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moved his wings, and they saw that he looked nice. | Then Diver 
said: ‘That youth said, ‘You shall | go to the shore there. He will 
make you look the same way as IJ am.’”’ || Then all the ducks 
went ashore. Ya.ukte’;ka’m | took off the feathers of all of them. 
He said to them: ‘‘Now | swim out again and play. It, will be this 
way: | in the fall your feathers will he, long again; in, the spring they 
will | come off, and others will grow.”’ Then he said | to the ducks: 
“You may fly to a nice place there back from the shore. There are | 
lakes all over that place, and you shall visit all of them. | Then in 
the fall come back here to this your country; | but there far away 
it is very cold.’’ Then the ducks swam away. | They were glad. 
Ya.uk"e’;ka°m made them look nice. || Then they looked at one an- 
other, and all the ear ornaments had become pretty feathers. | Then 
Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m tookthe feathers |andwent back. Then Ya-uk"e’;ka‘m 
did this. There are|ducks all over the country in the summer time. 
Long ago | the ducks did not come ashore out on the big sea. || 
Aa: uke’ ika‘m went back to his tent. | 
(d) YA.UK’E’,KA’M OBTAINS THE ARROW- STRAIGHTENER 
There hestaid. He said: ‘“‘I wish I had am arrow straightener!” 
Frog said: | ‘There is none, but people die where there are | arrow 
straighteners. Mountain-sheep Ramhasthem. Hekillsthose | who 
go to get them.” Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m started. He thought: || “Let me 
start, even if my uncleshould kill me.” The Ram was | the brother 
of Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m’s mother. He arrived there, and there was a tent. | 
He entered. An old man with long hair was seated there. Now, 
this | old man with long hair was called Bighorn. | Bighorn said: 
“What do you want?” Ya.uke’;ka‘m said: || “I want an arrow 
straightener.”” Bighorn said: ‘There is none here | in my tent. It 
is hanging on the other side of the river. I'll take you across in my 
canoe.” | Then he took him across. When Ya.uk*e’;ka‘m was about 
tocome, | his grandmother had told him what the old man | would do 
to him. When he had taken him across, Ya.uk%e’;ka°m was told:|| 
“Now go on, climb up the mountain! Farther alongit hangs. You | 
shall bring it.””. Then Ya.uke’;ka‘m knew that (Bighorn) intended 
to kill him. | He went up and went on some distance. Then he 
went up again. He looked at the | old man, who was going back in 
his canoe. When he was in the middle of the water, he took | some- 
thing, put it. into the water, and shook it in the water, and sang, | 
saying: | 
‘“‘T always take them across in my canoe, he he ha, he he ha!’’? | 
Thenhe put it back into the canoe and went back. Now, Ya.uk"e’;- 
ka‘m | knew very well what the old man had done. He had been 
1 My interpreter could not translate the words of this song, but Ae, it in the way given here. 
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