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And then his wife became pregnant. And her thigh was swollen, as 

 that of his mother had been. Out of it came a woman. Within ten 

 nights she started to walk. She was he himself born again. 



And ))efore he went away he stole a look at his father-in-law. Then 

 he prepared to leave [him]. "I will go to renew my town, which has 

 become old." And one evening he started. He was gone for good. 



And he came to his town. His town was old, and he spit medicine 

 upon it. It was as it had been before. Then his wife went back to 

 her father's town. 



And one of his uncles who was in the town went out one evening. 

 Something took him up. Then he took their wives also to the town. 

 That was the Moon who was helping them, because she raised her 

 hands and wept. Then he took all of his uncles up and let them 

 become his servants. There he took good care of them. 



This was told me by an old man who had spent much of his youth among the 

 Kaigani, and it is probably a mainland story. 



^ Brothers-in-law, brothers, and uncles are to be understood as applying to large 

 bodies of men who are members of the same or of the opposite clan. 



^ See the story of He-who-\vas-born-from-his-mother's-side, note 4. 



^The Western Robin (Merula migratoria propiiiqua, Ridgw.). 



*A common metai^hor. 



^Although restoration to life is couunou enough, I'estoration to youth is spoken of 

 nowhere else in the stories I have collected. 



