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the present time, people have differed in their opinions concerning 

 the months and have disputed with one another. 



After they had quarreled over it for a long time, the gull became 

 angry, flew out to sea, and brought back a big herring. He lighted 

 near Raven and laid the herring beside him, but, when Raven tried 

 to get it, he gulped it down. In another direction from the sea gull 

 Raven saw a large heron and went over to it. He said to the heron, 

 "Sea gull is calling you Big-long-legs-always-walking-upon-the 

 beach. " Then, although the heron did not reply, he went back to 

 the sea gull and said, "Do you know what that heron is saying about 

 you? He says that you have a big stomach and get your red eyes 

 by sitting on the beach always looking out on the ocean for some- 

 thing to eat." Then he w^ent back to the heron and said to it," When 

 I meet a man of my own size, I always kick him just below the 

 stomach. That fellow is talking too much about you. Go over, 

 and I will help you thrash him." So the heron went over toward the 

 sea gull, and, when he came close to it. Raven said, "Kick him just 

 under his stomach." He did so, and the big herring came out. 

 Then Raven swallowed it quickly saying, "Just for the Raven." 



Going on again, Raven came to a canoe in which were some people 

 lying asleep along with a big salmon which he took away. When 

 the people awoke, they saw the trail where he had dragged it oft", and 

 they followed him. They found him lying asleep by the fire after 

 having eaten the salmon. Seeing his gizzard hanging out at his but- 

 tocks, they twisted it off, ran home with it and used it as a shinny 

 ball; this is why no human being now has a gizzard. 



The people knew it was Raven's gizzard, so they liked to show it 

 about, and they knocked it around so much that it grew large by 

 the accunuilation of sand. But Raven did not like losing his giz- 

 zard. He was cold without it and had to get close to the fire. When 

 he came to the place where they were playing with it, he said, "Let 

 it come this way." No sooner had they gotten it near him, how- 

 ever, than they knocked it away again. After a while it reached 

 him, and he seized it and ran off, with all the boys after him. As he 

 ran he washed it in water and tried to fit it back in place. It was 

 too hot from much knocking about, and he had to remove it again. 

 He w^ashed it again but did not get all of the sand off. That is why 

 the raven's gizzard is big and looks as if it had not been washed. 



Next Raven came to a towm where lived a man called Fog (or 

 Cloud)-on-the-Salmon (Xa'tkA-koga's!!). He wanted to marry this 

 man's daughter because he always had plenty of salmon. He had 

 charge of that place. So he married her, and they dried quantities of 

 salmon, after which they filled many animal stomachs with salmon eggs. 

 Then he loaded his canoe and started home. He put all of the fish 

 eggs into the bow. On the way it became stormy, and they could 



