o the sky, and High-feather took his
Star-wife home to his tent on the bank of the Battle River.

High-feather's mother was glad to see them both; but she whispered in
his ear: "You must never let her out of your sight if you want to keep
her; you must take her with you everywhere you go."

And he did so. He took her with him every time he went hunting, and
he made her a bow and arrows, but she would never use them; she would
pick wild strawberries and gooseberries and raspberries as they went
along, but she would never kill anything; and she would never eat
anything that any one else had killed. She only ate berries and
crushed corn.

One day, while the young man's wife was embroidering feather stars on
a dancing-cloth, and his mother was gossiping in a tent at the end
of the village, a little yellow bird flew in and perched on
High-feather's shoulder, and whispered in his ear:

"There is a great flock of wild red swans just over on Loon Lake. If
you come quickly and quietly you can catch them before they fly away;
but do not tell your wife, for red swans cannot bear the sight of a
woman, and they can tell if one comes within a mile of them."

High-feather had never seen or heard of a red swan before; all the red
feathers he wore he had had to paint. He looked at his wife, and as
she was sewing busily and looking down at her star embroidering he
thought he could slip away and get back before she knew he had gone.
But as soon as he was out of sight the little yellow bird flew in and
perched on her shoulder, and sang her such a beautiful song about her
sisters in the sky that she forgot everything else and slipped out
and ran like the wind, and got to the dancing ring just as her sisters
came down in their basket. Then they all gathered round her, and
begged her to go home with them.

But she only said, "High-feather is a brave man, and he is very good
to me, and I will never leave him."

When they saw they could not make her leave her husband, the eldest
sister said: "If you must stay, you must. But just come up for an
hour, to let your father see you, because he has been mourning for you
ever since you went away."

The Star-wife did not wish to go, but she wanted to see her father
once more, so she got into the basket and it sailed away up into the
sky. Her father was very glad to see her, and she was very glad to
see him, and they talked and they talked till the blue sky was getting
gray. Then she remembered