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Now Raven formed a certain plan. He got a small canoe and 

 began paddling along the beach saying, "I wonder who is able to go 

 along with me." Mink came down and said, ''How am I?" and 

 Raven said, "WTiat with?" (i. e., What can you do?). Said Mink, 

 "When I go to camp with mj- friends, I make a bad smell in their 

 noses. With that." But Raven said, ''I guess not. You might 

 make a hole in my canoe," so he went along farther. The various 

 animals and birds would come down and say, "How am IC but he 

 did not even listen. After some time Deer ran down to him, saying, 

 " How am 11" Then he answered, '' Come this way, AxkwA'Lli, come 

 this way AxkwA'Lli." He called 1 im AxkwA'L!i because he never 

 got angry. Finally Raven came ashore and said to Deer, " Don't hurt 

 yourself, AxkwA'Lli." By and by Raven said " Not very far from here 

 my father has been making a canoe. Let us go there and look at it." 



Then Raven brought him to a large valle}'. He took very man}' 

 pieces of dried wild celery and laid them across the valle}', covering 

 them with moss. Said Raven, " AxkwA'Lli, watch me, AxkwA'L!i, 

 watch me." Repeating tliis over and over he went straight across on 

 it, for he is light. Afterwards he said to Deer, " AxkwA'Lli, now 

 you come and try it. It will not break," and he crossed once more. 

 "You better try it now," he said. "Come on over." Deer did so, 

 but, as he was on the way, he broke through the bridge and smashed 

 his head to pieces at the bottom. Then Raven went down, walked 

 all over him, and said to himself, "I wonder where I better start, at 

 the root of his tail, at the eyes, or at the heart." Finally he began at 

 his anus, skinning as he went along. He ate very fast. 



When he started on from tliis place, he began crying, " AxkwA'L!i-I-I^ 

 AxkwA'L!i-i-i," and the fowls asked him, "AMiat has become of your 

 friend, AxkwA'Lli?" "Some one has taken him and pounded him on 

 the rocks, and I have been walking around and hopping around since 

 he died." 



By and by he came to a certain cliff and saw a door in it swing 

 open. He got behind a point quickl}-, for he knew that here lived the 

 woman who has charge of the falling and rising of the tide. Far out 

 Raven saw some kelp, and, going out to this, he climbed down on it to 

 the bottom of the sea and gathered up a number of small sea urchinc 

 (nis!) which were lying about there. He brought these ashore and 

 began eating, making a great gulping noise as he did so. Meanwhile 

 the woman inside of the clifi" kept mocking him saying, " During what 

 tide did he get those tilings ? ' ' 



While Raven was eating Mink came along, and Raven said, "Come 

 here. Come here." Then he went on eating. And the woman" 

 again said, "On what tide did you get those sea urcliins you are 

 making so much noise about?" "That is not your business," 

 answered Raven. "Keep quiet or I will stick them all over your 



