“We heard singing, and came out to listen. That is why we are here,” answered the elder.
“Let us go home,” said the younger.
“Take some of my salmon to your father,” said Hapawila; and he gave them two very nice salmon.
They took the salmon home to their father.
“Where did you get these salmon?” asked Kedila.
“A man who sings and has salmon-traps sent them to you.”
That evening Hapawila went to old Kedila’s house. The girls saw him coming and were frightened. They liked his singing, but they did not like his appearance. They ran away, found a great tree, climbed it, and thought to spend the night there. But Hapawila tracked them, came to the foot of the tree, looked up, and saw the two sisters near the top. He walked around, and looked at the tree.
“Let him come up,” said the elder sister, “let him talk a while: we may like him better if he talks to us.”
“No,” said the younger sister, “I don’t like him; I don’t want to talk with him.”
He tried to climb the tree, but could not. The trunk was smooth, and the tree had no branches except at the top. Now the elder sister fixed the tree so that he could climb to them; she wished for branches on the trunk—they were there at once, and Hapawila climbed up to Kedila’s two daughters.