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entrance. The person who hved there was the wife of the man he 

 had killed. She had seen his canoe passing and thought, "lie must 

 have killed my husband." So she said, "Your aunt's husband went 

 across that way." And the boy said, "I have seen your husband." 

 This woman's name was Knife-hand (DjiwAn-yTs!), because she had 

 a knife on each hand. She said to the boy, "You better come in 

 here and let me give you food before you go on." "All right," he 

 said. So he entered and found her cooking the parts of a human 

 being. She called the ends of its fmgers, "crab apples," its eyes, 

 "berries," etc. Wlien he told her that he did not eat that sort of 

 food, she at once said, "Well! let us have a fight then. We will kill 

 each other." He agreed and she went to a large rock where he 

 could hear her drawing both hands back and forth to sharpen them. 

 As soon as she had finished, she threw her hand at him, but he jumped 

 aside so quickly that it stuck in the spot where he had been sitting, 

 and, when she drew her hand away, the knife remained there. Then 

 the boy jumped forward, seized it, and threw it back with such good 

 aim that it killed her. lie also cut her tongue out. He had no more 

 than finished with her, however, than he noticed that the entrance 

 hole was growing smaller and smaller. So he made himself small 

 also, crept into one of the ermine skins he had tied in his hair, and 

 ran out. When he came home again with his canoe loaded down 

 with seal and deer, his mother and grandmother were very glad to 

 see him, for they had been weeping for him and worrying about him 

 ever since he left. Now he told them not to worry any longer 

 because he had killed the bad people who destroyed their friends. 



Next he said to his mother, "Mother, do not be afraid to tell me. 

 What was it that killed my uncles wlien they went back here hunt- 

 ing?" By and by he went back into the woods to hunt and saw 

 smoke rising a long distance oflF. He came to a house and entered. 

 There he saw a A^ery old woman called Old-mole- woman (KlAgA'kqo ca'- 

 nAk"). As soon as she saw the boy this woman said, "My grandson 

 what is it that you are after?" The boy felt that she was an honest 

 old woman and said, "I am looking for the person that killed my 

 uncles and all of my mother's friends." Then she told him to come 

 in and eat. She picked a small piece of salmon out from between 

 her teeth which at once turned into a whole salmon. That was 

 the way she got anything she wanted, and it was the only way 

 she got her food. Then she said to the ])oy, "Grandson, it is 

 pretty hard to get at the beings that murdered your uncles. They 

 are the hawks (kidju'k). You must find their nests, which are 

 very high up, and watch until the old ])irds go away, leaving their 

 two young ones." When he came to the nest, however, he saw that 

 the old birds were away, so he went up to the young ones and said to 

 them, "What do you live on?" The birds showed him numbers 



