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again, while his friend was standing a little farther hack in the woods, 

 keeping very quiet. After the prince had shouted four times, behold ! 

 a beautiful girl came up from the water. She came ashore to where 

 the young prince was standing, and she took him and dived with 

 him to the bottom of the lake. 



After his friend had seen this, he went home and lay down again. 

 Just before daylight the prince came in secretly and lay down again. 



Night came on again. When the prince was fast asleep, and his 

 friend noticed that he was sleeping, he arose secretly and went up 

 to the lake, stood at the same place where the prince had been standing 

 the night before, and shouted as the prince had done. He shouted 

 four times. Then the beautiful girl came up from the water. She 

 went toward the young man who stood on the shore. She took him 

 and plunged down to the bottom of the lake. 1 Then he saw a good- 

 looking boy creeping around the house. So the man took the boy 

 and ran away with him; and at midnight, while the prince, was still 

 asleep, the friend came in with the boy. He threw him on the prince 

 who was sleeping, and said, "What makes vou so patient with your 

 child?" 



The prince awoke, and said, "You have done a great wrong. I am 

 sorry for what you have done." Then they all went to sleep again. 

 This child was the son of the prince and of the woman of the lake. 

 Then the child arose and plucked out the eyes of the man who had 

 taken him up. He went around the house and took out the eyes of 

 all the people, and strung them on a line of red-cedar bark. He 

 went all around the village and took out the eyes of all the people. 



The sister of the prince lived at the end of the village. She had 

 given birth to a child a few days before, and a slave-girl was staying 

 with her, taking care of the newborn child. 



Before daylight the child of the princess was crying on the lap of 

 the slave-woman. The princess said to her, "Look after the child!" 

 Still the slave took no notice of what her mistress had said. There- 

 fore the child's mother took the child from her. She looked at the 

 slave's face, and, behold ! her eye-sockets were empty. She saw the 

 child creeping on the ground at the door, with a long line in his 

 hand, on which the eyes of the people were strung. 



Now the father of the child which had taken the eyes of the people 

 woke up, and, behold! his friend who had taken the child up from the 

 lake had no eyes. The prince went to the place where his father, 

 the chief, was sleeping, and he saw that his father had no eyes. He 

 went around in his father's house, and all the people were dead, and 

 their eyes were gone. He went to another house, and there also the 

 people had lost their eyes. He went on from house to house, and 



' Original: Dat sila-nS'ktga°. 



