He grew very lonely, and after a time he found a wife who cared for his wigwam and cooked his food for four days, then she was gone; no one ever saw her again. He married the second wife, but when she, too, left him he remembered the moon maiden’s words, and went out in the moonlight and lay on a bed of moss. When he awoke he was floating through the air, and the sun chief called to him to stop at his teepee. There he found the girl whose face he had watched so many nights in the moon, and he never came back to earth. [[215]]
Part III
STORIES RECENTLY TOLD OF MENABOZHO, AND OTHER HEROES
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The Indian of To-day
Original Painting by Angel de Cora (Hinook-mahiwi-kilinaka)
Copyright, 1901, by Ginn & Company
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