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and covered himself with them and then closing his eyes a moment he thought he had on a fine sable parkie on and looking saw he had. He then went to a birch tree and taking [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] rolls of the bark placed onearound each leg & then as before he had on a pair of deer skin breeches - With the same material he made mocassins and with parts of various plants he made all the various articles of dress of a young man. Chews gum & molds a Tanana knife & birch bark sheath then thinks it into the real thing.

He goes to [[strikethrough]] several [[/strikethrough]] chiefs house, is well [[strikethrough]] recdd [[/strikethrough]] rec'd & thinks the girl [[strikethrough]] falls [[/strikethrough]] in love with him & they are married and on the 5th day she is confined. When two days old the child, a boy walks and [[strikethrough]] about [[/strikethrough]] soon begins to cry.  (R. married girl when he had [[strikethrough]] seen [[/strikethrough]] found it impossible to find where the old man kept the sun.) The old man gives the young one all kinds of toys but the latter will not stop crying for the raven is thinking earnestly all the time "cry" "cry harder". at last Raven says to the child "you must be crying for the sun your godfather has shut up somewhere. The child now howled worse than ever until the old man took a bag from a hidden recess & taking out a bag containing the moon hung it up in corner of the house so the child could see it. The latter was quiet. R. sees as the old man closes bag that there are two things there left and he thinks how he may secure all those.

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. make certain that everything is completely transcribed before marking it for review. .[[strikethrough]] seen [[/strikethrough]], uncertain of "seen"