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many, and carried it to the house of the maiden, where they placed it 

 under the piki tray trap. In the morning when the maiden arose 

 she saw something under the trap with big antlers. Running to her 

 father she called him, saying: "My father, come quickly. There is 

 something large in the trap." So he came and found a deer there. 

 "Thanks," he said, "this is a deer," and taking it out they carried 

 it to the kiva where he skinned it and cut up the meat. His wife 

 again cooked a part of it, while he hung all the rest up to dry. There 

 was a great deal of meat hanging outside of his house and they were 

 very happy over it. 



"To-night you wait for somebody here," he said to his daughter. 

 Towards evening they were eating of the meat that the mother had 

 cooked, and in the evening the maiden was grinding com. In the 

 house of the two P6okongs the two brothers were getting ready to go 

 to the house of the maiden, but they began to quarrel about it. "I 

 am going," P6okong said. "No, indeed," his brother replied, "I'm 

 going," and thus they were contending with each other. "Now, 

 why do you quarrel about this?" their grandmother asked them. 

 " Certainly P6okong must go because he is the older one. " Thus she 

 spoke to them. 



So in the evening P6okong proceeded to the house of the maiden, 

 whom he found grinding corn in an upper room. He entered and 

 said : " I have come because your father wished it that way. " "Very 

 well," she said, and went to call her father. Her father went to 

 Pdokong and told him; "Yes, you know I told you that you could 

 come and fetch our daughter because you have trapped this game 

 for us, which we are eating and for which we are glad." Hereupon 

 the mother filled a tray with meal for her daughter, and P6okong 

 then led her away to his house in order to marry her. When they 

 arrived there the grandmother told them to come in, but she doubted 

 whether her grandchild had brought the maiden until she saw her 

 enter. She was then very happy and told them to sit down. She 

 took the tray of meal from the maiden and put it away into an inner 

 room towards the north. Coming out she placed before the maiden 

 a small tray with a very small quantity of hurushuki, and invited 

 the maiden to eat. The latter took the entire quantity and placed 

 it into her mouth. Spider Woman was watching her and when she 

 saw that she put all the hurushuki into her mouth, she said: "You 

 must not do that, why that is 'very something,' and you must just 

 take a very little of it. " So the maiden replaced the hurushuki into 

 the tray and then put a very small quantity into her mouth. When 

 she began to eat this it increased in her mouth so that her mouth was 



