And now the boy made his face fierce, and thrust in his head at the
doorway, and all those inside fell down dead with fright. He would
have beaten his father, but his father had died long since. Then he
went down again to the bottom of the sea.

When the day dawned, the people from the house nearest the shore came
out and said:

"Ai! What footsteps are these, all full of seaweed?"

And seeing that the tracks led up to the house a little way above,
they followed there, and found that all inside had died of fright.

THE RAVEN AND THE GOOSE

Do you know why the raven is so black, so dull and black in colour? It
is all because of its own obstinacy. Now listen.

It happened in the days when all the birds were getting their colours
and the pattern in their coats. And the raven and the goose happened
to meet, and they agreed to paint each other.

The raven began, and painted the other black, with a nice white
pattern showing between.

The goose thought that very fine indeed, and began to do the same by
the raven, painting it a coat exactly like its own.

But then the raven fell into a rage, and declared the pattern was
frightfully ugly, and the goose, offended at all the fuss, simply
splashed it black all over.

And now you know why the raven is black.

WHEN THE RAVENS COULD SPEAK

Once, long ago, there was a time when the ravens could talk.

But the strange thing about the ravens' speech was that their words
had the opposite meaning. When they wanted to thank any one, they used
words of abuse, and thus always said the reverse of what they meant.

But as they were thus so full of lies, there came one day an old man,
and by magic means took away their power of speech. And since that
time the ravens can do no more than shriek.

But the ravens' nature has not changed, and to this day they are an
ill-tempered, lying, thieving lot.

MAKITE

Makite, men say, took to wife the sister of many brothers, but he
himself could never manage to catch a seal when he was out in his
kayak. But his wife's brothers caught seal in great numbers. And
so it was that one day he heard his wife say she would leave him,
because he never caught anything. And in his grief at hearing this,
he said to himself:

"This evening, when they are all asleep, I will go up into the hills
and live there all alone."

When darkness had fallen, he set off up into the hills, but as he
went, his wife's father, w