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THE STORY OF CHILD-OF-A-DOG. I4l 
After he entered, the woman following, there was no way for him to 
get away from them any more. Child-of-a-Dog then took his bow- 
string and with it cast the man down into the ground and commanded 
him always to live in the ground, and sometimes in a pile of dried weeds 
and bushes, and that he should always like acorns for his food, and 
never more to have the same powers he had when living like a human 
being. So this was the end of the woman’s troubles with her husband. 
This man was Wood-Rat-Man (Likishsewatsquetsa). Child-of-a-Dog 
found that the woman had no more meat to eat and at once began to 
hunt, killing all sorts of game for them to live on. 
Long after this, when this woman went after water, she saw six 
deer near her, and immediately she returned to the place and told 
Child-of-a-Dog all about the deer that she had seen and requested him 
to go and kill them. So Child-of-a-Dog followed the deer, trailing 
them, and finally saw them, after he was a long way from home. It 
so happened that these deer stopped a while, giving him time to shoot 
at them. After killing each one of the deer, he thought of cooking some 
meat before returning to his home. For this was always his custom 
before returning home. He started up a fire and commenced to cook 
some meat. 
While cooking the meat he saw two women coming toward him. 
When these two arrived at the place where he was, he noticed that 
one of them was old and the other was much younger. These two 
women requested him to give them something to eat. He was then 
cooking liver, and while he was cooking this, before it was done, the 
older woman called for the liver to be taken out, for it was ready to 
be eaten. So Child-of-a-Dog took the liver from the fire and gave it 
to the women, for them to eat, and he noticed that the older woman 
did not give the other any of the liver, but ate it herself. The older 
woman then requested this man to put some more meat on the fire to 
cook for them, for they were hungry. By the time of doing this the 
- sun went down and it began to get dark, but this woman kept on asking 
him to cook some more meat. The trouble was that this older woman 
would call for the meat before it was done. Finally they ate up one 
whole deer. But the older woman kept asking him to cook on, for they 
were pretty hungry. By about midnight, they had eaten one more 
whole deer. 
Now, the oldest woman said that this young man should be her 
son-in-law, for she found him to be a good hunter, and knew that she 
would be well fed if this young man did the hunting for her. So she 
was going to take him home and ‘et him marry her two girls. So 
