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By and by he came to where war was going on betw^een two different 

 parties, and he said to them, '' Make carved fighting hats, greaves, and 

 war coats to protect your bodies." The name of one viUage was 

 Gitli'kc and the warring famihes were the GinAxda'^ikc (or Gitgt- 

 cAlk) and the GitAndu'. The people of Git !i'kc were getting the worst 

 of it. There were only three of them left— the chief, his sister, and 

 his sister's daughter. So the chief began sending to all the villages 

 for an aged man who was very smart and knew the old stories. When- 

 ever he brought in an old man, however, the latter would talk of 

 what good food he had been eating and what a high family he belonged 

 to, or tell what a wild life he had led when he was j^oung, all which 

 had no interest for the chief. He thought if he could find an old man 

 that would tell him just the old story he wanted, he would pay him 

 well. Finally he found that among his enemies was Old-man-who- 

 foresees-all-troubles-in-the-world, the one spoken of at the beginning 

 of this story, and he sent for him without letting the rest of his 

 enemies know about it. 



Afte^r a while he heard this old man coming along, talking very 

 loud, like a brave person, and he thought, "This is the old man from 

 whom I am going to hear the story." Then the old man said, "Chief, 

 if you are pleased with the story 1 am about to tell you, let me know 

 how long I shall stay in your house, and, if you are not pleased, let 

 me go at once." After that he told him all about the brave people 

 that had lived in tim(\s gon(> l)y, and said, "Always speak very highly 

 of your enemies. If you speak slightingly of them they will get above 

 you. If you speak to them in a nice manner, you will be able to 

 stand alone. If you s])eak to your enemies kindly, they will say, 

 'Let us give ourselves up to him.'" Then the chief said to the old 

 man, "You shall stay with me a long time," so he stayed there, and 

 next day they waited on him, giving him water to wash his hands 

 and face and food to eat. 



After that the old man sent for a piece of Alaska maple (q!alq!e/) 

 and made a war hat out of it carved to resemble a wolf. Then he 

 said, "Isn't there a wolf skin around here somewhere?" So they 

 killed a wolf, skiimed it entire along with the claws and teeth and put 

 tlie dancing hat inside to fill out the head. He sent for another piece 

 of hard wood from a tree called sAks and made an arrow out of it. He 

 burned black lines around the shaft of this arrow like tliose on gambling 

 sticks. Then he said to the chief, "Your sister shall sing the war 

 song for you, and your sister's daughter shall beat the drum. Put 

 the wolf on while the song is being sung and go down toward that 

 beach just below the house.- Jump over that rock four times." 

 There was a big rock upon the beach just below the house. As he gave 

 these directions the old man made his voice sound as though he were 

 making war. He began to excite the chief. "My nephews," he con- 



