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Tlic l)()V, liovvcvcf, llo.itcd iiloii;;; fttr soinc^ lime and iiiuilly came 

 ashore in sal'et}' on a nice sandy bcacli. The tide was very low. 

 Th(ui he heard the hiughter of some girls who were out digging 

 clams. There were three of them, and they were sisters. Now the 

 eldest of the girls saw something moving on the beach and went 

 thither, tliinking it was some; dying animal. Instead she saw a 

 handsome youth, who looked right iij) at her hut said nothing. Said 

 she, "What has happened to you^' P>iit he would not speak. She 

 called to her sisters, and they ran up. Then the second sister imme- 

 diately fell ill love with him, hut the youngest had nothing to say. 

 The eldest had formerly been in love with the youth that was first 

 destroyed, so she said to her second sister, "llow much like my dead 

 lover he looks." She saw hiiii smile because he knew her, but he 

 did not know the others, and immediately the eldest began to cry, 

 saying that that was her lov(>r's smile only that he was a larger man. 

 Then the second sister laughed, saying that she was going to untie 

 him and have him for her husband. The youngest, however, said, 

 "Well! you twcj can have him, h)r 1 am not going to have a man that 

 can not talk." " If he comes out all right after we have untied him," 

 sai<l the eldest, "we will both be his wives." So, the two older girls 

 untied him and started to raises his head while the youngest ran olf 

 to dig clams. They asked him il he could talk, and he said, "Yes." 

 As he walked between the girls, one of them said, "You shall go to 

 my father's house with me." At the time they untied him the 

 eagles were gathering ar'ound to devour him. 



Then they took him into their father's house and their father 

 said, "Who is that fellow r' "We found him," said the second, 

 "and we nvc going to marry iiim." This one w^as very quick to 

 speak, while the eldest was slow and (|iiiet. Their father consented, 

 and he married both of the girls. Then the eldest spoke to her 

 father of liow much he resembled her dead lover, although the boy 

 had not told anything about himself. 



Those girls used to go olf to hunt and s])ear salmon just like boys, 

 so the younger said next morning, " 1 am going out to sj)ear salmon." 

 She brought a salmon home. The day following both girls asked 

 him to go with them, and he did so. '^Phey tried to teach him how 

 to hunt, for he l)elonge(| to such a veiT high fainily that he had 

 never learned. 



On the way the Nounger wife acted sulkily toward her elder sister 

 because she would never leave their husband's side. So she started 

 olf alone, and hec husband was afraid she would go away for good, 

 for he liked her wvy much on account of her liveliness. In the 

 evening, however, she canie back v\ith a salmon and said to her 

 sister, "You can live on love, ^'ou stick by your husband and do 

 not go to get anvthing to eat." Then their husband carried the 



