THE CODE OF HANDSOME LAKE 3 1 



SECTION 6 



" ' Now another message. 



" ' Go tell your people that the Great Ruler is sad because of 

 what people do. 



" ' The Creator has made it so that the married should live 

 together and that children should grow from them. 



" 'Now it often happens that it is only a little while when people 

 are married that the husband speaks evil of his wife because he 

 does not wish to care for her children. Now a man who does that 

 stirs up trouble with his wife and soon deserts her and his children. 

 Then he searches for another woman and when he has found her 

 he marries her. Then when he finds her with child he goes away 

 from her and leaves her alone. Again he looks for another woman 

 and when he has lived with her for a time and sees her growing 

 large, he deserts her, the third woman. 



" ' Now this is true. We, the messengers, saw him leave the two 

 women and the Creator himself saw him desert the third and pun- 

 ished him. Now a sure torment in the after life is for him who 

 leaves two women with child but the Creator alone knows what the 

 punishment is for the man who leaves the third.' " 



So they said and he said. Eniaiehuk. 



section 7 



" ' Now another message. 

 ' The Creator has ordered that man and wife should rear their 

 children well, love them and keep them in health. This is the 

 Creator's rule. We, the messengers, have seen both men and 

 women desert each other when children co:ne. The woman dis- 

 covers that the man, her husband, loves his child and she is very 

 jealous and spreads evil reports of him. She does this for an ex- 

 cuse before the world to leave him. Thus the messengers say that 

 the Creator desires men and women to cease such mischief.' ' 



So they said and he said. Eniaiehuk. 



section 8 



" ' Now another message. 

 ' Tell your people that the Creator has ordered regular mar- 

 riage customs. When the young people are old enough to marry, 

 tell them so. When they marry they will live pleasantly. Now it 

 may happen that the girl's mother discovers that she is very happy 



