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arrival, the other woman was glad to have the child back again. There- 
after, they kept a strict watch over the child at all times. . This other 
woman was more like a mother to the child than its own mother, for 
she was always carrying the child on her back, even more than its own 
mother. 
Once upon a time the child began to cry, and no one knew what the 
child was crying about. The father of the child tried everything he 
could to stop it from crying, but could not, and the other woman tried 
every way she could to stop the child from crying, but it would not 
stop. The child cried all that day. They wondered what was the matter 
with the child. The mother did not pay any attention to the child, but 
depended on the other woman and on her husband to stop the child from 
crying. Finally the man asked his wife to find out what was the matter 
with the child, saying: “You have great powers, and you can predict 
anything that is going to happen.” Finally the mother turned to ‘her 
husband and told him that the child was crying for his father to tell 
them all about his own life—from the beginning of his early days and 
of his manhood days, and what hard times he had been through. Child- 
of-a-Dog then called his boy to come to him, and to stop crying, for he 
was now ready to tell him all about his life, and about all the hard 
times that he had ever been through. The child then stopped crying, 
and sat down on his father’s lap, and the father then commenced to tell 
about his mother’s life and about the other old woman with whom they 
used to live, and of the child also who had long since lived with them ; 
and he told him how he was born and what had made his mother preg- 
nant, and how he was taken away by two women to strange countries, 
and how he met his enemies there, and as to how he was aided by 
another two women, and how he had won the race over four brothers 
who were Buffalo, and how after having done this he was called to a 
feast, and how he was thrown into a pit to die, and also how he was 
saved by some people who had not gone off to the hunting expedition, 
which had been sent out by these people who had thrown him into the 
pit. He then told all about his life among the strange people that had 
done him wrong, and what sort of people these were who had saved 
his life. He told that these people who had saved his life were Quails 
(Kakia), who were living in the timber where the Quails always lived, 
and also how he followed up the crowd of people who went out on this 
expedition, and how he whistled to his former wife in order to save her 
when he got ready to destroy the people who had mistreated him while 
living with them. This was the story he was telling his son, and the 
bov sat on his father’s lap listening to him. So the father continued 
