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wore large enough to look out for themselves. In the meanwhile 

 the father and mother quarreled bitterly, then these boys and girls 

 quarreled among themselves, and lastly with their parents. The re- 

 sult of this condition of affairs was that the family dispersed, each 

 one going off alone. 



Again, the grandson was left alone, having no friends or family 

 of his own. He was left completely to his own resources for pro- 

 viding the means of his living and for jirotecting himself from his 

 enemies. He traveled many dreixry days in solitude. But there 

 came a clay when he met a woman of the Panther tribe of people, who 

 was cooking some deer meat for herself. As the grandson was very 

 hungry he asked this woman to share some of the deer meat with him, 

 but she refused absolutely to spare him a morsel. 



So, hungry as he was, he had to pass on without anything to eat. 

 Some time afterwards he was fortunate enough to kill a deei". So, 

 after dressing it and preparing it properly and cooking it, he sat 

 down to eat. And while he was enjoying his venison the woman 

 who had refused him a portion of venison boldly came up and asked 

 him for some of the venison. He showed his teeth and growled and 

 snarled so fiercely that he finally drove the old woman away. 



When he hud finished his meal he packed up his belongings and 

 departed. He traveled several days from place to place. Suddenly 

 he became aware that several hunters with three dogs were pursuing 

 him. So he fled from that place until he became wearied and thei^ 

 he climbed a very tall tree. There he hoped to escape his pursuers, 

 but the dogs tracked him so well that soon the hunters were under 

 the tree. Wliereuiwn one of the hunters shot him. mortally wound- 

 ing him, antl he fell to the ground in a dying condition. The dying 

 Panther man said to the hunters, " This, your act, shall cause bitter 

 hostility between your people and my tribe, and many of both tribes 

 will die in consequence." 



As the hunters were bearing the body of the Panther man home- 

 ward, a Panther man met them and saw the dead body of the Panther 

 man — one of his own kindred. At once he returned to his people, 

 telling them what he had seen. So with two other Panther men he 

 retraced his steps to find the guilty hunters. 



The three Panther men were not long in finding the camping place 

 of the hunters and they quickly succeeded in killing the dogs and the 

 hunters and in dev(juring them, leaving their bones to bleach on 

 the ground. 



The friends and kinsmen of the hunters waited many days for the 

 return of the hunters and their dogs, but they waited in vain. So a 

 number of them formed a party and went out in search of them. 

 They found their bones .on the path and also the dead body of the 

 Panther man. In the tliickets near by they also found other Panther 



