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Then the women began bringing up shelllish, which they afterwards 

 boiled to get the insides out, ran small sticks through them, antl 

 hung them up to dry for their children. One day they went down on 

 the beach as usual, leaving their babies in camp, and the smallest 

 began crying. Then a child somewhat larger shouted, "The baby is 

 crying. The baby is crying." Its mother said, "Bury one of those 

 cockles in the fire and cook it for her," but the little boy -under- 

 stood his mother to say, "Dig a hole for your little sister in the fire 

 and put her into it." So the little boy began to pull the fire apdrt 

 and to make a hole in the middle of it. He tried to knock his little 

 sister into this hole but she kept getting up again, so he shouted, 

 "She keeps trying to get away from me." After a while he became 

 too strong for his little sister, put her in, and covered her over. 



When his mother came up, she said, "Little son, where is your lit- 

 tle sister?" "I have buried her in the fire. She is there." So 

 after that they named the stream Creek-where-a-person-was-burned 

 (K A'xsigAnihin) . 



18. VARIOUS ADVENTURES NEAR CROSS SOUND 



There is a place in the neighborhood of Cross sound called Klude's- 

 q!ayik, which people used to frequent in olden times to hunt, catch 

 halibut, and so on. People were then in the habit of traveling from 

 camp to camp a great deal. One time a man ami his wife went out to 

 to get cedar bark off from some trees, and the man went quite a dis- 

 tance up into the woods from liis wife with liis stone ax and tree 

 climber. Tliis tree-climber was an apparatus composed of ropes, 

 with a board for the climber to stand on. But, while he was high 

 up in a tree, the board slipped from under the man's feet, and the 

 rope held him tight to the tree b}" liis neck so that he died. Since 

 he did not come back, liis wife went home and reported that he was 

 missing. Then they hunted for him everywhere, and finally a man 

 found liim hanging from the tree dead. The dead man was brother 

 of a chief. So they took the board that had fallen from under his 

 feet home, laid it across the neck of a slave and killed liim to be 

 revenged on the board. They kept the board and exhibited it at 

 feasts. Afterward people were called for the death feast. 



People continued going to the difi'erent bays hunting, and one 

 day a canoe with two men in it anchored close by a cliff. Wliile 

 they were there one of them saw two huge devilfish arms moving 

 across the bay. They ran ashore and hid under a rock, letting the 

 arms pass over them, while the devilfish took the canoe into its hole 

 under water. 



Then the men started up the liill. On their way home they saw 

 in a small creek what appeared to be a little halibut, but on coming 



