“Something to rest on!” gasped the raven, as it fell into the water. And at last it went to the bottom and was drowned.
And after a while, it broke up into little pieces, and its soul was turned into little “sea ravens.”[1]
[1] A small black mollusc.
The Man Who Took a Vixen to Wife
There was once a man who wished to have a wife unlike all other wives, and so he caught a little fox, a vixen, and took it home to his tent.
One day when he had been out hunting, he was surprised to find on his return that his little fox-wife had become a real woman. She had a lovely top-knot, made of that which had been her tail. And she had taken off the furry skin. And when he saw her thus, he thought her very beautiful indeed.
Now she began to talk about journeyings, and how greatly she desired to see other people. And so they went off, and came to a place and settled down there.
One of the men there had taken a little hare to wife. And now these two men thought it would be a pleasant thing to change wives. And so they did.