it an admirable illustration of the following tale of How Raven
Stole Cousin Eagle's Basket of Water.

One day as Raven was travelling along feeling rather lonely
he saw Cousin Eagle coming his way, and said: "Come, Cousin
EKagle, let us build a fire." "Well," replied Zagle, "I was just
looking for a place." As he joined Raven, HZagle pulled a basket
from under his arm and kept taking sips from it. At once what
he drank spurted out as he looked around. After they had gone
along for a time they found certain rocks stretching out into the
sea. Raven lighted a fire on the rocks but al] the time he was
watching Cousin Eagle continually taking the water-tight basket
from under his armpit and sipping the water. Raven determined
he would get that basket; but Cousin Eagle knew Raven's tricks
and gave him no chance to do so.

Presently Raven broke off dry twigs from a nearby hemlock
and gave them to Eagle. "Cousin," said he, "put these on the
fire," and Eagle did so. W-a-a-a-! it burned brightly. After
he had watched this a while Eagle again pulled out his basket
took sips of the water. As soon as he saw him doing this Raven
ran to the end of a branch of the hemlock stepping heavily upon
it to break it. "Clumpéof Branches," he cried, "fall down, fall
down." Snap! it cracked loudly, it was breaking down! Then
Raven cried to Eagle "Hukukukuk!" (an exclamation of alarm).
Cousin Eagle jumped in startled terror and dropped his basket.
Quickly Raven slipped into his feather blanket, picked up the
basket in his beak and flew off with it. Cousin Eagle flew
fast after him trying vainly to hook his great talons into
Raven; at last he had to give up the pursuit.

Meantime water spurted from the basket in Raven's flight
and as this happened saimon streams were formed where the water
fell. Finally Raven emptied the last drops where long before
he had stretched out the first lake at the head of the Skeena
River in the Tsimsyan country, thus providing a stream by which
salmon could travel far up from the sea to spawn and at the same
time feed the people. Thus, though Raven gained nothing for him-
self by playing this mean trick on Cousin EBagle he nevertheless
rendered a service to mankind.

Eagle usually figures as a kindly person, as when he re-
paid a boy for providing him and his eaglets with food by supply-
ing the lad with abundant food when left to starve by his father
for an act of youthful carelessness.

The design on Plate 7, Figure 1 painted by the notable

artist, Chief Edensaw of Masset, illustrates one of the essen-
tially "Moral Tales" found among these myriad legends. Briefly,

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