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So that woman took her husband home, as the others began to cut up 
the kill. So they arrived at their dwelling. He and his wife ate berries. 
Presently the others arrived, bringing meat, as it seemed to him. 
“Now, daughter, go you two, and stay on the hilltop,” said the old 
man, thinking, “When the cooking is being done, and when we eat our 
meal, it will be painful for my son-in-law,” for they were going to eat that 
Great Serpent; that was why he said this of his son-in-law. 
For a long time, finally, that youth stayed there, with the Thunderers. 
Then thus spoke that old man: “Daughter, now go home. My son- 
in-law's brothers are very unhappy with grieving because they cannot see 
him. He is staying here too long. He told us who is our Master, that we 
are not to have mortal men for our companions here above,” said the old 
man. 
The youth was glad. 
“There, tomorrow we shall go home.” 
The Silly Maiden was very glad that she was to go take to husband 
that Matchihkiwis; she kept laughing a foolish laugh, and she thought, 
that Silly Maiden, “I wish tomorrow would hurry up!” for she was eager 
to have a husband. So then, when night came, when they had slept, in 
the morning, after they had eaten, they set out. Very fine was Silly 
Maiden’s coat, jingling with bells all over, for she had put on much finery. 
Those things into which they put their clothes and their moccasins, they 
carried in their hands, as they set out. In time they came to the place 
from which that youth had walked. He could not see the earth, when he 
looked down below. There they stood. 
“Now then, my husband,” she said to him, “come here!” 
When he came and stood close to her, she took him up, handling him 
as though he were but a small creature, and placed him under her arm, 
and then he heard the Thunderers’ repeated call. It was those young 
women, who now rose and took wing, and as Thunderers went speeding 
on with noise. Soon they arrived below. When close to the dwelling place 
of those young men they landed from their flight, those women again took 
human form. Then they walked on. That youth was very glad to think, 
“And now my brothers will have wives.” 
Then as they walked along, when they had almost come to their 
destination, that youth said, “Stay here a while; deck yourselves out; 
paint your faces. I shall go and tell my brothers,” he said to those women; 
“I shall come back and tell you,” he said to them. 
So then, when he had gone on, those women put on their ornaments. 
That Silly Maiden decked herself out splendidly. When the youth reached 
their dwelling, at first he thought there was no one there. When he entered, 
there were all his brothers lying on their beds. 
“Arise, brothers; I have come!” he said to them. 
When Matchihkiwis raised his head, there he saw his brother. 
“Get up, brothers; our brother has come!” he cried. 
They arose, and saw their youngest brother. They were very thank- 
ful. Because they had thought of their brother, “Likely he has gone to his 
destruction,” for that reason they took no care of themselves. 
“Come, brothers, wash your faces; when you have washed your faces, 
tidy yourselves; put on your good clothes; I am bringing women, the 
