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he had brouj,^ht him to the end of Many-ledges' town, Greatest Hopper 

 went back. 



Then he changed hmiself into knots and at evening floated ashore in 

 front of the town, awaiting until his children came down to defecate. 

 By and by they came down. "See the driftwood which has floated 

 ashore. It is wonderful, because driftwood never floats ashore in 

 father's village.'' Then they picked it up and laid it down near the 

 door. Then they forgot it. 



And, when they were going to bed, they thought of it and brought 

 it in. He (Many-ledges) started to cut it up with one of his Ave 

 stone adzes. It broke. Then he took another. He struck it with 

 that, too. That, too, ])roke. After the same thing had happened to 

 four, be split it in pieces with the last one. Then he was glad. And 

 he put it into the fire. 



VViien the daughters went to bed he shot in as a spark. Then he sat 

 at the head of the bed and laid his hands on them. " Who are you?" 

 [they said]. And he said, " It is I." " Who is I ? " "I am He-who- 

 got-supernatural-power-from-his-little-finger." AVhen he was a bo}'^ 

 and was whittling, something stuck into his little finger.^" That is 

 why he was so called. Then the woman" said: "For him alone my 

 father has kept me." 



And, when she replied to him, he married her. When day broke 

 her father said: " I wonder what supernatural being was talking to my 

 daughter last night. I had her for He-who-got-supernatural-power- 

 from-his-little-finger." Then she said to her father: "Father, he is 

 the one, he says." 



"Now, my child, come down and sit b}^ the fire with 3''our husband." 

 And they came down and sat there. They spread out a mat for him, 

 and he gave him food. The}' l)rought out berries and grease. Flames 

 came out of them. They put some into a tray and set it before him. 

 The woman told him not to eat it. After he had swallowed medicine 

 four times he took some. When he had taken two mouthfuls he 

 stopped. It passed quickly through his insides burning. He stood up 

 and, where he had sat, smoke rose. 



Next day he said to his daughter: " Let your husband go and get an 

 alder for me which stands behind the house." And he got up quickly. 

 Then she clung to her husband crying. "Alas! the .supernatural beings 

 think they can do everything. They have me marry their sons. By 

 and by he begins to do this way." Then he said to his wife: "Let 

 me go. I will see v. hat he is going to do to me." And she said to her 

 husband: "Go to it after it has come together and lightning has flashed 

 in it four times." 



Then his father-in-law gave him a stone wedge, and he went along 

 a trail running inland side of the house. After he had gone in some 

 distance [he saw] it standing far ofl". After it had come together and 



