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He also made the dog. It was at first a human being and did every- 

 thing Raven wanted done, but he was too quick with everything, so 

 Raven took liim b}^ the neck and pushed liim do\\'n, sa^dng, "You are 

 nothing but a dog. You shall have four legs." 



One time Raven came to a certain thing called fat-on-the-sea 

 (ylkAtayi'), which stuck out of the ocean. He kept saying to it, 

 "Get down a little," so it kept going under the surface. Bu't every 

 time it came up he took his paddle and cut part oft". It did this seven 

 times, but, when he spoke to it the eighth time, it went down out of 

 sight, and he never saw it again. 



As he was traveling along in another place, a wild celery came out, 

 became angry with Raven, antl said, "You are always wandering 

 around for tilings to eat." Then he named .it wild celery (ya/naet) 

 and said to it, "You shall stay there, and people shall eat you. 



Once he passed a large tree and saw something up in it called cAxdA'cj. 

 Raven called out "CAxdA'q," and it shouted back, "You Raven." 

 They called back antl forth to each other for some time. 



[Advenit in alium locum et alligavit aliquid circum caput ostrei, 

 quod protrudebat ex arena. Appellavit idem i.das-qe't (viri 

 pudenda).] 



Supplementary to Story 1 



Near a bay not far from Kots!e'L! there used to be a sea-water pond 

 in which lived a beaver. Raven very much wanted to get at this 

 beaver and kill it, so he dug two trenches in order to drain the lake at 

 low tide. After the water had run out tlu-ough them, and the beaver 

 had become visible at the bottom, he let doAvn a kind of hook and 

 pulled it up. 



Raven had tried every sort of thing as a post under this earth. 

 Last of all he caught this beaver and made the post out of the bone of 

 its foreleg [which is very solid]. That is why the world is now stand- 

 ing. Old-woman-underneath (Hayica'nak!^') attends to this post, 

 but, when she is hungry, the earth shakes. Then people put grease 

 into the fire and it goes to her. 



After he had killed the beaver Raven killed also a big whale and got 

 his people to tow it to the place where the beaver had formerl}^ lived. 

 He got four large canoes full of people to tow it up the rapids in one of 

 the canals he had then made. After they had lal)ored for many days, 

 they became tired, and he said to them, "Take it easy." Finally he 

 liimself became tired and said, "Turn into stone." All did so, and to 

 tliis day you can see a large island there shaped like a whale and a 

 string of four smaller islands extending out from one end of it. 



Raven named several places in this neighborhood. One was 

 Qag^Antoqa', (A-hidden-person); another Tsetk! (Little Ladder). 



