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, and immediately looked up again. "I am not going off," said the girl. 

 "Do not be afraid that I will try to run away from you. I am in your 

 power, your captive." So he submerged his head again. The girl had 

 come close to the bank and now slipped into the water, and hid under 

 the long overhanging grass of the bank, which concealed her head. 

 The dwarf emerged, looked, did not see her, carne out of the river, 

 looked for her, but could not find her. He went about all day and 

 night, crying. He said: "Non copulabo, perdidi." In the morning the 

 people came, calling the girl by name. "Here I am," she said, and came 

 out, and told them what had happened.' — K. 



68. — The Dwarf who caught a Woman.' 



There was a camp-circle. At night a dwarf (ha^tceciitehi) came 

 secretly, l,ike young men Who go close to the tent of a girl. He stood 

 behind a dead tree. A girl came out of a tent. He went to her, closed 

 her mouth, and carried her off. She tried to cry, but he said to her : 

 "Do not cry; I am taking you to where you will have abundance of 

 food ; do not be frightened, you will never be hungry." As he continued 

 to carry her away, she, however, still cried. Finally they reached the 

 place where the dwarfs lived, and she remained with him as his wiie, 

 while he constantly provided meat for her. Then a boy was born to her 

 and grew up to be old enough to talk. Once when the boy cried, the 

 woman asked him: "What is the matter?" The little boy said': 'T 

 want to see my grandparents." Then his father came home, bringing 

 meat, but the child would not stop crying. The dwarf asked what was 

 the matter, and the woman told him : "He wants to see his grand- 

 parents." Then the dwarf consented to visit the people from whom 

 he had taken the girl, in order to satisfy his little son. When they came 

 near the camp, he told his wife: "Stand behind the same tree where 

 I stood, and remain there until you are recognized by some one of 

 your family." They reached the camp at night, the woman carrying 

 her child on her back. Then she stood behind the slanting dead tree. 

 Her sister came out from the tent and saw her shadow in the bright 

 moonlight. Looking at her, she knew her face, and ran back into the 

 tent, saying: "Mother, some one is standinjj behind that tree who 

 looks like my sister." Her mother answered : 'You are foolish. Your 

 sister went away mysteriously; no one knows anything of her." The 

 girl went out and saw her sister still standing there. She \vent in again 



* In the original she repeats the story in full. 

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