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was very tilthy. After a time she g'ave birth to a boy who was very 

 smart. When he was out fishing' he was taken into his fatiier's liouse 

 and received a magic club which killed of itself. With this he 

 destroyed a giant crab and a giant mussel which used to kill people. 

 By and by this boy had a son, who was very different from him and 

 was called Man-that-eats-the-leavings. At that time the daughter of 

 a ciiief in a neighboring village said something about the devilfish 

 for which she was carried off by them and married to a devilfish man. 

 Presentl}^ her two children came up to visit their grandfather and he 

 learned what had become of her. Then he invited her and lier hus- 

 band and children, and killed the husband, k(K^ping her with them. For 

 this the devilfish made war upon them and suffocated several people, 

 but Man-that-eats-the-leavings happened along and stopped them. 

 Tlien Man-that-eats-the-leavings lived in a brush house on tiic beach, 

 and the rest of his story is similar to that of Garbage-man in story .S!>. 



Man-that-eats-the-leavings had a son who was a great iuniter. One 

 tim(\ when he was out hunting, he lost consciousness aiul, coming to, 

 found himself surrounded by several men wiio taught him tlie secret- 

 society dances. After a time he went to the (^ueen Charlotte islands 

 and was told al)out two j^ouths who had become wizards bv sleeping' 

 on the beach among- driftwood. The}' would l)e out all night, fl^'ing 

 around among the brants and geese. Finally a man found it out by 

 fasting and drinking sea water, but they p:iid him not to tell about 

 them. When he g-ot back to Alaska the secret-society man told this 

 story, and wherever it was repeated there began to be wizards. 



One time Raven went shooting with some boys, when the canoe was 

 upset and they were drowned, and h(^ changed them into sea birds. 



At the southern end of Prince of Wales island he met a man called 

 QonAlgl'c, who had lost everything- by gambling, and he enabled him to 

 meet Greatest Gambler and win. So QonAlgl'c renewed the game and 

 got back evervthing- he had lost besides all that his antagonist had 

 owned. Then his opponent's wife left him, and he went away and 

 lived by himself. From a grouse this latter learned of a great medicine- 

 man, who in turn taught him a medicine which would make him a great 

 dancer. He went to another town and pleased people so nuich b}- his 

 dances and the songs that he con)posed that they paid him a great deal 

 of property, and he became wealthy. After a while he taug'ht a 

 chief's son, so that he became a still better dancer, but the boy's father 

 determined that it was best to leave this sort of dancing to low-caste 

 people, reserving the chief's dance for those of high caste. 



The man that first learned about dancing was upset in a canoe and 



])ecame a land-otter-man called TutsIIdig'u'L, who has very great power. 



Some time afterward four boys were drawn out to sea after some black 



ducks, upset there, and taken into the land-otters' dens. A shaman 



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