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stones which are piled about it, in passing which the Indians al- 

 ways throw some little offering upon it — such as matches, a frag- 

 ment of tobacco, or a shred of clothing, which were seen by the 

 author. The story attached to it relates that a lonely woman 

 called Grizzly Bear made of pitch the figure of a girl to be a* 

 companion to her, who became her daughter. She warned the 

 girl that when she bathed she must not afterward sit or lie in the 

 sun to get warm. The girl tried the forbidden experiment after 

 her fourth bath, and was melted away. Grizzly made another 

 daughter of clay, and told her that she must not rub herself when 

 in the water. This girl disobeyed likewise and was washed away. 

 The old woman than made another daughter of wood, on whom 

 it was not necessary to impose restrictions. This girl, after a 

 fourth bath, was accosted by a trout, which she said she would 

 like for a husband. On repeating her wish the fourth time the 

 trout appeared as a young man, became her husband, and took 

 her with four efforts, the first three of which were balked, to his 

 lower country. A boy and a girl were born to this couple. They 

 were taunted about having no grandmother, and, questioning 

 their mother on the subject, were told that they had a grand- 

 mother living in the upper country. They might go up there and 

 would find her as an old woman digging roots on the hillside, but 

 must not speak to her, though they might go to her house and 

 eat whatever food they might find there. The children acting 

 upon these instructions, the woman missed the food, and, ob- 

 serving the footprints of the children, concluded that none but 

 her daughter's children would visit her house in that way. She 

 therefore prepared some potent medicine, and, going to a stump in 

 the hillside where she was accustomed to work, told it that when 

 the children appeared it must move and seem to be a woman 

 digging. The woman then concealed herself in the house, while 

 the stump acted as it had been bidden. The children, after re- 

 garding the stump for a time with some doubt, ventured into the 

 house, when the woman threw her medicine upon them. The 

 medicine fell all over the boy, who was changed to an ordinary 

 human being, but only partly over the girl, and she became a 

 little dog. The boy and the dog, in whom he failed to recognize 

 his sister, had some curious adventures, in the course of which he 

 learned the truth. He went to his grandmother and questioned 

 her on the subject. She told him that if, when shooting, his 

 arrow should lodge in a tree, or anywhere above his reach, how- 

 ever little, he must not climb up to get it. Soon afterward he lost 

 three arrows in this way, but a fourth time his arrow stuck in a 

 tree not far up, and he climbed on a branch to get it ; but the 

 arrow continued to move further up and he had to climb after it, 

 and though he thought that he had not gone very far, he looked 



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