144 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
concumberet. Praeceptum est, cum puellam quam uxorem vellet 
delegisset, eam innocuam fieri posse si dentes, quae in eius vagina essent, 
cote attereret; alteramque occidi posse si cotem in vaginam penitus 
intruderet; that after killing one of the girls he could escape with the 
other by going straight west, traveling fast to a high hill, where he 
would find a woman who had many children; but that she was slow 
to act, though when she decided, she could save him; but that he would 
have to beg her, and keep on begging her until she helped him out of 
his troubles; that after getting help from this woman she would re- 
quire him to go on home. She also told him that the old woman at 
home would not sleep soon, but that when she did go to sleep she would 
sleep so hard that no one could wake her; and that this would be the 
first time she had ever gone to sleep, for she never slept a wink at night 
nor in the daytime. 
The woman then took the two ears of black corn and put them 
upon the fire and told Child-of-a-Dog that that would make the old 
woman go to sleep and that she would not wake up until he was a long 
way off. Not only this, but he was also given one white, soft feather 
to use over the fire, that the feather might go up in the air, and that 
they would go out with it; and thus their trail would not be discovered 
so soon; and this time in taking the logs, instead of taking them in, 
he was to throw them down outside, but she told him that the old 
woman would try to coax him to take the logs in, but that he should 
tell her that her daughters could take them in just as well. 
Child-of-a-Dog now returned with the two ears of black corn and 
entered the lodge, and the old woman complained about his not bring- 
ing the logs into the lodge. That day soon passed and then darkness 
came and he knew how to act. Finally the two girls brought in the 
logs that were lying outside and put them in the fire to burn all night, 
and then the old woman requested them all to go to bed. They all went 
to bed at the old woman’s request, and while they were lying in the 
bed the old woman would once in a while come around to look at them, 
but the young man wanted her to go to sleep first, for he knew well 
that she would soon go to sleep for the first time in her life. Before 
any of the young people went to sleep, they heard the old woman snor- 
ing, and she was put to sleep by the influence of somebody that made 
her go to sleep. Iuvenis extemplo ad puellam minorem animum ad- 
vertit, quod certior factus est eam crudeliorem quam alternam esse. 
Itaque cotem, sicut ei praeceptum erat, in vaginam intrusit, et brevi 
tempore dentes cotem rodere audivit. Dentibus ipsis autem cito detritis, 
cotem in vagina relictam tam alte intrusit ut digitis prendi non posset. 
