MICHELSON. ] AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FOX WOMAN. 315 
Then he gave me his horse, and the clothing which he used at 
dances, his finery. And I gave that horse to my brothers. Soon my 
mother-in-law came to summon me. ‘‘Go over there,’ my mother 
said tome. I departed. When I arrived there, ‘‘ Right here,” I was 
told. “Sit down,’ I was told. Isat down comfortably. Well, they 
began to clothe me in finery. I was clad all over in finery. Then, 
“You may also take this kettle (home),”’ I was told. There were also 
some dry goods in it, and a bridle was in the kettle. I had a very 
large bundle on my back when I departed. I arrived where we lived 
clad in finery. My mother looked at (the bundle). When she saw 
the bridle (she said), “‘Now you have two horses. If you had taken 
the other (man) as your husband, you wouldn’t have been given 
anything.” Soon I likewise was told, “I say, you take this (to 
them).’’ Food was placed in a sack, mattings (were to go), and 
several belts of yarn were tied around them. Then we were through 
(with the wedding ceremonies). And then only the relatives of my 
husband gave me each something, usually dry goods. And I would 
take a sack or basket full of food, beans, pumpkins (to his people), 
and mattings and corn. 
Surely my husband for a long time treated me nicely. And my 
mother strongly forbade me to keep on talking with the other one. 
She watched me closely. But I couldn’t stop thinking of him, for 
he was the one I loved. I did not love my husband. That is why I 
always thought of the other one. When anything was going on, I 
went around with my mother as she was watching me so that I should 
not talk with the other one again. And she forbade me to go any 
place by myself. ‘Go with your husband when you go any place. 
They might say something about you. Some one might say of you, 
‘she goes around with another man.’ Those who desire to make 
trouble for married couples are smart,’’ I would be told. 
And when I had been living with him for half a year, soon I ceased 
having catamenial flows. Thereupon I was given instructions again, 
“Well, this is what has happened: probably you are to have a 
child? When anything is cooked and it is burned, it must not be 
eaten so that children’s afterbirths will not adhere. And nuts are 
not to be eaten, so that the babies will be able to break through the 
cau]. And in winter, one is not to warm their feet, so that the babies 
will not adhere (to the caul). And (women) are not to join their feet 
to those of their husbands, so that (the babies) will not be born feet- 
first. And the feet of no (animals) are to be eaten. And one must 
be careful not to touch crawfish. Also, if these are touched when one 
is enceinte, the babies will be born feet-first. It is said that (women) 
