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"Well, tell me what you are going to do. My father wanted me to 

 marry a boy, and so I did, and now he is killed." The bird said: 

 "He is not dead; he has gone off to another village and he has 

 married another pretty girl" She cried again and the bird said, 

 "I will take you where he is if you wish." 



When she got home, she made herself some moccasins and took 

 her sister-in-law with her. She told her father that she could 

 hardly forget her man, unless she was out in the woods. She went 

 where the bird was, and stayed over night, and in the morning 

 they, started. The bird said, "You must follow right by me, and I 

 will take you just where your man is." On the fourth day, the wo- 

 man's sister-in-law got tired, and the woman told her where they 

 were going, that they were going where her brother was, and that they 

 might see him and bring him home. They traveled ten days, and on 

 the eleventh day, the bird said, "At noon you will see the village. 

 At about noon you will camp on a hill, and you will see where your 

 husband is, where he married another chief's daughter." 



The bird started home, and the girls started down the hill, and 

 the sister-in-law said, "Where is he?" The woman answered, 

 "Well, he is here, married to some one in this camp." They went 

 through the village. The dogs barked at them,. The boy and his 

 new wife came out to see them. He told his new wife that this 

 was a woman that his folks had forced him to marry. 



His father-in-law went to meet them. His new wife cooked 

 them something to eat. After they had eaten, the old man asked 

 the woman about this man. The woman told them how it was 

 that she had married this man ; how he had started off scalp hunt- 

 ing; how the rest of the party returned home without him and re- 

 ported that he had been killed. "Well," said the father-in-law, 

 "I did not know he had a wife, for he never told us. If he had told 

 us I would not have permitted this. Well, I will call you my oldest 

 daughter, so you can be higher than my own daughter, and you can stay 

 here always and make yourself a home." 



They all stayed there about a year. The man went hunting. 

 When he came back he told his wife that he had found a lot of 

 black haws and grapes. So they started, and came to a creek. 

 The people told the man's new wife that the first wife was going 

 to do something; that her husband had done wrong by keeping her 

 mourning for a long time. 



Soon after this the first wife jumped into a big creek, and only 

 her head was visible. She called her little sister-in-law and told 



