THE WIFE WHO RETURNED FROM SPIRIT LAND. I31I 
upon the grave saw them and they ran. The girl was up in the air as if 
swinging with the boy and the men ran as hard as they could. Among 
the men was one good runner. The girl came down with the boy and as 
they struck the ground this man reached them. He jumped upon her 
and the girl flew up again. When they came down again another man 
was there and he also hung to her and the girl went up and ina short 
time she came back to the ground and the other two were there. All 
took hold of her. When they had hold of her the girl took a long breath 
andsaid: ‘‘Uncles, you have held me. I willstaywith you. I will not 
go away from you.”’ Then she told them to let her loose, but the uncles 
would not let her go. 
They went along, still holding her, towards their lodge. When they 
entered the lodge they saw her bed. The bed was covered with the robes 
which were placed in the grave. She told her uncles to go into the field 
and to bring her corn, beans, and squash, for she was going to eat, and 
- that she should always be with them. The uncles would not leave her, 
so she had to go down into the fields with them. They came back with 
the corn and other things. She sat down and her uncles boiled some of 
the corn, beans, and squash for her. When she had eaten, she said: 
“I have eaten with you; I shall now stay with this young man.’’ After 
that the girl told her uncles that they could stay four days and four 
nights with them, and that they must then return to their people. 
After four days had passed, the men went into the field and gathered 
some corn, beans, and squash to take to their people. These men then 
started back to where the people were coming with the buffalo meat. 
They traveled for several days, and one day while they were journeying 
they met the procession coming. As soon as they met the people one 
of the uncles shouted and said: ‘‘My niece lives in the village with the 
young man who disappeared from our village.’’ As soon as the people 
in the lead heard this they shouted back to others who were behind and 
so on until everyone knew. The girl in the lodge with the young man 
told all that the uncles had told the people, and she said: ‘‘They are 
nearing our village.”’ 
In a few days the people came to the village and instead of cleaning 
out their lodges and entering them the people went into the lodge 
where the girl and the boy were. The lodge was filled with people and 
when they saw her they knew that what the uncles had said was true. 
_ Then the people began to move into their lodges. 
One night the girl noticed her mother looking closely at her. The 
old woman got up and took her hoe and went out. She went up on the 
top of the hill where the grave was and she began to dig into the grave. 
