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They went home, and on the following day the young man sent 

 some one to her, saying that he wanted to marry her now. There- 

 fore the messenger went to her and told her what her cousin had 

 said; but the woman replied, "Tell him that I do not want to marry 

 a bad-looking person like him, ugly as he is;" and she gave him the 

 nickname Mountain With Two Rock Slides, as he had a scar down 

 each cheek. She laughed at him and scorned him, saying, "I do 

 not want to marry a man who cut his hair like a slave." 



The young man's messengers came back to him and told him what 

 she had said. Therefore the youth was very much ashamed. He 

 remembered that he also was a prince, and he cried because his 

 own cousin had mocked him. 



Now, he decided to leave his father's house and his uncle's house, 

 for lie was ashamed before his fellows of the scars which he had made 

 on Ids own cheeks by order of his beloved one. He went about, not 

 knowing which way to go. Day by day he went, and he came to a 

 narrow trad. He walked along it, and saw a small hut away off. 

 He went toward it. Before it was evening he reached there; and 

 when he was near, he walked up to it quietly. He stood outside and 

 looked through a small hole. Behold! a woman was sitting there by 

 the side of a fireplace. She said, "Come in, dear prince, if it is you 

 who was rejected by his own cousin!" So the young man went in, 

 and the woman made him sit down on the other side of the fire. 

 She gave him to eat. When he started from home, four young 

 men, his own friends, had accompanied him on his way; but three of 

 them had gone back home, and only one, his dearest friend, followed 

 him all along the way until they came to the little hut. 



After the old woman had given them to eat, she said to the young 

 man, "Soon you will arrive at the large house of Chief Pestilence, 

 which is just across the little brook yonder. Leave your companion 

 at this side of the brook, and you yourself go to the large house. 

 When you get there, push open the large door, then say this: 'I 

 come to be made beautiful in the house of Pestilence ! ' Shout this 

 as loud as you can. Then you will see that the house on both sides 

 is full of manned persons. They will call you to come to their sides; 

 but do not go there, because they will make you like one of them. 

 When they stop calling you, then Chief Pestdence wiU call you to 

 the rear of the house. Follow his calling. He will make you beauti- 

 ful." Thus said the old woman to him. On the following day, 

 after they had had their breakfast, they started. As soon as they 

 crossed the brook, the prince said to his companion, "Stay here, 

 and I will go on alone. Wait until I come back to you!" So the 

 companion staid there. 



Now he went on alone. Soon he saw a large house in the distance, 

 and went as quickly as he could. He pushed open the door, ran in, 



