Lae STORY (OF: CHILD-OF-A-DOG:. Lay 
So from this time, Child-of-a-Dog and his wife and the other 
woman lived together, and whenever Child-of-a-Dog would go out hunt- 
ing the women would remain at home. ‘When they were all at home 
the wife of Child-of-a-Dog told of the troubles she had had while she 
was living with Little-Spider-Woman. She told that Little-Spider- 
Woman was not her mother, but had captured her and also the other 
girl. She told that when but a young girl Little-Spider-Woman had 
carried her away from her parents, and that she used to live in the 
woods, where she belonged, her parents being the Striped-Animals 
(Kitiishtadau), Raccoons; and that the other girl who was living with 
them was also captured by this woman when but a young girl, and that 
she lived in the woods; that her parents were the Hump-Backs (Niki- 
dets), Owls. She also said that the woman who had helped them ‘to 
escape was also living in the woods, and that she was a Squirrel-Woman 
(Watsadakaheha). 
So they lived together for a long while, and finally there was born 
a baby boy tothem. The child grew fast. Once upon a time there came 
a woman who wished to take the child home for a while, and when she 
went out with the child, they sank into the ground right by the door 
of their lodge. The parents were at home all this day, for it happened 
that Child-of-a-Dog did not go out to hunt, so he knew what had hap- 
pened, and he saw that this woman had not returned their child. So 
Child-of-a-Dog went off to search for his child all the following day, 
but he returned without finding it. He then called on his wife, saying: 
“My wife, you have great powers. Can you find our child? If you can, 
do so.” His wife’s eyes were all swollen from crying all that day, think- 
ing that some one had been cruel enough to kidnap the child. So the 
child’s mother then said to her husband: “Let us go off toward the 
west.” So they went on wherever this woman wanted to go. Finally 
they saw where this woman had been, and tthen they trailed her, and at 
the end of the trail the woman called to her man, requesting him to take 
one of his arrows and take the feather part in his hand and draw it along 
on the ground, so as to leave a line on the ground. This was done by 
the man, and then they saw down in the ground the woman with the 
child. Child-of-a-Dog went down and got his child and he dragged the 
woman who had kidnaped his child out of the place. Child-of-a-Dog 
then told this woman that she was cruel for kidnaping his child, but 
he would not kill her, but that she would have less powers thereafter, 
and would always live under the ground. So she was cast down in the 
ground, to remain there always. This woman was a Mole (Iskutuke- 
thas). They then took their child back to their home. On their 
