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they find it full o£ the stinking entrails of the fish with which SQoqwa'otl 

 had filled their neighbours' dwellings. They are so hungry that they are 

 fain to appease the cravings of their stomach by eating the foetid mass. 

 Thus did SQoqwa'otl revenge himself upon Raven for his part in the 

 people's desertion of him. 



When everybody had once more assembled about his dwelling 

 SQoqwa'otl invites them to come down to the water's edge with him. 

 Upon their arrival there he turns his cloak about and dips one corner of 

 it into the water, and immediately the spot teems with fish. At first the 

 people are too astonished to seize the fish, but presently they fill their 

 canoes with them. From that time onward the people of this village 

 never lacked for food, and SQoqwa'otl's cloak brought him much honour 

 and renown, and he became a great man among them. 



SmEna'tl, or the Story of the Chiefs Daughter. 



The chief of a certain large village once possessed a big dog. This 

 dog was not a common dog. He was really a wizard, who had assumed 

 this form for evil purposes of his own, though no one in the village was 

 aware of the fact. One night he stole to the bed of the chief's daughter 

 and ravished her in her sleep. When some little time had passed the 

 girl found herself with child without any knowledge of the person who 

 had brought this shame upon her. Suspecting that her ravisher would 

 visit her again, she takes some red paint and mountain-sheep's tallow, and, 

 mixing the two into a paste, smears the palms of her hands with it. 

 Before she has discovered the author of her trouble her father perceives 

 her condition and questions her concerning it. She is unable to give him 

 any satisfactory explanation, and he is much grieved and ashamed. The 

 following night the dog- wizard visits her again, but before he leaves her 

 on this occasion she presses her paint-smeared hand upon his shoulders. 

 In the morning, when all the young men of the tribe are engaged in their 

 exercise on the village ground, she scrutinises their backs and shoulders 

 to see if any of them bear the imprint of her hands in red paint. She 

 passes them all in review before her, but cannot perceive the sign she is 

 looking for on any of them. The evening of that same day the dog is 

 lying before the fire, and the girl, wishing to occupy the dog's place, takes 

 a stick and tries to drive it away. At first the dog will not stir, but 

 eventually it consents to get up and move off. As it does so, she is greatly 

 surprised to see marked upon its shoulders the imprint of a pair of hands 

 in red paint. In her astonishment she cries out, ' Oh ! my father, I have 

 discovered my ravisher. Look at the dog's shoulders ; it must be he.' 

 The father looks at the dog and perceives the paint-marks upon his back. 

 ' Very well, daughter,' said he ; 'if that is the father of your child you 

 cannot live with me any longer.' Thei-eupon the chief goes some little dis- 

 tance from the village and builds his daughter a house apart by itself. When 

 it is ready he sends her to live there. The chief is greatly ashamed ; and 

 when later his daughter gives birth to twelve puppies he is so deeply 

 mortified by the whole circumstance that he calls his people together and 

 tells them that he wishes to go away out of sight and sound of his dis- 

 graced daughter and her unnatural offspring, and proposes a change of 

 settlement. They agree to his plan, and presently all pack up their 

 belongings, take their canoes, and paddle away to a near village. Near 

 their old settlement is a point of i land or promontory [Sk-'utuks-sn, cf. 

 radical for nose) stretching out some way into the water and hiding the 



