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Then they said to the squirrel : " Yon try next to break tliem." The 

 squirrel bent the antlers a little, but, was not able to break them. Then 

 they said to the otter : " Now you try to break them." When the otter 

 went down the girl thought: "I wish he would break them." She 

 liked him [because he was so pretty]. He tried to break them, but did 

 not succeed. He went up again. Next the beaver went down. He 

 was very stout, and Blue- Jay said : " Oh, certainly, he with his big belly, 

 he will break them." He took up the antlers and almost succeeded in 

 breaking them, but he gi ew tired and went back. Then the wolf went 

 down and almost succeeded in breaking the antlers, but he grew tired 

 and went up. Then the bear went down and almost succeeded in break- 

 ing the antlers. 



Now there was one person in the house whose body was full of sores 

 and boils. Then Blue- Jay said: "Let him try what he can do, the one 

 whose body is sore all over." But next the grizzly bear went down. 

 He almost broke it, when he also grew tired. Next the panther, the 

 chief of all, went down, but he did not succeed. Then Ipo'epoe went 

 down. Then the girl thought: " O, if he would break them." He took 

 them up, but did not succeed at all. He went up. After that the 

 sparrow-hawk went down. He almost broke them, and went up; then 

 another hawk went down. He almost broke them, but then he grew 

 tired. Now next the chicken-hawk went down. He tried to move 

 them, but they did not move. Then the owl went down. They did 

 not move. Then he went back. Then the eagle went down. He bent 

 them and almost broke them. Now all the quadrupeds and all the 

 birds had tried. 



Then Blue Jay said: "Give the antlers to that one who is full of 

 sores; let him try what he can do." All the people had given it up. 

 He continued: "Quick, stand up; [let us see] what can you accom- 

 plish? Break those antlers." Five times he said so. Then that person 

 arose, shook his body, and shook his blanket. He shook his hair. 

 [Then his body became clean, his hair long and full of dentalia, and he 

 was very beautiful. They saw that he was the salmon.] Then he went 

 to the middle of the house, took up the antlers and broke them. He 

 broke them into five pieces and threw them down. Then he ran away. 

 The people stared at him. After a little while Blue- Jay said: "Let us 

 pursue our chief's niece." Then she took her dentalia and ran also. 

 "Ah," said the wolf, "we will pursue them." Then all the people went 

 in pursuit. They followed them a long distance. Then the man created 

 a bay behind them. The people reached it, but the couple was already 

 on the other side. After a while the people reached the other side of 

 the bay. They continued to pursue them. Again they pursued them 

 a long distance. He looked back and saw that the people were near 

 overtaking them. Then he made a middle-sized bay. Again the peo- 

 ple reached the bay and saw the two far away on the other side. Again 

 the people reached the other side of the bay and continued their pursuit. 



