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So she took them over to her house where they set traps in differ- 

 ent parts of the house, also close to the mealing bin. They finally 

 asked whether they did not have a piki tray. The mother fetched 

 one from another room and they set that near the mealing tray, 

 instead of a small stone like in the other traps. "Now, to-morrow 

 you must look after these traps," they said to the maiden, and left. 

 They at once went hunting and killed an antelope. This they took 

 to the house of the maiden during the night and placed it under the 

 piki tray, making it appear as if it had been caught in that trap. 

 When the maiden examined the traps the next morning she found 

 something large under the piki tray, and looking at it she saw that 

 it was an antelope. She at once called her father. "My father," 

 she said, "you go in there. Something large has been caught there, 

 and do not be slow about it. " He was still sleeping, but got up at 

 once, went into the room, and saw that something large had been 

 caught there. "Thanks," he said. "Why this is an antelope; why, 

 an antelope has been caught here. " Hereupon he took it out of the 

 trap and carried it into his kiva. 



Here he skinned the antelope and cut it up into pieces. A part 

 of the meat his wife cooked as n6ekwiwi, the rest he dried, and they 

 were very happy over it. In the evening the P6okongs took some 

 more squash seed and again repaired to the village, where they set 

 traps as they had done on the previous evening. While they were 

 doing so the maiden was eating of the antelope meat and then again 

 went to the place where the P6okongs were setting the traps. Here 

 she met them. "Have you come again?" she asked them. "Yes," 

 they replied. "When you are done here, " she continued, "you come 

 to our house again and set traps there, because something large was 

 trapped there this morning and we are very happy over it." 



They went with her to the house and there set traps everywhere 

 again. When they came to the tray the maiden said to them : "Here 

 something large was caught' last night and of that we are eating now. 

 We are very happy over it. So you must set that again, too. " While 

 they were setting this the father came in and asked them: "Are you 

 setting traps here again?" "Yes," they replied. "Very well," he 

 said , ' ' last night an antelope was caught in this trap and of that we 

 have been eating and we are very happy over it. You have by that 

 terminated something here (referring to the persistent refusals of the 

 maiden to enter into marriage), so if to-morrow morning something 

 is caught in this trap again, you come here to-morrow evening and 

 get our daughter. " 



In the night the P6okongs killed a deer, of which they owned 



