An old man whose wife had died lived alone with his son. One day he
said to the young man, "We need a cook here, so you would better get
married." So the young man got a wife and brought her home. Then his
father said, "Now we must work together and do all we can to help
her. You go hunting and bring in the meat and I'll look after the
corn and beans, and then she can cook." The young man went into the
woods to look for a deer and his father went out into the field to
attend to the corn. When they came home at night they were hungry,
and the young woman set out a bowl of walnut hominy (kanâ'talu'hi)
before them. It looked queer, somehow, and when the old man examined
it he found that the walnuts had been put in whole. "Why didn't you
shell the walnuts and then beat up the kernels," said he to the young
woman. "I didn't know they had to be shelled," she replied. Then the
old man said, "You think about marrying and you don't know how to
cook," and he sent her away.