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will you?" said the husband, pitifully. "If you had behaved yourself 

 and acted without jealousy to your horse and allowed him to reveal 

 things to you, it would have been for our future benefit. But on account 

 of the injustice that you have imposed upon him, it is useless for me to 

 do anything to make amends," said the wife recklessly. "Say, dear 

 wife, I wish you would gladly go to him and ask him for his tender 

 mercies and extend my repentance to the end that I may recover my 

 stock," said the husband. "I know that you hated to lose your stock, 

 so did I. But you must understand that you did wrong to him, and that 

 is the reason that he has taken away with him the herd. It is the plain 

 fact that even in the vast herd you had, there were to have been diflfer- 

 cnt colors of horses in your herd. Since you wanted to own good look- 

 ing horses, this dead horse thought of a way to please you and help," 

 said the wafe. "Well, my dear, I have just said that I wish you would 

 go out and tell him that I have made an apology to him, and, above all, 

 request that I want to have the herd brought back to us," said the hus- 

 band. "I thought you would beg from me. I was doing it on your be- 

 half, but you got mad. Keep still now, while I go out and wake him 

 up," said the wife. 



Reaching the dead horse, she said with good-natured voice, "Say, 

 get up ! Your partner wants you to go after the herd," and returned 

 to the tipi. "Yes, wife, I shall be glad to get them back again. Please 

 do your best, will you ?" said the husband, smiling. So the wife went 

 out again and said to her lover : "Say, your partner wishes to get his 

 horses back again. He admits that he did the act without careful 

 thought," said the wife. (In early days, when a young man was 

 caught with a married woman, his parents' stock or his own were 

 either demanded or killed outright by the injured one. The following 

 paragraphs will tell how the red-speckled horse brought the finest of 

 horses with his wife to make a payment for damages.) The dead 

 horse then moved his limbs. "Pray, do your best and get his sym- 

 pathy," said the husband. So the wife then went out and spoke to the 

 horse a little louder this time, saying: "Say, your partner wishes your 

 sympathy now," at the same time the woman looked at the body of the 

 horse. At this time it moved about and breathed for some time. 

 "Wife, you may know that I did very wrong, but now I want you to 

 forgive me. Please hear me and do what I have requested," said the 

 husband. So the wife went out and reached the dead horse, and said 

 with a clear voice, "Say, your partner wishes you to get up and make 

 yourself known this day. Show that power that you have." said the 

 wife to her lover and husband. When she had said these words, the 



