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thought: "I will carry them to lo'i. She may use them for making 

 fire." These branches were large. They arrived at home and went 

 up to the house. Blue-Jay was angry, because he had not caught 

 anything. The boy brought a mat lull of trout up to the house and 

 tiie people roasted them. Then the boy told them: " He threw out of 

 the canoe what we had caught. Our canoe would have been full if he 

 had not thrown it away." His sister said to him : " Why did you throw 

 away Miiat you had caught!" " I threw it away because we hadnoth- 

 ing but branches," "That is our food," she replied, "Do you think 

 they were branches ? The leaves were trout, the branches fall salmon." 

 He said to his sister: "I brought you tSvo branches, you may use them 

 for making fire." Then his sister went down to the beach. Now there 

 were two fall-salmon in the canoe. She carried them up to the house 

 and entered carrying them in her hands. Blue-Jay said to his elder 

 sister: "Where did you steal these fall salmon?" She replied: "That 

 is what you caught." "lo'i is always lying." 



On the next day Blue-Jay went to the beach. There lay the canoes 

 of the ghosts. They had all holes and part of them were mossgrown. 

 He went up to the house and said to his sister: " How bad are your 

 husband's canoes, lo'i." "Oh, be quiet," said she; "the people will 

 become tired of you." " The canoes of these people are full of holes." 

 Then his sister said to him : " Are they people? Are they people? They 

 are ghosts." It grew dark again and Blue-Jay made himself ready. 

 The boy made himself ready also. They went again. Now he teased 

 the boy. When they were on their way he shouted, and only bones 

 were there. Thus he did several times until finally they arrived. 

 Now they fished with their dipnets. He gathered the branches and 

 leaves [which they caught] and when the ebb-tide set in their canoe 

 was full. Then they went home. Now he teased the ghosts. He 

 shouted as soon as they met one, and only bones were in the canoe. 

 They arrived at home. He went up to his sister. She carried U]) 

 [what he had caught]; in part fall salmon, in part silver-side salmon. 



On the next morning Blue- Jay went into the town. He found many 

 bones in the houses. When it grew dark [somebody said]: " Ah, a 

 whale has been found." His sister gave him a knife and said to him: 

 " Kun ! a whale has been found." Blue- Jay ran and came to the beach. 

 He met one of the people whom he asked, speaking loudly: " Where 

 is that whale?" Only a skeleton lay there. He kicked the skull and 

 left it. He ran some distance and met other peoi)le. He shouted 

 loudly. Only skeletons lay there. Several times he acted this way 

 toward the people. Then he came to a large log. Its bark was per- 

 haps that thick. There was a crowd of people who peeled otf the bark. 

 Blue-Jay shouted and only skeletons lay there. The bark was full of 

 pitch. He peeled off two pieces, I do not know how large. He carried 

 them on his shoulder and went home. He thought: " 1 really believed 

 it was a whale, and, behold, it is a fir." He went home. When he 



