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for some way of bringing such a state about. Then he wandered 

 through all the world in search of things to eat. 



After all the human beings had been destroyed Raven made new 

 ones out of leaves. Because he made this new generation, people 

 know that he must have changed all of the first people who had sur- 

 vived the flood, into stones. Since human beings were made from 

 leaves people always die off rapidly in the fall of the year when flowers 

 and leaves are falling. 



At the time when he made this world, Raven made a devilfish 

 digging-stick and went around to all created things (shellfish appar- 

 ently) saying, "Are you going to hurt human beings? Say now 

 either yes or no." Those that said "No" he passed by; those that 

 said "Yes" he rooted up. He said to the people, "When the tide 

 goes out, your food will be there. When the tide comes in, your food 

 will be in the woods," indicating bear and other forest animals. 



In Raven's time the butts of ferns (klwAlx) were already cooked, 

 but, after some women had brought several of these in, Raven broke a 

 stick over the fern roots. Therefore they became green like this stick. 

 He also broke the roots up into many layers one above another. 



Devilfish were very fat then, and the people used to make grease out 

 of them, but, when Raven came to a place where they were making 

 he said, "Give me a piece of that hard thing." That is why its fat- 

 ness left it. 



[Corvus appellavit saxum, quod erat tectum algis, "Pudenda, ubi 

 crescunt crines." Nepotes patris eius rogaverunt, "Esne capilla- 

 tus?" Et ille respondit, "Sane, pudenda mea pilis vestita sunt." 

 At modo habebat in mente copias algarum, quae protegebant saxum 

 in quo sedebat.l 



One time Raven invited all the tribes of little people and laid down 

 bear skins for them to sit on. After they had come in and reached 

 the bear skins, they shouted to one another, "Here is a swampy, open 

 space." That was the name they gave to those places on the skins 

 from which the hair had fallen out. By and by Raven seized the bear 

 skins and shook them over the fire, when all the little people flew into 

 the eyes of the human beings. He said, "You shall be pupils in 

 people's eyes," and ever since human beings have had them. 



Now he went on from this place and camped by himself. There he 

 saw a large sculpin trying to get ashore below him, and he said to it, 

 "My uncle's son, come ashore here. Come way up. One time, when 

 you and I were going along in our uncle's canoe we fell into the water. 

 So come up a little farther." Raven was very hungry, and, when the 

 sculpin came ashore, he seized it by its big, broad tail intending to eat 

 it. But it slipped through his fingers. This happened many times, 

 and each time the sculpin's tail became smaller. That is why it is so 

 slender to-day. Then Raven said to it, "From now on you shah be 

 named sculpin (weq!)," 



