returned home at night he never found her at home, yet he was very
kind to her. He made every attempt to trace her footsteps but they
were always lost upon the bar and all his efforts were futile. At last
in desperation he made up his mind to try other plans to detect her
mysterious whereabouts. He would start down the river on a pretence
of going to Reck-woy, but would hide where he could see his wife’s
movements around the house. This was kept up for sometime but he could
not find out which way she had gone, but in his earnest endeavors
to discover her whereabouts, one night he saw her covering over her
foot-prints with stones as she went to meet her lover. Her shame and
sin was at last discovered in spite of all her efforts and precaution
to hide her disgrace from human knowledge. This covering of foot prints
with stones is called in our language, “Way-nah-mah way-lap-po-lah
hah-elth-werm-chelth,” which means covering the tracks of sin and
shame with stones. To this day there can be seen at Tu-rep bar in the
summer months when the waters of the river is low, the rows of stones
that this sinful woman used to cover up her foot-prints of shame, and
they stand out in strange relief along the waters edge where they were
supposed to have been placed centuries ago by the woman of sin. The
Indians point to these stones as a warning to all married women that
no matter how secretly they sin against the marriage vows, they will
be discovered sooner or later, and their sins will be reflected upon
them throughout their lives. The moral of this story is to keep women
from sinning and when they are tempted into sin that they are forever
burdened with the heavy stones of disgrace that points to their sins
and time cannot efface it.
WHAT HAPPENED TO TWO MA-REEP GIRLS
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