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that she might have gone back to the rocks again, and they dug up 

 all of the large rocks to look underneath them. Finally, however, 

 they saw her going into the brush house and told her parents, and her 

 parents felt very badly on her account. All got out spears to kill 

 her husband, but her mother said, ''I am going there to see her 

 first. " So she went down in great anger, but found the door already 

 open for her, and, when she went in, each side of the house shone so 

 brightly that she could hardly keep her eyes open. wShe saw that 

 the house was fuU of very nice things, so she said to her daughter, 

 " Daughter, are you married?" "Yes, mother, I am married." 

 Her mother had intended to take her home and have her husband 

 killed, but instead she put the fire out and sat in the ashes, as was 

 customary in the case of a woman whose daughter married without 

 her consent. It meant that she w^anted property. And before she 

 had sat there very long, her new son-in-law handed out eight bright 

 copper plates and sent her home, and she told her husband all that 

 she had seen. Then they laid their spears aside, and the following 

 morning they saw a beautifully painted house standing where the 

 brush house had been. Now the chief invited his daughter and her 

 husband to a feast. The servants that were sent with the invitation 

 were finely dressed. When they got there, they said to the girl, "We 

 are sent after you by your father; he wants you to come to a feast, 

 you and your husband." They did so, and, after food had been 

 served, he gave his son-in-law eight slaves, one for every copper plate 

 his wife had received. And to this day, when a girl runs off with 

 some one, and her people find he is all right, they do all they can 

 for her." 



By and b}^ this chief's daughter had a little boy who proved to be 

 very smart and became a great hunter. He used to hunt far up on 

 the mountains for mountain goats and other animals. One time he 

 fell from the top of a mountain and lost consciousness, and, when he 

 came to, he saw many men standing about him in a circle. They had 

 cedar-bark rings around their heads and necks. Then they said to 

 him, "What kind of spirit do you want, the Raven Spirit or the Wolf 

 Spirit?" and he said "The Wolf Spirit." So they held white rocks 

 over his head, and he became unconscious. That is how^ he got the 

 spirit. Then he ran around screaming, naked except for an apron, 

 while all of the Cliff Spirits and all of the Forest Spirits sang and 

 pounded on sticks for him. They also tied up his hair like a wolf's 

 ears. This is the origin of the LuqAua', or secret societies, and the 

 one this man first started is said to have been the Dog-eaters' society. 

 He sang a song, too, only employed nowadays by a high-caste person 



a For another version of this part, see story 89. 



