Sun said, "Would you like to have her come back to you?"

"Yes," said the man.

So Sun made a great patch of huckleberries which he placed in front of

the woman's trail. She passed them without paying any attention to

them. Then Sun made a clump of blackberry bushes and put those in

front of her trail. The woman walked on. Then Sun created beautiful

service-berry bushes which stood beside the trail. Still the woman

walked on.

So Sun made other fruits and berries. But the woman did not look at

them.

Then Sun created a patch of beautiful ripe strawberries. They were the

first strawberries. When the woman saw those, she stopped to gather a

few. As she gathered them, she turned her face toward the west. Then

she remembered the man. She turned to the Sunland but could not go on.

She could not go any further.

Then the woman picked some of the strawberries and started back on her

trail, away from the Sunland. So her husband met her, and they went

back together.

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