that bound his feet; then she stood up and let herself go
into his arms.

"Have you enough courage?" asked the West Wind.

"I do not know," answered Katipah, "for I have never tried."

"To come with me," said the Wind, "you need to have much courage; if you
have not, you must wait till you learn it. But none the less for that
shall you be the wife of Gamma-gata, for I am the gate of the wild
geese, as my name says, and my heart is foolish with love of you."
Gamma-gata took her up in his arms, and swung with her this way and
that, tossing his way through blossom and leaf; and the sunlight became
an eddy of gold round her, and wind and laughter seemed to become part
of her being, so that she was all giddy and dazed and glad when at last
Gamma-gata set her down.

"Stand still, my little one!" he cried--"stand still while I put on your
bridal veil for you; then your blushes shall look like a rose-bush
in snow!" So Katipah stood with her feet in the green sorrel, and
Gamma-gata went up into the plum-tree and shook, till from head to foot
she was showered with white blossom.

"How beautiful you seem to me!" cried Gamma-gata when he returned to
ground.

Then he lifted her once more and set her in the top of a plum-tree, and
going below, cried up to her, "Leap, little Wind-wife, and let me see
that you have courage!"

Katipah looked long over the deep space that lay between them, and
trembled. Then she fixed her eyes fast upon those of her lover, and
leapt, for in the laughter of his eyes she had lost all her fear.

He caught her halfway in air as she fell. "You are not really brave,"
said he; "if I had shut my eyes you would not have jumped."

"If you had shut your eyes just then," cried Katipah, "I would have died
for fear."

He set her once more in the treetop, and disappeared from her sight.
"Come down to me, Katipah!" she heard his voice calling all round her.

Clinging fast to the topmost bough, "Oh, Gamma-gata," she cried, "let me
see your eyes, and I will come."

Then with darkened brow he appeared to her again out of his blasts, and
took her in his arms and lifted her down a little sadly till her feet
touched safe earth. And he blew away the beautiful veil of blossoms with
which he had showered her, while Katipah stood like a shamed child and
watched it go, shredding itself to pieces in the spring sunshine.

And Gamma-gata, kissing her tenderly, said: "Go home, Katipah, and learn
to have courage! and wh