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at once they saw the uncle remove a cap of scabs from the head of his 

 nephew. No more .scabs were left on his head, which now looked 

 clean and handsome. 



It happened that on the young man's forehead two feathers stuck 

 out, which were set side by side, one red and the other blue. These, 

 which were set side by side, were about so long | indicating with the 

 hand]. The old man said to his nephew: "This ornamentation is 

 very unbecoming'''; so he pulled first the one feather and then the 

 other. Then he said : " This is fine. Go over to that place, and there 

 you must stand, facing this way. I will look at you, for I do not 

 know how handsome you are." The young man went to the i^lace 

 indicated and faced his uncle. The latter eyed him carefully and 

 critically as he stood there under review. Suddenly the old man said : 

 " Come hither. Come back here again. I am not at all satisfied." 

 When the nephew had come up to him the uncle again poured sun- 

 flower oil into the palm of his hand, with which he carefully anointed 

 the face of his nephew. Then he said : " Again go to that place and 

 face me again." The nephew again went there and faced his uncle. 

 Once more the old man critically eyed his nephew, finally exclaim- 

 ing, " You are such a fine-looking young man that there is nowhere 

 living another young man as handsome. Now come to me. This is 

 what you shall be named: Doiidanegen you shall be called; and in 

 all the distant places where people dwell the sound has gone, saying 

 of you, ' He is the great hunter of all kinds of animals.' Your name 

 is one which is obeyed, and which is heard in distant places of the 

 land. Again take your seat in yonder place." So the nephew re- 

 sumed his seat. 



Then one of the two women, the elder, said : " I am exceedingly 

 thankful that our husband is so fine-looking a man." To this the 

 younger answered: "As to me, I will cherish him. I myself will love 

 him. I will do only whatever it may be that he sees fit to ask me to 

 do." When night came on they lay down to sleep, the young man 

 lying down between the two women, so that Hat'hondas had a wife on 

 each side. It now came to pass that the elder one could not fall 

 asleep. Hat'hondas. however, was fast asleep, and she most of the 

 time kept looking at him as he lay asleep. As to the other wife, she 

 was sound asleep, indeed. Daylight came, and the elder one had not 

 slept at all during the entire night. Then the two sisters set to work 

 preparing their morning meal. So, as soon as the food was cooked 

 they began to eat it : and they took up a share for the old man, who 

 sat on the opposite side of the fire. They themselves ate together on 

 their own side of the fire — Doiidanegeii and his wives. 



When all had finished eating the old man said : " Oh, my nephew ! 

 you must begin to travel over the earth. You must be A-ery circum- 

 spect and careful because there are traveling about many kinds of 



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