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Then they began to dig. They dug after the sound of his ci\ving in 

 the earth. By and bj^ they dug out the tail of the marten he wore as a 

 blanket. There are now ditches in that place. 



The chief's children in the town of Kaisun went on a picnic. They 

 had a picnic behind Narrow-cave.^ Then all went out of the cave from 

 the town chief's daughter. Some of them went to drink water. Part 

 of them went aftei- food. Some of them also went to get fallen limbs 

 [for firewood]. 



Then she thought "I wish these rocks would fall upon me," and 

 toward her they fell. Then she heard them talking and weeping out- 

 side. And, after she had also cried for a while, she started a lire. 

 Then she felt sleepy and slept. She awoke. A man la}' back to the 

 tire on the opposite side. That was Narrow-cave, they say. 



Then he looked at her, and he asked her: ""Say! noble woman, ^ what 

 sort of things have they put into your ears ?" And the child said to him : 

 "They drove sharp knots into them and put mountain sheep wool into 

 them." Then he took sharp knots out of a little box he used as a pil- 

 low. Now Narrow-cave laid his head on some planks for her, and she 

 pushed them into his ears. " Wa wa wa wa wa, it hurts too much." 

 Then she at once stopped. And, when he asked her to do it again, 

 she again had him put his head on the plank. It hurt him, but still she 

 drove it into his ear. His buttocks moved a while, and then he was dead. 



Then she again cried for a while. She heard the noise of some teeth 

 at work and presently saw light through a small hole. Then she put 

 some grease around it, and the next day it got larger. Every morning 

 the hole was larger, until she came out. It was Mouse who nibbled 

 through the rock. 



Then she was ashamed to come out, and, when it was evening, she 

 came and stood in front of her father's house. And one of her father's 

 slaves said she was standing outside. They told him he lied. They 

 whipped him for it. 



Then her father's nephew went out to look for her. She was really 

 standing there. And her father brought out moose hides for her. 

 She came in upon them. They laid down moose hides for her in the 

 rear of the house. She came in and sat there. 



Then her father called in the people. She recounted in the house 

 the things that had happened. When she had finished she became as 

 one who falls asleep. The}^ guessed that she had gone into his 

 (Narrow-cave's) house to live. 



One moonlight night they (the children) went to Tc!ixodA'nq!et^ to 

 pla3^ And two persons came to a boy who Avas walking far behind, 

 took him off with them, and led him to a fine house. 



