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daughter, for they had taken her inside. Then he became angry. 

 They carried all sorts of things out there but in vain. 



At last, about four days afterward, the girl's mother thought of the 

 white hair that had belonged to her grandfather. In the morning 

 she said to her husband, ''We have that old hair in a box. What 

 can we do with it? We ought to try a strategenl with it. Suppose 

 we put boards on the canoes, spread the hair all over them, and take 

 it out." They did this, and, when they got to the cliff where their 

 daughter used to be, they saw her sitting on the edge with her hair 

 hanging over. They went close in. Then all the birds flew out to 

 them, and each stuck a white hair in its head where you may see it 

 at this day. The girl, however, remained where she was. 



Then these birds flew in to the puffin chief and tokl him about the 

 hair. They thought a great deal of it. Therefore the chief told them 

 to carry the girl back to her father. But before she went he said to 

 her, "If you are ever tired of staying with your father, come back to 

 us." At that time she had a nose just like one of these birds, because 

 she had wanted to be one of them. 



The sea g\dl is also the slave of the puffin. Therefore the Huna 

 people say that when anyone goes to that place it calls his name, 

 because it was the slave of the puffin at the time when this woman 

 was there. 



Because some of their people were drowned at that island, all of 

 the T!A'q!dentan claim it. Later they built a house which they 

 named after it. 



26. STORY OF THE WAIN-IIOUSR PEOPLE 



People came to a fort to live and began to kill ])ears, ground hogs, 

 porcupines, mountain sheep, etc., with spears, and bows and arrows, 

 laying the meat up in the fort. After they had killed some of these 

 animals they would cut off" their heads, set them up on sticks, and 

 begin to sing for them. 



There was a young man among them who had been put into a 

 mountain-sheep's skin instead of a cradle as soon as he was born. 

 When he grew older he was able to follow the mountain sheep to places 

 where no one else could get, so he killed more than the others. He 

 would also play and dance around the heads after they had been cut 

 oft' and say, "I wish my head were cut oft', too." Then people sang 

 about it. Meanwhile the sheep were getting tired of losing so many 

 of their number. 



One day all the people went up to a mountain to hunt, and, flnd- 

 ing a flock of sheep, began to chase them to a certain place where they 

 could bunch all together. Suddenly this youth became separated 

 from the other people, and on the very top of the mountain was met 

 by a fine-looking man who shone all over and had a long white beard. 



