SUN-RAY, WHO MISTREATED HIS WIFE. 195 
One day the man went off on a hunt. The woman left the lodge and 
went toacreek. She cried around the creek. The Beaver came up and 
asked what she was crying about. She told them that her husband was 
very mean to her, and did not give her much to eat; that she wanted to 
get away from him. The Beaver then told her to stop crying and they 
would take her into their lodge. The woman was taken into the lodge of 
the Beaver and kept there for some time. 
When her husband came to his lodge he found that the woman was 
gone. While he was hunting for her he happened to go down to the 
stream of water, and there he saw her footprints upon the sand. He 
took his rattle, moved it around the waters, and the woman, who was walk- 
ing around in the Beaver dam, immediately appeared in his rattle, and he 
pulled her out with his string. He took her to his home, and when he 
woke her up he told her that there was nothing to be gained by trying to 
_ get away from him, for he could find her, no difference where she might 
go. The woman cried day after day and the man threw hot coals at her 
and told her to stop crying. 
Again the man went out hunting and the woman determined to go off 
to another country. She went to a mortar, pulled it up, and turned her- 
selfintoa Mole. She set the mortar pounder in its place again, then began 
to dig. She dug until she had gone very far, then came out of the 
ground. She took a little grass and covered her feet with it. She went 
to a far-away village. She went into a tipiin the night and lay down. 
The next morning the people found her and they asked her where she 
had come from, and she told them that her husband had been very 
mean to her and did not give her anything to eat, and she was hiding from 
him. They felt very sorry for her and told her to stay with them. 
Her husband returned to his lodge, and not finding his wife, went all 
over the country hunting for her. At last he found her in the strange 
village. He saw her in a tipi and he went into the tipi and stood by her. 
The people did not know he was there, for he had come in as a Sun- 
Ray. Before she knew it she was put to sleep and placed in the rattle. 
When Sun-Ray had done this he turned into a man. Then the people 
said: ‘‘You belong up in the heavens. You came and took a woman from 
this earth for your wife. You mistreated her and you do not give her any- 
thing to eat. It was very wrong.’’ Sun-Ray was angry, and he took off 
his rattle and threw it down upon the ground and the woman woke up. 
_ He said to her: ‘‘Woman, you know that I find you wherever you go. 
These people are trying to take your part. I shall take you home and 
treat you as badly and even worse than I did before.’’ Then he pulled the 
string of his rattle and the woman came out. 
