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talked the matter over for a while they said to him, "You might as 

 well have all the devilfishes killed. When those small ones are grown 

 up you do not know what they will do to your house." So they 

 invited the devilfishes again, killed the big one, threw the little ones 

 down on the beach, and kept the girl. By and by, however, the 

 girl said to her father, "There is going to l)e a terrible war. All of 

 the devilfish are assembling. Don't allow any of the people of your 

 town to sleep at night. Let them watch." So, when night came 

 on, they could see large and small devilfishes coming in through every 

 little crack until the house got ({uite full of tiiem, and some people 

 were suffocated by having the devilfishes cover their mouths. The 

 devilfish that they had killed was chief among them. 



Just then Man-that-eats-the-leavings came to that town, and 

 they told him what a hard time they were having every night with 

 the devilfish, so he stayed with them until evening. When they 

 came in this time he seemed to have control over them, and they 

 ceased bothering the people. The large devilfishes are called dAgasfi'. 

 The small ones, which they threw down on the beach, are those that 

 the Alaskan Indians see, but these do not injure anyone now because 

 their grandfather was a human beine:. 



Afterward they bathed the girl to take all the devilfish off of her, 

 and put fine clothing on her. Her face was very pretty, so that all 

 the neighboring chiefs wanted to marry her. In olden times a good 

 looking woman was considered high-caste, for they knew she would 

 marry well, and a good looking woman among the high-caste people 

 was considered very high. 



Among those who wanted to marry this girl was Man-that-eats-the- 

 leavings. He lived in a brush house at a place where garbage was 

 thrown out. He was a fine shot, however, and (me day he went to 

 a lake behind the,' town where a loon was swimming about and shot 

 it. When tho an"ow struck it gave forth a sound like a bell and 

 swam right up to the shore. Then he went down to it and found, 

 instead of a loon, a canoe made out of cop])er. This was, in fact, 

 the grizzly-bear canoe that had belonged to his grandfather. It had 

 long since been forgotten. Next he found a i)iece of a painted house 

 front (q !en) and shook it, upon which a grand house stood there with 

 four horizontal house timbers, and he lined the mside of this house 

 w^tli copper-plates made out of the copper canoe. Then he married 

 the chief's daughter without her father's consent and took her to his 

 house. 



By and by the chief's daughter was missed, and they himted for 

 her through all of tiie houses, but they did not look into the old brush 

 house, for they thought she would never go there. They thought 



