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cov^ered all the «way. After a time one of his friends heard liim 

 singing in the midst of a fog-, but they could not get near him until 

 they had fasted for two days. Then they found him lying upon a log 

 with blood running out of his nose and mouth. They brought him 

 home, and he became a great shaman. 



6. The Land-Otter Sister 



A man's sister had been taken away by the land otters and was 

 married among them. One time, when he was camping by himself 

 making a canoe, she began bringing him food. Afterward she sent 

 her three children to help him get bait, catch halibut, and launch his 

 new canoe. 



7. The Land-Otter Son 



During a famine at Sitka a man's son, who had been taken by the 

 land otters, brought him bait and put halibut on his hook when they 

 went fishing together. On the way back he speared a seal, and after- 

 ward they brought home loads of halibut, seal, etc. At first he went 

 back into the forest during the day, but after a while he began to stay 

 with them and day b}^ day his body became plainer. By and by they 

 started back to town, and as they neared it, their son's form began to 

 grow indistinct. When his mother moved forward to look at him he 

 was gone. 



8. The Wolf-Chief's Son 



A boy found a little wolf, which killed all kinds of animals for him. 

 One day he loaned it to his brother-in-law, and the latter did not treat 

 it right, so it ran away. The bo}' followed it, and finally came to a big- 

 lake oyer which he was helped b}" an old woman, who told him that 

 his wolf was the son of the town chief in the village opposite. When 

 he got there he was given a quill that would kill any animal it was 

 pointed at, and a blanket which healed on one* side and killed on the 

 other. The people in that village were rolling something about which 

 the chief told him was the rainbow. When he reached home again he 

 found all dead, but he restored them to life by means of his blanket. 

 With his two gifts he became wealthy. 



9. Wolverine-man 



A man out hunting saw a wolverine killing a herd of mountain sheep, 

 and presently he came to Wolv^erine-man's house, which was full of 

 game. Wolverine-man taught him various hunting tabus for that 

 region, and showed him how to make a ground-hog trap. The man 

 also learned that a small bushy tree called s!ax is Wolverine-man's 

 wife. W^hen he got home he explained the trap to his people, and 

 then started otf trapping again with another man who thought he 



