As I rode out one evening in the latter part of June

Man walks out from camp & meets weeping Indian girl. She says she is orphaned & her entire family is dead. He proposes that she come with him to "a happier home." She refuses, saying she once made a vow to someone who broke his oath, so she will remain alone.Informant learned from an aunt. Mercer, 96, 213; Laws, NAB, H11, 235 (On the Banks of the Pamanaw); Leach, 1965, 242 (The Banks of Panama); Peacock, 1965, 424, 425 (The Banks of Pondamah