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dog.? As to this point it is worthy of note that the Japanese, the southern 
neighbours of the Ainos call a dog inu — plural inu-yots — and specially that 
a male-dog is oinu. Our Eskimo myth and the folk-names Aino and Inuk 
(in Alaska and on the Chukchee peninsula this word has the form Yuk), show 
a certain resemblance to the Japanese word. Is this mere chance, or are 
there deeper-lying reasons ? 
A. 
A bold woman wrecked all the men she married. Great men and 
rich desired her™, they wished her as a bride—she rejected them ©). 
When her father’s possible sons-in-law were tempted (by her), he cor- 
rected his daughter (and) tried to teach her. The same over again. 
A mighty big-game hunter — from (the other) men who wished to 
marry his daugther, he took her away. He lies down on the plat- 
form (with her). (But) — “It’s as usual. She rejects at once, this time 
I was the unfortunate one!” ©) He goes off aueh her father would 
have been glad enough to keep him. © 
Then he said (her father): “Take my dog as your husband! It 
desires [?] you.” * — (She says): “I will have you for my husband, 
(you) great brute of a dog, so anxious to mate(?)!”® They both lay 
down to rest and they behaved properly.®— "That great brute of a dog, 
that one so anxious to mate, how uneasy and importunate he is!’ 
— When the daughter went out (and) he saw her: 9°9°9°9° [the story-teller 
makes a sound with a falsetto voice] toward her, [and she?) went in.(® The 
next day they lay again on their sleeping place, in the entrance pas- 
sage of the house he {lay down and] got up again“), midway in the 
passage they lay down again and got up again“, below the opening 
to the inner door they lay down again and got up again”), (finally) 
he came in [and lay down] above by the opening to the inner door, 
and seeing her“) h-h-h-h! (he gasped) to make an impression on 
her father. Again they went to bed and as they were again about to 
get up“) — look there! now he lay beside the housemate of his 
promised bride.“ Again they went to bed (and) they desired each 
other ?].* He lay with her, she had him as a husband.” All went 
well" even though he was а dog, very well,“ he began to have her 
as his wife. She became pregnant? and gave birth to a dog, that 
was her first child. Again she became pregnant“), again she gave birth 
to dogs as before, this time twins.* Again she became pregnant @), 
again she gave birth, this time to a litter of dogs, she got three”, 
For the fourth time she gave birth and had four children. She got a 
litter of children, making (it) four children.) 
As they began to wear too much on their grandfather, the dog 
fled with his poor wife to quite a large island.) There she sewed 
a large pair of trousers, these he (the dog) kept filling with meat to 
give to his father-in-law. ° When he had stuffed it down he swam 
across. His father-in-law used to go down to the beach to him (and) 
receive the trousers from his ugly son-in-law.®* He (the son-in-law) 
dragged them up and carried them in, the father-in-law pulled out 
the contents and let them (the others in his house) devour it.@° His 
son-in-law went off to bring them (the trousers) back to his wife.@” 
