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him they again arose quickly and, leaving the old man, went over to 

 the place where the young man was and sat down on each side of him. 



The old man did not repeat his previous actions, but he sat silent 

 for a long time. At last the old man, addressing his nephew, said : 

 "Oh, my nephew ! now verily you will marry. I will make the 

 proper arrangements and will put in order the place where you are 

 accustomed to seat yourself, because it is so very filthy and dirty, 

 since you are foolish and do filthy things in the place where you are 

 accustomed to abide." But it was he himself who had swept all 

 manner of dirt and filth over the place and on the things belonging 

 to his yoimg nephew and so had disgustingly soiled them. The 

 uncle added : " For a while seat yourselves here in this place while 

 I clean and renovate the place and things belonging to my nephew." 



Then he proceeded to clean up the things and to make them fine 

 in appearance, for he carefully swept and dusted everything belong- 

 ing to his nephew. A bearskin and a deerskin and a beaver skin he 

 carefully spread over the couch of his nephew and caused the latter 

 to be covered entirely with furs and skins. 



The two maidens again took their seats beside him as his wives, 

 for he indeed married them. Then the uncle said to his nephew : 

 " Now you have married. Come, now, I do not know whether these 

 two women have brought with them that which confirms customarily 

 the marriage of people one to another, which usually is 20 loaves of 

 marriage bread, commonly called by the Seneca deganffhotisdia^go".'''' 

 One of the women, i-eplying, said : " So let it be as you have indicated." 

 Taking up the basket and going over to the place where he sat, she 

 said: "These are the things of which you are telling," and placed 

 the basket between his feet. He just kept his eyes on the proceedings 

 Avhile the woman returned to her seat. The uncle uncovered the 

 basket of marriage bread and took from it the 20 loaves of marriage 

 bread, saying with some warmth: " The matter has been fulfilled, for 

 she has given me the marriage bread, which has confirmed the matter. 

 It certainly has been fulfilled according to the custom of marrying." 



Now the head of Hat'hondas, his nephew, was literally covered 

 with sores and scabs, so the uncle said to him : " Oh, my nephew ! 

 come hither. Come I " The nephew went over to where his uncle 

 was sitting, whereupon the old man said: "I am going to attend to 

 you for the purpose of dressing you and cleaning you." Near at hand 

 hung the bladder of a bear, in which there was a quantity of sunflower 

 oil, or butter. Out of this receptacle he took a quantity of the sun- 

 flower oil, or butter, in the palm of his hand and anointed the head of 

 his nephew with it. He repeated this act until he had completely 

 saturated the hair with the sunflower oil. Further, he poured three 

 handfuls of the sunflower oil on his nephew's head. The two young 

 women, who merelv looked on. only marveled at what thev saw. All 



