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Hk who hunted birds in his father's VIELAGE 



[T(il(i ))>■ Waller McCJrt'gor of the Soalioii-town people] 



IIo was a chiefs soiu He wore two inarteii-skin l)lankets, one over 

 the other/ After he had shot birds for some time he went along 

 among some bull pines, which stood in an open space ))ehind the town 

 and presently heard geese ^ calling. Then he went thither. Two 

 women were bathing in a lake. On the shore opposite two goose 

 skins hung over a stick. The roots of their tails were spotted with 

 white. 



After he had looked a while he ran quickly [to them]. He sat down 

 on the two skins. Then they asked him for their [skins]. He asked 

 the best looking to many him. The other said to him: "Do not 

 marry my younger sister. lam smarter. Marry me." "No; I am 

 going to marry your younger sister." Now she agreed. "Even so, 

 marry my younger sister. You caught us swimming in the lake our 

 father owns. Come, give me my skin." Then he gave it to her. 

 She put her head into it as she swam in the lake. Lo, a goose swam 

 about in the lake. It swam about in it making a noise. 



Then she flew. She was unwilling to fly away from her younger 

 sister. After she had flown a])out above her for a while, she flew up. 

 She vanished through the sky. " Then he gave her (the other) one 

 marten-skin blanket and went home witii her. He ]:)ut his wife's skin 

 between the two heads of a cedar standing at one end of the town. 

 He entered his father's house with her. 



The chief's son had a wife. So his father called the people together 

 for the marriage feast. They gave her food. Instead [of eating it] 

 she merely smelled it. She ate no kind of human food. 



B}^ and by her mother-in-law steamed some tclal.'' Rut she liked 

 that. While her mother-in-law was yet cooking them she told her 

 husband to tell her to hurry. They put some l)efore her. She ate it 

 all. Then the}^ began giving her that only to eat. 



One day, when he was asleep, he was surprised to And that his 

 wife's skin, after she came in and lay dow n, was cold. And, when the 

 same thing happened again," he began watching her. He lay as if 

 asleep. He felt her get up quietly. Then she went out, and he also 

 went out just after her. She passed in front of the town. She went 

 to the place where her skin was kept. Thence she flew away. She 

 alighted on the farther side of a point at one end of the town. 



Then he went thither quickly. She was eating the stalks of the sea 

 irrass which otow there. As the waves broke in thev moved her shore- 



