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down to look at it and said to one another, "There is a terrible mon- 

 ster there. Come down to look at it. It is something very strange. " 

 They did not Ivnow what it was, but supposed that it was the old 

 woman's spirit. 



At last, when she heard all this racket going on, the chief's daughter 

 started down the steps from the high foundation such as they used 

 to build on in those days, and she wept very loudly as she descended 

 so that all the people could hear her. They looked at her and won- 

 dered what was wrong with her, thinking, "What does that high- 

 caste girl mean b}'^ calling the monster her husband?" Nobody 

 would go near, for they were afraid of the chief, of the chief's daughter, 

 and of the monster. But, when the girl had come down, she said to 

 her mother, who was still looking at the monster, "Where are your 

 spirits now? You are a story teller. You say that you have spirits 

 when you have not. That is why this happened to my husband." 

 Now the interest was so intense that people had crawled up on the 

 roofs of the houses and on other high places to look at the monster. 

 As the girl also stood there looking, she said, "Mother, is this your 

 Food-fuiding spirit? How is it that your spirit should die? Spirits 

 all over the world never die. If this is j^our spirit make it come to 

 life again. " 



Then the girl went close to the monster and said to the village 

 people, "Some of you that are very clean come and help me." Her 

 husband had died in the act of holding the jaws of the monster 

 apart to come out, one hand on each. When the people saw this 

 they were very much surprised and said, "He must have been cap- 

 tured by that monster." From that time on this monster has been 

 known as the GonaqAde't. 



The people helped to take the woman's husband and the monster's 

 skin up to the edge of the lake and put them into the hollow in the 

 tree. There they saw the log, broken hammers, and wedges lying 

 about where he had killed it, and reported to the rest of the people 

 so that everyone went there to look. But the old woman was so 

 ashamed that she remained in doors and died. When they found 

 her body blood was coming out of the mouth. 



Every evening after this the dead man's wife went to the foot of 

 the tree which contained his body and wept. One evening, how- 

 ever, she perceived a ripj)le on the water, and looking up, saw the 

 monster flopping around in the lake. Then the creature said to her, 

 "Come here." It was the voice of her husband. "Get on my 

 back," it said, "and hold tight." She did so, and he swam do\vn 

 to the monster's former house. This monster is the GonaqAde't 

 that brings good luck to those that see him. His wife also brings 

 good luck to those who see her, and so do their children, ' ' the 

 Daughters of the Creek," who live at the head of everv stream. 



