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tlirough the water. It was young AiEt (black cod). Said the girls to 

 him when he came to the surface : ' We don't want a man like you with 

 big bulging eyes. You can go back again.' They sang again, and 

 presently Tsacile'uk (rock-cod) came up. As soon as they perceived him 

 they derided him, saying : ' Do you think we want a man like you ? Go 

 down again, you big-mouthed creature.' Rock-cod, much mortified at 

 their treatment of him, sank slowly to the bottom again as they continued 

 their song. Presently they perceived a bright and fiery form rising to 

 the surface. The waters glowed as if a great fire burnt beneath. ' This 

 must be he,' said one to the other. But when this glowing body rose to 

 the surface they saw it was only Tuk-to'q (red cod). The girls are angry 

 and disappointed as he appears, and revile poor Tuk-to'q bitterly. ' You 

 big-eyed, gaping-mouthed, short-waisted, ugly creature, get out of our 

 sight and don't come here deceiving us again.' Tiik-to'q sank slowly to 

 the bottom again. 



And thus it was with one fish after the other that came to the surface 

 at their singing : each and every one the girls dismissed with scornful, 

 abusive words. At last came Kus, the prince of fishes (spring salmon), 

 but he fared no better than the rest. When they saw his graceful silvery 

 form come shooting tlirough the water they cried out to each other : 

 ' This must be he. How bright and shining he is ! ' But when he got 

 close to the canoe they perceived that they had been mistaken. 'We 

 don't want you, Kos,' cried they. ' You have a black mouth. Wc don't 

 like black-mouthed men. Go away and hide your black mouth.' They 

 continue their singing as Kos disappears. Presently they see an arrow 

 {sma'al) come shooting up out of the water. As it falls back they paddle 

 towards it, each eager to seize it first. The younger of the sisters grasps 

 it first. They now sing again, and a little later a second arrow shoots up 

 as before. This time tlie elder sister is the first to get it. Then a third 

 appears in the same manner, and after that a fourth. Each sister 

 succeeds in getting one of these, so that they now have two arrows apiece. 

 They sing their song again, and presently a bow (tb'qoatc) and quiver 

 {iciau'q) are thrust up. These the younger of the two manages to secure 

 first. Once again they repeat their song, and a few moments later they 

 behold a golden form, bright and shining like the sun, coming up from 

 the lower depths. This at last is he whom they desired. He is MEn-tlE- 

 Saic'lF.m (Son of the Bright Day). They paddle towards him, and when 

 the canoe has approached near enough he springs into the centre of it. 

 He looks from one sister to the other to see which possesses most of his 

 property. Perceiving that the younger sister had most, he goes to her end 

 of the canoe and sits down by her side, and the girls then paddle back to 

 their landing. When they arrive the elder sister, who is greatly disap- 

 pointed and jealous of the other, springs out first and runs to her father 

 complaining that her sister has taken her si'ya (lover) from her. TcuIq 

 smiled and told lier not to distress herself, that neither of them would 

 have him long. It would appear that TcuIq used his two daughters as 

 decoys to attract young men to his house, where he wickedly destroyed 

 them in various ways by his shanianistic powers. The younger daughter 

 being well aware of this takes advantage of her sister's absence to warn 

 her lover of what awaited him at her father's hands. Said she to him as 

 they were approaching her father's dwelling : ' Take care of yourself 

 when you pass through the door. My father has a magic door that closes 

 with a spring upon people as they enter, and cuts them in two if they are 



