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while, he replied : " I recognize this place. It is here that my uncle 

 and myself engage in fishing." She replied merely : " So be it. Now 

 again I will search for vermin in your head, and again thou must 

 face the same place that thou didst the last time I cleaned thy head." 

 So she again searched for vermin in his head. It was not very long 

 before he again was fast asleep with his head on the lap of the young 

 woman. Thereupon she bound him up once more in her bag and 

 again placed the pack on her back, carrying it by means of the fore- 

 head strap. 



Wlien she arrived at the place wherein abode her sisters and 

 mother they were surprised that she returned carrying a pack on 

 her back. Throwing the pack on the ground in the lodge, she said 

 to her mother and sisters, " Verily, Doiidanegeu is contained in the 

 pack. Do you now take him out of it." Then her mother said to 

 her, " Oh, my daughter ! I am thankful that the matter has been 

 accomplished, because I depend on you." Then, addressing herself 

 to the sleeping young man, she said: "Oh, my son-in-law, awake 

 thou !" but it was a very long time before he awoke. He arose, and 

 going aside, took a seat there. He was greatly surprised by the 

 beauty of the inmates of the lodge and their mother, too. ^\'Tien 

 night came on Doiidanegeh shared the bed of the young woman who 

 had brought him back with her. 



In the meanwhile, the next day, the younger one of his wives 

 said to her elder sister : " These women who live far from hers have 

 taken our husband away from us; it is they who have conquered 

 him. Now, I will now go after him. You must remain with the 

 old man, his uncle." Thereupon the old man began to weep be- 

 cause he did not know where his nephew was. He lamented, saying 

 ''■ Hd'gi\ hd'gi^^ gV ; 10 j^ears will pass before I shall give him up, 

 M'^i'." 



Then the younger wife started, saying: "I will go to fetch him 

 back home." So she departed, leaving her elder sister to remain 

 with the uncle of Doiidanegeu. Finally she arrived at the tree in 

 which her husband was accustomed to hunt for raccoons. She could 

 see plainly the trail left by the woman who had accomplished his 

 seduction and then carried him away. Then she started on farther. 

 Again she sang the song in which she used the following words: 

 "Z/«'^oi<'/, h/chovi, hd'/wwi/ I am going to hunt for the person, 

 hS'ho'wi, hd^'howl, of Doiidanegeu wherever he may be, fufhowi, 

 hd^'howi, I am going to hunt for the person of Hat'hofi'diis (The 

 Obedient), c' ^"'Ac""'." Thus she traveled on. 



At last she reached the settlement in which lived the wicked four 

 women, the mother and her three daughters. -She was surprised to 

 see a short distance away the lodge she was seeking. She stood 

 there for a moment, listening very intently for any sounds that she 



