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"You must stay here. We are going off." So the}' made a mat 

 house over him and let him have their blankets. They were wild at 

 the thought of having lost all their friends. Then they killed a 

 number of porpoises and seals, went to the devilfish's place and 

 threw them into the water above him. After a while they saw that 

 the water was getting frothy around them with ascending bul^bles 

 and presently saw the devilfish coming up. It looked very white. 

 One of these men was making a noise like the raven; the other was 

 acting like a dog salmon. All that went on was observed by the little 

 boy. As soon as the devilfish reached the surface they jumped upon 

 it with their knives and began slashing it. They cut its ink bag and 

 all the water became black. The devilfish and the men died. 



Soon after this had happened a canoe from another camp came 

 there, saw this object floating on the sea some distance out from the 

 village, and thought that it was yet alive; so they hurried to get 

 past it. When they came ashore the boy told them all that had 

 happened, and they cried very much at seeing him there alone, for 

 he was their relative. After this they returned with him to their 

 camp, which was situated upon an island near by, and told the story 

 there, on which two canoe loads of people left to look for the 

 devilfish. After they had found it and had cut it open with their 

 stone axes, they saw the two men still inside, knife in hand. All the 

 village people that the devilfish had eaten were also there. Then 

 thev took the bodies back to town and had a death feast." 



Later on a chief's daughter at the place named Q!AqA'x-duii' ob- 

 tained a wood wx)rm (Liuqiu'x) as a pet and fed it on different kinds 

 of oil. It grew very fast until it reached the length of a fathom. 

 Then she composed a cradle song for it: "It has a face already. Sit 

 right here. Sit right here (K!esi-ya'k!" A'sgt. Tclayii'k! a'uu)." 

 She sang again, '^'It has a mouth already. Sit right here. wSit right 

 here." They would hear her singing these words day after day, and 

 she woidd come out from her room only to eat. Then her mother 

 said to her, "Stay out here once in a while. Do not sit back there 

 always." They wondered what was WTong with her that she always 

 stayed inside, and at last her mother thought that she would spy 

 upon her daughter. She looked inside, therefore, and saw something 

 very large between the boxes. She thought it an a\vfid monster, 

 but left it alone, because her daughter was fond of it. 



^lean while the people of the town had 1)een missing oil from their 

 boxes for some time, for this worm was stealing it. The mother 

 kept saying to her daughter, "Wliy don't you have something else 



oSee story 11 ami story 29 (first part). 



