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He attain started alono- the trail. After he had gone on for a whiU^ 

 jhesavvja mouse with cranberries in its mouth going along before 

 him. She came to a fallen tree. She could not get over it. Then he 

 took her by the back with his lingers and put her across. Her tail 

 was bent up between her ears [for joy], and she went on before him. 

 Presently she went among the stalks of a clump of ferns. 



Now he rested himself there. Something said to him: "The chief- 

 woman asks you to come in." Then he raised the ferns. He stood in 

 front of a big house. He entered. The chief-woman was steaming 

 cranberries. She talked as she did so. Her voice sounded sharp. 

 And, after she had given him something to eat, Mouse-woman said to 

 him: " You helped me when 1 went to get some poor cranberries from 

 a patch I own. 1 will lend you what \ wore when I went hunting 

 when I was young."' 



Then she brought out a box. After she had opened a nest of live 

 boxes, she took out of the inmost a mouse skin with small, bent claws. 

 And she said to him: "Practice wearing this." And, although it was 

 so small, he entered it. It went on easily. Then he climbed around 

 upon the roof of the house inside. And Mouse-woman said to him 

 again: " You know how to use it. Now go on." 



Again he set out upon the trail. After he had gone along for a while 

 he heard some one granting under a heavy burden. Then he came to 

 the place. A woman was trying to carry off a pile of large, tlat stones 

 upon her back. The twisted cedar limbs she had kept breaking. After 

 he had looked at her for a while he went out to her. "Say, what are 

 you doing?" Then the woman said: "They got me to carry the moun- 

 tains of the Haida island. I am doing it." 



Then he took out his thongs and said to her: "Let me tix it." And 

 he bound the thongs around it. He said to her "Now carry it on 

 your back," and she carried it. It did not break. Then the woman 

 said to him: "Now, brave man, thank you for helping me. The trail 

 to your wife's place runs here." 



Then he set out upon it. After he had gone on for a while he came 

 to a hill in an open place on toj:) of which rose something red." Then 

 he went to it. Around the l)ottom of this something lay human 

 bones. There was no way in which one could go up. Then he entered 

 the mouse skin and ru})bed salmon eggs before him [on the pole). 

 He went up after it. \Vhen he stood on top of this he clambered up 

 on the sky. 



There, too, there ran a trail, and he started off upon it. After he 

 had gone on for a while he heard the noise of laughter and singing. 

 After he had gone on a while longer [he came to where] a big stream 

 flowed down. Near it sat Eagle. On the other side also sat Heron. 

 Above sat Kingfisher. On the other side sat Black Bear. He (black 



