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to their traps very often to look at their deadfalls, but after he came 

 they had a very easy time. Therefore the whole village was pleased 

 with him, looked upon him as a very high-caste person, and would 

 do as he told them. 



By and by the salmon season came. The people there had copper- 

 pointed salmon spears (IcAt) with handles of fine, thin wood, but the 

 water was so muddy that they could spear only by means of the 

 ripple marks, and often got but one or two a day. The most that 

 any man ol)tained was three. 



Kake/q!"te watched and knew that he coidd help them. He 

 alwaj^s traveled around with his wives' bi'others, and wherever they 

 went the people followed, for tlu^y thought that he knew how to get 

 salmon. He inquired if this were the only way they knew of to catch 

 salmon, and they said, "Yes, this is the only way except that when 

 they get in a shallow ])lace we can club them." One of his brothers- 

 in-law also said to him, "The only time we can obtain salmon is when 

 they are very old and their flesh is turning white. Then the water 

 is low, and they go near the shore where we can see them." We can 

 also get them at tliat time from the little creeks that come into the 

 river." Now Kake'q!"te took the spear from his brother-in-law 

 and taught him how to feel along the river for salmon and catch 

 them on the barbs as soon as they were felt. In half an hour he had 

 six salmon. All the people of the village were looking on. Then he 

 said to his brother-in-law, "You can feel them very easily. Tliey 

 are slippery. Wlien you feel anything slippery, do not be in too 

 great himy and be carefid not to go under the salmon. When you 

 first put your spear into the water you will feel the ground and you 

 will raise it up from the ground and move it along. I know how to 

 make a salmon trap, too. I will show you that to-morrow. To-day 

 we can not do it." 



Next da}" the whole village went to work making salmon traps. 

 Again he asked them to get young trees and sj^lit them. All did as 

 he told tliem. They nuide eighteen traps that day. They got roots 

 and split them, and all worked taking the bark ofT. The whole 

 village imitated Kake'q!"te, watching his every movement. Next 

 day they put the traps into the water, and all were very anxious 

 about them, even the women sitting along the shore watching. Some 

 of the poor people, who Iviiew that they would residt similarly to the 

 first traps he had made, were so anxious to see them that they could 

 not sleep. Tlie day before all of the women sat down to make ropes 

 in the manner he showed them, and each went to the traps next 

 morning provided with one. Wlien they got there they found every 

 one of them loaded with salmon. All the people in the town, old 

 and young, went to see these traps. \Ylrile they were emptying the 

 traps and stringing some of the salmon, others would be coming in, 



