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what is said on page 313 of the text, and to the information contained 
in T. And it is almost exactly what takes place to-day. Young men 
rarely but occasionally marry girls of bad reputations. 
27 The reader may wonder why it was that none of the woman’s 
male relatives interfered. I asked a male informant why. He 
volunteered the statement that when he was younger he had been 
told by his parents not to “butt in” if his brother-in-law beat his 
sister, for his sister would love his brother-in-law more than himself. 
“Leave them alone; they will come out all right.” He then cited an 
example of relatives interferig, and how useless it was; the relatives 
will not interfere next time. 
8 Tt is a fact that Fox women who have good reputations do 
exactly as the mother advised her daughter. 
* 1t is claimed that a baby really has knowledge from the beginning 
and some people understand them before they can talk, e. g., George 
Kapayou’s father. 
8° Full references to mortuary customs and observances are given 
later on. 
§t On divorce compare Forsyth, 1. c., p. 215; Busby, 1. c., pp. 35, 83. 
It is to be regretted that at the present time divorces are extremely 
prevalent among the Foxes; there is hardly a girl or boy 21 years old 
who has not been married at least twice. It may be noted that 
Forsyth’s statement that a man could force his wife to return, willy- 
nilly, to a certain extent still holds good. If a woman leaves her 
husband and right away starts to go with another man with a view 
to marriage, the former husband will beat her. Formerly adultery 
on the part of the woman was punished by cutting off her ears, nose, 
or even killing her. A husband might kill her lover if the latter was 
caught red-handed. See Forsyth, 1. c., pp. 214, 215; Jones, Fox 
Texts, pp. 142 et seq., 144 et seq. 
» T asked a male informant why the girl did not go to her father’s 
instead of her maternal uncle’s. He replied, “‘ When a girl marries, 
her father releases her entirely. So it’s of no use for her to go to him 
for advice afterwards. If it was his son. that would be different.” 
See my note on the relations between a girl and her maternal uncle, 
page 340 et seq. 
38 To-day divoreées are very apt to be immoral. Hence the man’s 
word of caution. 
%* Full notes on death customs are given on page 344. 
% The Shawnee dance is the same as the Snake dance (which has 
nothing in common with the Snake dance of the Hopi) which the 
Foxes acquired while in Kansas. Formerly it was pretty likely to 
be rough; and girls and their lovers would meet on such occasions. 
The husband’s confidence in his wife could not be shown to greater 
advantage than by permitting, or rather urging, his wife to be 
present. 
