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Then the young man made his wife stay outside and he went in and 

 said to his father, "I have brought my wife back." "Well," said liis 

 father, "why don't you bring her in?" They laid down a nice mat 

 with fur robes on top of it at the place where they were to sit. Then 

 the young man went out to get his wife. When the door opened to 

 let them in, however, the people in the house saw him only. But 

 fmally, when he came close, they saw a deep shadow follo^^'ing him. 

 He told his wdfe to sit down, and, wdien she did so, they put a marten- 

 skin robe upon her, which hung about the shadow^ just as though it 

 were a person sitting there. When she ate they saw only her arms and 

 the spoon moving up and down but not the shadow of her hands. It 

 looked strange to the people. 



After that the j^oung couple always went about together. Wherever 

 the young man went the shadow could be seen following him. He 

 would not go into the bedroom at the rear of the house, but ordered 

 them to prepare a bed just where they were sitting. Then they did 

 so, for they were very glad to have him back. 



During the day the woman was very quiet, but all night long the two 

 could be heard playing. At that time the people coidd hear her voice 

 very plainly. The young man's father at first felt strange in his 

 son's presence, but after a while he would joke with his daughter-in- 

 law, saying, "You better get uj) now after liaving kept people awake 

 all night playing." Then they could hear the shadow laugh, and 

 recognized that it was the dead woman's voice. To what the chief 

 said the woman's brothers-in-law would add, "Yes, get her out, for 

 she has kept us awake." 



The nephew of the father of this girl had l)een in love with her before 

 she died, although she did not care for him, and he was jealous when 

 he found that her husband had brought her back. One night she was 

 telling her husband that she was going to show herself as she used to be 

 and not like a shadow and that she w^as going to remain so perma- 

 nently. Her father's nephew had covered himself up at the head of 

 the bed and heard everything. Her husband was very glad to hear 

 this, but, while they were })laying together afterward, the man who 

 was listening to them thovight that he woukl lift the curtain they had 

 around them. The moment that he did so, however, the people in 

 the house heard a rattling of bones. That instant the woman's 

 husband died, and the ghosts of both of them went back to Ghost 

 Land. 



88. THE SKY COUNTRY 



A certain man's wafe was taken away from liim, and he longed so 

 much for her that he thought he would follow her along the beach. 

 He was half crazy. When he went out and thought he was walking 

 along the beach, he was in reality in a wide trail wliich ran through 



