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Then verily he went indoors, then he hastened to do it, and said, 

 "Oh, grandmother, something is going on at the place where stands 

 my brother's bark shelter. Truly the wind brings an appetizing 

 odor from that du'ection." 



Then his grandmother said, "Do thou go there. Go seek out what 

 is going on there." At that time O'ha'a' started and went thither 

 to the place where was the bark shelter of De'hae'"hiyawa"kho'". 

 Then when he arrived there he was surprised that De'hae°'hiyawa"- 

 kho°' was preparing food for himself. 



He looked, and it would seem that streams of fatness and drippings 

 of oil also (came from the corn), and then he said, "What thing hast 

 thou prepared for food for thyself?" 



Then De'haS°'hiyawa"kho°' said, "Of that verily have I prepared 

 food on which human beings who shall dwell on this earth here 

 shall continue to live." Then O'ha'a' said, "Wouldst thou not 

 consent to spare me some?" Then De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' answered 

 and said, "It is still not time that it should thus come to pass. Soon, 

 however, of course, it will become plentiful, and only then verily there 

 will be time for anyone soever to eat it who shall have need." 



So then at that time O'ha'a' went out and there then out of doors 

 he stood and he looked all around repeatedly. He saw that all 

 those things which grow of themselves were a mass of flowers. He 

 saw a shrub of a beautiful color and then he said, "What kind of 

 thing is this growing here?" 



De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' spoke, saying, "That verily which you 

 saw is what I have planted now, and that will grow here on this 

 earth. Soon indeed it will bear what is called fruit. 



Then at that time O'ha'a' departed. \Mien he returned mto their 

 lodge he said, "Oh, grandmother, an astonishing thing is going on at 

 the place where I have been. He has prepared food for himself 

 which drips oil and from which streams fatness, and it has an ap- 

 petizing odor also. I begged of him to spare me some of that for 

 which I was aslcing. At that time De'hae'"hiyawa"kho'" answered, 

 saying, 'The time is still inopportune. Before long that thing may 

 come to pass in that way; verily, just as soon as it will become plenti- 

 ful.' That there was growing alongside of his lodge a plant which 

 was in full bloom which also was of a beautiful color and of a pleasant 

 odor. I asked him what kind of thing was this that grew there. 

 'That verily which you just saw I have planted it that it will grow 

 here on the earth, and in the next place soon it will now put forth 

 what is called fruit.'" Then his grandmother said, "Thou shalt be 

 on the watch. As soon as thou dost become aware that then again 

 he will be preparing food, then thou shalt then inform me and then 

 thou and I will go thither and I myself too will see what kind of thing 

 is taking place there." 



