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So he looked at them and said, "You girls come down here. Why 

 did you throw dirt where I was drinJving?" They said, "No, we 

 didn't throw anything." Then they came down and played with 

 him, and they were pretty girls. After they had been there a little 

 while they said to him, "You have stayed a long time. Now let us 

 go to our house. You can eat with us and then you can go back 

 home after you have eaten." The boy said, "All right. I am hungry." 

 So they put on their bat dresses and turned into bats again. The 

 eldest sister said, "I shall carry him." Their house was high up. 

 The eldest sister said, "I shall carry you because it is high to our 

 house." He said, "I shall fall off." Then she said, "No. Hold on 

 tight and do not open your eyes. If you open your eyes you will 

 surely fall oft'." So he shut his eyes and got on her back. So they 

 went up, the eldest sister carrying the Kakima boy on her back and 

 the yoimger ones following them. They came to their house. They 

 had a great big room. They flew around the room four times and then 

 they went down. Then the boy opened his eyes. He was in a great 

 big room of rocks. It was really a big cave. They told him to sit 

 down and they went into the house and brought out dried meat. The 

 bat girls had already eaten, so they did not eat with him. Then when 

 he had finished he said, "I think I had better go home. It is getting 

 dark now and I think I had better go." The girls said, "No, you 

 had better stay. It is dark and you won't be able to find your way. 

 You had better stay here and our minds will be yours." They meant 

 that they would marry him. He said, "All right," and he was glad 

 because they were pretty girls. 



He stayed there for four days. For four daj's they did not go out 

 but just stayed there in the house with the boy. On thefifth day they 

 told him, "We must go out and look around. We will go down to 

 the spring and get some food for ourselves. We do not eat like you. 

 We must go and hunt our food." So they went and he went out. 

 He was on top of a high place and there was no way to get down. 

 Then he sat there looking over toward Kakima. He saw smoke 

 rising from the village and he thought, "Oh, dear! If only I could get 

 back to my mother!" 



As he was sitting there a butterfly girl came. She flew around four 

 times and looked at him. He was a handsome boy. Then she 

 thought, "This is where the bat girls live. I think I .shall go down 

 and ask him if they are home." Then she came down and sat down 

 beside him. "What are you doing here? How did you come up?" 

 she asked him. The boy said, "The bat girls brought me up here. I 

 have been here for four days now. They have gone off to look for 

 their food and they told me to come out and look around. I am 

 waiting here for them." Then the butterfly girl said, "I don't think 

 they will come back for a long time. They have forgotten you are 



