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the chief, "This man had a wife. His first wife is Hving yet. I 

 don't want to hurt his wife's feelings." 



After that his son-in-law said, "My father told me to start right 

 out after him to-day in my canoe." He was in a hurry to depart 

 because he was afraid that all of his good clothmg would leave him. 

 He said to his wife, "Take only your blanket to use on the passage, 

 because I have plenty of furs of every description at home." So 

 she took nothing but her marten-skin robe and a fox robe. 



As she lay in the canoe, however, with her head resting on his lap 

 she kept feeling drops of water fall upon her face, and she said many 

 times, "What is that dripping on my face?" Then he would say, 

 "It must be the water splashing from my paddle," but it was really 

 the drippings that fall from an old man's eyes when he is very filthy. 

 Her husband had already become an old man again and had lost 

 his fine clothing, but she coukl not see it because her face was turned 

 tlie other way. Wlien the woman thought that they were nearly 

 at their destination she raised herself to look out, glanced at her 

 husband's face, and saw that he was an altogether different man. 

 She cried very hard. 



After they had arrived at his town the old man went from house 

 to house asking the ]>eople to take pity on him and let him bring 

 his wife to one of them, because he knew that his own house was 

 not lit for her. These, liowever, were some of the people that had 

 wanted to marry this woman, so they said, "Why don't you take 

 her to 3"our own line house? You wanted her." Meanwhile she sat 

 on the beach by the canoe, weeping. Finally the shabb}' sister of 

 this old man, who was still older than he, came down to her and 

 said, "See here, you are a high -caste girl. Everybody says this 

 man is your husband, and you know he is your husband, so you 

 better come up to tlie house with me." Then she saw the place 

 where he lived, and observed that his bed was worse than that of 

 one of her father's slaves. The other people also paid no attention 

 to her, althougli they knew who she was, because she had married 

 this man. They would eat after everybody else was through, and, 

 while he was eating, tlie people of the town would make fun of liim 

 by shouting out, "DAmna'dji's father-m-law and his brothers-in-law 

 are coming to his grand house to see him." Then he would run out 

 to see whether it were so and find that they were making fun of him. 

 Every morning, while he was breakfasting with his wife, the people 

 fooled him in this way. 



Although he had not said so, the father-in-law and the brothers- 

 in-law of DAnuia'dji thought that he was a very high-caste person 

 because he was dressed so finely. So they got together all their 

 expensive furs to visit him, and they had one canoe load of slaves, 

 which they intended to give him, all dressed with green feathers 



