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ward, lie suw it. Then she llcw 14) to tlic place where her [leather | 

 .skin had been kept. And he entered the house before her. Then he 

 lay down where th(\v had their bed, after Avhioh his wife lay down cokl 

 beside him. 



They became nearly starved in the town. One day the woman said 

 to him from the place where she was sitting: "Now my father has sent 

 down food to me." Behind the town geese were coming down mak- 

 ing a great noise, and she went thither. They went with her. All 

 kinds of good food lay there, such as tclJlP and wild clover roots. 

 They brought them away. For this her father-in-law called in the 

 people. 



When this was gone she said the same thing again: "Now my father 

 is bringing food down to me." Geese again made a great noise com- 

 ing down behind the town, and she went thither. Again heaps of food 

 of all kinds lav around, and they carried that also out. For that, too, 

 her father-in-law called together the people. 



At that time some one in the town said: "They think a great deal of 

 goose food.'" The woman heard it. Inniiediately she went off. Her 

 hus))and in vain tried to stop her. She went off as one of a strange 

 family would. In the same way he tried to stop her in front of the 

 town. She went to the place where her skin was. She flew up. She 

 flew around above the town for a while. Her heart was not strong to 

 fly awa}^ from her husband. By and by she vanished through the sky. 



Then her husband began to walk about the town wailing. By and 

 b}' he entered the house of an old man at one end of the town and 

 asked him : " Do you not know the trail that leads to my wife ?" " W hy , 

 brave man, 3'ou married the daughter of a supernatural being too 

 great for people even to think of.'' At once he began bringing over 

 all sorts of things to him. After he had given him twisted cedar 

 limbs, a gimlet, and bones,* he said to him: "Now, brave man, take 

 oil. Take two wooden wedges also. Take, as well, a comb, thongs, 

 boxes of salmon eggs, the skin of a silver salmon, the point of a salmon 

 spear." After he had got all these he came to him. "Old man, here 

 are all the things you told me to take." "Now, brave man. goon. 

 The trail runs iidand behind my house." 



Then he started in on it. After he had gone on for a while he came 

 to some one who was looking upon himself "for lice. Every time he 

 turned around the lice fell ofl' from him. After he had looked at him 

 unobserved for a while he said to him: "Now, brave man, do not 

 tickle me by looking at me.^ It was in my mind that you were com- 

 ing." Then he came out to him and combed his head. He also put 

 oil on it. He cleared him of lice. He gave the comb and the hair 

 oil to him. Then he said to him: "This trail leads to the place where 

 vour wife is." 



