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Now just one thing more remained, the box that held the dayhght, 

 and he cried for that. His eves turned around and showed different 

 colors, and the people began thinking that he must be something 

 other than an ordinary baby. But it always happens that a grand- 

 father loves his grandchild just as he does his own daughter, so the 

 grandfather said, "Untie the last thing ami give it to him." His 

 grandfather felt very sad when he gave this to him. When the child 

 had this in his hands, he uttered the raven cry, "Ga," and flew out 

 with it through the smoke hole. Then the person from whom he had 

 stolen it said, "That old manuring raven has gotten all of my things." 



Journeying on, Kaven was told of another place, where a man had 

 an everlasting spring of water. This man was named Petrel (GAnu'k) . 

 Raven wanted this water because there was none to drink in this 

 world, but Petrel always sle])t by his spring, and he had a cover over 

 it so as to keep it all to himself. Then Raven came in and said to 

 him, "]My l)rother-in-law, I have just come to see you. How are 

 you?" He told Petrel of all kinds of things that were happening 

 outside, trying to induce him to go out to look at them, but Petrel 

 was too smart for him and refused. 



When night came. Raven said, "I am going to sleep with you, 

 brother-in-law." So they went to bed, anil toward morning Raven 

 heard Petrel sleeping very soundly. Then he went outside, took 

 some dog manure and put it around Petrel's buttocks. When it was 

 beginning to grow light , he said, "Wake up, wake up, wake up, brother- 

 in-law, you have defecated all over your clothes." Petrel got up, 

 looked at himself, and thought it was true, so he took his blankets 

 and went outside. Then Raven went over to Petrel's spring, took off 

 the cover and began drinking. After he had drunk up almost all of 

 the water. Petrel came in and saw him. Then Raven flew straight 

 up, crying "Ga." 



Before he got through the smoke hole, however. Petrel said," My 

 spirits up the smoke hole, catch him." So Raven stuck there, and 

 Petrel put pitchwood on the fire under him so as to make a quantity of 

 smoke. Raven was white before that time, but the smoke made him 

 of the color you find him to-day. Still he did not drop the water. 

 When the smoke-hole spirits let him go, he flew around the nearest 

 point and rubbed himself all over so as to clear off as much of the soot 

 as possible. 



This happened somewhere about the Nass, and afterwards he started 

 up this way. First he let some water fall from his mouth and made 

 the Nass. By and by he spit more out and made the Stikine. Next 

 he spit out Taku river, then Chilkat, then Alsek, and all the other large 

 rivers. The small drops that came out of his mouth made the small 

 salmon creeks. 



