They brought Fred a woman--their fattest, ugliest; which means she was skin and bone and uglier than Want, also she was more afraid of Fred than Satan is said to be of shriving.

The chief led her by the hand, she hanging back and hiding her face under one arm (which left the rest of her nakedness unprotected).

He seized Fred's hand and put the woman's in it.
"Now you're spliced!" Brown explained.

"Married to the gal forever in presence of legal witnesses!" Kazimoto confirmed the fearful news.
"Married in regular form an' accord with tribal custom!" Brown continued, nodding solemnly.
"Divorce me--soon and swiftly, somebody!" Fred demanded.
We appealed to Kazimoto for information, but only threw him into a quandary, and he proceeded to add to ours.

The usual price for a woman, it seemed, was cows--many or few according as she was lovely or her father rich.