MICHELSON. ] AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FOX WOMAN. 825 
you. No one will reproach you if you think of being divorced. I 
myself will not scold you. It is a rule that a married couple should 
alike treat each other well. As for me, I treat the one with whom I 
live G.e., wife) well and she treats me well. She always cooks for me 
when I am working. And if I were suddenly to treat her badly while 
she was still treating me well and while she was still living morally, 
were I to become jealous over something without reason, her relatives 
would not like it. For I surely would be doing wrong. If she cast 
me off none of her relatives would scold her. Every one, all over, 
would be glad of what happened to me. Certainly I should not find 
one (woman) who behaved as well. Surely I should always want 
back the one who behaved well. (But) I might have angered her. 
I alone should be thinking of her. Surely she would not think of me. 
She would hate me as much as possible,’ my uncle said tome. ‘‘ Well, 
my niece (sister’s daughter), now you are of sufficient age to listen 
attentively,’ he said to me. ‘You probably still think of what 
your mother told you. You may foolishly begin to be immoral. 
You should look at men quietly (i. e., without an immoral purpose). 
Whomever you think will treat you well is the one whom you should 
take for your husband.. If he happens to treat you well, you should 
live quietly with him. Do not again desire another (husband). For 
it also is not right for you women to have many husbands. A woman 
who does that is gossiped about a good deal. It is the same as if she 
goes from man to man. That, my niece, is what I want you to do. 
Because your mother is gone is why IJ tell you as I understand it. 
And if you are now divorced you should stay (single) for at least one 
or two years. You should just be working diligently. Then you 
might marry that one,” my uncle said to me. 
And so I became divorced. Of course (my former husband) was 
always trying to get me, but I could not be kind again to him. I 
hated him tremendously. 
And the wife of the (man) with whom I talked when I was still a 
virgin died. After I had been divorced for one year and he had 
become a widower free from death-customs,** he again began to 
(court) me. Of course others courted me but I did not talk to them. 
And soon I began talking with him, for we were already acquainted 
with each other while we were young. And soon he asked me why 
I became divorced. I told him exactly how it was that I became 
divorced. ‘ 
“Well! He was entirely wrong in what he thought of us. I ceased 
seeing you when you were married. Even if I had seen you I should 
not have been able to screw up my courage to say anything to you. 
You surely would have reported me. You acted that way when you 
