When North’s son wanted to marry Southeast’s daughter, there was no wind. He spoke to his mother. He spoke also to his father: “I want to marry Southeast’s daughter.” North said to his son, “What will you wear when the weather is bad?” Southeast was such a dreary, rainy wind that North did not want his son to marry the daughter. The son said, “Oh, that’s all right. Give me something to wear when it rains.” North said, “I have nothing for it. But marry her.”
When his son started off, North gave him some directions: “When you get near Southeast, look at him from a distance. If his face is good, go to him. But if his face is red, and under it black, do not go. Go to him from Point Gafixet [Cape St. James].”
North’s son started. He went from Cape St. James. At that time Southeast’s face was not bad. It was clean. Then the son came to a big cloud rising out of the ocean. That was Southeast’s house.
When North’s son reached there, Southeast’s daughter was sitting in front of the house. North’s son sat down beside her.
“Where are you going?” she asked.
“I have come to marry you,” he replied.
“I will tell my mother,” she said.
Now Southeast and his wife were much pleased with them both. By and by North’s son told his wife he wanted to go away. “You must go also,” said Southeast to his daughter.
When they were about to leave, Southeast gave his daughter some directions. “When North speaks, and you are cold, call to me,” he said.
Now they came to North’s house. When he saw them he took them into the house. After a while, North said, “What does your wife eat?”