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But the two porpoises knew his thoughts, and said: " Lk'anqeos'g.a'noe 

 (= Jumping-on-one-leg, name of the poor boy) wishes to have the para- 

 phernalia which his father wore w^hen dancing." His uncle promised 

 to give them to him. Then he pulled out the bone and healed his 

 cousin. 



Now he wore a beautiful apron instead of his mat apron; he used a 

 wooden rattle instead of his shell rattle, and a bone wand instead of 

 his wooden wand. Now he was a great shaman. 



After some time he heard about a great chief whose name was 

 T'eckoa'naye. He wished to visit him. He had a beautiful daughter 

 whom all the chiefs desired to marry, but he did not accept them. He 

 killed all her suitors. He invited them to a meal and made them sit 

 down near the fire. Then he put four stones into his lire, and, when 

 they were red-hot, he put them into a dish. Then he made them swal- 

 low the stones. 



Now, SLEg.otsg.a'noe intended to marry this girl. Before he went 

 there the crane visited him. He gave him a medicine which caused 

 water to gather in his mouth so that it cooled the stones. When he 

 reached the chief's house he chewed this medicine and was able to 

 swallow the stones without any iniur3^ 



He came to a place where there were rock slides all the time. Then 

 he chewed a medicine called xu'ntsd'ala, and he came to a place near 

 Skidegate. Then he took his strap of mountain-goat wool. He threw 

 it over Skidegate straits and stepped across it, using it as a bridge. 

 Then he threw it down once more, and thus reached her house. He 

 thought: "1 wish the girl would come outside to-night." 



Then she went out of the house and sat dow^n on the beach to defe- 

 cate. The boy assumed the shape of a burl, which la}^ on the beach 

 in front of the house. The girl said to her slave: "Carry the burl 

 into the house," because she wished her father to make a hook from 

 it. The slave carried it home and told the chief that his daughter 

 wished him to make a hook out of the wood. Then the chief asked 

 for his ax, intending to split the wood. When he hit it his ax broke. 

 Then the chief was sad. He took another ax, but it broke also. Then 

 he threw the wood into the fire. 



In the evening the chief's daughter retired to her room, which was 

 separated from the main room by a large plank. When the wood was 

 burned the boy in the shape of ashes flew into the girl's room. There 

 he assumed his human shape. She asked him: "Who are you? I 

 want to marry no one but SLEg.otsg.a'noe." Then he replied: " I am 

 SLEg.otsg.a'noe." Then she was glad and allowed him to lie down with 

 her. They talked all night. Early the next morning the chief rose. 

 He spat and bethought: "Who is talking to ni}' daughter? 1 don't 

 want anyone to become ni}^ son-in-law except SLEg.otsg.a'noe." Then 

 his daughter shouted: " He has arrived!" Then the old chief was glad. 



