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to have something to eat. Her husband looked to her hke a fine 

 young man, but everyone else could see that he was a skull. They 

 were very much frightened. 



At that time the people there had very little food, and presently the 

 girl's husband said to her, "Has your father a small canoe?" "Yes," 

 she said, "he has a small canoe." " Ask him for it and for spears and 

 arrows." Then the girl said to her mother, "Mother, he is asking for 

 a small canoe. They want to go hunting." Her mother humored 

 her, for she was afraid she would go off with that man. But when 

 they looked for the canoe it was already missing. Afterward the 

 young men acted in the house just as if they were in canoes, going 

 through the motions of paddling, spearing seals, etc., and the girl was 

 ashamed of them. In the evening they said to each other^ "Let us 

 camp." The people of the village could not see what they did or hear 

 what they said, but the girl could, and she felt very uneasy. Then 

 they pulled off the painted boards from her father's house and began 

 to cook. After that she saw them act as though they were coming 

 back bringing a load of dead seals, etc. To the people it seemed as if 

 they were still in the house. 



Presently the girl called to her mother saying, "Mother, they are in 

 already. They want some one to go down and bring the things up 

 from the canoe." Then her mother said to the people, "There is a 

 canoe down on the beach, and they want you to go down and bring 

 up what they have killed." It was late in the evening, and, sure 

 enough, when the people went, they fountl the canoe loaded with all 

 kinds of fishes, with seals and sea lions. Then the chief gave the 

 head man of each family a seal and fed the entire village with the food 

 which they had brought in. After that the people had plenty of 

 ground hogs, mountain sheep, etc., with which these two men pro- 

 vided them. 



The two men began to come to life and were beginning to look like 

 living beings. It was then that j^eople found out who they were. 

 When they got up in the morning they could be seen very plainly, so 

 the chief got some marten robes and put them upon his son-in-law 

 and his son-in-law's brother. They were both very industrious. 



In that same house was a girl who became very angry with the 

 younger brother, after she saw who they were, because he paid no 

 attention to anyone but his brother's wife. She marked the place 

 where he used to sit with human blood, and as he sat on this blood 

 eating he dropped over dead. The other lived for some time after- 

 ward, and the girl who had destroyed his brother tried to draw his 

 attention to herself also ; but he was too fond of his wife to think of her 

 in the least. Then she marked his seat with blood, and he in turn 

 dropped over dead. 



