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beside a tree. Then the young woman would say : " Oh I my brother 

 is to be pitied; now he wants to bear me again on his back, I sup- 

 pose." So saying, she would mount the dog, which at once would 

 start running with her. When at midday the dog stopped beside a 

 tree, the woman said: "I suppose he is now tired out," descending 

 from his back. As the dog crouched down she decided that it de- 

 sired that they should take some rest. Then the dog lay down 

 near by, and she seated herself close to him, saying: " I suppose he is 

 now asleep, being very tired." 



Thus, she sat for a long time looking around. Suddenly a fine- 

 looking bird alighted near her, which she resolved to catch. When 

 she was about to seize it, the bird would fly away, bitt would usually 

 alight again a little way from its former perch. When the young 

 woman would run up to it with the intention of seizing it, it would 

 fly away just in time to foil her purpose. Thus she i^ursued it a 

 little farther, still a little farther, but could not catch it, although she 

 was determined to do so. 



Suddenly she heard the loud barking of a dog which was approach- 

 ing, saj'ing, Wu', wu', wu', and at once she ran toward the place, then 

 quite distant, where lay the dog. When she returned to this place 

 the dog was gone, for it had resumed its course and was barking as it 

 went farther and farther. At last it disappeared in the distance. 

 Then the young woman began to weep, indeed, and she repeated the 

 words of her elder brother : " You must not change your course, but 

 you must keep going directly eastward." While she was so engaged 

 her brother, Hahadodagwat'ha, arrived there, having overtaken her. 



He remained for two days, when the footsteps of some one were 

 heard by him, and suddenly the old woman, entering the lodge, 

 said: "Lo! Where is your wife?" He answered: "Did you not 

 meet them on the way ? " "I did not," she replied. He said to 

 her : " It may be that while you and they were gathering things by 

 the way you missed one another." The old woman answered: 

 " Oh, that is true, of course. I suppose. Without ceasing, his pets 

 are uttering notes. At times my mind is deeply troubled by this 

 state of r.ffairs. So let it be. I shall now go back to the other 

 place, for they have probably arrived there now." 



In a very short time the old woman departed for her home. Eun- 

 ning through bypaths, the young man reached it ahead of the old 

 woman, who found him sitting there when she arrived. Her son's 

 pets were making a great noise when she entered the lodge, whereupon 

 she said : " Lo ! "VAHiere is my daughter-in-law ? " He answered her 

 sneeringly : " Pshaw ! My daughter-in-law, you say ! Why. she has 

 gone home. When she and I returned there all the food was ex- 

 hausted, so she longed for her mother. I said that in two days' time 

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