PAEsoNs] FOLK TALES 371 



So Nashon'uchu did as before, sprinkling the poUen toward the north, 

 on their trail, and singing: 



e — re hi ki 



e — re hi ki 



Yellow Corn girl, Blue Corn girl 



mempiaweporiam 



they turn my mind to them. 



He flew out and dropped where the girls had dropped on Narpyenai'. 

 He stopped there and said, like the girls he might be going to die 

 there. He repeated his song. Then the girls and the old woman 

 \ntch heard it, and the old woman witch said to the girls, "Grand- 

 child, ee abu, Nashon'uchu is singing." They listened. They were 

 afraid. They asked the old woman what they should do. She said 

 to keep still and do their work. When Nashon'uchu threw himself 

 down, Hiuko'abeu'de caught him and brought him down gently to the 

 ground. The little bird asked him where he was going, and he said 

 he was trailing those girls. How long before had the girls passed 

 there? "Six days," the bird answered. They had passed in the 

 morning, and he came in the afternoon, but by their power they had 

 made it six days. When he got to the entrance of the cave he said, 

 "Akuwam!" The old woman answered, "Alaiwam, grandchild." 

 She asked him how it happened that he was around there. He was 

 supposed not to be there but to be working for his father and the 

 whole world. He said, "Aah ake', I am around here where nobody 

 comes. 1 am after my lack stick that Yellow Corn girl and Blue Corn 

 girl took from where 1 was working for all my sons in the world to 

 have a good hfe and a long life. But the girls got my kick stick, and 

 I am after it. I was traUing them for six days, and 1 find them here' 

 and what 1 want is just my kick stick." So the girls spoke, "Aaq aaq, 

 yes, we have got yoiu" lack stick, but we will give it back to you, as 

 we told you before, if you marry one of us." He said, "No; I can 

 not marry you." So the gii'ls said, "All right, thank you. We will 

 pay you now for taking the lack stick." He answered, "No; I want 

 no pay. 1 just want my kick stick." The girls said, "Yes; we are 

 going to pay you with our work." So Yellow Corn girl said, "I pay 

 you ^\ith my basket." Blue Corn girl said, "1 pay you with my belt." 

 And they gave him back the kick stick. They told him the day would 

 come when he would remember them. He said, "I am going back 

 again, good-by." So he went back again. When he got to the foot 

 of Miripato' he threw his pollen to the south and sang his song: 



e e hi ki 



e e hi ki 



Yellow Corn girl 



Blue Corn girl 



tanatemiwie 



I am going back. 



