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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: In the Time That Was + +Author: James Frederic Thorne + +Illustrator: Judson T. Sergeant + +Release Date: May 16, 2008 [EBook #25483] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE TIME THAT WAS *** + + + + +Produced by Suzan Flanagan and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<a href="images/cover1.jpg"><img src="images/cover1tn.jpg" width="350" height="544" class="plain" alt="Front cover" title="Front cover" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> + +<hr /> + +<table summary="front matter alignment" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2"> + <tr><td align="right"> + + <table summary="front matter" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2"> + <tr> + <td class="blt"> </td> + <td class="brt" align="right"> + <p class="fm1"><span style="margin-right: 2.1em;">In</span><br /> + <span style="margin-right: 1.5em;">The</span><br /> + <span style="margin-right: 1.0em;">Time</span><br /> + <span style="margin-right: 1.1em;">That</span><br /> + <span style="margin-right: 1.2em;">Was</span></p> + </td></tr> + + <tr><td class="blb"> + <p class="fm3">Dedicated<br /> + to</p> + <p class="fm2"><i>Ah-Koo</i></p> + + <p class="fm4">Done into English<br /> + by</p> + <p class="fm5">J. Frederic Thorne</p> + <p class="fm7">(<i>Kitchakahaech</i>)</p> + + <p class="fm4">Illustrated<br /> + by</p> + <p class="fm6">Judson T. Sergeant</p> + <p class="fm8">(<i>To-u-sucka</i>)</p> + </td> + + <td class="brb" valign="bottom"><p class="fm6">Seattle,<br /> + Washington,<br /> + U. S. A.</p> + </td></tr> + </table> + </td> + <td></td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td></td> + <td align="right"> + <table summary="front matter" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2"> + <tr><td align="right"> + <p class="fm9"><span class="smcap">Being the first</span><br /> + volume <i>of</i> a series<br /> + of Legends <i>of</i> the tribe<br /> + of Alaskan Indians<br /> + known as the Chilkats—<i>of</i><br /> + the Klingats<br /></p> + <p class="fm10"><i>As told by Zachook the "Bear"<br /> + to Kitchakahaech the "Raven"</i></p> + </td></tr> + </table> + </td></tr> +</table> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="fm" /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<a href="images/i002.jpg"><img src="images/i002tn.jpg" width="350" height="538" class="plain" alt="Raven flying" title="Raven flying" /></a> +</div> + +<hr /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> + +<h2><a name="In_the_Time_That_Was" id="In_the_Time_That_Was"></a><i>In the Time That Was</i></h2> + +<h3>"And There Was Light."</h3> + + +<div class="dropcap" style="width: 75px;"> +<a href="images/ic003.jpg"><img src="images/ic003tn.jpg" width="75" height="86" class="plain" alt="Z" title="Z" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">achook</span> of the Chilkats told me these tales +of The Time That Was. But before the telling, +he of the Northland and I of the Southland had +travelled many a mile with dog-team, snowshoes, +and canoe.</p> + +<p>If the stories suffer in the telling, as suffer they +must afar from that wondrous Alaskan background +of mountain and forest, glacier and river, wrenched +from the setting of campfires and trail, and divorced +from the soft gutturals and halting throat notes in +which they have been handed down from generation +to generation of Chilkat and Chilkoot, blame not +Zachook, who told them to me, and forbear to blame +me who tell them to you as best I may in this stiff +English tongue. They were many months in the +telling and many weary miles have I had to carry +them in my memory pack.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>I had lost count of the hours, lost count of the +days that at best are marked by little change between +darkness and dawn in the Northland winter, until I +knew not how long I had lain there in my blanket +of snow, waiting for the lingering feet of that dawdler, +Death, to put an end to my sufferings.</p> + +<p>Some hours, or days, or years before I had been +pushing along the trail to the coast, thinking little +where I placed my feet and much of the eating that lay +at Dalton Post House; and of other things thousands of +miles from this bleak waste, where men exist in the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> +hope of ultimate living, with kaleidoscope death by +their side; other things that had to do with women's +faces, bills of fare from which bacon and beans were +rigidly excluded, and comforts of the flesh that some +day I again might enjoy.</p> + +<p>Then, as if to mock me, teach me the folly of +allowing even my thoughts to wander from her cold +face, the Northland meted swift punishment. The +packed snow of the trail beneath my feet gave way, +there was a sharp click of steel meeting steel, and a +shooting pain that ran from heel to head. For a moment +I was sick and giddy from the shock and sudden +pain, then, loosening the pack from my shoulders, fell +to digging the snow with my mittened hands away +from what, even before I uncovered it, I knew to be a +bear trap that had bitten deep into my ankle and held +it in vise clutch. Roundly I cursed at the worse than +fool who had set bear trap in man trail, as I tore +and tugged to free myself. As well might I have +tried to wrench apart the jaws of its intended victim.</p> + +<p>Weakened at last by my efforts and the excruciating +pain I lay back upon the snow. A short +rest, and again I pulled feebly at the steel teeth, +until my hands were bleeding and my brain swirling.</p> + +<p>How long I struggled blindly, viciously, like a +trapped beaver, I do not know, though I have an +indistinct memory of reaching for my knife to +emulate his sometime method of escape. But with +the first flakes of falling snow came a delicious, contentful +langour, deadening the pain, soothing the +weariness of my muscles, calming the tempest of my +thoughts and fears, and lulling me gently to sleep +to the music of an old song crooned by the breeze +among the trees.</p> + +<p>When I awoke it was with that queer feeling +of foreign surroundings we sometimes experience, +and the snow, the forest, the pain in my leg, my +own being, were as strange as the crackling fire,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> +the warm blanket that wrapped me, and the Indian +who bent over me smiling into my half opened eyes.</p> + +<p>So were our trails joined and made one; Zachook +of the Northland, and I of the Southland, by him +later called Kitchakahaech, because my tongue moved +as moved our feet on the trail, unceasingly. And +because of this same love of speech in me, and the +limp I bore for memory of the bear trap, for these +and possibly other reasons, and that a man must +have a family to bear his sins, of the Raven was I +christened by Zachook, the Bear, and to the family +of the Raven was I joined.</p> + +<p>Orator among his people though he was, Zachook +was no spendthrift of speech. But surly he never +was; his silence was a pleasant silence, a companionable +interchange of unspoken thoughts. Nor did he +need words as I needed them, his eyes, his hands, +his wordless lips could convey whole volumes of +meaning, with lights and shades beyond the power +that prisons thought. Not often did he speak at +length, even to me, unless, as it came to be, he was +moved by some hap or mishap of camp or trail to +tell of the doings of that arch rascal, Yaeethl, the +raven, God, Bird, and Scamp. And when, sitting over +the fire, or with steering paddle in hand, he did open +the gates that lead to the land of legend, he seemed +but to listen and repeat the words of Kahn, the fire +spirit, who stands between the Northland and death, +or of Klingat-on-ootke, God of the Waters, whose +words seemed to glisten on the dripping paddle.</p> + +<p>So it was upon an evening in the time when we +had come to be as sons of the same mother, when we +shared pack and blanket and grub alike, and were +known, each to the other, for the men we were. We +had finished our supper of salmon baked in the coals, +crisply fried young grouse and the omnipresent sourdough +bread, and with the content that comes of +well filled stomachs were seated with the fire between<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> +us, Zachook studying the glowing embers, I with +that friend of solitude, my pipe, murmuring peacefully +in response to my puffing.</p> + +<p>As usual, I had been talking, and my words had +run upon the trail of the raven, whose hoarse call +floated up to us from the river. Idly I had spoken, +and disparagingly, until Zachook half smilingly, half +earnestly quoted:</p> + +<p>"He who fires in the air without aim may hit a +friend."</p> + +<p>And as I relapsed into silence added: "It is +time, Kitchakahaech, that you heard of the head of +your family, this same Yaeethl, the raven. Then will +you have other words for him, though, when you have +heard, it will be for you to speak them as a friend +speaks or as an enemy. Of both has Yaeethl many."</p> + +<p>I accepted the rebuke in silence, for Zachook's +trail was longer then mine by many years, and he +had seen and done things which were yet as thoughts +with me.</p> + +<p>For the time of the smoking and refilling of my +pipe Zachook was silent, then with eyes gazing deep +into the fire, began:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Before there was a North or South, when Time +was not, Klingatona-Kla, the Earth Mother, was +blind, and all the world was dark. No man had seen +the sun, moon, or stars, for they were kept hidden +by Yakootsekaya-ka, the Wise Man. Locked in a +great chest were they, in a chest that stood in the +corner of the lodge of the Wise Man, in Tskekowani, +the place that always was and ever will be. Carefully +were they guarded, many locks had the chest, +curious, secret locks, beyond the fingers of a thief. +To outwit the cunning of Yaeethl were the locks<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> +made. Yaeethl the God, Yaeethl the Raven, Yaeethl +the Great Thief, of whom the Wise Man was most +afraid.</p> + +<p>"The Earth Mother needed light that her eyes +might be opened, that she might bear children and +escape the disgrace of her barrenness. To Yaeethl +the Clever, Yaeethl the Cunning, went Klingatona-Kla, +weeping, and of the Raven begged aid. And Yaeethl +took pity on her and promised that she should have +Kayah, the Light, to father her children.</p> + +<p>"Many times had Yaeethl, because of his promise, +tried to steal the Worlds of Light, and as many times +had he failed. But with each attempt his desire grew, +grew until it filled his belly and his brain.</p> + +<p>"Was he not Yaeethl, the Great White Raven, +the Father of Thieves? What if the Wise Man put +new and heavier locks upon the chest after each attempt? +Were locks greater than the cunning of the +Raven?</p> + +<p>"Now Yakootsekaya-ka, the Wise Man, and his +wife had a daughter. Of their marriage was she, a +young girl, beautiful and good. No man had ever +seen her face. On no one, god or man, had the eyes +of the young girl ever rested, save only her father +and mother, the Wise Ones. Ye-see-et, a virgin, was +she.</p> + +<p>"Yaeethl, of his wisdom knowing that the weakness +of men is the strength of children, that a babe +may enter where a warrior may not cast his shadow, +bethought him of this virgin, this daughter of Yakootsekaya-ka. +As the thought and its children made +camp in his brain Yaeethl spread wide his snow-white +wings.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 175px;"> +<a href="images/i007.jpg"><img src="images/i007tn.jpg" width="175" height="273" class="plain" alt="Raven" title="Raven" /></a> +</div> + +<p>"Thrice he circled high in air, then took flight +towards Tskekowani, the meeting place of Memory +and Hope. Like Chunet, the Arrow, he flew, straight, +and as Heen, the River, swift. Twice ten moons, and +another, flew Yaeethl without rest of wing before he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> +drew near the cabin of the Wise Man. Away from +the lodge he alighted, by the edge of the spring were +his white wings folded, by the spring where the +daughter of the Wise Man would come for water.</p> + +<p>"Then, with the power that was his, Yaeethl, the +God, changed the shape that was his, the shape of the +raven; into a small white pebble did he change, and +lay in the water of the spring, and in the water +waited for the coming of the girl.</p> + +<p>"Long waited Yaeethl, the Pebble, with the +patience of wisdom and great desire. And the girl +came.</p> + +<p>"Beautiful in her maidenhood, graceful in the +dawning of her womanhood, came the girl, the virgin, +the daughter of Yakootsekaya-ka, the Keeper of the +Worlds of Light. Stooping, she dipped her cup into +the cool water. From the edge of the spring rolled +Yaeethl, into the cup he rolled, and lay quiet in the +shadow of her hand. Quiet he lay, but full of the +Great Desire.</p> + +<p>"And the girl saw him not.</p> + +<p>"To the lodge returned the maiden, bearing the +cup, the water, and the Pebble. Into the lodge entered +the maiden. In the lodge where lay the Sun, +Moon, and Stars, was Yaeethl.</p> + +<p>"From the cup the Wise Man drank, but Yaeethl +moved not. From the cup the Mother drank, and +Yaeethl was motionless. When the Daughter raised +the cup to her lips, toward her lips rolled Yaeethl. +Softly he rolled, but the Mother, ever careful, heard +the sound of the pebble on the cup-side, and the keen +eyes of the Father saw the white pebble shine.</p> + +<p>"'Do not drink, Daughter,' said the Wise Man, +laying his hand on the maiden's arm. 'Small things +sometimes contain great evils. A white pebble it may +be, and only a white pebble. Yaeethl it may be, +Yaeethl the Raven, Yaeethl the Father of Thieves.'</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 175px;"> +<a href="images/i008.jpg"><img src="images/i008tn.jpg" width="175" height="267" class="plain" alt="Locked chest" title="Locked chest" /></a> +</div> + +<p>"Then the Mother took the cup and out through<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> +the door cast the water. Through the door cast the +pebble. And when the door of the lodge was closed +behind him Yaeethl, the Disappointed, once more took +his own form, the shape of the raven, white of wing +and white of feather.</p> + +<p>"Back to earth flew Yaeethl, angry, ashamed, but +more than ever filled with a great longing for the +Worlds of Light that lay locked in the chest of the +Wise Man.</p> + +<p>"Klingatona-Kla, Earth Mother, wept long and +sore when empty-handed returned Yaeethl, loud she +wailed, making sure she must remain forever dark +and barren. But Yaeethl, the Undaunted, comforted +her with strong words, and renewed his promise that +the Light should be given her in marriage, and her +disgrace forgotten in many children, children should +she have as the shore has sand.</p> + +<p>"Though he had flown as speeds Hoon, the North +Wind, the going and coming of Yaeethl had eaten +three winters and two summers.</p> + +<p>"Awhile he rested in the lap of Klingatona-Kla, +for the winter he rested, but with the coming of +the spring, he spread again his wings and took flight +towards the lodge of the Wise Man, towards the +Great Desire. Mightily he flew, and swift, for though +the dead make the journey between the opening and +the closing of an eye, for the living it is a long trail.</p> + +<p>"When again he alighted, wing weary, by the +spring where the daughter of Yakootsekaya-ka drew +water, Yaeethl remembered the shape and whiteness +that had betrayed him, remembered the traitor Pebble, +and from the memory gathered wisdom.</p> + +<p>"Close to his side folded he the wings of whiteness, +beneath his feathers tucked head and feet, and +grew small. Small and yet smaller he grew, as melts ice +before the fire, and when the shrinking was ended he +had taken upon himself the form of Thlay-oo, the sand +grain. As Thlay-oo, the Little, he waited.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></p> + +<p>"As Thlay-oo, the Invisible, watched Yaeethl for +the coming of the maiden. Waited as does the bear +for the coming of Takeete, the After Winter. Watched +as does the lynx for the young caribou.</p> + +<p>"And as before came the girl, cup in hand, innocent +in her maidenhood, wise in her womanhood, in +both beautiful. Gracefully she stooped and filled the +cup with the water of the spring. Into the cup floated +Yaeethl in the shape of Thlay-oo. In the spring water +he sank and lay against the bottom of the cup. Small +was Yaeethl, but big with desire for what was within +the chest of the Wise Man.</p> + +<p>"Then the lodge door opened and received the +maiden and the cup, received Yaeethl the Grain of +Sand, Yaeethl the Raven.</p> + +<p>"To Yakootsekaya-ka, her father, the girl gave +the cup, and the Wise Man drank of the water. Drank, +but saw not Yaeethl, the Invisible. To the wife, her +mother, the maiden gave the cup, and of the water +the Mother drank. Drank, but heard not Yaeethl, the +Still. Then the maiden, Ye-see-et, the Virgin, daughter +of Yakootsekaya-ka, the Keeper of the Sun, Moon, +and Stars, lifted the cup to her lips.</p> + +<p>"The Mother spoke not. The Father moved not. +The Daughter drank.</p> + +<p>"Past the red of her lips, by the white of her +teeth, down the throat of the girl rolled the grain of +sand. Rolled until it lay close under her heart, and +paused. Under the heart of the maiden lay Yaeethl, +waited Yaeethl, grew Yaeethl. Warmed by the heart +of the maiden Yaeethl grew.</p> + +<p>"And time passed.</p> + +<p>"Then the mother of the maiden, looking upon +her daughter, became troubled in her mind. Troubled +was the mind of the Mother, but silent her tongue.</p> + +<p>"And time passed.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 175px;"> +<a href="images/i010.jpg"><img src="images/i010tn.jpg" width="175" height="264" class="plain" alt="Girl filling cup with water" title="Gril filling cup with water" /></a> +</div> + +<p>"Again the Mother looked upon her daughter, and +looking, spoke<!--**changed 'Spoke' to 'spoke'--> to the Wise Man, her husband, of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> +thought that was hers. Spoke she of the troubled +thought concerning the maiden, their daughter.</p> + +<p>"When the Mother's thought was the thought of +the Father his heart was filled with anger at his +daughter for the disgrace she would bring upon his +name. Angrily he questioned her, that he might revenge +himself upon the thief of her innocence. But +the girl looked into the eyes of her father and denied +both thief and theft. No man had she seen save him, +her father. Of the cause of The Thought that troubled +them was she ignorant, and as innocent as ignorant. +And the truth shone from her eyes as she +spoke, straight was her tongue. Empty of shame was +her face.</p> + +<p>"And the Mother, looking into the eyes of her +daughter, believed. And after a time was the Wise +Man convinced. Yet troubled were they and lost upon +the trail of thoughts. Tender had they always been +of their daughter. Ten times as gentle were they +now, for Yaeethl lay big under the heart of the girl, +though they knew him not, and of their love was +she in sore need.</p> + +<p>"And time passed.</p> + +<p>"Then upon the maiden came Kod-se-tee, the +Woman Pain, and Yaeethl entered the lodge.</p> + +<p>"Yaeethl whom they knew not, Yaeethl the Boy +in the maiden's arms. Tokanay, the Baby, they called +him, with love-light in their eyes they named him. +Strong and large grew he quickly. So quickly grew +he that the maiden and her mother were in a valley +between the mountain of pride and the mountain of +wonder. And in the Wise Man's heart flowed a great +river of love for Tokanay the Beautiful, Tokanay the +Swift Growing. In the hands of the Boy were the +three hearts held. Their eyes and their thoughts were +filled with him, so that room for other things there +was not. So was the locked chest and its contents +forgotten.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Then on a day, a day of days to the Three, the +Boy spoke his first word.</p> + +<p>"'Kakoon.'</p> + +<p>"Kakoon, the Sun, was the word, and 'Kakoon, +Kakoon, Kakoon,' said the boy, crying and stretching +his arms toward the chest in the corner of the lodge.</p> + +<p>"The Wise Man listened and laughing said: 'He +would take my place as Keeper of the Worlds of +Light.' Then because his heart was so soft with love +that he could refuse the Boy nothing, Yakootsekaya-ka +undid the many curious locks and fastenings of the +great chest and took out the Sun.</p> + +<p>"Kakoon, the Sun, he took and gave it to the +Boy wherewith to play. And the Boy ceased his crying +when the Sun was in his hands, laughing as he +rolled the Yellow World about the floor of the lodge. +All day did the Three watch him with loving eyes.</p> + +<p>"On the next day the Sun lay in a corner of the +lodge, unheeded by the Boy. A new word had he +learned:</p> + +<p>"'Dis-s.'</p> + +<p>"Dis-s, the Moon, was the second word, and as +before, 'Dis-s, Dis-s,' cried the Boy.</p> + +<p>"Proudly and lovingly the Wise Man laughed, +saying: 'Surely is he eager to take my place.' And +from the moving of the love in his heart that answered +to the cry of the Boy as arrow to bowstring, +Yakootsekaya-ka unfastened the strong and heavy +locks of the chest and into the hands of the Boy +gave the Moon for plaything. Of Dis-s, the Moon, +made he plaything for the Boy. And for that day +were the Boy's cries hushed as he spun and tumbled +the White World on the lodge floor. And his laughter +was music to the ears of the Three.</p> + +<p>"But the next day the Moon lay with the Sun. +In the corner they lay and the Boy looked not at +them. Another word was his cry, a new word.</p> + +<p>"'Takhonaha."</p> + +<p>"Takhonaha, the Stars, was the cry of the Boy,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> +and again, to comfort him, the Wise Man opened the +great chest, and from it poured the Stars into the +lap of the Boy, poured the chest empty of the Worlds +of Light. And the Boy laughed loud. Laughed until +the Wise Man, the Wife, and the Maiden, his mother, +laughed that he laughed, as he dripped the bright +stars through his fingers, dripped the waterfall of +stars. Then the Wise Man questioned as he laughed: +'What shall he cry for tomorrow? And what shall +we give him, the Unsatisfied, now that the chest is +empty?'</p> + +<p>"And the Boy laughed.</p> + +<p>"Night came, and the Wise Man, and his Wife, +and the Maiden-Mother, their daughter, slept. With +Tokanay, the Baby, in the hollow of her arm slept +the girl.</p> + +<p>"As they slept, from the hollow of the arm of the +maiden there crept a raven, Yaeethl the Raven, Yaeethl +the Snow-White, Yaeethl the Father of Thieves.</p> + +<p>"Softly crept he, with many times turned head +and watchful eye on the Three, sleeping. To the corner +where the Boy, careless, had dropped the Shining +Worlds, to the corner by the open, empty chest crept +Yaeethl the Noiseless.</p> + +<p>"And the Three slept.<!--**removed extra. --></p> + +<p>"Beneath his right wing hid Yaeethl the Sun. +Beneath his left wing hid he the Moon. Within his +claws gathered he the Stars.</p> + +<p>"Asleep were the Three.</p> + +<p>"The lodge door was closed, locked was the door +of Yakootsekaya-ka, Keeper of the Worlds of Light. +Fastened tight were the windows. Barred were door +and windows to keep out Yaeethl, the Thief. For a +moment stood Yaeethl, turning his head to find some +hole through which he might escape, then toward the +wide chimney he flew.</p> + +<p>"Still slept the Three.</p> + +<p>"Wide spread were the wings of Yaeethl, the +Flying, and the great light of the Sun was uncovered.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> +Brightly it shone, straight into the eyes of the Wise +Man gleamed the fierce light.</p> + +<p>"Awake was Yakootsekaya-ka, crying: 'Yaeethl! +Yaeethl! 'Tis Yaeethl! Awake!'</p> + +<p>"Awake was the Wife and the Daughter, and the +Three strove to catch the Raven, the White One. But +the great light of the Sun was in their eyes and they +were blinded so they fell in each other's way. And +in the throat of the chimney was Yaeethl, flying upward.</p> + +<p>"Then did the Wise Man call upon Kahn, his +sister's son, Kahn, the God of Fire, to aid him. Up +blazed Kahn and tried to catch Yaeethl, the Fleeing, +in his red teeth, but near the top of the chimney was +Yaeethl, so that the teeth of Kahn could not reach +him.</p> + +<p>"Then Kahn called upon the Wise Man to blow, +and the Wise Man puffed out his cheeks and blew +with full lungs, and by his blowing Kahn stretched +high his long black arms and tightly curled them +about the White Raven.</p> + +<p>"Then did Yaeethl, the Strong of Wing, struggle +mightily. Against Kahn, the Fire God, did he struggle, +beating with his white wings. Long did they struggle, +until from the lungs of the Wise Man was the breath +gone, and the arms of the Fire God, the smoke arms, +grew thin and weak.</p> + +<p>"With his wings beat Yaeethl, breaking the hold +of the smoke arms, Yaeethl the Free, Yaeethl the Ever +Black One.</p> + +<p>"Forever were the wings and feathers of the Raven +blackened by the smoke arms of Kahn, the God of +Fire.</p> + +<p>"Back toward Klingatona-Kla, the Earth Mother, +the Barren, flew Yaeethl holding tight the Sun, Moon, +and Stars. But after him came the Wise Man, full +of anger. And the Shining Worlds grew heavy. +Heavy was the pack of Yaeethl, and weary his wings. +Afar off was Klingatona-Kla.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 175px;"> +<a href="images/i014.jpg"><img src="images/i014tn.jpg" width="175" height="259" class="plain" alt="Kahn curled around White Raven" title="Kahn curled around White Raven" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Then did Yaeethl, the Pursued, Yaeethl the +Heavy Laden, cast from him Kakoon, the Sun. To +the east threw he the Sun, and flew on.</p> + +<p>"Again did the Wise Man come close behind, and +again did Yaeethl ease his burden. From him threw +he Dis-s, the Moon. To the West cast he the Moon.</p> + +<p>"Then was Yakootsekaya-ka left behind for a +time, but the Raven weary and burdened, flew slowly, +and once again he felt the breath of the Wise Man +ruffle his feathers. No time had Yaeethl to stop, on +nothing could he rest.</p> + +<p>"Opened he his claws and scattered wide the +Stars. To North and South fell Takhonaha, the Stars, +to East and West fell they.</p> + +<p>"Then was the promise of Yaeethl fulfilled. Thus +kept he his word to the Earth Mother, and gave her +light, that she might see. Gave her Kayah, the Light, +to father her children and wipe out the disgrace of +her barrenness. And the children of Klingatona-Kla +were as the sands of the sea.</p> + +<p>"But upon Yaeethl, the Raven, had fallen the +curses of the Wise Man. Three curses: Blackness, +Hoarseness, and the Keeping of One Shape. And as +his feathers were blackened, so, thereafter, was his +heart darkened with eternal selfishness."</p></div> + +<p>I was silent. My pipe had gone out, and Zachook +was bent low over the dying fire. I was thinking of +another story of a Child who had given Light to the +World, and suffered for the bringing.</p> + +<div class="figrighthr" style="width: 175px;"> +<a href="images/i015.jpg"><img src="images/i015tn.jpg" width="175" height="281" class="plain" alt="Zachook sitting by fire" title="Zachook sitting by fire" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<a href="images/i016.jpg"><img src="images/i016tn.jpg" width="350" height="556" class="plain" alt="Raven dropping stars" title="Raven dropping stars" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="The_Water_Carrier" id="The_Water_Carrier"></a><i>The Water Carrier</i></h2> + +<h3>"When You Give a Potlach, Forget Not He Who +Carries the Water."</h3> + +<div class="dropcap" style="width: 75px;"> +<a href="images/ic017.jpg"><img src="images/ic017tn.jpg" width="75" height="90" class="plain" alt="T" title="T" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">hank</span> Yaeethl for that," said Zachook as I +rose with dripping beard from the stream +where I had drunk deep, with many sighs of satisfaction +and relief. "His pack is not heavy with +thanks of men these days."</p> + +<p>"Thank the Raven? For what?"</p> + +<p>"The starving man asks not the name of the +owner of the cache, but his heart is filled with +gratitude."</p> + +<p>"That may be, but no cache of Yaeethl's is in +this stream."</p> + +<p>"The ignorant deny all they cannot see."</p> + +<p>"Wise sayings feed neither fire nor belly," I +retorted, provoked by the criticism of my companion, +thinly veiled behind his customary proverbs, +and attempting to pay him in his own coin from my +slender store of Klingat adages. "'Only a beggar +gives thanks.'<!--removed end quotes--> Is it not your teaching that he who +gives in this world receives the benefit, since in +Tskekowani<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> his possessions shall be as his gifts +here? If Yaeethl wants my thanks, if they are the +due of the Raven, he has them, but why or for what +I know not. Your words are like the ice of a +windy day, rough and cloudy."</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> <i>The next world.</i></p></div> + +<p>"You are right, Cousin. I forget at times that +you are only a white man. Let me touch thy ear +with my tongue."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Cha-auk.<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> In the Time before Time, there was +no water upon the earth or in the bowl of the sea, +and Shanagoose the Sky gave neither rain nor snow.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> <i>Ages ago.</i></p></div> + +<p>"In one place only was Heen, the water. In a +deep well it was, the father of wells, hidden among +the mountains that lie between here and Tskekowani.</p> + +<p>"To Heenhadowa, the Thirst Spirit, belonged the +well, by Heenhadowa was it guarded. By the door of +the well-house sat he by day, in front of the well-house +door was his bed by night. And none might +enter.</p> + +<p>"Never did he leave the well, morning, noon +or night. From the water he took life, to the water +he gave life. To no man, woman, or child, to neither +animal nor bird, to nothing that walks, creeps, or +flies would Heenhadowa give of the precious water. +Not so much as would moisten the tongue of Ta-ka +the Mosquito would he give, though men died.</p> + +<p>"To quench their thirst men chewed the roots +of young trees and the stalk of Yan-a-ate.<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a></p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> <i>Species of wild celery.</i></p></div> + +<p>"A few men there were, brave of heart and +moose-legged, who had travelled the weary journey +to the well among the mountains, the mountains +marked with the trail of Oonah, the Gray One, +Death, seeking the water that is life.</p> + +<p>"And of them?</p> + +<p>"Is it not well said that Oonah, Death, and Koo-stay, +Life, are brothers, and he who seeks one finds the +other?</p> + +<p>"And Heenhadowa laughed, first at their black +lips, later at their white bones, and drank deep but +gave not.</p> + +<p>"Now Yaeethl, the Raven, Desirer of All Things, +longed most for those that were forbidden, concealed, +or like the favor of women, not to be had +for the asking. And since the water was denied, +his tongue ached with dryness, and Yan-a-ate lost +its savor. Also was his heart moved by the prayers<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> +of men and the cries of women. But his tongue +troubled him more than did his heart, his tongue +and his cupidity, so that he was moved to try his +cunning where the strength and bravery of men had +failed.</p> + +<p>"No crooked trail through forests and over mountains +had Yaeethl to measure with his feet, but on +his wings of blackness was he borne straight to the +place of the well.</p> + +<p>"Well and well-house he found, found also +Heenhadowa, watchful, moving not from his place. +As one greets an old friend new found spoke Yaeethl +to the Thirst Spirit. With smooth tongue and soft +words spoke the Raven, claiming kinship through +the cousin of his grandmother's grandmother. Said +also that when he left his father's country he was +bidden seek that old and true friend of the family, +Heenhadowa the Wise, the Generous Giver of Water. +As bidden, so had he obeyed and flown straight +without halt or rest to bow before his mighty relative, +and taste of his wonderful well, the like of +which not even his father had, who possessed all +things.</p> + +<p>"But the Maker of Thirst laughed at the Raven +and mocked him, bidding him, if he would drink, +find or dig a well of his own.</p> + +<p>"Again Yaeethl recounted their connected lineage, +from mother to mother's mother, from family +to family and tribe to tribe, tied with proof and +argument, lashed with meek bows, and smoothed +with soft flattery.</p> + +<p>"Heenhadowa laughed scornfully, cast from him +the claim of cousinship, and mocked at Yaeethl's +tongue, dry from the dust of many words.</p> + +<p>"Then Yaeethl drew about him the parka of anger +and answered scorn with scorn, mockery with mockery, +and laughter with laughter.</p> + +<p>"In his father's country, said Yaeethl, they gave<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> +the name of Heenhadowa to mangy dogs and unclean +women. Glad was the heart of Yaeethl that the Thirst +Spirit denied the relationship he had laid as a snare, +the denial would make his father proud. As for the +well, 'twas now known to the most stupid, even to +men, that it was but an empty hole in the ground, +covered by the well-house to hide the dryness thereof, +and no deeper than Kaelt-tay, the Seagull, +scratches in the sand for nesting.</p> + +<p>"Laughed Heenhadowa again, saying that belief +or unbelief of Raven or man lessened not his treasure +by a drop.</p> + +<p>"Then Yaeethl's words flared as firesparks. +Hot words of evil sounding names, vile as only the +brain of Yaeethl could fashion, taunts that bit and +stung festeringly like the nettles of Sech-ut,<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> names +that would disgrace the family of a Siwash, callings +that would make even a squaw-man hang his head +in shame. Can I say more of the bitterness of the +tongue of Yaeethl?</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> <i>Devil's Club.</i></p></div> + +<p>"Heenhadowa laughed.</p> + +<p>"To battle Yaeethl challenged the Thirst Spirit: +'Come forth and meet me, you fatherless son of a +shameless mother, littering of a slave's slave.</p> + +<p>"'Come with me to the plain below and I will +make of thy blood another well, for another of thy +family of dogs to guard.'</p> + +<p>"Flatteries and arguments, insults and challenges +fell into the same echoless hole, bringing to Yaeethl +only the laughter of Heenhadowa and increase of +thirst.</p> + +<p>"Then was the heart of Yaeethl heavy within +him, but not so heavy as his face said, for it is not +the way of the Raven to eat quickly of discouragement, +though he turned and left the well and its +guardian like a gambler who has lost his last blanket.</p> + +<p>"Not far did he go. Only so far as to be hidden<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> +from the eyes of Heenhadowa, where silence might +mother the children of his brain. And since the +brain of the Raven is full of the seeds of cunning a +plan was quickly born.</p> + +<p>"Back toward the well flew Yaeethl, but, since +he who sees the tail of a lone wolf imagines the +whole pack, he alighted at a distance where the +eyes of Heenhadowa saw as one sees in a fog. A +space the size a man uses for his lodge he cleared +of all bushes and weeds, to the smallest blade of +grass he cleared it of everything that grew.</p> + +<p>"When the space was as the palm of a man's +hand the Raven spread his wings until every feather +showed and, first bowing low to Hoon-nach, Yunda-haech, +Sa-nach, and Deckta-haech,<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> who guard the +four corners of the earth, walked slowly around the +sides three times, at every third step stopping and +making strange motions and stranger sounds, as +does an Icht<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a> when he would drive the evil spirits +away.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> <i>North, East, South and West.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> <i>Witch Doctor.</i></p></div> + +<p>"From each corner he took a stone and spat +upon it and cast it over his shoulder, and in the +dust drew the shapes of animals like unto rolled +deer-thongs, animals with two tongues such as no +man has seen upon earth.<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a></p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7"><span class="label">[7]</span></a> <i>Snakes are unknown in Alaska.</i></p></div> + +<p>"To the space Yaeethl dragged logs and laid +them end across end and bottom on top. As each +tier was laid he sang words in a strange language, +and as he sang, spat upon and cast pebbles over his +shoulder as before.</p> + +<p>"But toward Heenhadowa were the eyes and +tongue of Yaeethl the eyes of the blind and the tongue +of the dumb. Busily he worked and loudly sang his +charms, but to the Thirst Spirit he gave neither look +nor word.</p> + +<p>"On Yaeethl were the eyes of Heenhadowa fastened, +strained were his eyes, watching the doings +of the Raven, wide his ears to catch the words of +the songs and charms.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 175px;"> +<a href="images/i021.jpg"><img src="images/i021tn.jpg" width="175" height="262" class="plain" alt="Raven" title="Raven" /></a> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p> + +<p>"When the roof was on and the house finished +to the last piece of moss between the logs, Yaeethl +again circled it three times, bowed again to the +guardians of the earth's ends, and without looking +behind, entered the lodge and closed the door.</p> + +<p>"Curiosity filled eyes and ears, heart and belly +of Heenhadowa. Though he had lived since the Beginning, +never before had he seen what that day he +had seen, never had his ears been greeted with such +words and songs.</p> + +<p>"And to Heenhadowa the inside of the lodge +was the pack, as was the outside the lone wolf tail.</p> + +<p>"Even so had Yaeethl planned, nor was that +the end of the cunning of the Raven, who knew +that no door can bar the going in of curiosity.</p> + +<p>"Long sat Heenhadowa before the door of his +well-house, gazing at the lodge of Yaeethl. And the +longer he sat and the longer he gazed the keener +grew his desire to see what was hidden from his +eyes by the walls and closed door, grew until it +tortured him as the thirsty are tortured, beyond endurance.</p> + +<p>"And Heenhadowa rose from his seat by the +well.</p> + +<p>"From the place where he had sat for ages +rose the Thirst Spirit and stepped softly. Toward +the closed door he moved as moves one who is pulled +at the end of a thong, for the fear of the unknown +was upon him. But stronger than his fear was his +desire to know what lay behind the door, stronger +even than his fear of those strange animals that were +drawn in the dust, dust pictures that made his +blood ice.</p> + +<p>"Before the door he stopped and glanced back +the way he had come, at his well and well-house he +looked, then pushing against the door with his hand, +stepped within the house builded by Yaeethl, made +by Yaeethl the Raven, Yaeethl the Cunning.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p> + +<p>"No man knows what Heenhadowa found within +the lodge of the Raven. Only this we know.</p> + +<p>"When the time of the boiling of a salmon had +passed, from the door stepped Yaeethl walking as +a man walks who has been carrying a heavy pack. +Behind him he closed the door and against it rolled +a heavy stone, a stone so heavy that not even K'hoots +the Grizzly, the Strong One, could have moved it +away again.</p> + +<p>"Within the lodge was silence, silence big with +unborn noise.</p> + +<p>"To the well of Heenhadowa, the father of wells +among the mountains, the well untasted of man or +beast, flew Yaeethl, Yaeethl the Desirer of All +Things.</p> + +<p>"And when the Raven stood beside the well he +bowed his head and drank.</p> + +<p>"Some say that it took him many moons, some +put it the length of a man's life, but, long time or +short time, when the head of Yaeethl the Raven was +lifted the well was dry.</p> + +<p>"Of water there was none in the well of Heenhadowa.</p> + +<p>"In the belly and mouth of the Raven was the +water. All.</p> + +<p>"Then did Yaeethl spread wide his wings of +blackness and fly the way of his coming.</p> + +<p>"As he flew over the bosom of Klingatona-Kla, +the Earth Mother, in this place and in that he spat +out some of the water. And where spat the Raven +there sprang up streams, and rivers, and lakes.</p> + +<p>"When he had flown so long and so far that +the water was gone from his mouth, and in his +belly was not fresh, then from his belly and his +mouth he cast it, salt, and Athlch, the Ocean, was."</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 175px;"> +<a href="images/i023.jpg"><img src="images/i023tn.jpg" width="175" height="274" class="plain" alt="Heavy stone blocking door" title="Heavy stone blocking door" /></a> +</div> + +<p>I waited silently, for there was an uplift in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> +Zachook's voice that made me think there was more +to follow, but it was only:</p> + +<p>"If you listen to the words of them that know +not, they will tell you that Haechlt is a great bird +the falling of whose eyelids makes thunder, the flashing +of whose eye is the lightning, but if my words +be the words of truth, then is thunder the angry +voice of Heenhadowa whom Yaeethl made prisoner, +and lightning the cracks in the lodge walls when he +throws himself against them, struggling to be free. +Should he succeed——</p> + +<p>"But, bird or Thirst Spirit, from Yaeethl is the +gift of water. So say I again——when you drink, +give thanks to the Raven that chewed roots are not the +answer to thy dry lips,—give thanks, and pray that +the rock rolls not away."</p> + +<p>And I gave thanks, quoting to myself another +of Zachook's sayings, "Better a wasted arrow than +lost game."</p> + +<div class="figlefthr" style="width: 175px;"> +<a href="images/i024.jpg"><img src="images/i024tn.jpg" width="175" height="265" class="plain" alt="Flashing eye" title="Flashing eye" /></a> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="Ta-ka_the_Mosquito_and" id="Ta-ka_the_Mosquito_and"></a><i>Ta-ka the Mosquito and<br /> +Khandatagoot the Woodpecker</i></h2> + +<h3>"As Foolish as One Who Shoots Arrows at<br /> +Mosquitoes."</h3> + +<div class="dropcap" style="width: 75px;"> +<a href="images/ic025.jpg"><img src="images/ic025tn.jpg" width="75" height="86" class="plain" alt="Z" title="Z" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">achook</span>, with a half amused, half sympathetic +smile at my futile efforts to slaughter a small +percentage of the mosquito cloud that enveloped us, +made a smudge of leaves, and I willingly exchanged +the tortures of being eaten alive for those of slow +strangulation in the acrid smoke.</p> + +<p>My remarks had been neither calm nor patient, +consisting mainly of my entire vocabulary of opprobrious +adjectives and epithets several times repeated +and diversified, aided by a wide, but wholly inadequate, +range of profanity in the various languages +at my command. And, to digress slightly, I would +recommend the study of Arabic and Spanish to those +feeling a similar need; they do not meet all requirements +of forcible expression, but they add some wonderful +flights of imagination to the more practical +English expletives.</p> + +<p>Zachook was apparently as unimpressed as the +mosquitoes, but when I had recovered some portion of +my breath and equanimity,<!--**changed 'equinimity' to 'equanimity'--> remarked: "He who +shoots with his tongue should be careful of his aim."</p> + +<p>Choking with anger and smoke I could only +splutter in reply, while Zachook continued:</p> + +<p>"Ta-ka is Ta-ka, and Yaeethl is Yaeethl."</p> + +<p>"What has the Raven to do with these insufferable +pests? Has he not enough to answer for +without linking his name with these suckers of +blood? Yaeethl is Yaeethl, but Ta-ka is Ta-ka."</p> + +<p>"Yaeethl or Ta-ka. The get of the Raven are +ravens, and from Yaeethl comes Ta-ka the Biter.</p> + +<div class="figrighthr" style="width: 175px;"> +<a href="images/i025.jpg"><img src="images/i025tn.jpg" width="175" height="286" class="plain" alt="Raven near smoky fire" title="Raven near smoky fire" /></a> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<a href="images/i026.jpg"><img src="images/i026tn.jpg" width="350" height="533" class="plain" alt="Woodpecker on tree" title="Woodpecker on tree" /></a> +</div> + +<hr /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p> + +<p>"When the selfishness of men had driven the +gods from the earth, the Great Ones held a council +in Tskekowani, a potlach in the World Beyond. All +the gods were there. They talked of the sins of men +and of the punishments that should be visited upon +them. Long they talked.</p> + +<p>"Then Theunghow, Chief of Gods, called each +by name, and bade him name his sending.</p> + +<p>"And each god named a sickness, a pain, or a +killing.</p> + +<p>"At one side stood Oonah the Death Shadow, +and in his hand held his quiver. And as each punishment +was named, into his quiver placed Oonah +an arrow, sharp-pointed, swift-flying, death-carrying.</p> + +<p>"The quiver was full, and all had spoken, all +save Yaeethl the Raven, who by the cook pot sat +smiling, eating.</p> + +<p>"To Yaeethl spoke K'hoots the Grizzly, saying:</p> + +<p>"'Dost thou send nothing, Brother? Behold, +the Quiver of Death is full, and from the Raven is +there no arrow of punishment for men. What arrow +gives Yaeethl?'</p> + +<p>"'Why bother me when I am eating? Is there +not time after the pot is empty? Many arrows +there are. Because men insult me shall gods spoil +my eating?' Thus spoke the Raven as he scraped the +pot.</p> + +<p>"Then Hckt the Frog urged, saying:</p> + +<p>"'Art thou a god, or is thy belly a god, that in +the council the Raven takes no part?'</p> + +<p>"'A god am I, and a god have I been since the +Beginning, thou son of wind and slime. But that +my ears may be no longer troubled, a little punishment +will I send, that the sons of men forget +me not. No arrow from Yaeethl shall find place +in Oonah's quiver. Arrow and messenger both will +I send. Thy punishments carry the peace of death, +mine the torment of life.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p> + +<p>"'And this punishment of thine?' asked Hckt, +sneering.</p> + +<p>"And Yaeethl, as from the pot he cleaned the +last morsel, replied:</p> + +<p>"'Ta-ka.'</p> + +<p>"Of all the punishments named by the gods, +the first to reach the earth was that of Yaeethl,—Ta-ka +the Mosquito.</p> + +<p>"To Khandatagoot the Woodpecker, the simple-minded, +went Ta-ka, and from the Woodpecker +claimed hospitality. And the rights of a stranger +gave Khandatagoot to Ta-ka, gave him a place by +the fire, and of his food a share, for his head a +shelter, treating him as the son of a sister is treated. +Together they fished and hunted, together they ate +and slept. Of the hunting and fishing the chief +part was Khandatagoot's, of the eating and sleeping +Ta-ka's, Ta-ka who from Yaeethl came.</p> + +<p>"On a morning the Woodpecker fixed his canoe, +and alone to the hunt went the Mosquito.</p> + +<p>"All day was Ta-ka gone. Low hung the sun +when to camp he returned. Slow flying came the +Mosquito, and as blood is red, so was the body of +Ta-ka, and swelled mightily.</p> + +<p>"Then was the Woodpecker frightened, thinking +his friend wounded, and crying, ran to help him. +To the ground sank Ta-ka, but no wound could +Khandatagoot find.</p> + +<p>"Many questions asked the Woodpecker, and +to them Ta-ka replied:</p> + +<p>"'No hurt have I, but full is my belly, full of +the choicest eating that ever made potlach. Yet +much did I leave behind, the feasting of many +months did I leave.'</p> + +<p>"Then was the belly of Khandatagoot pinched +with hunger for this good eating, and of Ta-ka +claimed his share.</p> + +<p>"On the tongue of the Woodpecker placed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> +Ta-ka a drop, saying: 'No more can I give of what +I have eaten, but as you have shared with me, so +shall I share with you. The fill of many bellies is +there left.'</p> + +<p>"'Where is this sweet eating?' asked Khandatagoot, +'Tell me the trail that I too may feast until +my wings are heavy.'</p> + +<p>"'No trail is there, Brother. The red juice of +a dead tree is this eating, a dead tree in the forest. +It's name I know not, but hunt, and you shall find +it. Go quickly, lest others get there first.'"<!--added close quote--></p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>"And since then," said Zachook, throwing another +handful of leaves on the fire, "since then the +Woodpecker spends his days seeking in dead trees +the red juice that flows in the veins of live men."</p> + +<div class="figrighthr" style="width: 175px;"> +<a href="images/i029.jpg"><img src="images/i029tn.jpg" width="175" height="244" class="plain" alt="Canoe" title="Canoe" /></a> +</div> + +<hr /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p> + + + +<table cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2" border="0" summary="copyright info"> +<tr><td> +<h3> +Published<br /> +by<br /> +The Raven +</h3> +</td></tr> + +<tr><td> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<a href="images/i030.jpg"><img src="images/i030tn2.jpg" width="200" height="130" class="plain" alt="Raven" title="Raven" /></a> +</div> +</td></tr> + +<tr><td> +<h4> +1114-1115-1116<br /> +American Bank Building<br /> +Seattle<br /> +U. 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