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reply. Then the deputy chief warrior turned and returned to the 

 lord, and when he arrived, he said to the lord : ' He did not reply." 



The lord then asked : ' What did you see ? " Then the deputy 

 chief warrior answered and said, " I saw a string of elderberry 

 twigs hanging on a pole in front of him and he was looking at it." 

 Then the lord answered and said : " I now understand ; I shall 

 therefore make a similar string out of quills which will cause him 

 to come." The lord then made two strings of quills and put them 

 on a thong. 



The lord then said : " I have now completed the strings and you 

 shall both go after him and bring him here. You shall therefore 

 take these strings of quills with you to him and they shall become 

 words and that will induce him to come. They then went on their 

 errand and when they had arrived at the fire the chief warrior said : 

 " The lord has again sent us after you, and this string of quills are 

 his words which are to bring you to him." 



Then Hahyonhwatha answered and said : " This is what should 

 have been done." He then took the string of quills and said : 

 "After I get through smoking 1 I shall go to the lord." 



They then returned to the lord and when they had arrived they 

 said that the man had now answered and that when he had finished 

 smoking his pipe he would come. 



The lord then told them to tell the people so that they would 

 all assemble when the man should arrive. 



The chief warrior and the deputy chief warrior then went to 

 tell the people to assemble as soon as possible to the abode of the 

 lord. 



The people had therefore all assembled when Hahyonhwatha 

 arrived. The lord said to him : ' You have come amongst us and 

 doubtless you have some important matter to convey to us. The 

 people have already assembled and are prepared to listen to the 

 matter which you may have to communicate to us." 



Then Hahyonhwatha answered : " I have come here to deliver 

 to you the message of Good Tidings of Peace and Power so that 

 our children in the future may live in peace." 



Then the lord said : " We shall defer answering you until the 

 return of a certain man for whom we are waiting, but in the mean- 

 time we desire that you shall remain in our village with us." 



Then Hahyonhwatha answered and said : " This can be safely 



1 To have gone in haste without a semblance of deliberation would have 

 been considered insulting. 



