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A poor woman pretends not to notice it when a young man who she 

 thinks may be a desirable suitor comes to see her daughter (158). 



After a man had married a girl in a foreign town, he might stay 

 there for some time, but finally he would take her back to his own 

 home (N 100). In this way a prince who has married two Wolf 

 wives returns with them to his native village. When he arrives, he 

 first leaves them behind the village; but, after announcing their 

 arrival, he brings them down (321). 



Married Life. — Incidents of the joint life of husband and wife are 

 numerous. We are told of ten hunters who go out accompanied by 

 their wives to visit the hunting-ground (141). There are also other 

 cases of women accompanying hunters who go out to stay on the 

 hunting-ground for a long time (152). When the man kills salmon 

 on the river, the woman carries them up and the man hangs them 

 up to dry (77). In the morning, when a noise is heard on the beach, 

 the wife sends her young husband to see whether any animals have 

 drifted ashore (N 1 5 1 ) . The woman makes fire for her husband (1.155); 

 she prepares the meals (78); she combs his hair (78) ; and when they 

 are resting, the husband lays his head in her lap and lets her louse 

 him (1.161). In case of danger, women and children are placed in 

 canoes and sent to places of safety (165, 1.165). The wife will 

 also reproach her husband for improper conduct. Thus a slave- 

 woman .reproached her husband for having done harm to their 

 master's son (59). 



The husband of a supernatural woman draws water for his wife 

 (213, 1.111). 



The love between husband and wife is often mentioned. A man 

 who has lost his wife searches for her (236), and, when he finds her 

 in the woods, embraces her (237). A supernatural woman who had 

 killed her husband in a fit of jealousy mourned him; and when he is 

 resuscitated by her father, the couple are reunited and continue to 

 live loving each other (1.115). The loving wife tries to protect her 

 husband against the attacks of her father (1.89, 1.103). When the 

 couple have to part because the husband longs for his home, and his 

 wife is unable to follow him, she embraces him (1.115). A man who 

 has insulted his wife in a fit of anger prays her to come home, saying, 

 "Come home, my dear wife! You know I love you better than any 

 one" (140) . The dying wife addresses her husband, saying, "My dear 

 husband, keep your love for me after I am dead. Don't go home too 

 soon! Watch over my grave!" (152). In memory of his wife the 

 widower makes a wooden figure representing her, which he sets up 

 in his house. He does not touch anything left by his wife (152). In 

 another tale we learn of a man who traveled away from home and 

 had married a supernatural woman. When he returns, his former 



