MICHELSON. ] AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FOX WOMAN. Slik 
Then I was instructed, ‘‘ Well, when you are twenty,” then you 
may desire to take a husband. Whoever is the one whom you are 
going to take as your husband, he alone is the one with whom you 
are to talk when you begin to talk with (a man). Do not talk to 
many. It is not right for women to have many friends. Their 
husband(s) will not treat them well as they are jealous when they 
know what (their wives) have been doing. That indeed is why 
(women) are forbidden to have many friends.’”’ That is what I was 
told. 
Then soon when I was eighteen, in the spring at the time when 
(people) begin to pick strawberries, I accompanied a young woman 
when we were strawberrying.”! ‘We will see one,’ she would say 
tome. Then she would say to me, “I am just joshing you.” Asa 
matter of fact she and one young man had made arrangements to 
see each other over there. 
Soon he came over there. They were well acquainted with each 
other and treated each other kindly. She was helped by him when 
she was picking strawberries. She kept coming to me to get me to 
go with her some place... Soon he came with another young man. 
Then this young woman got me to talk to his fellow young man. “He 
will not do anything; you may talk together quietly,” that woman 
told me. As often as we went anywhere those men came. Finally 
I surely began to talk to that young man. And then we four went 
around (together) a great deal. It surely was enjoyable (to hear 
them) say funny things. Then it was that I always wished to see 
him right away when I went anywhere, that is after I had seen him. 
Of course many men tried to get me to talk with them. Soon it 
was known (what kind of a person I was). My, but they scolded 
me severely. Another young man had been selected for me to take 
as husband. (The other one) and I were already well acquainted. 
“You had better take a husband right away,” I was told, “‘ When 
you are twenty, you shall take a husband,’ I told you formerly when 
I was instructing you. And I forbade you to go around with immoral 
(girls). Surely you are already not doing right. I desired to see 
you well-married while I was still living. But now I do not expect 
you to be well-married to one (man). The father of the one with 
whom you talk is evil. He (your lover) might beat you. That is 
the way his father is. He is always beating his wife.” And when 
anything is taking place, he will not allow his wife to go there. More- 
over, that man is extremely lazy.?* That is why I think the son 
will be like that. He is always merely walking around. I have 
never known him to do any work. If you took him as your husband, 
you would probably then be taking care of him. He would cheat 
