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pliu-od the whetstono on his hack. When they stru(;k it upon him 

 that also slipped oti'. That, too, fell upon the stone floor planks. 



And the}^ got another one. When the same thing happened to that 

 the^' got a long one. After they had warmed that, also, for a while 

 they l^ent him over. He again placed the whetstone on his back. 

 When they struck that one on, it also fell to the stone floor planks. 

 After four attempts they gave it up. 



Then the chief said: '"Let him out. He refuses the tins. Put him 

 into a sea lion's stomach.'' And the chief said to him : "After you have 

 floated al)()ut and have struck against land four times, get out. You 

 will have floated ashore on good ground." At once they put him into 

 a sea lion's stomach, and he tied it together from inside. They threw 

 him out. 



And, after he had floated shoreward and had floated against the land 

 four times, he got out. He had floated ashore upon a nice beach. 

 Then he again tied up the sea lion's stomach air-tight and threw it out. 

 The stomach vanished seaward against the wind. 



Then he started toward the town and sta3red at the end of it until 

 evening. And in the evening he looked in at his wife. He saw that 

 his wife's hair was burnt short and pitch was upon her face. He also 

 saw his two children sitting there. Then he tapped on the wall oppo- 

 site his wife, and his wife went out. Then he said to his wife: '' Bring 

 me my tools." Then she gave them to him. And he said: "Do not 

 let anyone know about me. Conceal it even from my children." 



And, when he started off from there, he took one from among some 

 children who were playing about and started inland with him. After 

 he had gone on for some time he came to where a big lake lay. Then 

 he cut on the lakeward side of a large cedar standing near it. And, 

 after he had cut it on the back side, it fell across the lake. Then he 

 split it from the butt end, and, as soon as he had split it, he put a 

 crosspiece in. 



Then he twisted cedar limbs. He spliced them together. When 

 the rope became long he fastened the child to it. Then he let it 

 down between. After it struck the bottom, and he had held it for 

 a while it began jerking, and he pulled it toward himself. The lake 

 was also l)oiling. Its hands came out first. And when its head fol- 

 1 )we.d them to the surface, he knocked out the ))race quickly. It 

 struggled in it. After he had struck it several times it died. 



Then he pulled it out. He was going to cut it open in front. 

 Lightning shot about. So he cut it open, beginning at the lower 

 part of its back. Then he skinned it. Its tail was nice. It was bent 

 over. Then he lighted a fire and dried it. That was a Wa'sg.o, they 

 say. When it w^as di-y he rolled it up and brought it out. 



Then he hid it in a forked cedar tree at the end of the town. He 

 put moss over it. Then he started for the end of the town and made 

 killer whales out of cedar. He put fins on them and kicked them into 



