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just getting back to normal, when more
reporters with cameras came on
-when the boat was about to sail.
- sheag again fled to her room and
I couldn't get her up again until.
we were past Alcatraz.

Then she told me that people
got paid for talking to papers and
giving pictures sometime $20 =
I told her I hadnt heard of such
a thing - unless they had written
a story to sell and
her story had already
been printed
but she was sure
Eskimo at Nome had been paid

for pictures.

Later she told me she bought
3 papers with Bennetts picture
in it. One to send to her "friend,'

= In the afternoon she grew quite went back to
her usual happy frame of mind,
and told me some Eskimo stories legends.
one long one about Eskimo man who married
Polar Bear and thought it was a
human - and one about the
Lady in the Moon. I like that one
so well that I wrote it down last
night - I tried to write it as nearly
in her manner of telling it as I could
- of course I couldnt take notes
so I am afraid I didnt get quite
the whole thing. It is a story from of
of her mothers telling - her mother
was from Council - - - and does