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] BLUE-JAY AND lo'l MYTH TRANSLATION. 181 



Blue-Jay said again to his sister: "To-morrow we will go and visit 

 the Seal." On the next morning they started and arrived at the house 

 of the Seal, who had five children The Seal said to her young ones: 

 " Go to the beach and lie down there." They went and lay down at the 

 edge of the water. The Seal took a stick and went down. When she 

 reached her children she struck the youngest one upon its head. The 

 others dived and when they came up again they were again five. Then 

 she pulled up to the house the one which she had killed. She singed 

 it. When she had finished singeing it she cut it. Its blubber was three 

 fingers thick. She boiled it and when it was done she gave it to Blue- 

 Jay and his sister. Soon they had enough. Then lo'i said to her 

 brother: " You go down first." He replied: "You go down first, else 

 you will always want to stay where they give us food." He said: " Go 

 to the beach." His elder sister went to the beach. Then Blue-Jay said 

 to the Seal : " Come to-morrow and fetch your kettle." " I shall come," 

 replied the Seal. [They went home.] Early next morning Blue-Jay 

 made a fire and went up to the roof of his house. He said to his elder 

 sister : " A canoe is coming." She replied : " It comes because you 

 invited him." The canoe came ashore. The Seal and her children 

 landed and they came up to the house. Then Blue- Jay said to lo'i's 

 children: "Go to the beach and lie down there." Then lo'i's children 

 went and lay down at the edge of the water. Blue-Jay took a stick. 

 He went down and struck the youngest one ; he struck it twice and it 

 lay there dead. Then he said to the other children : " Quick, dive!" 

 They dived, and when they came up again one was missing. Five times 

 they dived, but the one [which was struck] remained dead. Then Id'i 

 and her children cried: "A." The Seal said : " Blue- Jay knows to do 

 one thing only." She struck one of her daughters and said : " Quick; 

 dive ! " And when they came up again all five of them were there. She 

 singed her daughter. When she had finished singeing her she cut her 

 and threw her down before Blue- Jay and his sister, saying : " You 

 may eat this." Then they tied up and buried the dead child of lo'i, 

 and the Seal went home. 



After awhile they got hungry again. " Let us go and visit the shad- 

 ows." " To-morrow we will go." Early next morning they started and 

 arrived at the house of the shadows. They went up to the house. The 

 house was full of provisions, and on the bed there were large dentalia. 

 There were coats, blankets of deer skin, of mountain goat, and of 

 ground-hog. Blue- Jay said : "Where may these people be?" His 

 elder sister replied : " Here they are, but you can not see them." 

 Blue-Jay took up one of the large dentalia. " Ahahaha, my ear, Blue- 

 Jay," cried a person. They heard many people tittering. He took up 

 a ground-hog blanket and pulled at it. " Ahahaha, my ground-hog 

 blanket, Blue-Jay." He searched under the bed [for the person who 

 had spoken] and again the i)eople tittered. He took up a coat 

 of mountain-goat wool. The person cried, "Why do you lift ray 



