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uprooted the tree, my standing tree, the one bearing mature flowers. 

 Veril}^ indeed, I was aware that there shall my wife and I seat 

 ourselves at the place where the earth was broken through, even 

 where they had uprooted the tree. Verily, indeed, I was aware 

 that therein the feet of my wife hung.' That, then, I will tell thee, 

 do not thou falter at all when it thus comes to pass." At that time, 

 then, the maiden descended. 



Wlien she reentered the place where her brother was abiding she 

 said, "Now the time has come for me to depart. Thither shall I 

 go to the place where Hoda"he' has his feast." Then this young 

 man said, "To do thus is also all right. And that, I believe, will 

 come to pass, that thou shalt depart from the earth which is here 

 present. That then shall come to pass, that at whatever time thou 

 wUt remember me thou wilt customarily say 'De'hado°'hweiidjiyen'- 

 do^'s.'^ That then as to that shall came to pass. As to that, habitu- 

 ally all shall become aware of it when thou wilt remember me." 

 Then at that time they two separated. 



Then at that time the maiden departed. The time was not long 

 before she arrived there at the place where stood the lodge of 

 Hoda"he', who was giving a feast. Then, of course, she looked 

 about and she then saw that his standing tree was a mass of blossoms, 

 and then she saw there a large body of people assembled. Then at 

 that time she went into the lodge. At that time then she said, 

 "Now behold I have arrived." Then he, the owner of the lodge, 

 said, "From what place didst thou come?" Then this girl said, "It 

 is I, verily, who departed from that place where the tree of my 

 mother's brother stands." Then this owner of the lodge said, 

 "What manner of thing then urged along thy body that thou hast 

 arrived?" Then the girl said, "That merely was my purpose in 

 coming here was the feast which you are giving." Then the owner 

 of the lodge said, "What manner of thing then art tliou named?" 

 Then the girl replied, saying, "I am indeed the one whom people 

 call A\ve'"ha'i'." Then this owner of the lodge said, "I am thankful 

 that now tliou hast arrived. Now then that is accomplished for 

 which I gave the feast. Now then that has become a thing of the 

 past. And now manj'^ persons have paid a visit to the place where 

 stands my tree. And that then shall be, that now thou shalt take 

 all away with thee, for have I not now thrust through the ground all 

 the things that this place held, the things that take a place here? 

 And that then as to those things all shall now be changed (meta- 

 morphosed). Both shall become new again, those things on the 

 earth present here shall become new again, for is not this my stand- 

 ing tree now bearing a mass of dead flowers?" 



Then he assigned her a mat for a bed, and said, "This mat spread 

 here verily is thy mat for a bed. Now it has been a long time that 



See note on p. 609. 



