In days long ago, before the world became as we now know it, the first man and woman lived happily in the land together. They learned how to gather food and build a home together, and shared the work each day. This continued until one day the man became bored with his wife, and they began to quarrel. In anger, the woman left her husband and headed east.

     The man soon realized what he had done, and he rushed to find his wife. But she had traveled fast, and was far ahead of him. Although he tried, he could not catch up to her. Feeling defeated, yet lost without her, he fell to the ground and prayed for someone to help him.

     angry with your wife," Creator said. "Do you still feel this anger?"

     The man said no, and Creator asked if he wanted the woman back. "Yes," the man answered. "But she has traveled far and I cannot catch up to her."

     Creator planted huckleberry bushes in the woman's path. "This will slow the woman down and you can catch her," He said. But the woman passed through the brush without seeing it.

     Then He put blackberries in the path just ahead of her, expecting the prickly brush to stop her for sure. But the woman passed through, stickers pulling and tearing her skin as she walked. Other fruits and trees were placed in her path, but each time the woman passed through, not seeming to notice them.

     Then Creator placed the first strawberries known to man before her. When the woman passed, she stopped, thinking about the brightly red, sweet-smelling fruit in the path just behind her. She turned to pick one, and when she did, her eyes met the west. Her anger flew away, and she suddenly longed for her husband.

     The woman decided to return home, so she gathered some of the finest strawberries to take to her husband and started on the path back. She met her husband, and he looked into her eyes. "Forgive my anger," he asked. She looked at him, then held up the strawberries and smiled.