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the beach; you go down first." Blue- Jay said: "You go first down to 

 the beach." His sister went down. Then Bhie-Jay said [to Magpie]: 

 "Come to-morrow and fetch your kettle." Magpie said: "I shall go." 

 Then Blue-Jay and his sister went home. Early in the morning Blue- 

 Jay made a fire and went up to the roof of his house, where he staid. 

 After awhile he said to his elder sister: "A canoe is coming." She 

 replied: "It comes because you told him to come." Now Magpie 

 landed and went up to the house. Blue- Jay arose and swept his house. 

 He found a salmon egg. He put it into his top-knot. He finished 

 sweeping his house and he heated stones. Wlien they were hot he 

 took liis kettle and poured water into it. He took that salmon egg 

 and threw it into the water. Then he threw the hot stones into the 

 kettle and the water began to boil. Then he covered it. He imitated 

 all INIagpie had done. After awhile he uncovered it, but nothing was in 

 the kettle. " Blue- Jay can do only one thing," said Magpie. He took 

 the stones and threw them out of the kettle. He threw one dry salmon 

 egg and hot stones into the kettle. When the water began to boil he 

 covered it and when he uncovered it the kettle was quite full of salmon 

 eggs. Then Magpie left them and went home. 



After several days Blue-Jay and his sister became hungry. "Let 

 us go and visit the Ducks," said Blue- Jay. "To-morrow we will go," 

 said lo'i. The latter had five children. On the following morning they 

 started and went visiting. After awhile they landed at the beach of 

 the Duck. They came up to the house. The Duck said to her five 

 children: "Go and wash yourselves." They Avent to the water and 

 washed themselves. They dived. [Soon they emerged again] each 

 carrying a trout. Ten times they dived and their mat became full of 

 trout. They went up to the house, made a fire and roasted them. 

 Then they gave Blue- Jay and his sister to eat. Now the fish which they 

 were roasting were done. They fed Blue-Jay, and he and his sister 

 ate. They ate part and were satiated. lo'i said to her brother: "You 

 go down first, else you will talk ever so much." He replied to his sister: 

 "Ah, you would always like to stay here, you go down first." His 

 sister went down first [and as soon as she had left he said to the Duck] : 

 " Come to my house to-morrow and get your mat." Now Blue- Jay went 

 down to the beach. The Duck said: "We shall go to-morrow." Then 

 they went home. They arrived at home. Early the next morning Blue- 

 Jay arose and went up to the roof of the house. He said to his sister: 

 "A canoe is coming." She remarked: "It comes because you invited 

 them." Then the Duck landed (with her five children] and went up to 

 the house. After awhile Blue- Jay said to his sister's children: "Go 

 and wash yourselves." Then Blue-Jay and his sister's children went 

 down to the beach. They tried to dive, but their backs remained over 

 water. Ten times they dived and were almost dead with cold. They 

 came up to the house empty handed. " Blue-Jay does one thing only" 

 [said the Duck]. She told her children: "Go and wash yourselves. 



