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and try to win her affections, but without success. At Ach^mali 

 (now a shrine a few hundred yards north of the village) lived a youth 

 by the name of Hiyonatitiwa, with his grandmother. They were very 

 poor. The young man always went around with a patched blanket, 

 and his grandmother also did so. One time he said to the latter: 

 "My grandmother!" "Ha!" she said. "I am going to go south to 

 that maiden there and see whether she will not marry me." " O my!" 

 the grandmother said, "you are so poor, she will certainly not want 

 you, and you are thinking of it. But at least go there and try it," 

 she said to him. 



So one time he came to the village. On the Snake and Flute and 

 other kivas and on some of the houses the young men were still sitting, 

 as it was twilight. As they saw the youth come they said: "Aha, 

 somebody is coming here." So he stood and waited. They went to 

 their supper and then returned, taking their previous places again. 

 But the young man, not wanting to wait any longer, boldly passed 

 between them to the house of the maiden. There was ari open window 

 in the upper story of the house, and to this the youth went up. The 

 young people who saw him smiled. The maiden was grinding com, 

 but occasionally stopped. The young people watched the proceed- 

 ings, and as they heard that the maiden occasionally stopped grinding, 

 they concluded and said that the young man must be welcome, and 

 she must be talking with him sometimes, because she stops grinding 

 corn occasionally. 



The young man talked to the maiden and asked her to marry him. 

 She said that if her father and mother were willing, she would marry 

 him. "Very well," he said, he would return the next evening, and 

 if they were willing he would fetch her. Hereupon he returned home. 

 The young men of the village were very unhappy. The youth said 

 to his grandmother that to-morrow he would fetch the maiden. She 

 refused to believe it. "Certainly I am going to fetch her," he said. 

 And so the day passed and evening came. When it was dark he again 

 proceeded to the house of the maiden. The young men of the village 

 were again sitting on the roofs of the kivas and houses watching him. 

 He went up to the house, and after a little while brought with him the 

 mana, taking her to his house. The young men said to him as they 

 passed along : " So you are fetching her. What do you want with her? 

 But, of course, you are going to dress her up in patched blankets." 



So he brought her to the house of his grandmother and went in. 

 She took charge of the maiden and the latter remained there. The 

 next three days she ground corn, and on the morning of the fourth 

 day the grandmother washed their heads, but there was nobody there 



