MICHELSON. ] AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FOX WOMAN. Ss 
you, for you already know how to do all the work that belongs to us 
women. You really must not take him for your husband. You 
must take the other one as your husband, the one with whom I 
think it proper for you to live. You must stop talking with the one 
you are trying to love. If, however, I learn that you talk again 
with him, you will cease to have control over any of our things. 
I shall not believe anything you say to me. Now I know in the 
past that you listened to what I told you. That is why I believed 
you when you said anything to me. And this. As many things as 
you have learned to make, I am very proud of (them). That is why 
I would forbid you to go around with immoral (girls). Surely as 
soon as you began to go around with them we found it out. You 
are no longer afraid of men. You formerly were afraid to go any- 
where because of them. But now you always desire to go some- 
where. You will be thought of as naught if you are immoral. The 
ones who are moral are those whom men want to live with (i. e., 
marry). And they will only make sport of the immoral ones. That 
is why they bother them, to have a good time with them, not to 
marry them. You might as well quickly take as your husband the 
one whom I permit you,” I was told. 
I was nineteen years old. Then I made up my mind to begin 
talking with the one I was permitted. I did not like him very well. 
I thought more of the other one. Always I would think, “‘ Would that 
I might talk (with him).” I really couldn’t stop talking with him. 
I worried about him. And I again went around with the one I was 
permitted, when I went anywhere. Later on I became acquainted 
with him. But I always thought more of the other one, the one they 
hated on my account. 
Soon the one I was permitted began to try to have me accompany 
him to his home. He always asked me to go with him whenever I 
saw him. Then I said to him, ‘I am very much afraid of your 
parents.” ‘‘ Well, I will go with you to your home,” he said to me, 
“we do not speak a different language, so it is not right for us to be 
afraid of each other. As for me, I am not afraid of your parents. 
For I have done nothing evil to you. As long as we have been talking 
together, I have been quiet with you. You know it too. I intend 
that we shall live quietly with each other. I always think, ‘Oh that 
she were willing.’ You are the only one with whom I wish to live. 
I shall treat you very nicely. Whatever you tell me, I shall do. 
And I shall always work. And I shall not hate your parents. I am 
not fooling you. What I say to you this day, I shall surely do,” he 
said tome. SoonI consented. At night we departed. When it was 
daylight, I was (rather) ashamed to go where we lived with him. 
The next day when he was seen, he surely was treated very nicely, for 
I had taken for a husband * the one they had wished me to. 
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