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awake < Do you not feel that the supernatural beings, whom people 

 are afraid even to think of, are oatherin^- together against your' 



Then he ran out. He saw nothing. And he went out again. He 

 pulled along an old man and made him sit at the end of the town, 

 '^riiat was Heron/' they sa3^ 



One day he was again \y'mg in bed. Then something passed under 

 his pillow saying the same words as before. Then he seized his l)ow 

 and went out. Aftei- he had looked about on the surface of the salt 

 water he glanced upward. A thunderbird flew about above the town. 

 It carried [hisgrandfathei-'s] town in its claws. 



TIkmi he went to the old man and said to him: "(xrandfather, they 

 are coming after me.'' '' What is the bow of the canoe like? " "A 

 thunderbird is flj'ing a))out above the town. He carries a town in his 

 talons." And the old man said to him: "Now, brave man, shoot it 

 with arrows." 



Now he shot it with the one that had the figure of a mouse upon 

 it, and it dropped the town. Lo and behold! he (the tlumderbird) 

 burst.''' He put together their bones. If any of them was wanting, 

 he repaired it with salmon-berr}^ bushes. Then he Avent home. He 

 had restored his grandfather's town. 



Again he lay in bed in the morning. Again something, passing 

 ])eneath his pillow, said: "He-who-was-born-from-his-mother's-side, 

 are you awake? Do you not feel that the supernatural beings, whom 

 people are afraid even to think of, are coming together against you?" 

 Then he seized his bow quickly and ran out. And around a point at 

 one end of the town came ten canoes with red bows. 



Then he went over to his grandfather. ''Grandfather, they are 

 coming to fight with me by sea." And his grandfather asked him 

 what the bows of the canoes looked like. He told him that the l)ows 

 of. the canoes were red. "Now, brave man, have the town people 

 pidl I'nlin^" out of the ground and spread it before them." And he 

 did as he had said. In a short time they rolled their eyes upward. 

 Those were the silver salmon,"^" they say. 



Still another time, while he was ^y'lng down, something passing under 

 his pillow spoke the same words as before. Then he picked up his 

 bow and ran out. And he looked at those who were coming. The 

 bows of their canoes had vertical stripes. 



Then he again went to his grandfather. "The}" are coming by sea 

 to fight with me." And he said: "Stop! brave man, what are the bows 

 of their canoes like?" "The bows of their canoes have vertical stripes 

 on them." "Now, brave man, have the town pull up i'niifi ajid 

 throw it about before them." And so he had it done. At once their 

 ej'^es were rolled upward. They were the dog salmon,^' the}' say. 

 He-who-was-boi-n-from-his-mother's-side made them cowards by put- 

 ting I'nlin-teeth'-' into the]r mouths. 



