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arrived be threw down the bark outside the house. He entered and said 

 to his sister : " I really thought it was a whale. Look here, it is bark." 

 His sister said: '■'■ It is whale meat, it is whale meat; do you think it is 

 bark? " His sister went out and two cuts of whale lay on the ground, 

 lo'i said: " It is a good whale; [its blubber] is very thick." Blue- Jay 

 looked. A whale lay on the beach. Then he turned back. He met a 

 person carrying bark on his back. He shouted and nothing but a 

 skeleton lay there. He took that piece of bark and carried it home 

 on his shoulder. He came home. Thus he did to the ghosts. In 

 course of time he had much whale meat. 



Now he continued to stay there. He went again to that town. He 

 entered a house and took a child's skull, which he put on a large skele- 

 ton. And he took a large skull, which he put on that child's skeleton. 

 Thus he did to all the people. When it grew dark the child rose to its 

 feet. It wanted to sit up, but it fell down again because its head pulled 

 ifc down. The old man arose. His head was light. The next morning; 

 he replaced the heads. Sonietimes he did thus to the legs of the ghosts.. 

 He gave small legs to an old man, and large legs to a child. Sometimes 

 he exchanged a man's and a wouian's legs. In course of time thejr 

 began to dislike him, lo'i's husband said: "These people divSlike him. 

 because he maltreats them. Tell him he shall go home. These people 

 do not like him." lo'i tried to stop her younger brother. But he did 

 not follow her. On the next morning he awoke early. Now lo'i held 

 a skull in her arms. He threw it a;way : "Why do you hold that skull 

 again, lo'i?" "Ah, you broke your brother-in-law's neck." It grew 

 dark. Now his brother-in-law was sick. A man tried to cure him and 

 he became well again. 



Now Blue- Jay went home. His sister gave him five buckets full of 

 water and said: " Take care! When you come to burning prairies, do 

 not pour it out until you come to the fourth prairie. Then pour it out." 

 " I think so," replied Blue-Jay. Now he went home. He reached a 

 prairie. It was hot. Red flowers bloomed on the prairie. Then he 

 poured water on the prairie and one of his buckets was half empty. 

 He reached the woods [and soon he came to a] prairie, which was burn- 

 ing at its end. He reached anotlier prairie which was half on lire, 

 "That is what my sister spoke about." He poured out on his road the 

 rest of the bucket. He took another bucket and when it was half 

 empty he reached the woods on the other side of the prairie. Ho 

 reached still another prairie, the third one. One half of it burned 

 strongly. He took one of his buckets and emptied it. He took one 

 more bucket and emptied one-half of it. Then he reached the woods 

 on the other side of the prairie. Now he had only two buckets and a 

 half left. He reached another prairie which was almost totally on fire. 

 He took that half bucket and emptied it. He took one more bucket 

 and when he reached the woods at the other side of the prairie he had 

 emptied it. Now only one bucket was left. He reached another prairie 



