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''I thought you said you had killed that chief." "I did kill him." 

 "Well! if you killed the chief, who is it that is killinf;: our friends?" 

 Still he kept assiu'ing them that he had killed the chief. Then they 

 started over once more. But, this time, when the woman had shot 

 and was running back into the house, they saw by the apron she wore 

 that it was a woman, and the canoes started shoreward, the people 

 exclaiming, "It is a woman. It is a woman." When all had landed, 

 and she saw that they were coming after her, she and her daughter 

 escaped out of the rear of the house and ran up into the woods. 

 From the top of the mountain there she glanced back and said to 

 her daughter, "Look at your uncle's house. It is burning." They 

 could see the fire and smoke coming from it. Then they felt very 

 sad and com]3osed songs which the Indians sing to this very day. 

 They cried so hard that they fell asleep. After that they went 

 farther into the forest crying, and the mother said as she wept, "I 

 wonder whom I can get to marry my daughter so that he can help me." 

 By and by Mink came to the woman and said, "What is the matter 

 with me? Will not I do for your daughter?" "What do you do 

 for a living?" she asked him. ' 'I have a smell that kills everything." 

 Then the woman went straight on without paying the least attention 

 to him. Next Marten came along. To this woman they aj^peared 

 as human beings. And Marten said, ' 'What is the matter with me?" 

 ' 'What can you do for a living?" lie said he was a very fast runner 

 and could get anything he wanted, but she rejected him. Then she 

 went on again singing as before, ' 'Who will marry my daughter in 

 order to helj) me?" Next came Mountain-goat. "What is the 

 matter with me?" "What do you do for a living?" "I can kill 

 anything with my horns. I live far up among the bluffs where noth- 

 ing can harm me." He did not please her, and she went on past. 

 Then Wolf came, saying, "What is the matter with me? Can not I 

 get your daughter?" "What do you do for a living?" "I am a 

 fast runner. I can kill anything I want. I have plenty to eat." 

 He did not suit her, and she passed by him, but he was so deter- 

 mined that he met her again with a mountain goat in his mouth. 

 She went right by, however, and came to a lake where she repeated 

 the same words. At that place she met a very fine-looking young 

 man. Frog. "What do you do for a living?" she asked, and he 

 did not tell her what he did but said, "Although I am small very few 

 people like me. Even the big animals are scared of me." After him 

 Grizzly Bear asked, ' 'What is the matter with me?;' ' 'What do you 

 do for a living?" "Don't you see how large I am? I am a very 

 powerful fellow." He showed her his strength and what teeth he 

 had, and said that he was very quick and active, but she refused to 

 have him, and went on. Then she met the Wild Canary (s!as!). 

 * 'What do vou do for a living?" she said. ' 'I am a fine singer." She 



