I22 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
The girl had some grains of corn in her belt, and also some squash seeds 
and beans. She took the brothers to the bottom land and made them 
clean a place, and there she planted some corn, beans, and squash. When 
they were planted the girl told the boys not to visit the field again 
until she told them to do so. Every morning the girl would go into the 
field and work. In the fall there was plenty of corn, squash,and beans 
in the field. The girl gathered corn and took it home and cooked it. 
The boys ate of the corn and they were satisfied. The girl then told 
the boys that she would have to cure some of the corn to keep for the 
winter. She took the boys into the corn-field and they gathered the 
corn while she made a big fire to cure it. After the corn was dried she 
gathered the squash and beans and told the boys that they must make 
a place for her to store away the corn, squash, and beans. 
The boys dug a hole in the ground and there they stored away the corn, 
squash,and beans. In the winter the little brothers told the girl that their 
brothers were coming. The youngest ran and told his brothers about 
the girl. When the older brothers came, they said: ‘‘We shall have 
to send this girl away. What shall we do with her?” The brothers 
wanted to send the girl away,for it was not the intention that a girl 
should be among them, but the other three brothers said that the girl 
had given them corn, squash, and beans to eat and they could not very 
well send her away. They asked that they also eat of the things that 
she had. The girl prepared some corn, squash, and beans and gave them 
to the older brothers to eat. When they had eaten of the things they 
were satisfied. Then they said: ‘‘We will now decide what we shall do 
with this girl.”” They sent the girl out of the lodge, and then they 
began to talk about her. All the brothers left it with the youngest 
brother to decide what should be done with the girl. The little boy stood 
up and said: ‘‘We saved this girl from being killed, and in return she 
has given us plenty to eat. The girl has a right to be with us. I de- 
cide that she be our sister and that she remain with us.”’ All the other 
boys said: ‘“‘It is well. She shall be our sister.’’ There were six of 
them and the girl made seven in the family. 
In the night the girl found out that the boys disappeared. In the 
morning they came back. After a while the youngest brother told the 
girl that he and his brothers traveled through the sky in the night. 
After the girl had lived with them for some time the brothers decided 
to take her with them on their nightly journey through the sky country. 
At night she may be seen as the seventh star of the Pleiades. 
