A man said to his Father, I want to marry a wife." Then his father said, "Do you take a widow." So he took a widow, and his father said, "Marry her." So he married her. Then his father said, "Tie her with a rope, and when she speaks to you, untie the rope." So he tied her with a rope, and the woman said, "This is not what I have been accustomed to see. What are you doing with me?" Thereupon he untied the rope. In the morning his father came and said, "What did she say?" And he answered, "She said to me, This is not what I have been accustomed to see. Why are you doing that to me?" Then his father said, "Send her away." That was one.
The father said to his son, "Take another wife, take a grown girl" Then he said, "To-night tie her with a rope, and when she speaks to you, untie it" So he tied her, and she said, "This is not what I have been accustomed to hear, why are you tying me with that?" So he untied her. In the morning he came to his father, and he said, "She said, This is not what I have been accustomed to hear, what are you doing to me with the rope?" Then his father said, "Scud her away too." And that was another.
Then his father said, "Do you go and take a nice, young girl." So he took one, and he said, "To-night tie her with a rope, and when she speaks to you untie it." So the young man did so, and went to sleep, and was asleep all night In the early morning the girl woke him up, and said, "The rope with which you tied me is fallen off and is not tied to me, tie it upon me." And in the morning he told his father, "Father, she said, The rope has fallen off, and is not tied to me, tie it upon me." Then his father said, "Keep that one, she is the right one." So she was the one he afterwards married.
