child fastened to its back, Katipah had come and had cut the string, so that
by her doing the child was now dead.

When the magistrate heard that, he sent and caused Katipah to be thrown into
prison, and told her that the next day she should certainly be put to death.

Katipah went meekly, carrying her little son in one hand and her blue-and-
green kite in the other, for that had become so dear to her she could not now
part from it. And all the way to prison Bimsha followed, mocking her, and
asking, "Tell us, Katipah, where is your fine husband now?"

In the night the West Wind came and tapped at the prison window, and called
tenderly, "Katipah, Katipah, are you there?" And when Katipah got up from her
bed of straw and looked out, there was Gamma-gata once more, the beautiful
youth whom she loved and had been wedded to, and had heard but had not seen
since.

Gamma-gata reached his hands through the bars and put them round her face.
"Katipah," he said, "you have become brave: you are fit now to become the wife
of the West Wind. To-morrow you shall travel with me all over the world; you
shall not stay in one land any more. Now give me our son; for a little while I
must take him from you. To prove your courage you must find your own way out
of this trouble which you have got into through making a fool of Bimsha."

So Katipah gave him the child through the bars of her prison window, and when
he was gone lay down and slept till it became light.

In the morning the chief magistrate and Bimsha, together with the whole
populace, came to Katipah's cell to see her led out to death. And when it was
found that her child had disappeared, "She is a witch!" they cried; "she has