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shelter of the house, believing MEn-tlE-Saie'lEm to have been over- 

 whelmed by the waves. In the meantime the latter pursues and presently 

 comes up with the loon. This time he succeeds in killing it. As it ex- 

 pired it barked like a dog. ' Ah ! ' said MEn-tlE-Saie'lEm, ' now I under- 

 stand why I could not kill you before. Very well, you shall serve my 

 purpose now.' By this time the storm has reached him, but he is in no wise 

 alarmed at it. He commences to sing, and the tempest at once subsides 

 immediately about him. Within a certain radius the water is as calm as 

 a sheltered pond. As soon as he had secured the dog-loon he makes for 

 home again. On his way he kills a great number of ducks which the 

 storm had driven shorewards. He shoots so many that they overKU his 

 boat. He utters s'mwe'n words o\'er them and they shrink at once to a 

 small compass. He then fills the canoe again, after which he makes 

 directly for the shaman's landing-place. The tempest is still raging all 

 about him on every hand as before. When he reaches the shore he finds 

 it deserted. Everybody is indoors, having given him up for lost. He 

 enters the house, and when his wife perceives him she is overjoyed at his 

 return. He tells her he has killed the loon her father wanted and bids her 

 go to the s<jum and bring it up and cook it for her father. She goes down 

 to the landing and takes up from the bottom of the tub what appeared to 

 her to be a single bird. But when she held it in her hand another 

 appeared in its place. She picks up this also only to find the same thing 

 occur again and again. Presently her arms are full, and yet a bird re- 

 mained in the bottom of the tub. She goes to the liouse and tells her 

 husband. ' Take your big basket,' said he, 'and pack them up on your 

 back.' She does so, and when at last she has exhausted the supply tlie 

 house is half full of ducks. MEn-tlE-Saie'lEm now utters slilwen words 

 over them again, and they are reduced to apparently a few only. These 

 he takes and plucks and afterwards roasts them. In plucking the loon 

 he said to it : ' When your master takes you up to eat you I want you to 

 bark like a dog.' When the birds were cooked MEn-tlE-Saie'lEM made a 

 cedar dish and placed them upon it and laid it before the shaman, who 

 began at once to partake of them. When he commenced he thought he 

 could easily clear the dish, but as soon as he has eaten one, another 

 appears in its place. Presently he takes up the loon, and as he was 

 eating it, it barked like a dog, and the old man knew at once that his son- 

 in-law had outwitted him again. Said he to MEn-tlE-Saie'lEm : ' You 

 have beaten me again, son-iai-law.' In his greediness the shaman had 

 overeaten himself and now became very ill. Early next morning he calls 

 out to his daughter to come to him. ' I am very sick,' said he, ' and 1 

 want your husband to go into the woods and gather some yit-hcd'n 

 (salmon-berries, jRubus sp.) for me.' Now it was winter time, and not 

 even a green leaf could be found, much less fruit. The daughter tells 

 her husband what her father had requested him to do. At first he would 

 not get up, but lay and thought out a plan of action. This time his 

 patience was exhausted, and he determined to punish his wicked, selfisli 

 father-in-law. When he had thought out his plan he got up and requested 

 his wife to get him some slo'ioi (finely beaten iniier bark of the cedar, 

 Thuya gigantea). She gives him some. As he leaves her he tells her 

 not to be alarmed. ' I am likely to be delayed in my quest,' said he. 

 ' What your father desires is not easy of accomplishment at this season of 

 the year.' He directs his steps towards the forest and pushes his way 

 throush the thick underbush till he arrives at the foot of a mountain. 



