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looking old man on her right side. She rubbed her eyes. Then she 

 recognized him as the wrinkled old man who always came into her 

 father's house and sold him nice arrows. Then she began to cry. 



Finally the. old man woke up. He saw her weeping, and asked 

 her, "Why are you so sad?" — "Oh," said the princess, "I was 

 thinking of my poor father, who would be missing me!" — "Don't 

 cry so!" said the old man, looking at her with his ugly face. "You 

 can go back there easily. It is not very far. But lie here a little 

 longer!" She was still crying, but he compelled her to lie down with 

 him. She obeyed because she was afraid of him, but her heart was 

 full of sorrow on account of her doings. 



Not many days had passed when he said to her, "Go with me to 

 that rock yonder! We will gather some nice feathers which I need 

 for my arrows, and then I will take you back to your father's house." 



On the following day he took down his little canoe. The princess 

 went aboard first with her hand basket, which he had taken along. 

 The old man paddled along toward the grassy rock; and when he 

 reached there, he said to her, "Go ashore on that grassy rock!" 

 The princess arose and jumped out of the canoe. Then the old 

 man pushed his canoe off from the grassy rock, and said, "Now, I 

 leave you on that bare rock, and you shall die there, you bad, common 

 woman!" The princess screamed and asked him to take pity on her. 

 She said, "My dear, don't leave me alone on this bare rock!" But 

 the old man said, "No, I know that you hate me." The princess 

 replied, "No, I love you very much, my dear husband! Come, take 

 me off from this bare rock! Take pity on me! You shall have 

 my body. I will let you have my father's slaves or his costly coppers. 

 I know you are a good shaman." 



The bad shaman, however, did not listen to the princess, but 

 laughed at her and mocked her. He asked her to do various shame- 

 ful things; and she did so, because she was afraid that he might leave 

 her. In vain she did everything her husband wanted her to do. 

 She cried very loud ; and before the bad shaman left the grassy rock, 

 he shouted to heaven. 



Then the princess ceased her crying in order to hear what the old 

 man said. He shouted four times. Then he paddled away quickly 

 from the bare rock 



The princess looked up, and she saw numerous birds coming down 

 from above. She ran to and fro on the bare rock, crying. She went 

 down to the beach, trying to find shelter. She found a small cave 

 near the water and hid in there. Then all the birds of beautiful 

 feather remained sitting on the rock a short time and flew up again 

 to heaven; and when the princess came out again from her hiding- 

 place in the cave, she saw the beautiful feathers of the heavenly 



