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did as she was told, and aroused the other slave, Big Crow’s (Ca‘hag) 
curiosity. Ca’haq was servant to the second wife, who now lived with 
Snikia’p, her father-in-law. 
N’tlikcu/mtum and his faithful wife did not come into camp till it was 
dark, and no one was aware of the former’s presence. After they had 
retired Big Crow crept up to the tent to listen. Now the young wife 
had been in the habit of crying and mourning every night for the loss of 
her husband. Big Crow was aware of this, and wondered why the young 
wife was not crying as usual. She peeped into the tent and noticed a 
fine white blanket, which seemed to cover two persons. This further 
roused her curiosity, and she ventured to enter the tent very softly. But 
the woman heard her, and looked up and said, ‘What do you want?’ 
Ca/hag answered : ‘Oh, I came in to see how you were.’ ‘I am all right,’ 
responded she in a happy tone of voice, wholly unlike her usual tones. 
This the Crow noticed at once, and asked, ‘Is any one here with you to- 
night?’ ‘What makes you ask that question?’ queried her mistress. 
Answered Crow : ‘To judge by the sound of your voice you seem much 
happier than usual.’ ‘ You are right, I am happier,’ said the young wife ; 
‘J have reason to be. My husband has come back to me.’ The slave now 
began to cry for joy and sympathy. Said the young man, ‘ You must not 
cry like that. Come here to me.’ Ca’hag went over to the young man’s 
side. The wife now asks her if she had had her supper, and, on finding 
she had not, gave the slave a good supper from the meat her husband had 
brought. The young man then said she might tell the people he had 
returned, but they were not to disturb him by visiting or coming near 
him that night. The Crow was delighted to be the bearer of such news, 
and soon communicated the fact of the young man’s arrival to all the 
camp. Everybody expresses pleasure at the news, and they are all glad 
and desirous of seeing him and hearing of his adventures; but they 
respect his wishes, and leave him alone with his faithful wife and child 
for that night. 
The father of the youth, among the rest, had heard of his son’s return, 
and early next morning came in crying and snivelling. The son took no 
notice of him. That day he gave a great feast, to which everybody was 
invited. After they had eaten their fill of the store of meat and fat he 
had brought with him, he shared with them the blankets his grand- 
mother had woven and packed up for him. He cut several in two so that 
all might have a share. The next day he went on to Britta‘ni, and built 
there a large camp. He was now made a chief, and became a great man 
among them. One day, when he was out hunting with the others, the 
desire came into his heart to punish Snikia’p, his father, for the deception 
he had played upon him. Next day he said to his father and the others, 
‘T shall go out alone to hunt to-day.’ They agreed, and he went off alone. 
He presently shot a deer, and disembowelling it made a rope from the 
guts. This he then transformed into a woollen rope. He now placed the 
meat of the deer on his shoulders and returned towards home. When he 
reached the stream that crossed his path he took half of the meat and 
tied it with the rope he had made to a tree that overhung the brook. 
The rest of the meat he took on with him. In the evening he informed 
his father that he had left half of the deer’s carcass suspended from a 
tree by the brook, and that he desired him to go for it in the morning. 
‘ All right,’ said the father. Accordingly next morning Snikia’/p set off 
to bring the meat home. As he left the son shouted out to him to be 
