By: James Mooney (1900)
A widow was wanting her daughter to get married, but didn't know anyone that would be the perfect fit. She wanted a man in the family to help with the field.
A man came to the house one day and was told that he could only marry the daughter if he was a hard worker. He claimed he was and they married.
The new son-in-law was to take a hoe and go into the cornfield to work the field. He was to come and eat when he was called by the mother. Whenever she would yell and call for him, he never came.
When she went to check on him, she saw a small spot that had been cleared away but no sign of her son-in-law.
After a few days of him claiming he was "working hard," the mother fired him and sent him on is way. He wasn't hard working and he wasn't the man for her daughter.
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