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})ear) had no claws, lie said to Eai>lo: "(ji-andfathor, lend me some 

 claws." Then he lent him some. At that time he came to have claws. 



After he had sat there for a while a half man came vaulting along.' 

 He had only one leg and one arm. H(> had but half a head. He 

 speared silver salmon in the river and pulled them in. Then he 

 entered his silver salmon skin and swam up to meet him. When he 

 speared him he could not pull him down. Then he cut his string. 

 And the half man said: " What did it is like a human being." 



Now he came to him. "' Say, did something pull oft' your spear 

 point r' ''Yes," he said to him. Then he gave him the one he had. 

 That was Master Hopper, they say. Aftei" he had gone up [he came 

 upon] two large old men who had come after firewood. They were 

 cutting at the trunks of rotten trees and throwing the chi^js into the 

 wat»M', when silver salmon went down in a shoal. 



He went behind and put stones in from behind, and their wedges 

 were broken oft". Then he (one) said: "Alas, they will make trouble 

 for us." Then he went to them and gave them his two wedges. The}" 

 were glad and said to him: "This house is your wife's." 



Then he went out [to itj. He went and stood in front of the house. 

 His wife came out to him. Then he went in with her. She was glad 

 to see her husband. She was the towni chiefs daughter. He remained 

 in the town as her husV)aiid. And all the things they gathered he, 

 too, gathered along with them. 



After he had been there for some time he came to dislike the place. 

 And his wife told her father. Then his father-in-law called the people. 

 In the house he asked them: "Who will take my son-in-law dowuT' 

 And Loon said: "I will take down your son-in-law."" And he said to 

 him: "How will 3'ou do itT" And he said: "T will put him near my 

 tail, dive into the water right in front with him, come up at the end 

 of his father's village, and let him oft." Then they thought he was 

 not sti'ong enough foi' it. 



Then he asked again, (irche said the same thing. Him, too, they 

 thought not strong enough to do it. Then Raven said that he would 

 take him down. And they askid him: " How are 3'ou going to do itT' 

 *' 1 will put him into my ai'mpit and Hy down with him from the end 

 of the town. When 1 get tired I will fall over and over with him." 

 Then they thought he could do it. ^ 



They stood in a crowd at the end of the town looking at him. He 

 (lid with liiui as he had said, ^^^len ho became very tired and was 

 nearly down he threw him oft' u[)()n a icef which lay there. " Yu- 

 waiya', what a heavy thing 1 am taking down." Shortly he (the man) 

 was makino' a noise there as a sea trull.** 



