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looked down and saw a very large town. At once people came 

 running toward him, and he clubbed them. He could see them fall 

 l)ut did not feel his club strike. He kept on running up the hill, 

 clubbing his pursuers as he went until he had destroyed all of them. 

 Then he returned to his benefactor. 



Wlien Strength heard what had happened, he said, ''Go back, for 

 there is another village on the other side. Go there and call to them. 

 They will not see you as quickly as these first. Call to them, 'Give 

 me my uncle's life, my village people's life.' If they refuse, tell them 

 that you are going to strike their village with your club. If they 

 allow you to have it they will hand you a box." He gave the boy 

 strict orders not to strike unless they refused to give him the box of 

 lives. 



When the boy came to the first house in this village, he asked for 

 the lives of his town people, but they said, "We don't know where 

 they are. They might be in the next house." He went to that, and 

 they said the same thing there. They answered him in the same man- 

 ner at all of the houses. By the time he reached the last he was dis- 

 couraged, thinking that he had undertaken all of that labor for 

 nothing. He went in there, however, and said, "Give me ni}^ village 

 people's lives. If you don't give them to me, I will strike your village." 

 This was the town chief's house, however, and he said, "Don't strike 

 our village. I will give you the lives of your village people." These 

 people were also wolf people. Then the wolf chief handed him the 

 box of lives and said, "Take it back to your village and leave it in each 

 house for four days. At the end of four days go into the house and see 

 what has happened." 



After this the boy returned to his native village and left the box of 

 lives four days in the house of his uncle, the chief. Early on the 

 morning of the day following he heard noises there, jumped up and 

 went over to it. There were all of his people walking about and look- 

 ing very happy. He left the box in every house in town for the pre- 

 scribed period until all the absent ones had come to life, and all of 

 their houses were filled as before. All the time this boy was away 

 among the wolves his mother and grandmother were worrying about 

 him, but after the people had been restored they were very happy. 



51. THE SALMON CHIEF 



A certain fisherman fished for salmon and nothing else. One day, 

 after he had fished for a long time, he was walking upon the beach and 

 came upon a salmon left by the tide. He was very glad for he had not 

 been getting any fish for some time and saw that this was nice and fresh. 

 He saitl to himself, "Oh! what a nice meal I shall have." He had 

 been very hungry for salmon. But, as he reached down to pick it up, 

 it spoke to him saying, "No, no, don't eat me. I am chief of all the 



