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and said to his mother: "Pick and eat them.-' Then his mother picked 

 them and steamed them. When they were cooked she ate them. 

 His mother tried to have him eat some. But he shook his head. He 

 absolutely refused. 



Then he again went oft'. He came back. He brought many song- 

 sparrows.'' and his mother steamed them and ate. But he did not eat. 

 Next day he went off again. He brought in a number of mallard," and 

 his mother plucked and singed them. She pulled them apart and 

 ate one. 



And next day he started oft' again. He brought in a number of 

 geese.' He went off the next da3^ He brought a white porpoise," 

 and he brought a hair seal." The day after he brought a whale.'" He 

 had stopped hunting birds. 



Then he started oft' again. He stayed awajr longer than usual and 

 brought in many flickers." Then he said to his mother: "After 3^ou 

 have skinned these, lay the sinews on one side." Then his mother 

 skinned them and laid the sinews on one side. And, after she had fin- 

 ished, she placed them together. She made five rows, and she sewed 

 them together with their own sinews. After she had finished he 

 shook it. The flickers upon it went flying back and foi'th. 



Then he stretched his mothers house. He set up two planks in the 

 rear of the house. Between them he hung the blanket. 



Next day he went out and brought home woodpeckers.'" Then she 

 treated those in the same wa}^ in order to make a blanket. After she 

 had finished he went to it and shook it. Upon that, too, the birds 

 flew about in a flock. Then he went to bed. He ate nothing all that 

 time. All that time he fasted. 



Then he again set out. After he had sta^'ed away longer than before 

 he brought in a bunch of tanagers.''' Those, too, his mother made 

 [into a blanket]. When it was finished, he also went to that. He 

 shook it. Those also flew about upon it. He laid that, too, on top of 

 [the planks] in the rear of the house. 



Next day he started oft' again and brought home a bunch of 

 sixAsLdA'lgana.'* Those his mother also sewed into a blanket. And, 

 when it was finished, he shook it. They ftew about upon it. He laid 

 that upon [the planks] also. 



The next day he went out again. [He got] blue jays,'^ and his 

 mother sewed those together. 



After that he again started oft'. After he had })een absent for some 

 time he returned with the daughter of He-who-travcls-behind-us,"' 

 whom he had married. 



After he had lived with her a while, one morning he continued to 

 lie abed. While he was still in bed, something went along under his 

 pillo-wr talking. " He-whorwas-born-from-his-mother's-side, are you 



