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So then, when thej' made the fire, Hell-Diver had almost finished 
preparing the carcass. When they had built the fire, they went to where 
he was. 
Then, “Now, wives, take the best parts of the meat to roast,” he 
told them. 
Accordingly, the women took the meat. When he had opened the 
belly, there the younger sister saw some fat. 
“Ooh, me, let me have the belly-fat, to eat with my meat!” she cried. 
“Hoho!” cried Hell-Diver, “And what am I then to have for my 
blanket-robe at the Spirit Dance?” he said. 
The elder sister cried, “And I, I shall take the kidney-fat to eat as a 
titbit with my meat!” 
“Oho, and what I am I to do for kidney-fat? he cried. 
His headgear, for want of better, w'as belly-fat. 
“Hoho, and what would I have for my head-dress at the Spirit Dance?” 
cried Hell-Diver. 
Then of those young women, the younger said, “Sister, certainly he 
is crazy!” 
“Nonsense! Because he is a chieftain is why he is called wherever 
there is to be a ceremony of any kind.” 
“Hee, this person is alone in looking up to him! As for me, I think he 
is crazy!” 
“Don’t. He will hear you,” she told her younger sister. 
By this time they had finished their cooking. 
Although they called to him, “Come eat!” it was just as if he had not 
heard. 
“Dear me, it is you I am calling, Wampum-Man!” 
“Hah! At last!” Hell-Diver answered her. 
“Come and eat now!” 
So he went to eat. 
“Now wives, eat in a hurry. I am delaying pretty badly with all 
this, seeing that I am being called over there for the dance.” 
And so they quickly finished their meal. When they had done eating, 
they put their meat on board the canoe, and went on. Presently, as 
it was going towards evening, every little ways he would say, “Just at 
that next point is the dance;” but they saw no one. 
“Well, well, well!” said Hell-Diver; “It surely does seem that they 
have taken a far-off place for the council. We might miss the whole 
thing!” he told them; “Only, of course, they will be sure to wait for me, 
seeing that if I am not there, they never have any sport,” he told them. 
When they had got near, someone came into view. 
“Over there is someone coming into view!” cried one. 
“Dear me, I suppose this is the place our husband meant! Now we 
shall be glad, when we see some people,” the woman said to her younger 
sister. 
They heard that person cry, “Yoho, Hell-Diver has come!” 
Then a great many women came into view. 
“Goodness me, Hell-Diver is bringing women in his canoe!” was said 
of him. 
“Yes, wives, it is that person over yonder they mean, when they say 
‘Hell-Diver,’ ” he told them. 
