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finished eating, the uncle said : " Oh, my nepliew ! go again to 

 listen. You must again seat yourself in the valley, and you must 

 listen with great attention." The nephew replied, " So let it be," and 

 started. Having arrived in the valley where he was accustomed to 

 sit, and there seating himself, he listened very attentively for strange 

 sounds. Suddenly he heard a woman begin to sing in the distance. 

 He imderstood clearly that it was a woman who was singing, and 

 then saying, " I believe this is what he wants me to hear," he started 

 on the run for the lodge very swiftly. Having arrived there, the 

 elder man said: "Are you returning after hearing something? Tell 

 what you have heard." The nephew replied : " Yes." The uncle said, 

 " Come, tell it ! " The nephew answei-ed : " So be it ; I will tell it " ; 

 but the uncle said, " Wait a moment until I fill my pipe, so that I 

 will be smoking while you are telling me your story." Having 

 lighted his pipe, he said : " Come, now, you must relate what you 

 have heard." The young man, Hotkwisdadegena, answered: "So let 

 it be as you say. The only thing that I heard was a woman singing, 

 and in her song she used these words, '//a'Aowe, at the home of Doa- 

 danegen, hn!'hoioe, I am going to seelc a young person, a male, 

 hdhoire.'' " Then tlie nephew ceased talking. It so came to pass that 

 this time the uncle did not use a bark paddle to dip up hot aslies and 

 burning coals to pour on the head of liis nephew. He did not scorch 

 him. " It is a fact, indeed, tlie woman comes naming me as the ob- 

 ject of her coming, and that is why she comes saying on the way, 

 ' Doiidanegen.' Verily, as you know, tluit is my name. So, now, do 

 you go thither again to listen again for strange sounds, for she is, 

 perhaps, now nearing this place." 



Then the nephew, Hotkwisdadegena, returned to the valley to listen 

 again. He found that the singing was approaching quite near to the 

 place where he was listening. Suddenly it stopped, and the voice of 

 a woman began to sing: " //a.'A(/v/'c, fia^hoire, hdhoive, at the home 

 of Doiidanegefi, ha'howe, I go to seek the person of a young man, 

 hdhowe, ha^howe.^^ The nephew sprang up, and turning homeward, 

 ran back there as swiftly as it was possible for him to run. Arriving 

 there he exclaimed : " Behold, the singing is, indeed, now close at 

 hand, just a short distance away." 



Thereupon the uncle arose and began to clean up the lodge, sweep- 

 ing all manner of dirt and filth over to the place where his nephew 

 was accustomed to stay. Then the uncle bade the young man sit 

 down in that place among the dirt and filth. The entire head of the 

 nephew was covered with scabs and sores. On the other hand, the 

 old uncle cleaned himself up as well as he could. He spread furs 

 and skins about his couch and seat in such wise as to appear to be 

 one wlio is " downfended." one who is a noble in the family. He 

 carefully washed his feather plumes, which had become smoked and 



