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off of the animal’s back and swam to the shore. Just as he jumped 
something struck the animal with an awful crash and he rolled over 
dead. When the boy came upon the shore a handsome young man 
came up to him and said: ‘‘ You have done me a great favor. Fora 
long time I have tried to kill this monster, because he makes the water 
of the lake dangerous, but until now I could never get the chance. 
In return for what you have done, I will take you with me to the sky, 
if you care to go.’’ The boy said that he wanted to go, as he was alone 
and friendless upon theearth. The man, who was Evening-Star, took 
him with him to the sky, and there he may be seen as Orphan-Star 
who stands near Evening-Star. 
14. THE GIRL WHO MARRIED A STAR.* 
One time a maiden slept in an arbor, and as she lay under the blue 
sky she watched the stars. One star especially she watched, and she 
wished that it would become a man and marry her, for she did not care 
for any of the young men of the village. She went to sleep wishing 
that the star would marry her. When she awoke she saw nostars, but 
an old man sitting by the fireside. ‘‘ WhereamI?’’ sheasked. ‘‘ Your 
wish is granted ; you are the Star’s wife. IamtheStar.’’ She began 
to cry, for the man was old and homely and she was young and beautiful, 
and so she had dreamed that her husband would be. ‘The Star’s sister 
was preparing something to eat, and she told the girl to stop crying and 
come andeat. After a while the two women went out to dig potatoes. 
They saw one big potato, and the girl asked the Star’s sister what the 
big potato was for. She answered that it was the door of heaven, 
and that it covered the entrance to the world beneath. Then the girl 
cried again and begged the woman to let her go back to her people. 
She told her how unhappy she was and what a mistake she had made 
in wishing to marry the Star. The woman told the Star all that his 
wife had said, and so the Star agreed tolet her return to her people in 
six days. The two women went out to gather bark from young elm 
trees to make a rope for the girl to climb down to earth on, After 
they had gathered the bark they began to make the rope and the Star 
helped them. After six days the rope was only half long enough, and 
so the old man said she would have to wait six more days until they 
could complete the rope. On the eleventh day the rope was finished, 
and the Star’s sister cooked some corn meal for the girl to eat on the 
way and filled a squash vessel with water for her. The Star told her 
to start early the next morning, for it would take her ten winters and 

* Told by Wing. 
