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want you to go yonder and to stand beside that tree there. You, 

 Panther, stand a little nearer to the cabin, and you. Fox, stand in 

 the doorway of the cabin." 



As the woman drew near Haicndoiinis sat smoking his pipe. She 

 came quite close to Gaasyendiet'ha, but as she walked with her head 

 down at first she did not see him; but when just in front of him she 

 noticed something, and, looking up, saw so fierce-looking a person 

 that instinctively she turned back and fied. As she ran along the 

 bread all fell out of her basket, so when she reached home there was 

 none left. Her mother, Yenogeauns, asked her, " What is the mat- 

 ter?" But she was entirely out of breath and could not answer. 

 Haieiidonnis was laughing, for he saw her run all the way home. 



After several days the mother said to her daughters, " We will 

 again make corn bread." Soon the girls had prepared and pounded 

 the corn into meal, which the mother made into bread. Then she 

 addressed her second daughter, Yonwithahon,^* saying: "Take this 

 basket and go to the lodge of Haiefidofinis and see if he will marry 

 you. Your sister was a gi-eat coward, and so she failed." Obeying 

 her mother, the girl started on her journey. 



Haiefidormis saw her coming and said: "Here comes another 

 woman. She will soon be scattering her corn bread, too." So he sta- 

 tioned the living pouches as he had before. The girl came along with 

 her head down until she reached Gaasyendietiia. and, seeing him, she 

 said, " I need not be afraid," and passed on. In like manner she 

 passed Panther, and came to the doorway; there before her .stood a 

 man rubbing something against the door which frightened her 

 greatly, and she screamed and fled homeward. On her way she like- 

 wise lost all the bread out of her basket. Seeing her flight, Haieii- 

 donnis laughed at her, too. 



Haieiidonnis hunted a good deal and was accustomed to clean 

 intestines of the game he had killed and fill them with blood and 

 pieces of fat and meat, and so cook them. He cooked many of these 

 and hung them over his couch. 



After a few days had elapsed the old woman said to her daughters, 

 "Let us make another trial." It would seem that the mother well 

 knew what had happened to her daughters who had made the journey 

 to the lodge of Haieiidoiinis. So they made corn bread of such kind 

 as was customary in proposals for marriage, and they filled a basket 

 with it. Then the wily old mother said to her youngest daughter, 

 Yenongiia : " You make th§ attempt this time. Do not notice any- 

 thing or feai- anything, but go directly to the lodge of Haiefidofinis." 

 The dutiful daughter replied with some inward misgivings: "It is 

 well. I will try," and, taking up the basket of bread, she started. 



Now, Haiefidofinis soon saw her coming, and he exclaimed : " Is it 

 not wonderful what small value these people place on bread? They 



