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soon. He said he was still too young, but his parents urged him to 

 marry soon. 



Now we will see what happened to this young man who did not 

 want to marry. It was in the evening, when all the young people 

 went home from playing on the shore of the lake. The young man 

 went up along the trail behind his father's house. Before he readied 

 the lake he saw a beautiful girl coming down along the trail on which 

 he was walking. She looked at him and smiled, and the young man 

 looked at her and also smiled. He asked her, "Where do you come 

 from?" and they were both standing side by side. Then the girl 

 said, "I come from over yonder." The young man continued, 

 "Which way are you going?" She said, "I am just taking a little 

 walk farther down, young man." — "Shall I go with you?" — "Yes, 

 come on!" 



Thus they walked on the trail side by side, and they began to talk 

 together while they were going along. Then the young man said, 

 "I love you. Now I want to marry you." 1 The girl said, " If you 

 will promise me that you will not take any wife beside myself, then 

 you may marry me." The young man promised that he would not 

 marry another woman beside herself, and he married her. 2 Then she 

 said, "Come and go with me to my house!" So they went up the 

 lake. She said, "Any time you want me, shout four times, and I 

 will come to take you to my house, by day or by night; but let 

 nobody know what you have done, lest you die. Don't marry 

 another woman!" He promised her again that he would not do it. 

 The girl said again, "Don't tell any one!" Then they separated. 



This was the reason why the young man did not want to marry. 

 Sometimes when lying down in the night, his friend would say to him, 

 "You must do what your parents want you to;" but the prince 

 always said that he was still too young to marry. His friend noticed 

 that the prince would often come in just before daylight and lie down 

 again by his side, and that his body then was quite cold and a little 

 wet. 



The prince had done so many times, and more than two years had 

 passed this way. One night his friend made up his mind to watch the 

 prince. He pretended to be asleep; and when the prince thought that 

 his friend was asleep, he arose from his bed and went out secretly. 

 Then his friend arose also. He went out, and, behold! the prince 

 was going along the trail behind his father's house. His friend 

 followed him secretly, and also went along the trail. The prince 

 did not know that his friend was following him. As soon as the 

 prince came to the shore of the great lake, he shouted, and shouted 



1 Original: N a'oplEnt, ga'wun hasa/gaut n dEm sil-nalcEn. 



2 Original: Nin!I' gan-sEm-ga'dEt a'°skga su-p!a'sEm y!o'°ta a dEm wa-gik-ga'" ligi-hana'°x a 

 na-awa'<>t; wai la ga'odi wait as n!i'at a gwi'°t. 



