126 OKjUNO HER STORY. [ 



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 ETHNOLOGY 



will give you uiy bauds ." '• What shall I do with your hands ? I have 

 hands as well, " " Pull out that bunch of grass. " The eagle went and 

 l^ulled out the bunch of grass, which gave way at once. Then she 

 said, "Now you try to pull it out. " The Crow went and tried to pull it 

 out. It did not give way. " I will give you my eyes ; you will be able to 

 see a long distance. " "What shall I do with your eyes? I have eyes 

 as well." The eagle said: "Louse me. " She did so and found a jjlate 

 full of lice. I After she had finished the eagle said:] "Now I will louse 

 you. '' She loused the Crow, who became sleepy and finally fell asleep. 

 Then the eagle took the salmon and put a bunch of grass in her mat. 

 She carried it to the top of a spruce tree. When the Crow awoke she 

 saw the eagle sitting on top [of the spruce tree] eating her salmon. 

 Then [she was so much grieved that she fell down at once. She asked 

 the eagle]: "Please give me the gills." The Crow lay on her back 

 and the eagle thi^ew down the gills and the roe. The Crow went home 

 angry. She arrived there. Her children were in the house. She came 

 to her children. She roasted the salmon roe. [She asked] her eldest 

 daughter: "Go and get some water." [She replied:] "The next 

 younger one is there." She asked another one of her daughters: " Go 

 and get some water. " [ She replied : ) "The next younger one is there." 

 She asked four of them. Now her youngest daughter brought her 

 some water. When the salmon roe was nearly done she washed her 

 face. [She asked her daughters:] " Is my face white now?" "No, it 

 is still black. " She washed it again and asked her children ouce more : 

 "Is my face white? " "No, it is still black. " Then the raven jumped 

 up and took what she was roasting. He took it away and ate it all. 

 Then the Crow cried again and the raven lay down. He was ashamed 

 of himself In the evening he fell sick and sang his conjurer's song: 

 "O, my brass pin hit my eye and it got blind, qoaqoaxqoJi/, qoaqoaxqoa', 

 qoaqoaxqoii' !" 



After a while they went and asked the crabs and their young ones to 

 come. The raven heated stones and when they were hot he shut the 

 door. Then a crab thought: " He is cooking for us." But they threw 

 all of them on the stones, old and young. They were steamed. When 

 they were done he said to the Crow and her children: "Come eat!" 

 Now she was glad, and she ate, together with her children. 



