1894-95. ] THREE CARRIER MYTHS. 9

across the lake. He had proceeded but a short distance when the child
clapped his hands together, which caused the jay to fall in the water.
He was so helpless that he got drowned, whereupon a great darkness
ensued. |

Then the old man’s daughters commenced lamenting the loss of their
father. “He is terrible!; he will cause the death of all of us,’ they said
between their sobs. “Dorevive him.” Their husband went out, therefore,
in the old man’s raft to where the bird was floating, dead, on the surface
of the water. He took it aboard and jumped across it, thereby restoring
life to it?

Afterwards the child changed himself into a water-ousel®, and flew
across the lake and back without mishap. Consequently, the old man
avowed himself beaten. He gave him his own iron raft, together with
his*two daughters, and let him go and search for his younger brother,
who was now a wolf.

So the child went out with his two wives. They alone were doing
all the paddling. They landed their husband at every promontory that
projected into the lake, and let him follow on foot all the sinuosities of
the bays, looking out for his brother-wolf.

After a long journey they reached a place full of footprints. These
were caused by dwarfs‘ who were playing on the shore with his brother's
skin. Now the child transformed himself into a stump and planted him-
self near by. When the dwarfs saw it, some said: ‘It looks like him.o”
Others differed, saying: “No, it is not like him.” Therefore, to identify
the stump, they brought out a big snake which coiled itself round it, and
which, after uncoiling, declared: “It is a real stump.”

Then, during their sleep, the child cut their throats with his stone
dagger, and gathering up his brother’s bones, he put them back within
their skin. After he had jumped across the whole, it began to crawl as
does a worm. Some little bones which he had overlooked he added to
the others, and again jumped across the whole, when his brother-wolf
commenced to walk naturally.

Pehwenatyat, J translate literally, but the hidden meaning is no doubt that their father is
endowed with magic powers.

2 As well as giving him back his former human condition.
3 Cinclus aquaticus.

4 7tnane, which means also foreigners, and is at the present day applied by the Carriers to
Indians of all but Déné parentage. Dwarfs, in their mythology, generally play a malefic,
noxious role.

5 That is, like his elder brother.