When he had said this he went off walking and began to sing. All the mountains stood too near together at that time, and Tirukala pushed the mountains apart from one another, made room between them. He put creeks everywhere, and big and little rivers. He made springs in different places and swamps. He put salmon and other fish into rivers and creeks, plenty of them everywhere. Tirukala had two persons to help him, Pakalai Jawichi and Hapawila. The three lived together, working and making the world better to live in. Tirukala never ate anything; never took food of any kind. He worked always, and sang while at work. Hapawila made salmon traps and caught many salmon. Just like Tirukala, he sang all the time. After a while two young girls heard this singing. They were the two daughters of Kedila. They went out to get wood one day and heard the singing. They filled their baskets and went home, put the wood down, then went out and listened to the singing. They thought it was very sweet and beautiful. "Let us go nearer to the singing," said the younger sister. They went a little way from the house, sat down, and listened. Again they stood up and went on. Two or three times they did this, going farther and farther. Soon they came in sight of a salmon trap and went up to it. "I see no one here," said each of the sisters. "Who can be singing?" They looked on all sides of the trap and saw no one. They looked up and down the river. There was no one in sight. They sat down near the trap, watched and listened. At last the younger girl saw who was singing. She saw Hapawila in the river, where he was singing. When he saw the girls sitting and listening, Hapawila came out to them. "Which way are you going?" asked he. "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.