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handsome men. One time they went farther on and came to a 

 Tsimshian town. After that a canoe came to them from tlieir friends, 

 and when these found what had happened to them, all joined them. 



76. The Woman who Married the Frog 



A version of story 22. 



77. The Girl who Married the l!al! 



A girl said something- about a tish called l!al!, and afterward the 

 fish married her. He was a A'ery good polo player, and one time the 

 boj's became so jealous of him that they knocked him down and made 

 fun of him. Then the l!al! told his father-in-law to tie down his 

 house firmly, and went ofi^ up stream. There he grew large, la}^ down 

 across Chilkat river for a while, and then got up, letting the stream 

 sweep all of the houses away except that of his father-in-law. 



78. The Woman who Married a Tree 



The spirit of a spruce tree at one end of a village came to a girl and 

 married her, and they had a son. One day the child began calling 

 for its father, and after all the other people had been called in, the 

 tree people were summoned, and the child recognized an old man near 

 the door as its parent. 



79. The Girl who Married the Fire Spirit 



A girl said something to the fire which offended it, so that it carried 

 her away and married her. After her people had hunted everywhere 

 for her they kept the fires extinguished as much as possible, and she 

 was sent back. For some time she kept going back and forth from 

 her husband to her father and mother, but once her nephew, who was 

 in love with her, seized a spoon that she was holding and her fire hus- 

 band treated her badly on account of it. She never went back to him. 



80. Orphan 



A poor girl was so smart and painstaking that she married a wealthy 

 man. She became proud, however, and treated her poor adopted 

 brothers ungenerously. B}^ and ])v her husl>and died and his relatives 

 took all of his property, leaving her as poor as before. 



81. The Dead Basket-maker 



A man used to cry over his dead wife's incompleted basket. By and 

 by he married again, and one time, when he was playing with his new 

 wife, the basket fell from above over his head and almost strangled 

 him, so that the people were obliged to cut it loose. 



