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we want all the meat we can get.’ ‘No, I do not want to part with my 
birds,’ replied she ; ‘but come in awhile and talk to me.’ The youth, 
perceiving her to be a very agreeable and pleasing young woman, nothing 
loth, acceded to her request, and entered the hut with her. She now 
pretended to make love to him, and he, falling into the snare, desired to 
spend the night at her house This was what she desired for her purpose, 
and bade him welcome. When they were about to retire for the night, 
and he had disrobed himself, a sudden commotion took place among the 
birds in the lean-to. ‘Oh!’ cried she, ‘I have forgotten to place my pets 
on their perch. Do go out and set them on the perch for me.’ He 
wanted her to leave them as they were, but she insisted that he should 
first set them on the perch before he lay down. Thinking it best to 
humour her, he went out, undressed as he was, and tried to set the birds on 
the perch ; but no sooner had he placed one on it than the other tumbled 
off again. When he had spent a little time thus to no purpose, he cried 
out to her that they kept falling off the perch, and that he must leave 
them as they were. But this she would not hear of; he must set them 
on the perch or he could not return to her. Being anxious not to vex 
her, this he again tried to do. But so contrary and perverse were the 
birds that they fell off as fast as he put them on. As he now began to 
feel cold in his undressed state, he begged again and again that she would 
allow him to leave them and return to her ; but each time she made his 
return conditional upon his permanently setting the birds on the perch, 
and laughed at him for his stupidity in not being able to do so simple a 
thing. But do what he would the birds slid off their perch as quickly as 
he placed them on it, and dawn began to appear before he at last succeeded 
in getting them to remain there. Glad that at length he might now 
return to her, he eagerly rushed into the house as the first beams of the 
sun shot across the sky. He found the young woman up and dressed, 
and when he would fain have spent a little while with her in amorous 
dalliance she coldly bade him hasten away before the village was astir, 
and he was seen leaving her house by the elders, thus bringing disgrace 
upon himself and her. This argument appealed to him so strongly that 
he forthwith caught up his clothes, and without stopping to put them on 
ran from the hut to the village, and got home before he had been seen by 
any one. In his haste he had left his basket of roots behind him, which 
was just what the Shaman’s daughter had planned for. But such an 
experience as the youth had gone through could not be kept long to him- 
self ; and before the day was over he had related it to several of his 
comrades, one of whom, fired by his account of her attractions and beauty, 
determined to pay the young woman a visit himself that same evening. 
‘You will not succeed,’ said the first youth, ‘any better than I did; she 
is not so easily won as you think.’ ‘Oh, won’t I?’ retorted the other ; ‘T 
will carry some string with me and tie the creatures to their perch.’ So 
when evening arrived he took some string in his clothes and a basket on 
his arm with some roots in it, and passed by the young wife’s house, as his 
comrade had done. She came to the door and asked what he had in the 
basket. ‘I am taking home some roots for the feast to-morrow,’ said he. 
‘Oh, sell them to me, won’t you ?’ requested she ; ‘I want some roots for 
my birds.’ ‘What birds have you got ?’ questioned he ; ‘we want all the 
animals we can get for the feast to-morrow. Won't you exchange them 
for my roots?’ ‘Iwill see,’said she. ‘Come in and show me your roots.’ 
He entered the house with her, when she speedily bewitched him with her 
