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buttocks." Finally Raven became angry, seized the knife he was 

 cutting up the sea urcliiiis with and slit up the front of the cliff out of 

 wliich she spoke. Then he ran in, knocked her down and began 

 sticking the spines into her buttocks. "Stop, Raven, stop," she 

 cried, ''the tide will begin to go down." So he said to his servant, 

 ^link, ''Run outside and see how far down the tide has gone." Mink 

 ran out and said, "It is just beginning to go down." The next time 

 he came in he said, "The tide is still farther down." The tliird time 

 he said, "The tide is lower yet. It has uncovered everything on the 

 beach." Then Raven said to the old woman, "Are you going to let 

 the tide rise and fall again regularly through the months and 3'ears ? ' ' 

 She answered "Yes." Because Raven did this wliile he was making 

 the world, nowadays, when a woman gets old and can not do much 

 more work, there are spots all over her buttocks. 



After the tide had gone down very far he and liis servant went out. 

 He said to Mink, "The thing that will be your food from now on is the 

 sea urchin (nisi). You will live on it." The tide now goes up and 

 down because he treated tliis woman so. 



Now Raven started on from this place crying, "My wife, my wife!" 

 Comuig to some trees, he saw a lot of gum on one of them and said to 

 it, ""Wliyl you are just like me. You are in the same state." For he 

 thought the tree was crying. 



After this he got a canoe and began paddling along. By and by 

 Petrel met liim in another canoe. So he brought his canoe alongside 

 and said, "Is tliis you, my brother-in-law? Where are you from?" 

 He answered, "I am from over there." Then Raven began to ques- 

 tion liim about the events in this world, asking him how long ago they 

 happened, etc. He said, "TThen were you born? How long have 

 you been li^-ing?" And Petrel answered, "I have been living ever 

 since the great liver came up from under the earth. I have been 

 living that long." So said Petrel. "Why! that is but a few minutes 

 ago," said Raven. Then Petrel began to get angry and said to Raven, 

 " Wlien were you born ? " " I was born before this world was known." 

 "That is just a little while back. " ' 



They talked back and forth until the}' became very angry. Then 

 Petrel pushed Raven's canoe away from him and put on liis hat 

 called fog-hat (qoga's ! s ! ax") so that Raven could not see where 

 he was. The world was round for liim [in the fog]. At last he shouted, 

 ''My brother-in-law, Petrel, you are older than I am. You have 

 lived longer than I." Petrel also took water from the ssa and 

 sprinkled it in the air so that it fell through the fog as ver}' fine rain. 

 Said Raven, "I, i." He did not like it at all. After Petrel had 

 fooled him for some time, he took off Fog-hat and found Raven close 

 beside him, pulling about in all directions. Then Raven said to 

 Petrel, "Brother-in-law, vou better let that hat go into this world." 



