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fleeted in it. " Come out," she at once called out, "I have found you. 

 You are in there." Spider Woman said: ''Well, you will have to go 

 out, she has found you." He was very dejected by this time because 

 there was only one chance for him left ; but he came out. 



For the fourth time the mana went to hide away. The youth 

 again lifted up a corner of the covering and looked after her and saw 

 that she was again running towards the watermelon patch. On one 

 side of the corn-field was a ditch and as it had rained shortly before, 

 there was some water in this ditch and a number of tadpoles were in 

 this water. The mana crossed the watermelon patch, went into the 

 ditch, entered the water and turned into a tadpole. The boy again 

 went in search of the mana, following her tracks through the corn- 

 field and through the watermelon patch down to the ditch, but failed 

 to find her. He returned and hunted throughout the field, and being 

 very tired, he returned to the water, stooped down and drank some. 

 He was very sad by this time, but he hunted once more. Finally he 

 again followed her tracks to the edge of the water, and knowing that 

 she must be there somewhere, he called out: "I cannot find you, just 

 come out," and immediately she emerged from the water and said: 

 " I was here when you were drinking water and I looked right at you." 

 He then remembered that a tadpole had looked up out of the water 

 when he was drinking, but he, of course, never thought that that could 

 be the maiden. 



So they returned again to the same place, and as they went back the 

 youth was very much discouraged. "Only one chance left for me," 

 he thought, "where shall I hide that she will not find me?" After 

 the mana had covered herself he again went away. Passing the 

 house of Spider Woman, the latter said to him: "Alas! (Okiwa!) 

 where are you going? You go there a little to the east to your 

 uncle, the Ahu (a species of worm that lives in rotten wood) ; he lives 

 in the takachki (a temporary shade or shelter) and maybe he will hide 

 you." So the youth went there and when he arrived there called out, 

 "My uncle, put me in there." So the Ahu pulled out a loose knot 

 from one of the corner poles, which was that of a pifion-tree. This 

 post was hollow, and into this the Ahu put the youth, closing up the 

 opening after he had entered. So the mana went and hunted for the 

 youth, following his tracks through the corn-field, and found that he 

 had been going up and down and back and forth, and finally she 

 tracked them to the aforesaid shelter. Arriving at this place she 

 hunted, but at first could not find him. She then put the tips of her 

 right hand fingers, one after another, into her mouth, wet them 

 slightly, then pressed the point of her forefinger into her right ear, and 



