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The father-in-law, his presents to the grandchildren, he set out 
on the sea with it, — his present of meat to the grandchildren and 
to the wife. — He went ashore.® His many great and peculiar [?] * 
grandchildren went down to their grandfather.) The daughter re- 
name up on land because she was ashamed of them/{?|%, (but) they 
(the dogs) began to lick their grandfather. They almost overpowered 
him, they nearly ate him. He fled off out on the sea, the old man 
returned to his wife.) He said: “Our many great and peculiar (f) 
grandchildren nearly overpowered me.” His wife said: “What a 
miserable fellow to let yourself be overpowered !” {?|°) The daughter 
shouted again: “They are so terribly hungry! they ask their grand- 
father to give them gifts.” 65) 
His many great and peculiar grandchildren came down to him, 
grinning and snarling ©, — he would, however, go ashore, the old 
grandfather, now at the mercy of their teeth, they pulled him toward 
them, one pull after апоШег, 37, his kaiak began to slip away (from) 
them, they took it and the grandfather in the same bite and eat him 
and all of it up. 
“How did that come to pass”, said the wife when they had de- 
voured her husband. “He was not a great man.” ©?) — The son-in-law 
said, he also: “Why did it happen? They killed their own father and 
devoured him because he was not a great man, not a great hunter.” 0) 
After this she cut out and prepared the sole of a boot (and) put 
it out on the water.“ She was ashamed of her own children (and) 
put them aboard. — Then they could not withstand her. She said: 
“These and the father were not clever at working, may you be skilled 
artisans. She sent them away, commanding them to work, and 
they began to work in their own country. 
*(7) Anacoluthon, gimima should, as object, be written gimera, but the 
form is correct as the subject of the subsequent an”e'rq?a'tin, probably < 
WGr. ano'rpog ‘needs to follow the course of nature; shites’ (used here of 
sexual passions?). — *(17) WGr. iz-inup:oqg. — = (18) i.e. the copulation progressed 
succesfully. — * (20) If the transitive form martinota'rpa (-pa, error for pa‘) 
is not due to a slip the same word must be understood as is used as the 
object of the following transitive verb, — qimertiwajota'q ‘the new litter of 
puppies. — *(29) Perhaps < (WGr.) -arsuk ‘peculiar’ + -s'uaq ‘great, big’ + -rajik 
‘wretched.’ 
B. 
The daughter could not keep any husband. Because of this, 
once when she was living divorced, her father said to her: “You 
cannot keep a husband, take a dog for a husband!’’®) Then the dog 
was let loose and the following day it lay at the entrance to the 
house.“ Then when it grew night the dog lay on the bottom of the 
house passage.“ When day began to break it went out. The next 
night it lay on the lamp in front of the platform (on the floor). © 
Then (during the day) it went out, but the following night it lay 
beside her (on the platform and) took her to wife.” She then be- 
