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hurt at this. At first the girl hked her cousin well enough, but, when 

 she found that he had made hard feelings between her parents, she 

 began to feel unkindly toward him. Probal)ly her father hated the 

 boy because his wife was willing to marry him. 



One day the girl felt lonely and asked her cousin to go up with her 

 to get spruce bark to eat. The girl took along her little servant girl 

 and the boy his little servant boy. So they went up back of the town 

 until they came to a place where there were only spruces with open 

 grassy spots between. The girl sat down on one of these latter and 

 her cousin took the bark off for her. He was very good to her, 

 and tried to humor her in every way, but by and by she said 

 to him, "Pull off your marten robe and put it into that pond 

 close by." The boy ditl so, saying, "Did you think I could not do 

 that? I have plenty of marten robes." Then the girl spoke again 

 saying, "Pull off all of your hair." He began to do so, and, when 

 it was all pulled out, she said, "All right." Then she said, "Take 

 all those shells from your ears and face and throw them away." 

 The boy began to feel disturbed (lit. strange) about what she was 

 saying to him, but he did so. As soon as he had finished, however, 

 the girl and her servant ran home. 



Now the boy did not dare to return, because he had nothing to 

 wear, his marten robe being wet and his shells lost in the grass. So 

 he took some moss wide enough to cover his shoulders and body and 

 lay tlown upon a point at the edge of the woods. lie felt very badly 

 and cried hard as he lay there. Wlien he looked up he saw a loon 

 swimming about in the sea. By and by he looked up again and he 

 again saw the loon in the same place. Every now and then it uttered 

 a cry. Finally, as he was lying with his head down, he heard some 

 one say to him, "I have come after you." He looked up again but 

 saw nothing except that loon. The fourth time this happened he 

 kept watch, for he thought that it was the loon, and he saw a man 

 coming to him. Before this person, who was in fact the loon, could 

 say anything the boy exclaimed, "I have seen you." Then the loon 

 said, "Come along with me. Get on my back and shut your eyes 

 tight." 



Then the man did as this loon directed, and the latter dived down 

 into the sea with him and came up quite a distance out. "Look up," 

 it said. The youth did so and found himself some distance out on 

 the water. The hair was growing again upon his head. Then the 

 loon told him to close his eyes a second time, went out still farther, 

 and told him to reopen them. He was out a very long distance. 

 Then the boy thought, "What is he taking me out here for?" When 

 he opened his eyes for the third time he could see a village, and the 

 loon said to him, "You see that village. The chief there has a lovely 

 daughter whom you are to marry." After he had come up to the 

 shore with him he showed him this chief's house and said, ' ' You are 



