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that mountain, Was !e'ti-cri? " When you sight that mountain, that 

 is where you want to fish." After this Raven began to fill the 

 canoe with halibut. So Bear asked him, "What do you use for bait 

 anyhow, my friend?" [Corvus respondit, "Testium cute ad escam 

 praeparandam utor. ' ' Ursus aiebat corvo, " Licetne uti meis quoque ?" 

 Sed corvus dixit, " Noli id facere, ne forte sint graviter attriti." Paulo 

 post ursus aegre ferens aiebat, "Abscide eos." Turn corvus cultellum 

 acuens aiebat, "Pone eos extrema in sede." Postea corvus eos 

 praecidit, at ursus gemens proripuit circum scapham et moriens incidit 

 in undas extremo cum gemitu.] 



After a while Raven said to Cormorant, "There is a louse coming 

 down on tlie side of your head. Come here. Let me take it off." 

 When he came close to him, he picked it off. Then he said, "Open 

 your mouth so that I can put it on your tongue." When he did open 

 his mouth, however, Raven reached far back and pulled his tongue out. 

 He did this because he did not want Cormorant to tell about what he 

 had done. He told Cormorant to speak, but Cormorant made only a 

 gabbling noise. "That is how young fellows ought to speak," said 

 Raven. Then Raven towed the dead bod^; of the bear behind the 

 point and carried it ashore there. Afterwards he went to Bear's wife 

 and began to take out his halibut. He said to the female bear, 

 "My father's sister, cut out all the stomachs of the halibut and roast 

 them." So she went down on the beach to cut them out. While 

 she was working on the rest of the halibut, he cooked the stomachs 

 and filled them with hot rocks. Then he went down and said to her, 

 "You better come up. I have cooked all those stomachs for you. 

 You better wash your hands, come up, and eat." After that Cormo- 

 rant came in and tried to tell what had happened but made only a 

 gabbling sound. Raven said to the bear, "Do you know what that 

 fellow is talking about? He is saying that there were lots of halibut 

 out where we fished. Ever}^ time we tried to get a canoe load they 

 almost turned us over." When she was about to eat he said, "People 

 never chew what I get. They always s.wallow it whole." Before she 

 began she asked Raven where her husband was, and Raven said, 

 "Somehow or other he caught nothing, so we landed him behind the 

 point. He is cutting alders to make alder hooks. He is sitting 

 there yet." 



After the bear had swallowed all of the food she began to feel 

 uneasy in her stomach, and Raven said to Cormorant, "Run outside 

 quickly and get her some water." Then she drank a great quantity 

 of water, and the things in her stomach began to boil harder and 

 harder. Said Raven, " Run out Cormorant." He did so, and Raven 

 ran after him. Then the female bear ran about inside the house 

 grabbing at everything and finally fell dead. Then Raven skinned the 



a Perhaps Mount St Elias. 



