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10 buttocks.&quot; Finally Raven became angry, seized the knife he was cutting up the sea urchins with and slit up the front of the cliff out of which she spoke. Then he ran in, knocked her down and began sticking the spines into her buttocks. &quot;Stop, Raven, stop,&quot; she cried, &quot;the tide will begin to go down.&quot; So he said to his servant, Mink, &quot;Run outside and see how far down the tide has gone.&quot; Mink ran out and said, &quot;It is just beginning to go down.&quot; The next time he came in he said, &quot;The tide is still farther down.&quot; The third time he said, &quot;The tide is lower yet. It has uncovered everything on the beach.&quot; Then Raven said to the old woman, &quot;Are you going to let the tide rise and fall again regularly through the months and years? She answered &quot;Yes.&quot; Because Raven did this while he was making the world, nowadays, when a woman gets old and can not do much more work, there are spots all over her buttocks.

After the tide had gone down very far he and his servant went out. He said to Mink, &quot;The thing that will be your food from now on is the sea urchin (nls!). You will live on it.&quot; The tide now goes up and down because he treated this woman so.

Now Raven started on from this place crying, &quot;My wife, my wife!&quot; Coming to some trees, he saw a lot of gum on one of them and said to it, &quot;Why! you are just like me. You are in the same state.&quot; For he thought the tree was crying.

After this he got a canoe and began paddling along. By and by Petrel met him in another canoe. So he brought his canoe alongside and said, &quot;Is this you, my brother-in-law? Where are you from?&quot; He answered, &quot;I am from over there.&quot; Then Raven began to question him about the events in this world, asking him how long ago they happened, etc. He said, &quot;When were you born? How long have you been living?&quot; And Petrel answered, &quot;I have been living ever since the great liver came up from under the earth. I have been living that long.&quot; So said Petrel. &quot;Why! that is but a few minutes ago,&quot; said Raven. Then Petrel began to get angry and said to Raven, &quot;When were you born?&quot; &quot;I was born before this world was known.&quot; &quot;That is just a little while back.&quot;

They talked back and forth until they became very angry. Then Petrel pushed Raven's canoe away from him and put on his hat called fog-hat (qogii s ! s ! ax u ) so that Raven could not see where he was. The world was round for him [in the fog]. At last he shouted, &quot;My brother-in-law, Petrel, you are older than I am. You have lived longer than I.&quot; Petrel also took water from the sea and sprinkled it in the air so that it fell through the fog as very fine rain. Said Raven, &quot;I, i.&quot; He did not like it at all. After Petrel had fooled him for some time, he took off Fog-hat and found Raven close beside him, pulling about in all directions. Then Raven said to Petrel, &quot;Brother-in-law, you better let that hat go into this world.&quot;