THE ADVENTURES OF HISQPE-AGCE. Hei (t5) 
having reached home with the stones, she said, “‘These are the stones.” He said, “And 
finally, go to yonder cliff. Say, ‘Grandfather, [have come after some tent-poles for your 
grandchild?” At length the woman went. She arrived at the cliff. Said she, “Grand 
father, I have come after some tent-poles for your grandchild.” And some snakes came 
in sight. And the woman took them; she took the snakes homeward. When she 
reached home with them, the dog said, “Come, make a small lodge.” The woman 
made tent-poles of the snakes; she made a grass lodge. The dog talked with the 
woman. You may think that you have pitied me; but I pity you. You shall be rich. 
IT am Himqpe-ag¢e; but yonder man vented lis spite on me, and maltreated me.” And 
the dog went within the small lodge. And the dog took a sweat-bath. At length he 
said, “That will do. Uncover me.” Behold, he was a very handsome man; he was not 
a dog, he was a very handsome man. And they slept there. The next day he said, 
“Let us go.” And she went with him. Then Hitqpe-ag¢e took the girl for his wife. At 
length they arrived at the circle of lodges. And when the people saw them, they said, 
“The girl who sought her dog has come with a man.” And a man said thus to others: 
“Friends, the man is very handsome, but I think that he is Hitqpe-ag¢e.” When they 
arrived at the lodge, the bad man sat with the fine feather sticking in his hair. And 
Hinqpe-ag¢e having reached home, he took back his fine feather, and stuck it in his own 
hair. And when he kicked the bad man, behold, the latter suddenly became a dog, a 
very mangy dog, caused to howl violently by the kicking. Then Himqpe-ag¢e said, 
“Venerable man, please make them kill that dog. The dog is bad.” And they took 
the dog out and killed it. And Hitqpe-ag¢e hunted regularly. He killed various sorts 
of animals, such as buffaloes, elk, deer—in fact, all kinds of animals—and became very 
rich. All the tribe continued prosperous and happy. And she whose husband had 
been killed said to her younger sister, “My younger sister, let us have your husband 
together.” ‘My elder sister, nevertheless you have said that my husband smells bad. 
He is very offensive. Tow could you marry your sister’s husband?” And the elder 
woman was crying all the time, because she wished to marry the man. At length the 
man said as follows: ‘‘Come, I came hither and left none but your husband’s father 
and mother; but at last I wish to see them I wish to go homeward.” The woman 
told it to her father. “O father, he spoke of seeing his father and mother, he spoke 
of going homeward,” said she. And her father said, “‘ Yes, my child, when they marry 
men, they invariably follow them. Follow him.” And the wife’s father gave to his 
daughter’s husband a great many ponies. And the other woman followed them at any 
rate. When neither the man nor the woman talked with her, still she followed them, 
crying continually. At length they reached the lodge. Behold, his father, and even 
his mother, they were very poor, the crows having picked out their eyes. At length 
the other woman, the elder one, said as follows: “My younger sister, I say that I will 
heal the eyes of your husband’s father and mother. Let him marry me.” And the 
man did not speak. And the woman said as follows: “My elder sister, do so. They 
must be poor. The man shall surely marry you.” And the woman having worked on 
their eyes, restored their sight. 
