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to her, "Shall I marry you, my dear princess?" She said that she 

 would tell her father, and the prince promised to come back again 

 some other night. So he went. This prince came from heaven. 

 His name was Tsauda, and his slave's name was Halus. This prince 

 had a wonderful garment of shining light. 



The following night he sent down his slave to talk to the young 

 princess to ask her to marry him. So his slave Halus went down to 

 her. He went to her bedroom, going down through the smoke hole. 

 He stood by her side, and the young princess smiled when she saw 

 him coming back, as he had promised a few days before, and the 

 slave Halus staid with her. The princess told the slave thai her 

 father had consented to their marriage. The princess thought that 

 this slave was the prince with the garment of shining light who had 

 come to her a few days before, so she loved him very much ; and Halus 

 told her that he had a good slave, and that he wanted her father to 

 give him a wife. The young woman said, "I have a little sister, but 

 she is lame, and I want to take her along when you take me to your 

 father's house." 



While they were still talking, a shining light came through the 

 smoke hole, as before. Now the young woman was afraid, and 

 Prince Shining Light said to his slave Halus, "What have you been 

 doing here?" but Halus remained silent. Tsauda said, "Everything 

 that you do in the future will turn out badly, and you will be disap- 

 pointed with your wife!" and Tsauda said, "I shall marry your lame 

 sister, and she will have good fortune." 



Then he went away. Halus, however, loved his beautiful wife. 

 On the following day Tsauda came and put on his shining-light gar- 

 ment. He came to the chief's house, and the great chief was very 

 kind to him. Soon after the chief had given him to eat, Tsauda said, 

 "I wish your second daughter to be my wife." The great chief 

 replied, "My second daughter — she is lame!" but the prince urged 

 his suit, so at last the chief consented ; and Halus's wife was laughing 

 at Tsauda because his wife was lame. Tsauda, however, took no 

 notice of what she said. 



After many days had passed Tsauda said to his lame wife, "I shall 

 take you up to my father's house, and I shall wash you in my wash- 

 tub." So on the following morning very early they went. Tsauda 

 took his lame wife under his shining wing and flew upward. Now 

 they arrived at Tsauda's father's house, and the supernatural chief 

 was very glad to see his daughter-in-law. The supernatural chief 

 took her and washed her four times in his own bathtub, and the lame 

 girl shone almost as brightly as her husband Tsauda. And Tsauda's 

 father gave to his son a magic sling and four sling-stones like pebbles 

 out of a brook. Then Tsauda left his supernatural father's house; 

 and when he arrived at his father-in-law's house, the latter was very 



