THE ADVENTURES OF THE BADGER’S SON. 301 
said it. We shall go homeward. You will waken me at night,” said she. And when 
they slept, the Badger’s son awoke. He wakened her. “Arise. You said, ‘We will go 
homeward. Tam going homeward,” said he. He went homeward with her. At length 
her father knew that his daughter was missing, when she had gone. Her father said 
as follows: “The Badger’s son has taken my child away. You will chase her for me. If 
you overtake her, you will kill the Badger’s son. You will bring my child back to me.” 
The old man said, “It is said that the Badger’s son has gone back again with the chief’s 
daughter. You are to pursue her for her father. When you overtake her, you will kill 
the Badger’s son. You will bring the woman back to him.” ‘Oho! The Badger’s son has 
gone again with the chief’s daughter, so he has asked us to pursue,” said they. They 
pursued. And the woman commanded the Badger’s son to go faster. “Go faster. If 
they overtake us, beware lest they kill you. But as for me, why should they kill me?” 
said the woman. At length the pursuers came in sight. The woman said as follows: 
“Yonder they have come. We are overtaken. They will kill you. Go faster.” The 
pursuers having overtaken them, took hold of the woman. And they pursued the 
Badger’s son beyond the place. And one, having kept on till he came to him, overtook 
the Badger’s son, and said as follows: “ My friend, though the chief said that we were to 
kill you, Ido not killyou. Go faster. I will say that I broke the bow. Run with all your 
might to yonder dense forest, to yonder trees,” said he. And one arrived where the first 
pursuer was. ‘“ You overtook him. Why did you not killhim?” ‘TI broke the bow, so I 
did not kill him. Yonder he goes homeward. Quicken your pace immediately,” said he. 
And the second pursuer arrived where the Badger’s son was. “Ho! my friend, though 
the chief said that we were to kill you, I will not kill you. Quicken your pace. Run with 
all your might to yonder trees. You have nearly come home. I shall say that I broke 
the bowstring,” said he. One arrived there. ‘You overtook him. Why did you do 
that? Why did you not kill him?” ‘As I broke the bowstring, yonder he goes alive 
towards his home. Quicken your pace immediately,” said he. And the third pursuer 
arrived there. ‘Ho! My friend, though the head-chief said that we were to kill you, 
we are not the persons to do that. You will live. I will say that my foot hurt me. 
Quicken your pace. Run with all your might to the trees,” said he. And one arrived 
where the third pursuer was. ‘Why! You really overtook him. Why did you not 
kill him?” “My foot hurt me, so I did not kill him. Yonder he goes homeward. 
Quicken your pace and pursue him,” said he. Again a pursuer arrived there. ‘Ho! 
My friend, yonder is a lodge. You will go headlong into it. You will live. I shall 
say that I sprained my ankle in running,” said he. One arrived there. He stopped 
running. ‘Why! you really overtook him. Why did you do that?” ‘You tell the 
truth. I sprained my ankle in running, so Ll stopped. Yonder he goes homeward. 
Quicken your pace and chase him,” said he. The Badger’s son had gone headlong into 
an earth-lodge. He fled. The pursuers made a great uproar. A woman sat inside the 
lodge. And the woman was cross. The woman carried her own shield. She seized 
her spear, and brandished it at the Badger’s son. ‘Speak. On what business have 
youcome? If you do not speak, I will kill you,” said she. The Badger’s son did not look 
at her at all. Even though she brandished the spear at him, he stirred not at all; he 
did not flee from her. A man was lying by the wall. Thence he addressed her. ‘¢O 
sister, let my sister’s husband alone.” ‘I will let him alone,” said the woman. The 
woman married the Badger’s son. When he married the woman, the boy, her brother, 
