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

 " Let nie go. I will see the thing with which lie is going to do [harm] 

 tome." And his wife gave him directions. "After it has looked at 

 3'ou and growled four times go to it." 



Then he started for it. He was going to kill it with a club whicii 

 his father-in-law gave him. After he had gone toward it for a while 

 he saw it lying there. After it had looked at him and growled four 

 times he went to it. When he came near it it breathed in. He went 

 into its mouth. 



And again he thought of his father's supernatural helpers. Again 

 they came to him bearing bone clubs. They clubbed the sea lion on 

 the head. They killed it. When he (the youth) was almost dead 

 they pulled him out of its mouth. Then he put medicine upon him- 

 self and was restored. 



Then he pulled the sea lion apart. The bones of three persons fell 

 out of it. Then he tore half of it in pieces and threw them around. 

 " You will be useful to all future people." And he carried off half of 

 the sea lion and threw it in through the doorway. His father-in-law 

 said: "Alas! he has killed my supernatural helper," Then he lay 

 behind the screen again with his wife. 



Next day he again said to his daughter: "Come! ni}^ child, let your 

 husband go for my little hair seal yonder."' And at once he arose. 

 Again his wife clung weeping to him. "He always lets me marry the 

 sons of the supernatural beings who think themselves powerful. By 

 and by he begins to treat them this way." And he said to his Avife: 

 "Let me go. I will see the thing with which he does it." "After it 

 growls and looks toward you four times go to it," she said to him. 



Then his father-in-law gave him a bone club, and he set out to it. 

 After he reached it, and the hair seal had looked at him and growled 

 four times he went thither, and it ])reathed in. He was in its mouth. 



Again he thought of his father's supernatural helpers, and again 

 thej^ came to him bearing bone clubs. They struciv the hair seal on 

 the head and killed it. Then they pulled him out, and he rubbed 

 medicine upon himself. 



Then he pulled the hair seal apart. Half of the hair seal he pulled 

 in pieces and scattered around. "This will l)e useful to all future 

 people." Out of this, also, poured the bones of two persons. Then 

 he carried off half of the hair seal upon his shoulder and threw it down 

 in the house. His father-in-law said: "Alas! he has killed my super- 

 natural helper." Again he lay with his wife behind the screens. 



The day after that he said to his daughter: " Come! let your husband 

 go and get my little eagle sitting yonder." Again she did not want her 

 husband to go, and he said to his wife: "Let me go as before. I will 

 see the thing with which he is going to do it to me." Then she said 

 to her husband: "Go to it after its eye nuicus has dropped four 

 times." 



