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white owl shall fetch you." The boy went out, ac(;ompaiiied by his sis- 

 ter. Then the owl came and carried the girl to the top of a tree. The 

 people heard her crying, and tried to take her down; but they were 

 unable to climb the tree. After a while she ceased to cry, and married 

 the owl. They liad a son. When he grew up, slie told lier husband 

 that slie desired to send her son home. Then the owl made a song for 

 him. His motlier told him to carve a headdress in the shape o*f an 

 owl for use in his dance, and to sing the song which his father had 

 made for him. She bade him farewell, telling him that her husband— the 

 owl— was about to carry her to a far-off country. The owl carried both 

 of them to the old chief's house. When the wife of the latter saw the 

 unknown boy, she was afraid ; but her daughter reassured her, and told 

 her that the boy was her grandson. Then the old woman took him into 

 her house, while the owl and the boy's mother disappeared. When the 

 boy was grown up, his mother's brother gave a festival, and before pres 

 ents were distributed among the guests the boy danced, wearing the 

 owl headdress and singing the following song which his father had com- 

 posed for him : 



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