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gave them to her. She took them to the village and showed them to 

 her father and mother, as she still had parents. 



The young man also returned to his grandmother and she asked 

 him: "Well, how has it turned out?" "Why she took them to her 

 home." "All right," she said. By this time the sun had set and 

 the grandmother said to the young man, "Now go to the maiden's 

 house and you speak to her parents, and if they talk good to you 

 you bring her to my house." So in the evening he went over to the 

 maiden's house and the parents recognized him. They asked him 

 whether these were his two little fawns and whether he had given 

 them to their daughter. He said he had. "All right," they said, 

 and seemed to be glad. Then they turned to their daughter and 

 said, "You have found each other. You fill your tray with meal and 

 go with him. " So she filled her tray with meal and went along with 

 the young man. When they arrived at the young man's house the 

 grandmother was very happy and greeted her. "Come in," she 

 said, and assigned her a seat. She found that the maiden was a very 

 pretty girl. She then gave her some little hufushiki (a certain Hopi 

 food) and some meat from the breast of the chiro, with some brine. 

 When the maiden had eaten, she asked: "Where shall I sleep?" So 

 the grandmother showed her a small room with blankets in it which 

 were also very much patched up, so that she had a very poor looking 

 bed. 



For four days she ground com there, as is the custom of the Hopi. 

 When the young men of the village heard about it they were very 

 sad. But while usually relatives and friends provide a bridal costume 

 for the newly married maidens, there was no one to prepare this 

 costume for this maiden, and hence there was no one for whom she 

 could prepare meals except the poor grandmother. When she had 

 been there for some time, the grandmother said to her grandchild. 

 "It is now a long time, you go and cry out this evening that your 

 relatives should come here to-night and eat." During that day they 

 prepared some piRami for the feast that night. So in the evening he 

 cried out, saying: "You my uncles, come here and partake of this 

 food, and do not be slow about it." So in the evening they arrived 

 and partook of the food. The young bride set before them the pflcami 

 which she had prepared. The grandmother went into an inner room 

 and got from there a great deal of n6okwiwi (a dish consisting of 

 venison, shelled com, salt, and water), which the maiden had not 

 noticed before. This she also set before her guests, of whom a great 

 many had come in by this time. When they had eaten they said, 

 "Thanks, that our bride has prepared this feast and that we have 



