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“It is that I have lost my way,” she told him; “that my companions 
have left me,” she told him. 
“Is that so! If you want me to take you home, I will take you home.” 
“Yes. But I shall not be able to find the way very well,” she said. 
For she did not understand him aright, and thought he was going to 
take her home to her dwelling; but no: it was to his people’s home that 
the youth meant to take her. 
So he took her home with him; they walked on and on. At last, at 
nightfall, when it was quite dark, she saw a large lodge. Only then did 
she realize that it was not to her people’s dwelling that she was going. So 
they reached the place. 
When he entered, the Sun’s father, who was an old man, said, “Dear 
me! Wait a bit, my son! Let me first burn incense,” he said. 
When he had lit the incense, “There, now let my daughter-indaw 
come in,” said he. 
She entered the lodge. There she saw that white-headed was the old 
man who sat there, and she saw many kinds of things placed at the far end 
of the lodge, garments, and pipes, stone pipes, and stewed berries in the 
bowl. 
Then, “Dear me!” said the old man; “It is no easy thing, my son, 
that you have brought me a daughter-in-law!” he said; “What can we give 
her to eat? Nothing but berries,” he said. 
Then she was given berries to eat. When she had eaten them, they 
went to bed. While she was asleep, as her husband stirred, already she 
heard the old man call, “My son, get up! Day is at hand! Do not forget 
that you take care of the day!” 
At this her husband arose. She too got up, and again the old man 
took some berry stew and gave it them to eat. He took some black cloth, 
and enough red flannel to make a woman’s leggings; and he tore off a 
length of cotton cloth. 
“There, my son, even these let my daughter-in-law sew into garments 
for herself,” he told him. 
Then, when they had done eating, the young man went out. Then the 
woman made a dress for herself, sewing all day. Just as the sun set, she 
finished her sewing, and there, her husband came into the lodge. Oh, she 
was glad when he came in. 
So she stayed there, and they ate only berries. And truly, her husband, 
leaving always in the morning, all day he would not arrive, but only at 
sunset would he come into the lodge. She did not know what manner of 
men were her husband and her father-in-law. She often felt very lonely, 
for she never saw anyone else. 
Then at one time, as she sat there at nightfall, “My son, do allow my 
daughter-in-law to walk about during the day. Surely she must feel 
lonely,” said the old man to his son. 
“Very well,” he answered. 
“After all, as for you and me, we were created and set down by Him 
who orders all things, that you might take care of the earth. When I 
found too hard the task of caring for it, ‘Let him, who is still young, do 
the work,’ I thought concerning you, ‘for our Father, the Great Manitou’,” 
said he to his son. 
“Well then, my wife, when I am not at home, you may walk about 
here. Here too, round about there are wild turnips,” said he. 
