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Grandson, if you will promise your grandmother to us, I will take this 
calf down.” The boy said, “I promise.” So the man took the foetus 
down. 
The boy came down from the tree and went home. The old 
woman, when she saw the boy coming back, said that she was glad to 
see him again, for she thought that he had been killed. She asked the 
boy where he had been, and what had kept him so long. He told her 
that the men thad tried to kill him by placing the foetus next to him. 
He also said that he had had to promise the men that they could have 
her if they would remove the foetus from the tree; that he had prom- 
ised and they had removed the foetus. The old woman said that it 
was well, but that she had one thing to ask of them, and that was, that 
they should give the boy something in return for his grandmother. So 
the boy went and visited these men in their lodge. He said to the men: 
“What is it that you are to give me in return for my grandmother? 
My grandmother has consented to marry you men.” The men said, 
“We are to give you a bow and arrows.” The boy went home and 
told his grandmother that they were to give him a bow and arrows. 
The old woman said: “That is good. That is what I wanted you to 
have. Go to the lodge of the wonderful men, and as you enter the 
lodge, rush around to the south side of the lodge, where there are five 
bows set up. The middle bow you shall take up, and say, ‘This I shall 
take in return for my grandmother.’” So the boy went into the lodge 
with the men. He ran to the south side of the lodge, and there the 
bows were, leaning up against the wall of the lodge. He picked up 
the middle bow and arrows. The men were all sorry that the boy had 
picked out the middle bow and arrows. The boy then told the men 
they could go to the home of his grandmother and be with her. Itaque 
hi ad anus domicilium venerunt ibique cum ea sicut cum uxore con- 
cubuerunt. 
After they had left the lodge the old woman called the boy, and 
said, “Take this flute and play around the lodge of these wonderful 
men.” Her grandson took the flute and went to the lodge of the won- 
derful men and there he played the flute, circling around the lodge. 
When the wonderful men heard the flute they were scared. They 
closed up their lodge with earth. The boy kept on whistling, for the 
was now taking revenge on them for trying to put the foetus next to 
him. The men lived on the meat they had in their lodge, but this soon 
gave out. These wonderful men died of hunger, and were never to 
be known again upon the earth. 
