had stood 

 there for a while, one of the servants came out. As soon as she had 

 looked at him, although still at a distance, she came toward him with 

 her arms stretched out. "'No, no, no," he said to her, and she went 

 in from him crying. 



Then she said: '•Come! look at Supernatural-being- who-went-naked 

 who stands just outside."' And another went out to him. He also 

 refused her. He refused ten. Then she who was lame went to him. 

 But he put his arm around her, and they stood there together. 



By and by he entered and married the chief-woman. He stayed with 

 her for some time. Every evening there was a star at the rear of the 

 house. He thought nothing about it. One da}^ something passing 

 under his pillow said: " Supernatural-being-who-went-naked, does the 

 eating of black cod stick you here ? '" '^ After some time had passed 

 without his having thought anything about this, it said the same thing 

 again. 



One morning, as he still la}^ in l)ed with his wife, he asked to set a 

 net. And his wife said to him: " Wait until I explain to 3^ou. You 

 have not strength enough to let it out farther. They never let out 

 more than one."^" 



Then he took the net which was hung in a corner and went to the 

 point. Whales swam about in the Avater. He let out two [meshes]. 

 Two were in it. And he could not pull it in. The other [meshes] 

 were also pulled into the water. All five were pulled in. Then he 

 went away. And where he lay he breathed hard [from the exertion]. 



Then his wife asked him: " Were the meshes of the net pulled outr" 



