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Note b — Supernatural-being-who-went-naked

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Then he skinned it and used salmon-berry bushes on which to stretch it. But lo! it was slack in the middle. Then he put it on a larger one. And he laid it out in the sunshine. He was going to make blankets out of it. It became nearly dry. He was glad. And, when it was nearly dry, things from the north end of the island and the south end of the island shouted “Wā-ā-ā-ā-ā, Supernatural-being-who-went-naked is stretching his sky blankets.” They laughed at him. Then he bent down his head. After he had sat there ashamed for a while he left his blankets.19

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