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wife burst; for she had not sewed it well, and she managed to run 

 алуау from him. When she came to the edge of a great abyss, she 

 stood still and called to her iiusband to bring her her boot, for slie 

 had hurt her foot. Pouia kept hold of the eldest wife till the 

 others seized her and put her in the umiak. As they returned 

 home, the umiak nearly capsized every time the Timersek wife 

 moved. So they told her she must keep quiet so as not to make 

 the boat capsize. 



Some time after they had come home to Pouia's dwelling-place, 

 his wife became pregnant. They lived on a little island; but his 

 wife was often away. When they searched for her, they found her 

 standing up to her face in water by the sea shore ; for she wanted 

 to sink down into the sea and go home there. She now gave birth 

 to a child, and winter came, and then it was once more spring. 

 The wife said to her husband: "Shall we not go up inland and 

 visit the others?" "Yes", replied her husband, "but we will leave the 

 child here, for then we will be sure to return; but if we take it 

 with us, do you suppose we shall ever return?" "No", said the wife, 

 "we will take the child with us, for otherwise it will cry". 



They now went up inland, took the child with them, and never 

 came to the coast again. 



14. TWO SISTERS THAT MARRIED ANIMALS. 



There were once upon a time two little sisters who were playing 

 games in the house. The elder said to the younger: "You can take 

 that whale-skull for your husband; I will have the eagle that flies 

 up there for mine". The whale-skull took the younger sister to wife, 

 and the eagle took the elder sister. She shrieked; but it flew up 

 with her to its nest and took her to wife. 



When the eagle went out to seek for prey, it usually came 

 home with a narwhal in each of its talons and in its beak. As it 

 passed the house of its wife's parents, it would drop one of the 

 narwhals, so that his wife's parents might have it. 



The younger sister who was married to the whale was never 

 allowed to go out. When she wanted to go out and make water, 

 the whale said she was to do it in his mouth. When she wanted 

 to go out to ease herself, the whale told her she was to do so in 

 his hand; for he would not have her come out. 



When the eagle went to seek for prey, his wife twisted narwhal- 

 sinews as thick as a sealskin line, that they might not break. 



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