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Then it is said he told his people: “Now, we are to move to a new 
location; we shall not remain here,” he told them. ‘Surely we must 
do this right now; to-morrow we shall move,” he said to them. 
The next day they moved. They traveled on slowly. They went 
quite aimlessly. Toward the west was the direction they went. 
Pretty soon, “Here,” they said among themselves. It was a nice 
spot. They camped on a flat between hills, it is said. Halfway up 
the hill was a running spring. The young men frequented that place 
all the time. 
Then, it is said, that chief spoke to his sister. ‘‘ Now, my younger 
sister, let me give you away to this friend of mine. You will live 
with him, for you are now grown up. He is the only fellow whom 
I desire to be my brother-in-law. That is why I say this to you, my 
younger sister,’ he said to his sister. 
For a long while she did not say a word. She was only breathing 
very heavily. Later on, ‘“ Well, I do not suppose he would admire 
anything like me. Of course if he admires me, I would be willing,” 
she said to her older brother. 
Then, it is said, ‘‘ Well, dress up in your finery,” he said to her. 
The maiden looked very beautiful when she was dressed up in finery. 
Then, it is said, that chief went over there where that fellow was. 
They cooked a fine meal. Then, according to the story, ‘‘ Now, my 
friend, let us go over to see if we could eat where she and I live,” he 
said to him. 
“All right,”’ he said. 
Then they started out. When they came near where the woman 
was sitting, he went over and sat down comfortably there. “Well, 
my friend, sit down here comfortably. You will marry my young 
sister,’ the man was told. When he looked up at her, she looked 
very beautiful as she was laughing there. Then he went and sat 
down on a different place. “Now, my friend, I shall explain to you,” 
he said to his friend, ‘now we are friends together. So, in the same 
way, I should have her as my sister; that is the way I ought to be 
related to her,” he said to him. “ Well, this is twice that you have 
made us happy. And also I heard her say, ‘he has made me happy.’ 
So that is why you are to marry her, my friend, you must marry her, 
for I want to have you for my brother-in law. So marry her, my 
friend. Go ahead and sit down in your place,” the man was told 
anyway. Hesat there for along time. Pretty soon from the smoke- 
hole, his mother spoke to him, and she could be heard all over, ‘‘ Well, 
this was what you said before: ‘After you are gone, then I shall live 
with a woman,’ you told me before. So what is the matter with you 
that you are unwilling here? For I am always looking at you from 
a little ways. So you should get married now,” she told him. ‘I 
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