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After that the door of the house opened, antl all kinds of fish 

 came out of it. He sang, "Some go to Stikine river. Some go to 

 Chilkat river," which they immediately did. Then he sang again, 

 ''Some go to the small creeks to provide the poor people." That 

 is how fish came to be all over the world. '^ 



Now Raven went farther and came to a woman and a little girl 

 all alone. She was crying and Raven asked her, "What are you 

 crying about?" ''I have lost all of my friends. I am all alone here 

 with my little girl. The people kept going off hunting or fishing and 

 never come back. Wliat has happened to them I do not loiow." 

 Then Raven said to the girl, ''Do you know the thing with which 

 they make fire?" She said "No," for they had kept their fires all 

 night since the other people were gone. Then Raven showed her 

 how to make fire with the fire drill. He said, "Drill awa}^ until 

 you get a lot of this fuie stuft". Then take some and eat it." 



After the girl had done this she became pregnant and gave birth 

 to a male child whom they called Fire-drill's son (Tu'li-vA'di). Then 

 Raven said to her, "There is a cold spring back here. Bathe your 

 little one in it every da}-, and he will grow up very fast." To this 

 day they call that spring Water -that -makes -one -grow. The 

 woman bathed him as directed and he soon grew up into a man 

 very skilful at work of all kinds. Finally he asked his mother: 

 "Mother, is this the way you have always been? Didn't you have 

 a father, mother, and friends?" But she said, "We have always 

 been this way." He was so bright that she would not tell him. 

 Then the child went on asking, "Whose houses are those? I think 

 that you had friends who have all died oft", and you will not tell me." 

 So his grandmother finally told him what had happened. 



This boy was a good shot with arrows, but he said, "What can I 

 do? All the canoes lying here are old and broken." In the night, 

 however, his father. Fire-drill, appeared to him in a dream and said, 

 "Take one of those old canoes up into the woods and cover it with 

 brush. No matter how old it is. Do it." The morning after he 

 had done this, he went there and found a very pretty little canoe 

 with all things in it that he needed. Then his father appeared to 

 him again, pulled the root of a burned tree out of the ground and 

 made it into a little dog for him. He called it GrAiit (Burnt), and 

 it could scent things from a great distance. Although small it was 

 as powerful as a bear. He also gave his son a bow, and arrows pointed 

 with obsidian(?). Finally he gave him a very powerful club called 

 Q5tAca'yi-q!us. 



^According to some proplo this house was drawn ashore at the DAqLlawe'di village. 



