"
"I will send for him at once," said her father. So he sent the basket
down empty, and it rested in the middle of the dancing ring.
Now when High-feather reached Loon Lake he found it covered with red
swans. He shot two with one arrow, and then all the rest flew away.
He picked up the two swans and hurried back to his tent, and there lay
the dancing-cloth with the feather stars on it half finished, but no
wife could he see. He called her, but she did not answer. He rushed
out, with the two red swans still slung round his neck and hanging
down his back, and ran to the dancing ring, but nobody was there.
"I will wait till she comes back," he said to himself, "if I have to
wait till the world ends." So he threw himself down on the grass and
lay looking up at the stars till he went to sleep.
Early in the morning he heard a rustling on the grass, and when he
opened his eyes he saw the great basket close beside him. He jumped
up, with the two red swans still slung round his neck, and climbed
into the basket. There was nobody there; and when he began to climb
out again he found that the basket was half way up to the sky. It went
up and up, and at last it came into the Star-country, where his wife
was waiting for him.
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