weather. 'Gamma-gata' you must call me, for it is I who bring back the wings
that fly till the winter is over. And now I have come down to earth, to fetch
you away and make you my wife. Will you come, Katipah?"

"I will come, Gamma-gata!" said Katipah, and she crouched and kissed the
heron-wings 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