Such is the Indian custom.

But in the kitchen she began to move about.

She was cooking, and that proved beyond a doubt that everything must be right again.

After a while she squatted in the inner doorway and inquired,-- "Where were you while it was raining ?" "With Hayoue." "How late did he come home ?" She laughed; he chimed in and answered,-- "Late enough; I had to wait a long time before he came, and so sleepy was he,--as tired and sleepy as a bear in spring." "Do you know where he spent the night ?" The tone of the conversation sounded easy and pleasant.
"I don't know the name of the makatza,"-- here Okoya laughed again and his mother caught the contagion,--"but she must belong to Oshatsh.

He did not say much, for he was tired from yesterday." "Was she a short, stumpy girl ?" "I don't know.