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the rush of waters, and hirge devilfish and other creatures were 

 carried up by it. 



When the tide began to fall, all the people followed it down, but 

 the trees were gone and they had nothing to use as firewood, so they 

 were destroyed by the cold. When Raven came back from under the 

 earth, if he saw a fish left on top of a mountain or in a creek, he said, 

 "Stay right there and become a stone." So it became a stone. If he 

 saw any person coming down, he would say, "Turn to a stone just 

 where you are," and it did so. 



After that the sea went down so far that it was dry everywhere. 

 Then Raven went about picking up the smallest fish, as bull heads 

 and tom cod, which he strung on a stick, while a friend who was 

 with him at this time, named CAklA'k"," took large creatures like 

 whales. With the grease he boiled out, CAklA'k" filled an entire 

 house, while Raven filled only a small bladder. 



Raven stayed with CAklA'k" and one night had a dream. He said 

 to his friend, ''I dreamed that a great enemy came and attacked us." 

 Then he had all the fowls assemble and come to fight, so that his 

 dream might be fulfilled. As soon as Raven had told his dream, 

 CAklA'k" went down and saw the birds. Then Raven went into the 

 house and began drinking up his grease. But the man came back, 

 saw what Raven was doing, and threw him into a grease box, which 

 he started to tie up with a strong rope. Raven, however, called out, 

 "My brother, do not tie me up with a strong rope, but take a straw 

 such as our forefathers used to employ." He did so. Then Raven 

 drank up all the grease in the box, and, when the man took him up on 

 a high cliff and kicked him off, he came out easily and flew away 

 crying "Ga." 



One time Raven assembled all the birds in preparation for a feast 

 and had the bears in the rear of his house as guests. All the birds had 

 canes and helped him sing. As he sang along Raven would say 

 quietly, "Do you think one of you could fly into the anus of a bear?" 

 Then he would start another song and end it by saying in much the 

 same language, "One of you ought to fly up into that hole" (i. e., 

 anus). He kept taunting the birds with their inability to do this, so, 

 when the bears started out, the wren (wu'inAxwu'ckAq, "bird-that- 

 can-go-through-a-hole") flew up into the anus of one of them and 

 came out with his intestines. Before it had pulled them far out the 

 bear fell dead. Then Raven chased all of the small birds away, sat 

 down, and began eating. 



Raven never got full because he had eaten the black spots off of his 

 own toes. He learned about this after having inquired everywhere 



a Said to be a kind of bird. KlAk" alone would mean "chicken hawk." 

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