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him; “Go there. Perhaps my father will give you three of his children, 
two women and one man, if my father wishes to give them to you,’' he told 
him. 
Accordingly, he left the tent. Eagerly he went to the place that had 
been indicated to him. And as on his way he came over the crest of a hill, 
there really he saw a tipi that stood with its doorway toward noon. As 
soon as he saw it, he was seen by the creature which held together the tips 
of the tent-poles, an eagle. At once the eagle gave its cry. He reached 
the tipi. 
“Ho, come in!” he was told. 
He entered. Whom did he see but an old man and an old woman, 
and no one else he saw but them, sitting alone on a thing like this blanket, 
like this on which I am sitting now; and, “Come in!” he was told. 
When he had come in, “Now, old woman, give him food! Let him 
eat!” was said about him. 
In due time he was given food. When he had eaten, suddenly there 
came some people with loud noise, two women, talking both at once. When 
they had come in, he saw that they were young girls. When they had 
taken their seats, some more people came in, four men. 
Then the other said to him, “Now then, young man, how is it you 
have come tramping all the way here?” asked the old man; “Have you 
come to be with my children here?” 
“Yes,” he answered him. 
“But what is the aim of your wandering about?” 
“Oh, because those children of yours told me, ‘You had better go 
there.’ The fact is, we are in a difficult position with our elder sister, 
because we are alone with her, so that my sister never speaks; that is, 
I and my one younger brother, a young man, we are alone with her now. 
‘Perhaps you will find a brother-in-law in one of them there; my father 
will urge his children,’ said your son, and that is why I have come to you.” 
“Well now, young man, these women children of mine have not yet 
learned to sew, so that they could take a man; in fact, they are even 
now engaged in learning to sew. Well, so I cannot give them to you,” 
he told him; “Now then, as for you, my children, let one of you go there,” 
he said to those four men. 
Each and every one, “Nonsense! I too am a long ways from wanting 
to marry just now!” all those men said to him. 
“Dear me, young man! You see that my children will not hear of it. 
You had best turn back from here and go home. If you will not do that, 
at least do not go in this direction here,” he told him. 
So he left the tipi. He went in the direction against which he had 
been warned. As he tramped along and came over the crest of a hill, there 
he saw a little lodge of smoked leather. He went there. As he stood in 
the doorway, he looked up at the tips of the lodge-poles: he saw a little 
smoke coming forth. Just as he was about to enter, as he peeked in, 
whom did he see, but a very old woman? ********** 
“But do come in, grandchild!” she said to him. 
“Well, at any rate she is an old woman. ******** 
he thought. He went in. The old woman turned to face him. 
“What are you going about for?” she asked him. 
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