THE STORY OF CHILD-OF-A-DOG. 145 
Quocirca puella cito mortua est. Deinde alteram, ut ei praeceptum erat, 
innocuam idoneamque quacum vir concumberet, fecit. 
After having this done, then he told the woman that she would 
be saved, for he did not intend to kill her, as he had chosen sher to be 
his wife for all time. He now said: ‘““We surely must leave this place, 
or else we will be killed.” The young man then requested the girl to 
stand ready by the fire. Then Child-of-a-Dog took out his feather and 
when he ‘had put the feather over the fire, the feather flew up, and they 
were with it when it went up in the air, and as it rose it flew toward 
the west, and they went with it. For a long time the feather flew to- 
ward the west and finally fell to the ground with them, and then they 
had to travel on foot. Still the old woman was sound asleep. 
The other woman who had given power to Child-of-a-Dog now 
deserted her home, for she knew that she would be suspected by the 
old woman of having aided Child-of-a-Dog to overcome the girls and 
escape. She had already told Child-of-a-Dog that the girls were not 
the true daughters of the old woman, but had somewhere been cap- 
tured when young girls, and had been kept in the condition they were 
in. Now, this woman, after she had learned that Child-of-a-Dog and 
his wife had escaped, went to the timber and climbed a tree. She 
jumped from one tree to another in order to cause the old woman to 
lose her trail. She had to do this in order to make her escape from the 
old woman, who had great powers, and who also was an evil-spirited 
woman. 
The young man and the young woman kept on traveling. The 
man was told first to use his powers in order that they might travel 
faster. So Child-of-a-Dog took his arrow and shot it and they traveled 
with the arrow, and when the arrow stopped, they stopped also. But 
we must know that these arrows went a very long way wherever they 
were shot off for traveling. So the young man, having four arrows, 
shot four times, and every time he shot they would accompany the 
arrow. After having shot all the arrows his traveling power was ex- 
hausted, and they could travel fast no more. So now he depended on 
his wife, and at this time they could hear the old woman talking, and 
as far as they were away from her, they could hear her asking for 
them wherever she would meet any one. But some one had aided this 
young couple to get away. Of course, the old woman had power by 
which she could soon find their trail, and then go after them. Thus 
it was that these young people soon heard her talking, saying that she 
had found their trail and that they had no chance to make their escape. 
