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shoulders. Finally this fourth man gave out, and Child-of-a-Dog left 
him to remain there until he should return from the village. 
So Child-of-a-Dog kept on until he was seen, and then he heard the 
yells by the people, who were gilad to see these men lose their race. 
As he approached the crowd he saw his wives coming to meet him, 
and ahead of them were the two women who had brought him from 
his home, and he saw that they had water gourds, and had water in 
these for the winner to drink. His own wives were kept out of the 
way by these two other women, who expected him to drink out of 
their gourds instead of drinking out of his own wives’ gourds. But, 
as he already had been instructed not to drink from them, he refused. 
His wives finally succeeded in giving him a drink, and then he turned 
back where he had left all his opponents. He arrived at the place 
where he had made the first one give out, and commanded that for 
generations they would not be human beings, but Buffalo, and that 
when people should get hungry for meat they would be killed and 
would be shot on the side, under the shoulder. Child-of-a-Dog shot 
the first one, and then the next one, and told him the same thing. Then 
he shot the third one and the fourth one, and told them the same thing. 
again. Then he left them there and went on straight to the village. 
Upon his arrival his wives and the other two women began to 
quarrel over him. They all undertook to haul wood to show this man, 
Child-of-a-Dog, who could do the fastest work. They went off and in 
a few moments the two women who had helped him out of his troubles 
arrived with plenty of wood, while the other two were still away. 
Finally the two others arrived, but the other two had already come in 
with their wood. Then the two defeated women made another challenge 
with the two other women, hoping to make this man, Child-of-a-Dog, 
think that they could do more than the two women who were offered 
to him as wives. They went to bring back water, but while they were 
gone, one of the other two women made a pond on the side of their 
lodge, and did not have to go after any water. When the other two 
came back, they found that the two others were bringing more water 
than they could bring. They sent them from their homes, and told 
them to remain away forever, never to return any more. One of the 
bad women became a Dog, and the other a Hawk, in order that they 
nught have the man to themselves. But he had been requested never to 
have anything to do with them, for they once wanted to do him harm. 
_His two other wives were gone. But his Dog, who had been one of his 
wives, was still in the village, but not living as a human being any more. 
while the other woman, who had turned into a Hawk, had left. 
