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a wise woman from another village and promised to pay her bounti- 
fully if she would cure the child. She came and listened to his 
weeping and to his constant cry ‘ IJihl he Dihl he’; and she 
laughed as she heard the words. ^ I thought it was something big 
and great that the child wanted,’ she said. ^ What he wants is only 
a little thing. He craves for tlie full free life of man, not the half 
life he enjoyed in the grave. He wants his cousin to accompany him 
half-way up yonder mountain where the giant spruce trees grow, and 
the people to set fire to the spruce trees so that the hot gum may 
fall on the bodies of them both as they stand underneath. Then 
the people must wash him and his cousin beneath a waterfall.’ 
As the old woman instructed they did. The hot gum that fell 
on the children’s bodies they washed off beneath a tumbling water- 
fall. Thus the boy gained the full free life for which he craved, and 
cried no more.^ The people named him “ The Dead Woman’s Son ”. 
And the heart of his father was glad as he watched him hunting 
and playing with his cousin, both growing up to manhood together.” 
1 All life is one. The gum that .supplies life to the tree revived also the boy. 
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