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tie liim with? Give me strings of dentalia. " "I shall scratch them to 

 pieces." " Ha, ha, ha," he cried then ; "sea-grass, sea-grass!" "Give 

 me sea-grass, give me sea-grass, quick Robin. " Now he tied the hands 

 and the feet of that man. Then he threw him into the water. The 

 water began to boil where they had thrown him down. [Blue-Jay 

 cried:] "O, my nephew, he scolds. I killed my nephew." [Robin 

 remarked:] "la, he is laughing at you here." "Pshaw, a man does 

 not laugh when he is thrown into the water" [said Blue-Jay|. 



Kow the people went on, and after awhile they saw a person who 

 held arrows in his hands. [He said:] " Tell ^ne the news, Blue- Jay !" 

 "T have nothing to tell you, only that I threw my relative down there 

 into the w^ater," " I am the one," said that person. "la," cried Robin, 

 "that is the one whom you threw into the water." 



They went on to Ents; x's house. They surrounded it and set it on 

 fire. When it began to burn Ents;x flev\^ out through a knothole. 

 When the whole house was burnt, Blue- Jay found a [mink's] head. 

 " Oh that is Ents; x's head !" he shouted. But Robin said : " la, he went 

 out already." ]Srow the people went home and left Ents; x. 



