1060 ZUNI K.\TCINAS [eth. ann. 47 



waiting here. Now you come to my house with me. I shall always 

 take you with me when I go down and not leave you alone the way 

 they do. So get on my back and let us go." He looked at her. She 

 had turned into a person and she was even prettier than the bat girls. 

 So he said, "All right. Take me there now." Then she put on her 

 butterfly dress again and he sat down. Then he got on her back and 

 away they went to the east to Butterfly house. She was carrying the 

 boy up-side-down with his head hanging down so that the bat girls 

 would not know which way they had gone. 



The butterfly girl had two brothers and her mother and father at 

 Butterfly house. She left the boy outside and went into the house to 

 ask her parents and her brothers if it were all right to bring the boy in. 

 They all said, "Yes; it is all right. I think you want to marry him 

 and it is all right to bring him in." So she went out and told the boy 

 to come in. Then they went in. It was noon when they came. Then 

 her mother set out a basket full of corn pollen and a basket of dried 

 deer meat. The butterflies ate the corn pollen and the boy ate the 

 dried meat. After they had eaten they said, "Now we shall go hunt- 

 ing and you must stay here and watch our son. The bat girls may 

 come after him. We know he has been married and they may come 

 after him. So you must stay with him and never leave him. We 

 are going hunting." So they told the girl, and then her parents went 

 out to hunt for corn pollen. They went away and the boy and the 

 butterfly girl stayed there. 



When the bat girls came home the boy was not there. They 

 looked aroimd and they were Aery angry. They looked everywhere. 

 They looked Where-the-cotton-hangs and where we have our dried 

 peaches, and up on Corn Mountain. All over the mountain they 

 looked. The boy stayed four days at Butterfly bouse with the butter- 

 fly' girl. When the four days were over their mother and father 

 thought, "Now this is the fourth day. Maybe they will come and 

 look for him to-day." They were afraid the girls would find him 

 because it was the fourth day. "We are afraid they will come to-day, 

 so you had better go down and see your grandmother and tell her to 

 help you any way she can." So her parents told the butterfly girl. 

 So she went down to tell Spider woman. She came in and said, 

 "Grandmother, will you please come up to my home. We need you," 

 she said. "Very weU, I shall be up there soon." So the girl turned 

 and went back home. Finally Spider woman came. She sat down. 

 "Wliat is it that you have wanted me for?" she asked. Then the 

 butterfly girl said, "I need help. So my mother and father told me 

 to go down and ask you if you coidd help me any way. We have 

 brought this my husband from Where-the-cotton-hangs. We have 

 taken him from the bat girls and I am afraid they may come to look 

 for him because this is the fourth dav. So that is whv I went down 



