302 THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
man was gone, the young man put the paint upon his body, put the little 
root into his mouth, and then he went out and blew the flute around the 
village. The women came out, and he saw that they were not the ones 
that he wanted. That night he did not take any woman to his home, 
but went into the homely young man’s lodge. The second night he 
painted and went again around the village with the flute, but did not take 
a woman home with him. The third night he did the same, but did not 
take any woman home with him. 
The fourth night he went around and the girl whom he loved came. 
He did not notice her, but went on. She followed him into the lodge of the 
homely young man. Before daylight the young man tried to get the girl 
to go to her home, but she would not go. She stayed with him all day 
and the next night, and the homely young man came and said: ‘“‘My 
brother, this girl’s parents are looking for her. I am afraid they are 
going to make trouble for you. I told you not to take any young girl 
into your lodge.’’ The young man said: ‘‘My brother, I am not going to 
give up thiswoman. I am going far away where I shall not be troubled.”’ 
The young man left all of his things and told the young girl to go with 
him. They left the lodge and went toward the east. For many days 
they journeyed toward the east. The people found out that the young 
man was missing and they knew that he had taken the girl, so they hunted 
all over the country, but could not find them. 
One day the young man and the girl came to a swampy country. 
As they were wading through the ponds the girl saw two young Geese in 
the water. She picked them up and said, ‘‘My husband, I wish to take 
these young Geese with us, and I shall call them my children.” They 
went on, and when they had gone a certain distance the young man said, 
‘‘We will rest here.’’ They made a grass-lodge in the timber, and there 
they lived some time. Every day the girl would take her young Geese 
to the pond and let them swim around and eat; then take them back to 
their grass-lodge. The young man went out every day and killed deer 
and brought meat to their lodge. When they had much meat and the 
Geese were growing to be large, the girl told the young man that they 
had better go farther into the timber, for there were no large ponds near by 
and she was afraid that her Geese might stray away, for they were now 
very large. They left and went farther south. They came to a large 
tract of timber and there made another grass-lodge. The girl would 
stay with the Geese, while the young man would go hunting. The girl 
would talk to the Geese as if they were human beings. 
In the winter time the girl would make moccasins for the Geese and 
they would walk around in them. She had planted the corn that 
