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person had been unfaithful to her husband were destroyed. They 

 also burned the town. 



One woman, who was behind the screens when the town burned, 

 escaped to the woods with her mother. Then the town was entirely 

 burned. Onl}- the woman and her mother were saved. 



At once they traveled far inland aimlessly. While they were travel- 

 ing about aimlessly they came to a high mountain, and she called aim- 

 lessly concerning her child. "Who will marry ni}' daughter?" she 

 shouted loud and long. By and by Grouse^ came fl3"ing to her. 

 " Why not li "' he said to her. " What can you do? " Then he said: 

 " When summer comes, and 1 drum on the tops of the trees, they can 

 hear my voice everywhere." Then she told him he was not good, and 

 he flew away from her. 



By and by she spoke as she had spoken before: " Who will marry 

 my child ? " Then Sparrow * flew to her. And she asked him: " What 

 can you do? " And he answered her: " I will make summer and winter 

 succeed each other by my singing, and the}^ will hear my voice every- 

 where." Then she said to him: "You are not good." And he flew 

 from her. 



When she called for her again, Klu'djix.u'' came flying to her. Then 

 she asked him what he could do, and he told her that when it was 

 summer they always liked to listen to his singing. Then she told him 

 he was not good, and he flew from her. 



All kinds of birds, which she called for her daughter, wanted to 

 marry her daughter. She kept asking them what they could do, and 

 she refused them. 



After that she again called for her daughter. She said: " Who will 

 marry my daughter?" And Deer came to her. "Why not 1?" 

 "What can you do? " "After I have traveled about I scatter earth 

 with my horns." Then she refused him. 



When she called again Black-bear also came to her. She asked him: 

 "What can you do?" "I know how to catch flsh. When I get 

 angry with anything I strike it with m}^ paws." "You are not good." 

 Then he also left her. 



When she again called Grizzly-bear also came to her. " Why not 

 I? " " What can you do? " "I am powerful. When I become angr}^ 

 with any sort of thing I tear it in pieces." And she said that he, too, 

 was not good. 



When she shouted again Beaver came to her, and she asked him 

 what he could do. Then he told her he could fell trees, and he knew 

 how to make a house in a lake. Then she said to him also: "You are 

 not good," and he, too, left her. 



All the time she was asking for her daughter, all the forest animals 

 wanted to marry her daughter. Meanwhile she kept asking them what 

 they could do. All that time she refused them. 



