“The girl was willing, but her parents objected and said, “Ever since you came, the weather has been cold, and if you stay here we may all freeze to death.”’ The North pleaded hard, and said that if they would let him have their daughter he would take her back to his own country, so at last they consented. They were married and he took his bride to his own country, and when she arrived there she found the people all living in ice houses.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 12 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan