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friend's house, but at that time the Bees had no wings. They walked 

 like the hohoyawuu, so that she did not get there very quickly. 



The Asya was living in an opening in a rock, which the Bee entered. 

 The Asya gave her a seat and told her to be seated, and then fed her 

 peaches, which the Bee ate. "Do you like these peaches?" the Asya 

 asked. "Yes," she said, "I always eat them. I like them very 

 much; I live on them." "But," the Bee said, "what do you think, 

 shall I make some medicine for the peaches? They are not good," 

 because the peaches at that time were not sweet as they are now ; they 

 were sour. "Very well," the Asya replied, "make some medicine 

 then, and I shall have something that tastes well." Hereupon the 

 Bee put some honey on the peaches, and ever since the peaches are 

 sweet and taste better. The Asya was very happy and said to the 

 Bee, "I am glad, and I shall give you something too, because you have 

 made my peaches better." 



Hereupon she pulled out some of her feathers, made some wings, 

 and attached them to the Bee, saying to her, "Now fly." But the 

 Bee said, "I do not know how it is done." "You just extend your 

 front legs." The Bee did so and moved them, whereupon she could 

 fly, and flew away. Ever since that time the bees can fly. 



97. THE GRASSHOPPERS AND THE ORAIBI MAIDEN.' 



At our village the people were living. At the place where now 

 Shokhungioma and his wife,Sing6si, are living somebody lived and had 

 a daughter whose name was Awat Mcana. The father had a field 

 west of the village in the valley and often watched that field. He 

 became tired of watching the field alone, and so one time he said to 

 his daughter she should relieve him once; he would go down early 

 and then after breakfast she should come down and take his place. 

 So after breakfast she went down and took her father's place and the 

 latter returned to the village. She was sitting in the kisi (a temporary 

 booth or bower to give shade) ; all at once she heard some singing at 

 a distance in the hollow, but she did not go there. In the evening 

 she went home. The father thanked her that she had assisted him. 

 "Yes," she said," to-morrow I am going down again when it is very 

 early." The father asked her whether their com had already roasting 

 ears. She said yes, she had gone through the com and had found 

 that the roasting ears were beginning to come out already. 



Her father had seen what the girl had believed to be singing 

 children. They were Grasshoppers. So in the morning she went to 



1 Told by Qoydwaima (Oraibi). 



