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said to him: " No; you smell of liiimau being-s.'" They hunted about 

 him. They did not find him. They went home from him. 



Then he took him out and gave him directions. " Supernatural- 

 being -al way s-in-the-cradle took your wife. His three-headed house 

 pole ^" is always on the watch. Hide yourself from it. Did you bring 

 tallow?" And he said to him " Yes."" "Two persons covered with 

 sores will come to get wood. Make their skins well. Rub the tallow 

 on them." 



He went back of the houses. After he had sat there for a while 

 they came to him. They called out to him. " Do not tickle us by 

 looking" at us," said they to him, and they told him to come out to 

 them. Then he went to them. And he rubbed the tallow upon them 

 and healed their sca])s. 



Then they said to him: '" To-day they are g'oing to put fins upon 

 your wife, That is why we came after firewood. When it is evening, 

 and we go after water we will cause the string's of our buckets to 

 break. We will let the water run into the fire. Go and get your 

 wife quickly in the midst of the steam. So they spoke to him. 



As soon as evening came the}' came after water with two large 

 buckets. He met them there, and they said to him: " Prepare your- 

 self." And, when they went in, he looked thi'ough the doorway and 

 saw that his wife had tears on her cheeks. They had Supernatural- 

 being-always-in-a-cradle, the one who married her, hung up as if in a 

 cradle. 



W^hen they got in near the fire, and on each side of it, with the 

 water the bucket strings were broken. While the house was filled 

 with steam, he went in quickly and got his wife. Then he put her 

 under his arm and ran away with her. The house pole heads shouted: 

 " He-who-got-supernatural-power-from-his-little-finger has taken his 

 wife back." 



At once they pursued him. They ran after him in a great crowd. 

 Supernatural-being-always-in-the-cradle ran after them crying. He 

 came with his wife to the old man. Then he again put them into his 

 mouth. When the crowd came to him the}' asked him: "Old man, 

 did not He-who-got-supernatural-power-from-his-little-finger pass by 

 upon this trail? He has taken his wife back." Then he said: "1 

 felt nothing." And they hunted about a little farther. When they 

 found nothing they asked him again: " Did not yon feel anything upon 

 it? " " No," he said. Then they said to him: "You smell of a human 

 being." And they pushed him down. They felt all over him. Then 

 he said: "You make me tired by your handling. You ])etter stop 

 searching me." Then they went home from him. 



And afterward he took them out. And he said: ''Go along care- 

 fully with your wife upon this trail." Then they went along the 

 trail. After they had gone along for a while they came to the place 



