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him harm. After a few days, late one evening, he caught up with 
them. He then began to think what to do with these evil people. After 
dark he stopped outside of the village and whistled four times. ‘When 
he whistled, there came to him tthe Dog, his former wife. He told her 
that he wanted to save her from destruction, for she once did him a 
great favor by getting him out of trouble. He then shot one arrow 
toward the south, and one toward the west, and another toward the 
north, and the last one where they were, and then fire began to come up 
from every direction. After doing this, Child-of-a-Dog requested 
this dog to go somewhere else to live. The dog then told Child-of-a- 
Dog that his mother and the old woman were both dead, and only the 
young woman was still alive, but that she would soon die, for there 
was some one who had found her and made her his wife, and that she 
was in danger, and if he did not get there in time, her man was planning 
to kill her and eat her. So Child-of-a-Dog at once departed from his 
former wife and went straight home. 
When he arrived home he did not find the woman. Then he went 
due east, and there he saw a pond, and on the bank of the pond he saw 
this woman sitting, watching the ducks swimming. Without show- 
ing himself he took one of his arrows and shot at the ducks and struck 
one. While this woman was looking at the ducks she noticed that one 
was struck with an arrow which had belonged to her son, whom she 
had not seen, and so she wept, wishing that he would return once more 
to his home, as she was now living all alone, and as she knew that the 
following was to be the last day of her life. As she turned around, 
looking back towards the west, there she saw the young man who had 
returned. She then wept for joy at seeing him, for she knew that she 
would be saved. She had with her some kind of a pail, in which she 
was cooking acorn soup for her husband. Child-of-a-Dog requested 
,her to accompany him to their home, and while on the way she told 
of her troubles with her husband, and that this man had already told 
her that when returning from hunting, if not having any meat with 
him, that she would be killed and be eaten up. But Child-of-a-Dog 
told her to never mind about that. When they were in the lodge, they 
heard this man’s voice, calling for her to hurry with acorn soup, and 
the woman began to cry, for this man was coming towards the place. 
But Child-of-a-Dog requested the woman to step outside, and then 
come right in again, so that this would cause the man to enter the lodge. 
The man was then talking about the boy, saying that Child-of-a-Dog 
must ibe back, from the way they acted. As he approached the grass- 
lodge the woman walked in the lodge and was followed by the man. 
