Note 77 — Raven Traveling

Then he pulled the halibut round toward himself [so that their heads lay in his direction] and turned the small one toward him (Cormorant).77 Then they went home, and he pulled off the halibut. Cormorant motioned his wife to the halibut, and his sister asked: “Say, chief, why does he motion me to the halibut?” Then Raven said: “He is trying to say he wants the head of a big one.” And she asked her brother again: “Say, chief, what has happened to your brother-in-law?” “Why, while I was fishing with him his voice left him.” He wanted to eat all the halibut. That is why he took it out.