The girl’s brother went home and told her what the young stranger had said.
“Brother, I do not care to marry,” she answered. “I am now happy with you.”
“But you will be yet happier married,” he answered, “and the young stranger is of no mean family, as one can see by his dress and manners.”
“Very well, I will do as you wish,” she said. So the stranger came into the tepee and was the girl’s husband.
One day as they were in their tent, a crow flew overhead, calling out loudly,
“Kaw, Kaw,
“They who forsook the children have no meat.”
The girl and her husband and brother looked up at one another.
“What can it mean?” they asked. “Let us send for Unktomi (the spider). He is a good judge and he will know.”
“And I will get ready a good dinner for him, for Unktomi is always hungry,” added the young wife.