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did SO and brought out little frogs. All these were to be used with 

 the medicine he was to get out last. The third time he put the dip- 

 per in he got blue flies. Then he put it in the fourth time to get the 

 medicine, and sure enough on the end of it, when it came out, there 

 was some stuff that looked like tallow and had a pleasant odor. 



After that Floating pulled up his slave, and when he reached the 

 top he had fainted and looked as though he were dead, but he soon 

 came to. Then Floating took one of each kind of creature, mashed 

 them up along with the white stuff, and put all into the shaft of an 

 eagle feather. The medicine he thus made is called Crying-for medi- 

 cine. When Floating wanted to kill any bear, mountain goat, or 

 other animal, all he had to d.o was to shake it in the air and whatever 

 he wanted would come down to him. 



After this Floating went back to his village, where his wife also was, 

 and the news of his return spread everywhere. It was early in winter. 

 Then his wife was entirely unable to stay away from him, and ran 

 to his door very early in the morning. They let her inside, but her 

 husband would not allow her to come any nearer to him. She begged 

 very hard to be allowed to come back, but he had already suiTered 

 so much on her account that he was determined that she shoukl 

 suffer in her turn. The harder she begged the more determined he 

 was that she should not come back. He never took her back, and 

 she suffered a great deal, especially when she found that he had 

 become very rich and could have any woman in the village that he 

 wanted. It was because of this medicine that she was so anxious 

 to get back to him, and it was because he wanted to make her suffer 

 that he was so anxious to get it. None except people of the Raven 

 clan use this medicine. Even now, when a girl is so much in love as 

 to be crazy over it, it is said, "They must have used the Crymg-for 

 medicine on her." 



83. THE RUNAWAY WIFE 



A high-caste youth among the Haida was determined to marry his 

 uncle's daughter, because his uncle was a very old man and he wanted 

 to take his place. But, after he had given a great deal of ])roperty 

 for the girl and taken her, she ran away. He followed her and induced 

 her to come back, but before long she ran away again, and she kept 

 on acting this way for a long time. 



Finally the young man heard of a very large woman who knew of 

 medicines to get anjdjody with whom one was in love. Wlien he 

 came to her village her people treated him very kindly, asking him 

 to come up and eat with them. After they had fed him and his 

 companions they made a large fire on top of the retaining timbers 

 for the woman to take her purifying bath. She had a little girl to 



