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"You are not my brother. My father found you. You are the sahuon- 

 spear's son." Then her brother became angry. When they came home 

 he said : " She always says the salmon-spear is my father." Her father 

 said: "ISTaxaxa/x, why do you always say so to your brother*?" He 

 took a stick and whipped her. IsTow the boy became tired [of her teasing 

 and thought] : " I will kill her." On the next morning they went again. 

 Then he shot her several times and she was dead. He left her, but when 

 he turned round she followed him again. Now he became a youth. 

 One day he dreamt : " If you want to kill her, you must break her finger. 

 Then a round thing will jump out of it, and that you must squeeze to 

 pieces. Then she will die. She will say: 'Kill we!'" On the next 

 morning they went again. Then he killed her at a stone. He cut her 

 finger and a round thing jumped out of it. He squeezed it and she 

 said: " Kill me " [but he squeezed the round thing to pieces], Now she 

 was dead aud he left her. 



He went a long distance. Now he [assumed the shape of] a spotted 

 dog. He came to a i)lace where there were many women. They said: 

 " See, how pretty is that dog. Let us take him!" They called him 

 often, but he did not allow himself to be taken. Now only their chief- 

 tainess [had not tried]. They said: "Now you call the dog." She 

 called him. He went to her and she took him. Then the women went 

 home. They said: "Oh, we found a dog; our chieftainess took him." 

 Then Blue- Jay said : " I will go to see him." He entered her house and 

 saw the dog. He took a bone and offered it to him, but he did not eat 

 it. Then he struck him. [The chieftainess said:] "Let my dog go; 

 you will kill him." Then Blue-Jay went home and said to his elder 

 brother : " Eobin, that is a man and not a dog." " Oh, be quiet, do you 

 think you alone can see?" "Ha, he is the elder one, and he ought to 

 know everything sooner than I," retorted Blue- Jay. After about three 

 days Blue- Jay went again. He entered the house and saw the dog 

 eating gamass. Then Blue- Jay took a stick and struck him. "O, my 

 poor dog," said that woman. Then Blue-Jay went home and said to 

 his elder brother: " He is a man, Eobin, he eats gamass." When it got 

 dark the dog said to his wife: " Blue- Jay makes me tired. He will 

 break my bones. I shall throw away my dog-skin blanket." At night 

 he threw it away. When it got day again he had another blanket. 

 Now Blue Jay came in. [When he saw him, he said:| " Eh, I said he 

 was a man and Robin would not believe me." Now he remained there. 



