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Then h(> took his iirrows. His futher-iii-law said that they pushed the 

 cat>le down with a pok\ Then he went thither. After its eye mucus 

 had dropped four times he shot it up through the l^elly. He went to 

 the other side jdso and shot it from that side as welL P)ut it did not 

 do anything, th(\y say. 



Then he scattered half of it around. "All future people will make 

 use of 3^ou." And he carried half of it off on his shoulders. The 

 bones of two persons came out. Then he threw it into the house. 

 His father-in-law said: "Alas! he has killed my supernatural helper." 

 And agaiii he lay with his wife. 



Next day he said to his daughter as before: "Come! my child, let 

 your husband go and get my little clam on the point." And again she 

 went to her hus])and. Still he started thither. And she gave her hus- 

 l)and directions: "Go to it after it has spit out water four times." 

 And his father-in-law said: "The3'' get it by means of a stick." 



Then he gave him a digging stick, and he went thither. After it 

 had spit up water four times, he w^ent to it and started to get it with 

 a stick; he suddenly found himself in its mouth. 



When he thought of his father''s supernatural helpers, they came to 

 him holding Hat, broad clubs. They struck on its ligaments (lit., 

 "eyes"),'* and they pulled him out. Then he scattered half of it 

 around. "All future people will make use of these," he said. He 

 took half of it, went home with it, and threw it down in the house. 

 "Alas! he has killed my supernatural helper." Again he lay w^ith his 

 wife. 



The day after that he had a fire lighted. They rul)bed hard, white 

 stones together, and it burned.^'' He told them to put stones into it. 

 At once they did so. When they became hot thej" put them into a 

 stone l)ox lying near the door. Then his father-in-law told him to get 

 in. At once he stood up and, after he had spit medicine upon himself 

 four times, he sat in it. Jt was cold. 



TluMi they })ut the box cover over it. After he had sat there for a 

 while he tapped upon the side of it. Then he (his father-in-law) made 

 a no.se at him with his lips. He said: "I guess I have killed him." 



By and ))y he stood up, throwing his hair back out of it. And he 

 kicked the box to pieces and threw the pieces around the side of the 

 house toward the door. His father-in-law became ashamed. He had 

 destroyed his ten supernatural helpers. After that his mind became 

 good toward iiim."' 



The deviltish he killed was in the cave at Skedans point, they say. 

 And his father-in-law, Many-ledges, was a cliff l)ehind the town of 

 Skedans. 



His mind had become changed toward him. After he had stayed 

 with his wife for a whil(> he told his wife he wanted to return home. 

 Then she told her father, and her father said: "Now, my child, go 



