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Then the chief took out the bones and placed them on a wide board 

 and joined them together; and the young woman leaped over them 

 four times, and the young man was alive again. 



Next the chief asked for his own comb. They brought it to him, 

 anil the chief asked what color of hair he wanted. The man said, 

 "Dark-yellow hair." He also asked him how long he wanted it; 

 and the man said, ' ' Eight down to the knee. ' ' So the chief combed his 

 hair down to his knees; and this man was lighter color than the other. 

 Now they started for home. It was not many days before they 

 arrived at their home. The prince looked like a supernatural being, 

 and his friend too was handsomer than any of the other people. They 

 came and visited them; and all the people talked about these two 

 men who had just come back from the house of Chief Pestilence, who 

 had transformed them and given them great beauty. 



The young people coveted then- beauty, and they questioned them 

 one day to know how far the house of Chief Pestilence was from their 

 village. Then the prince's friend told them that it was not very far 

 away. 



Now, let us go back to the princess who years ago had refused to 

 marry her own cousin. She was very anxious to see her cousin who 

 had just come home from the house of Chief PestUence. People, were 

 talking about it, that he was more beautiful than any other person in 

 the village; and she heard the people say that he looked like a super- 

 natural being. Therefore the young woman tried hard to see him. 



One day the chief, the father of the princess, invited his nephew 

 to his house. The prince went with some of the chief's head men; 

 and as soon as the prince entered his uncle's house, the young 

 princess looked at him. Oh, how fine he looked! and more beautiful 

 than any of the people. Then she tried to make her rejected cousin 

 turn and look at her, but the young man took no notice of her courting. 

 His hair was like fire, and his face shone like the rays of the sun. 



Now, the young woman came down from her room, and walked to 

 and fro behind the guests, laughing and talking, trying to make the 

 beautiful prince look at her; but he took no notice of her. As soon 

 as the feasting was over, he arose and went home, and the young 

 princess felt full of sorrow. 



The following day she sent her maid to call the beautiful prince. 

 When the girl came to him and told him what her mistress had said to 

 the prince, he did not answer a word, and the maid went back to her 

 mistress and told her that the prince would not answer her a word. 

 She sent to him again; and when the girl came to him, she told him 

 that her mistress wanted him to come and see her. But he said to the 

 girl, "Go and tell her that she rejected me then, so I will not go to her 

 now. " Then the girl went and told her mistress what the prince had 



