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understood how to do it. He who had been with Woiverine-man soon 

 discovered, howexer, that this person thought he had said that the 

 ground hogs were caught by whittling up sticks in front of their holes. 



10. The Halibut People 



A chief's daughter stepped on halibut slime and said something that 

 made the halibut people angry. They came b}' canoe to get her in 

 marriage, but as soon as they were out of sight of the town they fas- 

 tened her to a rock b^^ means of some pitch, and she died there. By 

 and b}'^ her brothers found her body. Then one of them, disguised as 

 their sister, went down to the halibut chief and killed him. On their 

 way home after tliis one of the brothers shot a duck and said some- 

 thing offensive to it. For this the killer whale, the duck's grand- 

 father, took thom down to his house, burned them badly before the 

 fire, and turn(»d them into a certain species of duck. 



11. Stories of the Monster Devilfish and the Cry-baby 



A big devilfish swept all of the occupants of a certain camp into the 

 sea except three brothers who were out hunting. Then the two elder 

 brothers killed it with sharpened sticks, although they were themselves 

 dragged down by it, while their ^^oungest brother traveled to another 

 place and rc^ported what had happened. 



In the same town was a little boy who cried so constantly that his 

 father called upon a land-otter-man to carry him ofl'. The land-otter 

 people fed him on what looked like blackberries, but were really 

 spiders. Two days later his people found him, but when they had 

 expelled the spiders from his body, nothing was left but his skin. 



12. The Woman who was Killed by a Clam 



A woman rcniched under a rock for clams, and a large bivalve closed 

 upon her hand and held her. When the tide rose she was drowned. 



1^^. ROOT-STUMF 



The people of a certain village were carried up into the sky out of 

 sight by seizing something which dropped down among theuL Those 

 Avho were making canoes also disappeared mysteriously. Only a 

 woman and her daughter were left. Then the daughter swallowed 

 some root sap and gave birth to a boy called Koot-stump. This boy 

 pulled down the thing that had carried off his people, by running his 

 roots into the earth, and he killed the man who had destroyed the 

 canoe makers. Afterward he became a great hunter. 



