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When he arrived, “Yohoho, Flute-Bearer has come!’’ was said of him. 
Then he was called to one lodge. Those people rejoiced in the thought, 
*'Now we shall eat!” 
In that place dwelt Wisahketchahk, having adopted the chief as his 
father and those women as his sisters. And so, at night, Wisahketchahk 
came there. When he entered the lodge, there sat the youth. 
“Flute-Bearer, it would seem that you have come to take my younger 
sisters to wife,” he said to him. 
“No!” the other answered him. 
“Oh, yes! Tomorrow you will come to take my sisters to wife. If 
you reach them, you shall have them to wife, my sisters who are poised 
aloft in the nest,” he told him. 
“Oh, very well,” the other answered him. 
So Wisahketchahk went home. 
“Why, father, it seems that Flute-Bearer has come to take wives,” 
he said to him. 
“Oh, yes!” said the other. 
The next day came. In the morning, when his people had eaten, 
Wisahketchahk went out of the lodge. 
“Now, now, ye men, come forth, come forth! Come look at Flute- 
Bearer, who is going to take wives!” he cried, as he went out. 
Then all the people came and sat in a circle round where that tree 
stood upright in the ground. When they had seated themselves, there 
came Flute-Bearer. When he looked at them, they were quite low with 
their nest, but as he came nearer, at once they began to rise. And when 
he was about to reach them in their nest, they would beat the tree; it 
would grow longer again. Then he used his arrows, climbing by their 
means. Whenever he had used them up, he would beat his quiver, and it 
would be full of arrows. 
Then, as he went climbing on and on, and Wisahketchahk was always 
looking up, the latter cried, “Watch for him, all of you, for Flute-Bearer 
to come tumbling!” 
At last, when four times the tree had lengthened, he no longer saw 
the earth. Then he took a wisp of fur and blew on it. 
“There to the nest let me be blown, there where those women are!” 
he said. 
Truly, he was blown to that place. 
“And so now you will marry us!” said the women to him. 
“Indeed, yes!” 
He took hold of the younger one and threw her down. 
Wisahketchahk was all the while on the alert, and there suddenly he 
saw her coming, and whooped, “Hoyoyoyoyo! Here comes Flute-Bearer, 
tumbling!” 
Right in front of Wisahketchahk, as he sat, she fell to the ground. 
Why, it was one of his sisters! 
“Fie!” cried Wisahketchahk. 
He threw down the other one as well. When Wisahketchahk saw her 
coming, again he whooped and cried, “Here comes Flute-Bearer, tumbling!” 
but when she hit the ground, in no seemly way, he saw his sister. He 
was ashamed. Then Flute-Bearer breathed upon the hair of fur. 
“Far yonder let me be blown to earth!” he said. 
