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dji-diV-kii' is the Tutelo name). (Ilie refrain of the song she sang 

 was the Tutelo words, Da'^herige'', dci^henge'', wcthoya' en gi lo yot.) 

 Another brother of the Corn Maiden (of the lodge of the old 

 woman) taking a stone ax and a bow and arrows, and asking his 

 grandmother to follow him, said: "Let us two go fetch home my 

 younger, sister." So saying, he started in pursuit of Do6de"nehya'ho"', 

 the so-called Stone Giant, and his grandmother followed him on 

 the perilous journey. His pursuit was vigorous and tireless, and he 

 was not long in overtaking Do6de°neiiya'ho"'. Coming up to him, 

 he shot him with a flint arrow, saying at the same time : " I have 

 come to bring back home my younger sister." Do6de"nenya'ho"'. 

 weeping with pain, said : " I confess my guilt. I did a great wrong 

 in stealing this maiden from her home." Then he surrendered her to 

 her brother, who, taking his sister by the hand, started with his 

 grandmother for their home. 



When they had arrived at their own lodge the young woman who 

 had been kidnaped by Do6de°nenya'ho"' said to her grandmother: 

 "You will now prepare some food (bread). You will take one 

 grain of corn from the cob and pound it into meal. This alone will 

 suffice, it is well known, to provide us (all human beings living) 

 with food enough to satisfy our appetites at this banquet held in 

 celebration of the return of the Maiden captured by Do6de"nenya'- 

 ho"', the Stone Giant." When the corn had been procured and pre- 

 pared, the Maiden again spoke, saying : " I am about to give a feast, 

 which shall be held in my honor, and in which you women shall 

 dance the Corn dances." 



The feast was held in accordance with her wishes, and the women 

 danced the Corn dances as she directed them, and all the people re- 

 joiced with her. W^hen the feast of thanksgiving was ended the 

 Maiden said : " Now, as for me, I am starting on my return to my 

 home. I shall go back to the place whence I came. It shall be an 

 established thing in the future forever that corn shall exist, and that 

 mankind shall never again die from starvation. I now go to my 

 home." 



Thereupon she started away, going back on the river on which 

 she had come; and as she went along she sang a song, the words 

 of which were " We, the varieties of corn, beans, and squashes, are 

 the mothers of the peoples of the whole world." These words she 

 sang to teach the people what to sing in their Corn dances. 



After she had returned to her home she received a proposal of 

 marriage from 0'stawe"'sefi'to''' (Sumac Tree?). She accepted his 

 suit and the two were married. When they were together the Corn 

 Maiden said to her husband, " You must love me (that is, regard me 



