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give the girl to him. Tlien he saitl to the chief, "If I had married 

 your daughter you woukl have had a great name in the workl. You 

 will presently see your daughter take up with some person who is a 

 nobody, and, when they speak of you in the world, it will always be 

 as Chief-with-no-name. You may listen to this TsAgwa'n if you 

 want to, but you will be sorry for it. He is a man from whom no 

 good comes. Hereafter this TsAgwa'n will live far out at sea. And 

 I will tell you this much, that neither TsAgwa'n nor myself will get 

 this woman." This is wliy TsAgwa'n is now always alone. Haven 

 also said to the chief, "You will soon hear something of this daughter 

 of yours." All the high-caste men wanted to marry this woman, 

 but she would not have them. 



Going on again, Raven came to an old man living alone, named 

 DAmna'dji, and said to him, "Do 3T)u know the young tlaughter of 

 the chief close by here?" "Yes, I know her." "Why don't you 

 try to marry her?" "I can't get her. I know I can't, so I don't 

 want to try." Then Raven said, "I will make a medicine to enable 

 you to get her." "But I have no slave," said the old man; "to 

 get her a man must have slaves." "Oh!" said Raven, "you do not 

 have to have a slave to get her. She will take a liking to you and 

 nobody can help it. She will marry you. Her father will lose half 

 of his property." Then he made the old man look young, got 

 feathers to put into his hair and a marten-skin robe to put over him 

 so that he appeared very handsome. But Raven said to him, "You 

 are not going to look like this all of the time. It is only for a day 

 or so." 



After this the rejuvenated man got into his skin canoe, for this 

 was well to the north, and paddled over to where tiie girl lived. 

 He did not ask her father's consent but went directly to her, and she 

 immediately fell in love with him. Although so many had been 

 after her she now said, "I will marry you. I will go with you even 

 if my father kills me for it." 



When the chief's slaves found them in the bedroom at the rear of 

 the house, they said to the chief, "Your daughter is married." So 

 her mother looked in there and found it was true. Then her father 

 said, "Come out from that room, my daughter." He had already 

 told his slaves to lay down valuable furs on the floor for his daughter 

 and her husband to sit on. He thought if she were already married 

 it was of no use for him to be angry with her. So the girl came out 

 with her husband, and, when her fatlier saw him he was very glad, 

 for he liked his looks, and he was dressed like a high-caste person. 



Then the chief related to his son-in-law how a fellow came along 

 wanting to marry his daughter, and how TsAgwa'n had come after- 

 ward and told him that he had been cruel to his first wife. Said 



