moved his wings, and they saw that he looked nice. | Then Diver

said: "That youth said, ^ You shall | go to the shore there. He will make you look the same way as I am.' || Then all the ducks 255 went ashore. Ya.uk^e'ika'm | took off the feathers of all of them. He said to them: Now | swim out again and play. It will be this way: | in the fall your feathers will be long again; in the spring they will I come off, and others will grow. Then he said || to the ducks: 260 "You may fly to a nice place there back from the shore. There are | lakes all over that place, and you shall visit all of them. | Then in the fall come back here to this your country; | but there far away it is very cold." Then the ducks swam away. | They were glad. Ya.uk"e'ika*m made them look nice. || Then they looked at one an- 265 other, and all the ear ornaments had become pretty feathers. | Then Ya.uk^e'ika'm took the feathers ] and went back. Then Ya.uk"e'ika*m did this. There are | ducks all over the country in the summer time. Long ago | the ducks did not come ashore out on the big sea. || Ya'uk^e'ika'm went back to his tent. | 270

(d) ya.uk^e'iKA'm obtains tke arrow straightener

There he staid. He said: "I wish I had an arrow straightener!" Frog said: | "There is none, but people die where there are | arrow straighteners. Mountain-sheep Ram has them. He kills those | who go to get them." Ya.uk"e'ika'm started. He thought: || "Let me 275 start, even if my uncle should kill me." The Ram was | the brother of Ya.uk"e'ika*m's mother. He arrived there, and there was a tent. | He entered. An old man with long hair was seated there. Now, this | old man with long hair was called Bighorn. | Bighorn said: "What do you want?" Ya.uk"e'ika-m said:||"I want an arrow 280 straightener." Bighorn said: "There is none here | in my tent. It is hanging on the other side of the river. I'll take you across in my canoe." | Then he took him across. When Ya.uk^'ika'm was about to come, | his grandmother had told him what the old man | would do to him. When he had taken him across, Ya.uk^e'ika'm was told: || "Now go on, climb up the mountain! Farther along it hangs. You | 285 shall bring it." Then Ya.uk"e'ika'm knew that (Bighorn) intended to kill him. | He went up and went on some distance. Then he went up again. He looked at the | old man, who was going back in his canoe. When he was in the middle of the water, he took | something, put it into the water, and shook it in the water, and sang, || saying: | 290

"I always take them across in my canoe, he he ha, he he ha!"^[1] |

Then he put it back into the canoe and went back. Now, Ya.uk^e^ka'm | knew very well what the old man had done. He had been