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took that out he also seized that. " What will happen when yon sing 

 for it^'" ''There will l>e two wiiales," That, too. he I'et'used. 



Then Supernatural -beinu- at- whose-voice-the-rav^ens-sit-on-the-sea 

 beeauie angry. Now he said to him: "This he also refuses. What 

 can you do, Big-tail ? I will destroy you with a strong current of 

 water." And he said to hiui: "Let it flow at nie'. Human beings will 

 laugh at you." 



And. when they talked well to each other again, he took another 

 out. While the}' yet held this one between them, he saw it was a 

 chief's dancing headdress with the carving of a hawk upon it.' And 

 he reat'hed right into the box for it. And the}' held it between them 

 in the box. 



Then he again asked him: " What will happen when one sings for 

 it ( " And he said to him: "There will be ten whales." He also refused 

 that. While they held the dancing hat between them, some handsome 

 persons with curly hair over their foreheads and large eyes kept com- 

 ing out from behind the screens and going back again. He wanted 

 them and pointed at them. "Let those persons sing." And he refused 

 to give them away. All that time he also held the dance hat. By and 

 by he let liim have [these along with] the headdress. Then they struck 

 the two persons on the nose and pushed them out. 



In that house he learned how to tie on the strings of the headdress. 

 When he had flnished learning how the tlicker feathers were going to 

 be placed upon it, he went away from him again. 



Then he imitated the headdress. And, when it was finished, he 

 danced with it on. And he began to say: "The sea otter will come 

 floating." And he said: "One is floating on the seaward side of Sqai'- 

 yas."" Then they went to get it. It was really floating there. As 

 he had seen already, blood was running out of its nose. After that, as 

 he sat in the house, he told them where another one was floating. 

 And when they went there it was really so. 



Afterward they kept on being found in this way. When one was 

 out in a good place where currents met, he did not count whether 

 there werc^ flfteen, twenty, or ten." Then he said if they would give 

 iiim and Ids mother some of them, he would always have them found 

 floating in this way. 



Then they began flnding whales in the place whei'e he had told them 

 there were whales, although th«\v had not found them. They now 

 found them, although he did not say [again] that they were there.^" 

 They ceased getting sea otter. 



Afterward, when he had acted as a shaman does for a while, he said: 

 "I wonder what is going on in the house of Supernatural-being-at- 

 whose-voice-the-nivens-sit-on-the-sea. I wonder why a drum sounds." 

 Then he chewed to))acco and said he would go down and see. And he 

 fell asleep. After he had slept for a while, tcoxo'xo (noise of waking 



