"do you see this deer?" said the old man; "it is my wife. i was once married to a wife, but after a time i wearied of her, and married another wife, who presented me with a son. i took both the woman and her child to my first wife, and asked her to feed and take care of them; but she, being jealous, changed my wife into a cow, and my son into a calf. after a year i returned and enquired after my wife and child. my first wife said: 'your wife is dead, and for the last two days your child has been missing.'