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 4 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 39 Now just one thing more remained, the box that held the daylight, and he cried for that. His eyes turned around and showed different colors, and the people began thinking that he must be something other than an ordinary baby. But it always happens that a grand father loves his grandchild just as he does his own -daughter, so the grandfather said, &quot;Untie the last thing and give it to him.&quot; His grandfather felt very sad when he gave this to him. When the child had this in his hands, he uttered the raven cry, &quot;Ga,&quot; and flew out with it through the smoke hole. Then the person from whom he had stolen it said, &quot;That old manuring raven has gotten all of my things.&quot; Journeying on, Raven was told of another place, where a man had an everlasting spring of water. This man was named Petrel (GAnu k). Raven wanted this water because there was none to drink in this world, but Petrel always slept by his spring, and he had a cover over it so as to keep it all to himself. Then Raven came in and said to him, &quot;My brother-in-law, I have just come to see you. How are you?&quot; He told Petrel of all kinds of things that were happening outside, trying to induce him to go out to look at them, but Petrel was too smart for him and refused. When night came, Raven said, &quot;I am going to sleep with you, brother-in-law.&quot; So they went to bed, and toward morning Raven heard Petrel sleeping very soundly. Then he went outside, took some dog manure and put it around Petrel s buttocks. When it was beginning to grow light, he said, &quot;Wake up, wake up, wake up, brother 1 in-law, you have defecated all over your clothes.&quot; Petrel got up, looked at himself, and thought it was true, so he took his blankets and went outside. Then Raven went over to Petrel s spring, took off the cover and began drinking. After he had drunk up almost all of the water, Petrel came in and saw him. Then Raven flew straight up, crying &quot;Ga.&quot; Before he got through the smoke hole, however, Petrel said, &quot;My spirits up the smoke hole, catch him.&quot; So Raven stuck there, and Petrel put pitchwood on the fire under him so as to make a quantity of smoke. Raven was white before that time, but the smoke made him of the color you find him to-day. Still he did not drop the water. When the smoke-hole spirits let him go, he flew around the nearest point and rubbed himself all over so as to clear off as much of the soot as possible. This happened somewhere about the Nass, and afterwards he started up this way. First he let some water fall from his mouth and made the Nass. By and by he spit more out and made the Stikine. Next he spit out Taku river, then Chilkat, then Alsek, and all the other large rivers. The small drops that came out of his mouth made the small salmon creeks.