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Next diiy her hu.sbiuul ;i«>ain went tishing. Afterward she went after 

 roots aj4'ain. No .sooner had she got out than a noise arose inside of 

 the house. At that time she did not return so soon. Then she 

 j>athered a quantity of dry firewood and looked in again. Again the 

 skins hung upon the pole in the i"ear of the house. And, Avheii she 

 made a noise with the door again, they went over quickly and pulled 

 their skins down. They lay around the fire. And again she put them 

 into the celhir. When LAguadji'na came home again he asked her: 

 "My child's mother, what made the noise in the town?" "The dog- 

 was playing with himself and made a noise on the floor planks." 



When he went fishing again, the dog lay on the opposite side of the 

 fire. Then she threw a stone at him and said to him: "Who does not 

 get wood for the mother of his children?" And he got up. He 

 shook himself and went out. Then there was a noise behind the 

 house, and she looked at him between the house planks. One with a 

 big knot of hair Avhich fell below his buttocks and a striped skin rolled 

 the firewood about. After the noise had gone on for a while outside, 

 lie came in. He shook himself and lay doAvn again on the opposite 

 side of the fire. 



AMien her husband came home he asked her: "Where did that good 

 firewood come from? " " Why, that is [from a tree] which fell behind 

 us and which I rolled out to an open place." 



Next day her husband went fishing again, and she went after roots. 

 Just before she went out, she put wood on the fire. Soon after she 

 went out a noise arose in the house. Then she crept quietl}^ thither. 

 She had shut the door to easily. When she looked in [she saw that] 

 the skins were again hung in the rear of the house. They were 

 l)ushing each other about. 



After she had looked for a while they pushed each other toward 

 the corner, and she ran in quickly. She gathered the skins together 

 quickly and put them into the fire. At once they burned up. Then 

 the\' sat in a row on the other side from her. One among them was 

 a woman. 



Then she said to them: "My children, when your father comes home 

 and eats, do not look toward him. After he is through eating I will 

 let you eat also. People never look him in the face." 



Then Sawall'xa ran out. His father was fishing seaw^ard. He said, 

 "Ho hu'-u-u-u hu.'" The more his mother tried to stop him, the 

 more he shouted. When he (her husband) came home she again 

 steamed food for him. After she had laid it before him she turned 

 her face from him toward the door. Before he had eaten Sawall'xa 

 arose, picked up a fat piece from the edge of a split fish, and stood 

 around eating it. After he had finished it, he picked up another. 

 When he had finished that as well he pushed away the tray. 



