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“Hell-Diver, come, land!” 
He kept right on paddling. 
Presently those wives heard, “You are embarrassing Hell-Diver by 
the way you address him! Call him ‘Wampum-Man!' ” 
“Wampum-Man is bringing women in his canoe! — Come to shore!” 
“Ha, it is to me they are talking, wives!” he told them, and went to 
the bank. 
“You deprived yourself of much pleasure, coming late. The dancing 
has gone on without you,” their husband was told. 
Presentl}’’ there came two young women, Hell-Diver's sisters, and, 
“Hey!” they said; “Sisters-in-law have been brought to us!” 
When they looked there, why, they were sharp-nosed little things, 
****** So then they were aided in the task of carrying their 
meat up the high bank of the stream. 
“They are putting up the tipis by the dancing-place,” the people 
said; so those young women, too, Hell-Diver's wives, set up their tent. 
When their tent was set up, and they were eating, already he was sum- 
moned. 
“Hell-Diver, you are being called,” he was told. 
It was just as if he had not heard. Soon the one who had come to 
call him went back. At last they grew impatient waiting for him. 
“Hoho, what did you say to Hell-Diver, that he is so long about 
coming?” 
“ ‘You are summoned to come at once,’ I said to him.” 
“Aha, no doubt you embarrassed him with your speech! ‘Wampum- 
Man, your fellow-Wampum-Man summons you,’ go say to him.” 
“Very well.” 
“Wampum-Man !” 
“What is it?” 
“ ‘He is to come right away,' your fellow-Wampum-Man says to you.” 
“Very well,” said Hell-Diver. 
“Now then, wives, bring a big dish. You see, I am always given a 
big share of the best hot food.” 
Then he put on his finery. 
“Here, Ain4e, bring the belly-fat!” 
She gave it to him. This then he wrapped round himself as a robe. 
And a piece of fatty meat he used for a belt. 
“Bring that fat!” 
She handed it to him, and this he twisted round him at both sides. 
Then he put on his head-dress; belly-fat he wore as his head-dress. 
So then, as he was about to go out of the lodge, “Now, my wives, be 
sure not to come and look on. Have no fear, I shall bring you some of 
the ceremonial food to eat,” he told his wives; “Be sure, however, not to 
come and look on. I shall know it without fail, if you come there,” he 
told them. 
So off he went. Those women were disappointed, for they were eager 
to look on. 
Then the younger one said: “Sister, cannot it be that that person 
who has just gone is held in contempt? It surely seems that he is crazy!” 
“Nonsense!” said the elder sister; “In that case, could it be that he 
is so greatly in demand at whatever ceremony his people are having? No 
doubt that man is a chief!” said the elder sister. 
