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get up and see what is the trouble. There is no barking of dogs, 

 neither is there a dog in sight. I am telHng you this fact because my 

 dogs are all gone. Their shelters are all vacated. What has become 

 of all the dogs? Therefore you had better find out the cause. Just a 

 little after dark there was the cry of a lone dog just at the outskirts of 

 the camp. Think about that. If you can find out the origin of the dis- 

 appearance of our dogs see the man who knows about them. We all 

 know that we cannot get along without them. All of you people had 

 better hurry and find trace of them !" The people went out of their 

 tipis quickly, searching for their dogs, but they were all gone. That 

 <lay there was quite an excitement and much fault found among the 

 people. The next morning spies (young men by twos), were sent out 

 into various directions to find the trail of the dogs. (It was found 

 out that the man with seven boys kd the dogs away.) A good many 

 returned home with a smell of the trail, but there were two young men 

 who had crossed the river and went over the divide, to go to the river, 

 which was often spoken of. 



In reaching the broad prairie near the river, they saw a smoke 

 coming out of a tipi, which stood in the midst of the timber. ''There, 

 there ! Don't you see that smoke in the timber and that white-looking 

 tipi too?" said one. "Yes, there is where they are located. Let us 

 keep on and see them," said the other one. So they kept on until they 

 reached the edge of the timber. They" saw long poles containing fresh 

 meat and dogs at play. These dogs were plump and active and very 

 sensitive. 



As soon as the dogs saw them they made a terrific charge against 

 their arrival. The man with his sons were inside, feasting on fresh 

 meat and feeding the dogs all they could eat. The dogs were about 

 to bite these young men, when they yelled for them to stop, but they 

 kept barking at them. Seeing that the dogs were in earnest, they both 

 squatted down, and the dogs retreated in peace. "Say, partner, we 

 cannot do much, for those dogs are too fierce and bold. Let us go 

 back and tell the people about their permanent camp," said one. "All 

 right, maybe they can plan a good way to reach them," said the other. 

 So they both returned to the camp-circle and told about the location of 

 their camp. 



The people sent four young men to see and coax the dogs back to 

 the camp. So these four young men started off toward their camp. 

 By noon they reached the edge of the timber and saw a nice looking tipi 

 in the midst of the timber and a herd of fat dogs at play. The dogs, 

 seeing them advancing to the tipi, made a terrific charge against them. 



