Note 439 — SENECA FICTION, LEGENDS, AND MYTHS (continued 4)

In a short time the door flap separating the adjoining room was thrust aside and a man (hĕñʹgweʻ439), thrusting his head through the doorway, asked the men who had returned, “Have you now, indeed, completed the work? Have you made moist and mellow all things that grow on the earth beneath this one?” The men replied in unison, “We have indeed accomplished our task as we were charged to do.” Thereupon the person from the adjoining room said, “Now you must rest until there shall be another day; then you shall again recommence the performance of the duties with which you are severally charged.”