THE STORY OF CHILD-OF-A-DOG. 139 
Once in a while the Dog would come around and tell Child-of-a- 
Dog not to let people from the village take him over to their home, for 
they were still after him and were planning to do him harm some day. 
So he remained at his former brother-in-law’s. Once upon a time, 
late in the evening, the Dog (who was his former wife), came around 
and told him that he ought to go back home, for his mother had died 
because the never returned home. All the time these people kept after — 
him to come to their homes to pay them a visit, and so one time he 
decided to accept an invitation to go where all the men went to pass 
their time in sitting up at night. He went on where he was invited to 
be present, and when entering the lodge he was requested to pass on 
to the west side of the lodge, where there was a robe spread out for 
him to sit down on, and when he sat down, he fell down into a hole. 
This was the scheme that they had to entrap Child-of-a-Dog. As soon 
as he fell into the hole the news began to spread, and with it a request 
for all people to bring all the hot ashes from their fires, and throw them 
into the pit, where their victim was. So as soon as he heard this, the 
began at once to dig a hole on the side of the wall of the pit, large 
enough for him to get in when they began to pour the hot ashes down. 
He was in a safe place when the people began to pour down the hot 
ashes. They nearly filled the pit with hot ashes and then he heard some 
man announcing to the people to remove their village and go on a 
hunting expedition. So all the people began at once to move away, and 
they ‘left Child-of-a-Dog to die in the pit. There were some people 
who remained outside of the village in the timber, who had some chil- 
dren, who, after several days, decided to go and see if this man was 
still alive. TShese two boys went to the pit wherein this man was thrown 
and asked if he was still alive. Child-of-a-Dog told the boys that he 
was still alive. The boys then returned to their home, and begged their 
parents to come with them to get him out of the pit and save him. 
They started for the place to remove the ashes and to get him out of 
the place. On their arrival they commenced to move away the ashes. 
Finally they succeeded in getting him out of the pit, and found Child- 
of-a-Dog still alive, but badly scorched. After getting out of the pit, 
Child-of-a-Dog went straight to the creek and dived in. After doing 
this, Child-of-a-Dog was just as he always was. Then he went to the 
home of these people who had saved him from destruction. 
On ‘his arrival he at once began to hunt for them in order to do 
them some good in return for the good they had done for him. He 
remained for a while, and then was requested to return home, but in- 
stead of doing this he followed again after the people who had done 
