T(^"s°''] CIK^A MYTH— TRANSLATION. 19 



tire to the i>itchwood. He went out. Now the liouse began to burn 

 The old man said: " Heh! brother-in law! Else! We are goin^ to be 

 burnt." He arose and found that the door was locked. Now he him- 

 self and his son were burnt. 



Then she searched for her uncles. She found them in the woods and 

 carried them to the water. She blew some water on the bodies. Then 

 they all arose. They went home. They went a long distance and came 

 to a lake. They bathed in the lake. Now the woman [their sister] 

 dived and said: "Shall I dive?" The brothers replied: "Yes, dive!" 

 "Do I look pretty in this lake?" " Yes, you look ])retty in the lake." 

 She dived again. " Shall I dive?" "Yes, dive." " Do I look pretty 

 in this lake?" "Yes, you look pretty in the lake." Then she dived 

 again. After she had dived three times hair began to grow on her. 

 She said again: "Do I look pretty in this lake?" "Oh, no! you do 

 not look pretty in this lake." "Eh, why did you not tell me before?" 

 Now she had dived live times, and she remained always in the lake and 

 became a monster. They took only their niece along. They arrived at 

 their house and stayed there. Now all the people wanted to marry the 

 girl, but the brothers did not give her away. Finally a chief married 

 her and she remained with him. 



Now, Blue-jay was discontented because she never laughed. After 

 a time she said [to her husband j: "I am getting tired. Go far 

 away, then I shall laugh." "No, no, don't laugh!" After some time 

 she said again: "I am getting tired." Then her husband replied: 

 "Well, then laugh now." She said: "I will laugh because Blue jay 

 makes me tired. Go into the woods! Lie down on your knees and 

 elbows and close your ears." Then early in the morning she went to 

 bathe. She took a comb and combed herself. Then she went out. 

 Now she said : " Where are you. Blue jay ? Now I shall laugh. Haha- 

 heh! Blue-jay!" Then she devoured all her husband's people. In 

 the afternoon she came to herself and vomited all the bones. She 

 searched for her husband but did not find him. Then she searched for 

 him among the bones of all these people. She found him, but his legs 

 up to the knees were gone. Then she put him into a basket and 

 moved a short distance. She made a house and lived there. After 

 some time she fell sick and gave birth to two boys. When her children 

 became older she said to them: "Do not go there up the river; you 

 must go only down the river." They obeyed. When they became 

 older the elder one said to his brother: "Let us go there [up the 

 river]." One day they went and found the ground strewn with bones 

 of people. "Oh, come, let us go home!" They reached their home 

 and the elder one said: "These poor people! How may they have 

 died?" Now they grew up. One day they bathed; now they missed 

 a comb. The elder one said: "O, brother! Perhaps we shall find a 

 comb in that basket." "Let us takedown that basket." Now they 

 took down the basket and took out a mountain-goat blanket. Now they 



