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shooting into its eyes and then they shot it tliroiigh the heart. They 

 ran in to it to shoot, but, as soon as they had wounded it fatally, they 

 rushed out again, and it followed them. It ran right into the ocean, 

 and they could hear it splashing the water about it with its tail. It 

 sounded like thunder. Finally the rat died and drifted ashore. 



Then Little Felon told the young man to take it up and carry it to 

 the old woman, and, as soon as he had grasped it, it was very small 

 and light. He carried it in to her and said, "Is this the rat you were 

 talking about?" Then he threw it down, and it filled the house. So 

 she said, "Take it up and put it outside." 



Now the old woman spoke again. "Way out there in the middle of 

 the ocean is a sculpin. Go out and fish for it, and you shall get my 

 granddaughter." So he and Little Felon went out there and caught 

 the sculpin, which Little Felon made very small. He threw it into the 

 bottom of the canoe and left it there. When they reached land the 

 youth took it up to the old woman and threw it down inside. Lo ! it 

 was an awful monster with great spines. 



Now the old woman did not know what to do. She thought, 

 "What kind of boy is this?" Then she said, "Do you see that point? 

 A very large crab lives out there. Go and kill it." When they got 

 out there they saw the crab floating about on its back. It looked 

 very dangerous. Little Felon, however, told the crab to get small, 

 and it did so. He killed it, put it into the canoe, and carried it to the 

 old woman, who exclaimed, "Oh! he has killed everything that 

 belongs to me." 



Then the old woman said, "Go far out to sea beyond the place 

 where you got that sculpin. I dropped my bracelet overboard there. 

 Go and get it." So he and Little Felon set out. But first they dug a 

 quantity of clams and removed the shells. They took these out to 

 that place and threw them around in the water, when all kinds of fish 

 began to come up. Then Little Felon saw a dogfish coming up and 

 said to it, "A bracelet was lost over there. Go and get it for me." 

 He did so, and the youth took it to the old woman. 



Then the old woman was very much surprised and said, "Well! that 

 is the last." So she said to her granddaughter, "Come out. Here is 

 your husband. You must have respect for him always." So he 

 married her. After that he went over to Little Felon and asked how 

 much he owed him. "You don't owe me anything," said Little 

 Felon. ' ' You remember that at the time I was suft'ering so badl}' you 

 pricked me through the smokehole." And the youth answered, "Oh! 

 yes, this is the fellow." Little Felon (Kweqk!") is a slender fish that 

 swims close to the beach. 



After that the young man and his wife always traveled about 

 together, for he thought a great deal of her. By and by, however, 

 they had a quarrel and he was cruel to her. So she went away and sat 



