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he was delivering a speech, for he would look up at the smoke hole 

 every now and then and act as though talking. When he finished 

 he started out and the rest followed. As they went out each in turn 

 licked the paint from their host's arm and breast. 



The day after all this happened the smallest bear came back, as it 

 appeared to the man, in human form, and spoke to him in Tlingit. 

 He had been a human being who was captured and adopted by the 

 bears. This person asked the man if he understood their chief, and 

 he said, "No." "He was telling you," the bear replied, "that he is 

 in the same condition as you. He has lost all of his friends. He had 

 heard of you before he saw you. He told you to think of him when 

 you are mourning for your lost ones." 



When the man asked this person why he had not told him what 

 was said the da}^ before, he replied that he was not allowed to speak 

 his native language while the chief was around. It was on account 

 of this adventure that the old people, when they killed a grizzly bear, 

 would paint a cross on its skin. Also, when they gave a feast, no 

 matter if a person were their enemy, they would invite him and 

 become friends just as this man did to the bears, which are yet great 

 foes to man. 



65. MOUNTAIN DWELLER « 



Years ago young women were not allowed to eat between meals. 

 Two sisters belonging to a high family once did this, and, when their 

 mother found it out, she was very angry. She pulled the elder girl 

 toward her, abused her shamefully, and scratched the inside of her 

 mouth all over in pulling out the tallow she had eaten. She said, 

 "What do you mean, especially you, 3"ou big girl ? It is not right that 

 you shoidd eat anything between meals. What do you mean?" The 

 younger sister was still quite little, therefore nothing was done to her, 

 but she was offended at the treatment her elder sister had received. 

 Finally the mother said, "You are so fond of eating you better marry 

 Mountain Dweller (CacjAnayi')." This being lived upon the mountains 

 and was a great hunter. That evening the sisters ran oft' into the 

 woods. 



Next morning, when her daughters did not appear, their mother 

 thought that they had stayed in bed and called to them, "Isn't it 

 time 3^ou were getting out of bed?" By and by, however, she found 

 that they were gone, and the people began searching for them. Their 

 mother would go from one place to another where they had been 

 playing, but nobody saw anything of them for seven daj's. 



Meanwhile, although they were suflering with hunger, the girls went 

 farther and farther into the woods. When they got very far up 

 among the mountains they heard somebody chopping wood, and the 



a For another version see story 92, 



