132 THE TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
When she had dug down she found the bones and all the things which 
were placed in the grave were still there, and she thought to herself, ‘‘ Well, 
this can not be my daughter, for here she lies and all the things are here 
with her bones.’’ When she went down and entered her lodge, the girl 
said: ‘‘Mother, I know what you have done. You do not believe that 
I am your daughter; but, mother, I am your daughter. My body lies up 
there, but I am here with you. I am not real, and if you people do not 
always treat me properly I will suddenly disappear.”” The woman knew 
that although her body lay in the grave, she was living with them as a 
spirit. 
The young man was happy with his wife and for many years they 
lived happily together. Once in a while the young man would go on the 
war-path and would bring back many ponies. The woman gave birth 
and the child was a boy. The woman was not allowed to cook or to 
make moccasins for her husband, so that her relatives had to do the 
cooking and the making of moccasins for the young man when he wanted 
to go on the war-path. His son grew to be large, but the relatives of the 
woman never allowed him to touch the earth. They packed him upon 
their backs every day, and only when night came was the child allowed 
to lie upon the bed with his mother. As soon as it was daylight some 
of the relatives were there to put the child upon their backs. When one 
became tired packing the child, then another woman was ready to take 
him. The mother had told her relatives that they must not allow the 
child to play with other children, for in running around he might fall 
down, and if he did, it would be a signal for his disappearance. 
One night the young man came into the lodge where his wife was, 
and he said: ‘‘My wife, I think it is time that I take another woman for 
a wife.”’ The woman said: ‘‘No; do you not know that I told you a 
long time ago that I took pity upon you because you were poor in spirit 
and came back from Spirit Land to be with you? My relatives helped 
me to come back to you, and you promised never to take another 
woman for a wife.’’ The man insisted upon taking another woman for 
a wife and he begged the woman so hard that she finally consented, 
although she had told her husband that if he should marry another 
woman, some day the new wife might get angry and call her a ghost-wife, 
and then she would know what was said about her. But she finally 
gave her consent for him to marry this other woman; so the man mar- 
ried another woman. ; 
For several years they lived happily. One day the man went to the 
human wife and she gave him a pair of moccasins. The man put on the 
moccasins, but somehow they did not fit him, and he took the moccasins 

