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run after him or he will take your life." It was Dry-cloud that he 

 meant. "Don't mind me," said Fire-drill's son, "I know what he is. 

 I only play with him. I know that this fellow can't be killed, and I 

 know that he can not kill anybody else, but I have to follow him. 

 That was my father's advice to me." So they kept on after Dry- 

 cloud and the wolf had to run with all his might, but it did not seem 

 to Fire-drill's son that he was going rapidly at all. Whenever the 

 wolf got his tail wet in crossing a stream he was too much tired out 

 to shake it, so he simply yelped and Fire-drill's son shook it for him. 

 By and by they saw smoke far ahead of them and presently came to 

 where an old woman lived alone by herself. They stayed with her 

 for some time, and could see Dry-cloud as long as they were there, 

 for he lived intheneighborhoodof her house. Then theyhelped the old 

 woman and collected a quantity of wood for her. After that she 

 said to the boy, ' 'Grandson, there is a big fish over yonder. It killed 

 all of my friends in this town. That is why I am all alone here." 

 He went to the place where she said the monster lived and found a 

 red cod. He said to her, "Grandmother, that is not a monster fish. 

 It is good to eat." So he took his bow and arrows and told his. 

 friend to watch him. Then he went to the red cod and killed it, and, 

 seeing that there were numbers of sharp s])ines U])on it, he took off 

 its skin and dried it. He said to the wolf: "My friend, do you know 

 this woman ? She is really Daughter-of-the-calm (Kay c'l !i-sl) . wShe is 

 a veiynice, pretty girl." Afterward Fire-drill's son married Daughter- 

 of-the-calm and had a child l)y her named LAkitcine'. He gave this 

 boy his dog and jmt the red-cod skin upon him as a sliirt. Then he 

 said to his wife: "This is going to be a very bad boy."'* 



LAkitcine' lived at Sitka.'' He had a wife from among human 

 beings, and every day, while he went out halibut fishing, she dug 

 clams. The dog, GAnt, that his father had given him he renamed 

 CAq!. LAkitcine' had several children, but he killed all of them. 

 He would take a child up, pet it, and sing cradle songs. to it, and at 

 the same time make his red-cod spines stick into it so that it died. 



order to kill him, so a bad person says whatever he chooses to a good one. But thej' tell their children, 

 'This will not kill you. They are doing themselves injury instead of you. So turn and walk away 

 from them.' 



"If a poor person has self-respect, he will have good fortune some time, just as in the case of the two 

 old women to whom Raven brought fortune. 



"The example of Fire-drill's son is commended liecause he did not use his power meanly. He knew 

 that he was very powerful, but when all the animals tried his power he did not do them any harm. He 

 did not want to show his strength at once. If he had been a mean man he might have killed the old 

 woman that lived back in the woods instead of helping her and getting her food." (From the writer's 

 informant.) 



a Katishan added that once while Fire-drill's son was chasing Dry-cloud he was pulled into a village 

 in the sky for some offense and punished there. Since then people have believed that the stars are 

 inhabited. They were thought to be towns and the light the reflection of the sea. 



6 Near the site of the Presbyterian School. 



