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out all kinds of copper ol)jeets from the metal of which it was com- 

 posed. Then lie married the daughter of the town chief and became 

 a great man, 



90. The Man who w^as Abandoned 



A lazy man was abandoned b}" his townspeople, who left him 

 nothing except a piece of dried lish which one of his uncle's wives 

 dropped into a post hole. After that a small animal killed all kinds 

 of game for him, and he became wealthy, while the other people were 

 starving. By and bv some slaves were sent to burn his bod}^ and 

 were feasted })y him. They w^ere told not to say anything about him, 

 but one of them concealed a piece of fat for her child and the cries of 

 the infant over tliis food let the truth be discovered. Then they went 

 to him and he became a great chief. He married the woman who had 

 been good to him, but killed his uncle's other wife and her husband. 



91. The 8ha:\ian who AVent into the Fire, and the Heron's Son 



A little boy was so badly treated by his uncle's wife that he went 

 off into the woods, made eight nests, like those of the salmon, along 

 the edge of a stream, and spent as many nights in them. So he 

 became a shaman and could bring to himself and destroy all kinds of 

 animals by means of his songs. By and by his uncle searched for 

 him and found him. A spirit called Nixst' came to him and took him 

 into the tire, and he burned down to a vry small size, but his uncle, 

 obeying his directions, took him out, put him into a basket, and so 

 restored him. Afterward he had his uncle send for his wife, but he 

 took the bottom part of her away so that what she ate did her no 

 good. By and by a spirit showed itself in the form of a bear, after 

 the shaman had been carried into the fire, scaring his uncle's wife so 

 that she died, while the uncle forgot to take his nephew out of the 

 fire and let him burn up. At once all of the animals that had been 

 killed came to life and ran away. 



All the people of the town to which this shaman had belonged dis- 

 appeared except a woman and her daughter. The woman called for 

 something to marry her daughter and was answered b}^ the heron, by 

 whom the daughter had a son very fond of hunting. One time he 

 found a fish called hin-tayi'ci swimming in a pool, reared it, and, 

 when it became as large as himself, killed it and made use of its skin. 

 After a while he went up on one of the two trails on which his uncles 

 had disappeared, saw a finger sticking up there, pulled up the being 

 to which it belonged, and killed it. Then he went along in the other 

 trail, saw a head, and killed the being to which it belonged. Next he 

 went along the beach, came upon a monster devilfish, and killed it by 

 means of his hln-tayi'ci coat. Ho killed an enormous rat in the same 

 manner. Then he came to a cannibal Avoman who offered him human 



