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was another very powerful man. And the eannibal showed him 

 where TsA'maya Hved. 



Then Raven stayed with TsA'maya, and tliey became good friends 

 also. The latter lived all by himself at that time, all of his friends 

 having been killed by Wolverine-man (NusgA-qa'). So he said to 

 Raven, "I do not know what to do with him. I would like to kill 

 him." And Raven said to him, "Do you see this spear? Go and 

 get a bear skin and put it around yourself. Put the spear in such 

 a position as to make him believe he has killed a bear." TsA'maya did 

 so, and by and by Wolverine-man came along. He was ver}" glad 

 when he saw the bear and said, ''I have another." Then he picked 

 the bear up, took out the spear and carried it home. After that he 

 went to gather wood. While he was gone Raven made himself 

 appear like a common blackbird and in that form said to TsA'maya, 

 "Wolverine-man's heart is in his foot." Then he took the little 

 spear he had concealed in his long hair and gave it to TsA'maya, 

 who speared Wolverine-man in the foot as soon as he came in. He 

 was hurt badly but ran away from them. When they caught up 

 with him antl told him they were going to kill him, he said, "All 

 right." But every time they Idlled him he came to life again imtil 

 finally they burnetl him. Then, when they were about to pulverize 

 his bones, the bones spoke up and said to them, "Pulverize my 

 bones and blow them away. They will always be a bother to you 

 and everybody else. I shall always remain in the world." That is 

 where the mosquitoes and gnats come from." 



Afterwartl Raven came to where a house was floating far out at 

 sea, called K!u'datAn kahi'ti. Nas-cA'ki-yel had been keeping it 

 there, and in it were all kind.s of fishes, but Raven did not know 

 how to get at them. At the same place he also met a monster, 

 called QIa'nAxgadayiye (which seems to mean "a thing that is in 

 the way"), who had a spear like the arm of a devilfish called, "devil- 

 fish-arm spear." Raven wanted this, and ol^tained it by marrying 

 the monster's daughter. Then he got into a canoe, paddled out 

 near the house, and speared it. Inside he heard all kinds of songs 

 sung by different voices. These were the songs people were to sing 

 in the fishing season. When Raven threw his spear, it became very 

 long and wrapped "itself around the house so firmly that he was 

 enabled to take his canoe ashore. He had great difficulty, however, 

 for as he did so he had to sing continually, "I think so, I think so," 

 a song known to all of the Raven people. Whenever he stopped 

 singing, the house went back to the place where it had been at first. 

 This happened three times and the fourth time he got it in. 



o "This episode is referred to when a person takes after a bad father. They say to him, 'Why do 

 you talfe after your father? Everybody knows that you are his child. Can't you take another road 

 and do better than he did V" (From the writer's informant. ) 



