348 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 29 



Slauohter-i.ovkr, 



[Told by Richard of tlu" Midrtle-GUi'ns.] 



A chief in a certain town was married. Then he asked a good- 

 looking woman in a neighboring town in marriage. After a while he 

 married her. On her account he rejected the one he had first married, 

 and she sat around in the corner of the house weeping. 



Then the uncles and the brothers of the one he had just married 

 came to him, and he gave them food. They were unable to consume 

 the cranberries and berries of all kinds which he gave them to eat. 

 During the same time, his brothers-in-law^ gave him much propert3^ 



Once, when they went to bed, the one he disliked was weeping in 

 the corner for her dead child with pitch on her face. And in the 

 night she went to one of the chief's ])rothei's-in-law of medium age 

 who had paint on his face and feathers on his head. Then the woman 

 rubbed herself against the paint upon his face, and she rubbed herself 

 upon his hair. Then she went to where she had been lying. 



Next morning the woman's nose and face had paint upon them, and 

 her face had feathers upon it. And the man's face also had spots of 

 pitch upon it. Then the chief took to his bed [with grief]. She did 

 this because she wanted to see whether he had really rejected her: 

 Then his brothers-in-law went away. 



Some time after that he sent out to call his brothers-in-law, and his 

 brothers-in-law came to him. Then he gave them food. And they 

 went to bed. All slept. Then he put water on the fire, and he spilled 

 it on them. And their bodies lay there motionless. Then he dragged 

 the dead bodies of his wife's brothers^ and uncles^ to the bases of the 

 trees. And he again refused to have her. 



Now her mother (the mother of his second wife) was saved and 

 cried about. She wept continually, holding her arms toward the sky. 

 Then the chief went to the town and killed all the old people in it. 

 And her mother went inland, made a house out of old cedar bark at a 

 certain mountain, and wept there. All that time she held her hands 

 toward the sk3^ 



By and by her thigh swelled up. Before ten nights had passed it 

 burst, and a child came out. Then she washed him. And not a long- 

 time afterward he wept for a bow. Then she broke off a hemlock 

 branch and made one for him. Then he went out and brought in a 

 wren.~ He skinned it and dried the skin. 



The next time he went out he killed and brought in a song sparrow 

 that went whistling along. And he also skinned that. He went out 



