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get berries, when they were attacked by a band of Utes. The woman 

 was captured; the man made his escape. This woman was very hand- 

 some and had a brother who had always been very fond of her, and 

 even after her marriage he constantly thought of her. The party of 

 Utes soon returned to their home taking with them their captive. The 

 Ute who actually made the capture had a wife at home, but in spite of 

 this fact took the captive Arapaho woman as a second wife. Time 

 passed on and she learned the language and customs of the Utes and 

 finally became very much attached to the mother of the Ute's first 

 wife. 



The first wife naturally was jealous of the Arapaho woman, and 

 abused her constantly, and would even order her out of the tipi, at 

 times. On account of the great beauty of the Arapaho woman, how- 

 ever, and the love which she bore the mother of the Ute's first wife, 

 she was retained in the tipi with her husband and, as a rule, when 

 both wives were present there was constant quarreling, which gener- 

 ally ended by the husband asking the Arapaho woman to go to the tipi 

 of the mother of the first wife. This happened many times. The 

 old Ute woman took pity on the Arapaho woman, and said to her: 

 "Now, my girl, since you often go out with your husband to help him 

 with the horses you know the gentle horses and those which can run 

 fast, and you know the country. You are a woman of strong will, and 

 1 am going to tell you how to get away from here. " 



The Arapaho woman thought over these words many times, and 

 began to think very often of her old home. One day the old Ute 

 woman said to her: "I shall help you to gather food, saddle, bridle, 

 robe, etc., and have them in a place where nobody will find them. 

 You go over to your husband's lodge and make yourself agreeable." 

 The Arapaho woman did as she was told, while the old Ute mother 

 made the necessary preparations for the journey. 



Finally the time came and the old woman got up a feast. She 

 cooked the food for the journey and told her daughter to tell her 

 husband to invite his men friends for a feast, so that they might 

 smoke the pipe and tell stories. The Arapaho woman helped in the 

 preparations. The husband, through a crier, at the appointed time, 

 invited the warriors of the neighboring lodges to come to his tipi. 

 After they had arrived and were seated, the husband told his second 

 wife, the Arapaho woman, to go to the lodge of the mother of his first 

 wife, where the food had been prepared. 



Now the Arapaho woman had that day been with her husband to 

 water the ponies, and she knew, therefore, where they were to be 

 found. She went to the lodge of the old woman, and at her command 



