182 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [ August, 1905, 
tion of the marriage pole. : 
- 44, The Milk Woman on the Piough.—In sowing the cold- 
weather crops, the plough invariably has a mass of damp earth 
d 
s 
the soil. But why should it be called the “ milk woman ”—the 
0. A Possible Haplanation of the Preceding.—Since writing 
i notes I have been reading Hiawatha. In the 
i § 
‘Once when all the maize was planted, 
“ Hiawatha wise and thoughtful 
“Spake and said to Minnehaha, 
“To his wife the Laughin 
? 
‘Laid aside her garments who ys 
“ And with darkness clothed and guarded 
“ Unashamed and unaffri hted, 
“ Drew the sacred magic circle, 
“ Of her footprints round the cornfields.” 
— 
fed 
‘1 [See Frazer, The Golden Bough, 2nd ed., vol. II, chaps III,—Ede] 
