The trade was broken off.
Still the younger brother felt disinclined to give up.

He went to the mouth of the passage and said aloud,-- "If you give us the feathers you shall have two green stones and one deerskin." "Is it true; do both of you promise it ?" asked the woman, after a while.
"Yes! yes!" cried both men together.
"Then put the things near the hearth and sit down," she commanded.
"We have them not with us." "Go and get them." "We cannot to-night." "Then I will keep my feathers until you bring what you have promised;" and with these words Shotaye crept smiling out of the passage and planted herself before the discomfited men.
"Go home, now, children," she said.

"I am tired.

I am sleepy." They attempted to beg, they pleaded and implored; but she was firm.

All they finally obtained was her promise to deliver the feathers on the next day, provided the price agreed upon was paid.