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went on and met another bird, called Ts !lni<^e'ni, and asked, ''What 

 do you do for a living?" ' 'Don't you see that I am a very handsome 

 fellow. All the women want to marry me." Then she went along 

 and met Fox, who said, "What is the matter with me?" ''What do 

 you do for a living?" she asked. She noticed that he was dressed 

 very warmly in ver}' beautiful clothing. ' 'I can run and get any- 

 thing I want," he said. "I have plenty to eat." He did not suit 

 her, and she went right by. After a while there came Lynx 

 (gfdv), who replied to her question by saying, "I am a traveler and 

 get all kinds of birds to eat." Next she met Wolverine (Xusk) 

 which answered, ' 'I am a good hunter and I kill all kinds of animals." 



After that she went along sadly, repeating as usual, ' 'Who will marry 

 my daughter so that he can help me?" Then she saw a man who 

 shone all over, standing on top of a mountain. She came very close 

 to him, and he said, ' 'What is the matter with me?" ' 'What do you 

 do for a living?" "I move about as quick as thought. Wherever 

 I want to go, there I am at once. My father is the sun." She said, 

 ' 'Let us see him then." So he spoke to the sun. It was a cloudy day, 

 but, when he spoke to it, the sun appeared and.it became very warm. 

 "All right," she said, "you can have my daughter for your wife." 



After that the man took a limb from a tree and said to his mother- 

 in-law, "You shall be this limb." He put her inside and shoved the 

 limb back. Then he said to her, ' 'The world will call you 'Woman- 

 of-the-forest' (As-gutu'yik-ca). You will mock everybody that 

 shouts or whistles. When they hear you they will know what it is." 

 So she became the echo. 



After this a spherical cloud came down and rolled up with them. 

 As the cloud was going up, the man said to his wife, ' 'Don't look at it. 

 Keep your face hidden." When he told her to open her eyes again 

 she saw that she was in a beautiful ])lace with flowers all about. It 

 was his house. It was a grassy country and there were all kinds of 

 fruits about the place. 



There this woman had eight children, seven boys and a girl. She 

 was Yery much afraid of everything, and that is why women are so 

 to-day. Then they built for these children a small house with a 

 painted front, put up forty boxes of every kind of fruit and berry, 

 also dried salmon, grease, and other kinds of food, and stored the 

 house with them. They had bracelets and a marten-skin robe made 

 for the girl, and her grandfather said to her, "You are going to be 

 very quarrelsome. While quarreling you will always examine your 

 bracelets." Then their grandfather prepared war clothes for the 

 boys and said, "You are now going down to fight." He also gave 

 them a painted wooden wedge and said, "Keep this with you all the 

 time. When you are fighting and see that your enemies are too 

 strong for you, and you are getting beaten, put this wedge into the 



