THE GIRL WHO MARRIED A STAR. 57 
not dig too deep. After she had been with her husband for a long time, 
she gave birth to a child, and it was a boy. 
When the child grew up and had become a good-sized boy, the 
woman went out to dig turnips, and she dug until she went too deep 
and her hoe went through. She then made the hole larger, looked 
down through, and there she saw the earth. The people were walking 
around and they looked like ants. She then covered up the hole and 
went home. A few days afterwards she told her son to tell his father to 
get many sinews for him. The man went hunting and from the backs 
of allthe animals that he killed he took the sinews. Every day the 
woman would tell the boy to tell his father to get more sinew, until at 
last there was quite a pile. The woman sat down by the pile of sinews 
and began to make lariat rope from it. She kept on making the sinew 
rope for many, many days, until she had a big pile of it. 
When she thought she had enough rope, she went and dug a big hole, 
then she took a long pole and laid it across the hole and tied the sinew 
rope upon the pole. Then she pulled up a little grass and covered the 
_ place and went home, for she did not want her husband to know what 
she was doing. Assoon as her husband went with the other Star-men 
for their night’s journey, she put the boy upon her back and tied 
another sinew string about the child and across her breast so that the 
child was tied fast to her back. Then she went to the hole and slipped 
down the rope. All night and the next day she slipped down the rope. 
On the fifth day, Star began to hunt for his wife. He went all over the 
country, and finally found the hole, and he looked down through the 
hole and there he saw the woman hanging, for the rope did not quite 
reach the earth. Star went and brought a round, smooth stone. He 
dropped the stone and it fell upon the woman’s head and killed her, so 
that she fell upon the ground. The boy worked his way out from the 
rope and stayed around his mother, nursing upon her breast until she 
had been dead for some time. 
A thunderstorm came and the boy ran for shelter. He came 
to a place that had a clean path, and he followed the path until he came 
to a tipi, and here was an old woman and her grandson, who was of 
the same age as the boy. They received him into their tipi, for the 
poor boy was glad to have a playmate. They stayed together and grew 
up together. One day the old woman told the boys not to go to a cer- 
tain place; that there lived an animal that killed people. Little Star- 
Boy said, ‘‘Let us go to that place where grandmother told us not to 
go.” They went. While they were going, a bear tumbled out of his 
den, bringing out much dust. The boys kept on going and the bear 
