222 THE FOUR COUSINS. [Sology 



opened tbe door. He held a mat in his hand and said: "Come friend, 

 we will play." " Well," said the boy. He bought a mat. Now he won 

 again all the property of that person. He won his canoe. Now he had 

 won over all the common people. Next he won over the chiefs. He won 

 first one slave and then many. Now he became a chief. He had won 

 the property of all those people. Everyday the people ate in his house. 

 Now his elder cousin said : " Perhaps he saw a supernatural being. We 

 will play with the accompaniment of batons. Then I shall win all his 

 sjaves. Heis[tooJ hopeful." Then he was told: "Your elder cousin 

 wants to play with you." "As he likes." Now the cousins played 

 and the people beat time with batons. They played several nights. 

 He won the eldest brother's slaves and all his canoes. Then he played 

 with the next brother and he won all his slaves; then he won his 

 wives. Now the next brother said: "I want to play with you next." 

 "No, I pity you, as you pitied me formerly." Then the Chehalis 

 came and he won all their property. Tlie Quenaiult came to play 

 at disks. He won their property and their slaves. That lousy boy 

 made everybody poor. He bought the daugliters of chiefs among the 

 Quenaiult, the Tillamook, the tribes up the river, the Cowlitz. The 

 wives of the man who had been the lousy boy were taken from 

 among all these tribes. If his cousins had not taken the sea-otter 

 from him, he should not have seen the supernatural being. He saw 

 Itc Ix'ia'n. 



