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went on farther, and the uncle said to him, "Do you see that hole 

 down there ? " He could see plainly a very large hole. Then his uncle 

 said, "The devilhsh that we want to get for our supper is in that." 

 He handed him the stick for getting devilfish and said, "Hook it. You 

 can get it very easily." The boy put the end of his stick into the hole, 

 felt that the fish was there, and hooked it. Immediately he tried to 

 run off, but his uncle was right behind him, and pushed him forward 

 so that the devilfish seized him and dragged him under the rock. 



All the time this man was killing his nephew\s, the youngest, who 

 looked very much like the first one killed, had been practising. His 

 father showed him how to make himself look like a very small ball of 

 feathers. He had the shaman of that village make a bracelet of eagle 

 down for him inclosing a piece of devil's club carved by the shaman. 

 Then the shaman said, "Just as soon as you find- that you are in 

 danger turn this bracelet around on your wrist four times as quickly 

 as you can." Then the shaman told him to climb a very high tree, 

 and climbed right after him, while his father stood watching. The 

 shaman said, "Now turn that around on your wrist four times as 

 quickly as you can." He did so, and just as he finished the shaman 

 pushed him do\\ai. Then his father saw nothing but a ball of eagle 

 down rolling down the tree. As soon as it reached the ground there 

 stood the boy, and the shaman knew that everything was all right. 

 He also gave the boy a knife having a handle carved like devil's clubs, 

 which he kept in the bosom of his shirt, tied around his neck. 



After this the boy's fi'iends took him to his uncle and remained with 

 him for three days. On the fourth day they returned. Then the 

 uncle's wife cried continually to think that a boy not fully grown 

 should be left there to be killed, and his uncle said to her angrily, 

 "Wliat is it you are always crying about? You are in love again 

 aren't you?" Then the boy said aloud so that his uncle could hear, 

 "You are in love with the right one this time." At that his uncle 

 became angry and told him he talked too much. Right away he said, 

 "Come on with me. We will get a devilfish for our supper." So the 

 boy prepared himself, and they started off, while his uncle's wife came 

 out and watched them, thinking that he was the last. 



As they went along the boy saw the clam, and, before his uncle told 

 him it was there, he stood still just above it. For a moment he forgot 

 about his bracelet, but, just as he saw his uncle raise his hands, he 

 remembered and turned his bracelet about once. When he reached 

 the clam he turned it for the fourth time and fell into the clam as a ball 

 of feathers, while his uncle went home, thinking he had disposed of 

 him. The ball of feathers inside, however, turned back into a boy, 

 and he cut both sides of the clam and came out. 



Then he saw the devilfish-stick his uncle had given him lying there 

 and thought he would go on and see the devilfish they were to have 



