TEXTS'^ 



89. THE ORIGIN OF COPPERS 



A cliief lived in the middle of a very long town. His daughter was 

 fond of picking berries. Once she went for berries wdth her father's 

 slaves, and wliile picking far up in the woods she stepped upon some 

 grizzly-bear's dung. "They always leave tilings under people's feet, 

 those wide anuses," she said. When they wanted to go down her 

 basket broke, and her father's slaves picked up the berries and put 

 them back for her. Very close to her father's house it broke again. 

 Then one said to her, "Now pick them up yourself." While she was 

 putting them in a man came to her whirling a stick in his hand. "Let 

 me marry you," he said to her. Then he started off with. her. He 

 went up toward the woods with her and passed under two logs. These 

 things wliich looked like logs were mountains. 



An kulayA't! digi'ylga a'ya u anqfi'wo. Dusf qokll't! 



Town was long in the middle of it was lived a chief. His daughter berries 



akucitA'n. Qokll't! an u'at dul'c guxq!'' tin. Aka'yan 



liked to pick. For berries with them she went her father's slaves with. On it 



kaoLiyA's! yuxu'ts! ha'Lli yuda'qq! qokli'tle. Ye aya'osiqa 



she stepped the grizzly dung way up in while berrying. So she said to 



bear's the woods 



yuxu'ts! ha'Lli, "TsIas qa'qiosi yide' hAs aLl'L! toq qAk".'' 



the grizzly dung, "Always feet down to they want, anuses wide!" 



bear's 



5 Atxe'qde hAs ayA' daa'dawe 3-a'olikIuts dukA'gu. Dul'c 



Down they when wanting to go broke down her basket. Her father's 



guxqlu'tcawe yAsahe'x aka'de dudjiyi's. LAxde' yfl'dulc nelixA'n- 



slaves it was we're picking up on to it for her. Very close to her father into his 

 and putting 



q!awe ts!u ya'olikluts. TcIulc' ye aya'osiqa ""Tela wae'tc 



house it again ' it broke. Then so he (i. e., one) said "Now you 



was to her 



de' yAsaha'.'' Aka'de tela lc' uA'xawe de At a'na doxA'nt 



right pick it up." On to it right by herself at once things she was to her 



now it was putting in 



u'wagut yuqa' wAsI-ya acakA'nAlyen. "Iqiica"'' Le yu'Acia'osiqa. 



came a man a stick was whirling in liis hand. "Let me then what he said to her. 



marry you", 



10 TcIuLe' Acl'n gone' uwaA't. DAq datcu'n Asiyu' dex xao 



Then with her starting he went. Up toward the woods it was two logs 



tayinA'x Aci'n ya'waAt. XAtc cfi'ayu xao yAx ac tuwa'yati. 



under with her went. These mountains were logs like her looked to. 



" All these stories, with the exception of nos. 100 and 106, were obtained at Sitka. 

 ii Another version is incorporated into story 31. 



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