
THE OLD-AGE-DOG WHO RESCUED THE CHIEF'S SON. T49 
and told all about his. trouble among strange people, and how he de- 
stroyed all the people who had done him wrong, saving out only one 
person, who was once his wife, who helped him when first he had a 
footrace with the men who were brothers, and how he finally came to 
his old home, and how he found his aunt to be suffering hardships by 
having troubles with her husband when her son Child-of-a-Dog was 
gone from home, and after ‘having arrived at home what trouble he 
also met when first seeing the mother of his baby boy. This was now 
the beginning of the tale of his father’s and mother’s life after becom- 
ing husband and wife, and what troubles they met before he was born. 
This story was mainly all about their trouble with Little-Spider-Woman 
and their escape from her, and of the time of his birth, and this was then 
ending the whole story of his life. 
So after recounting so many troubles, they said to one another: 
“Let us become something else, for we have met so much trouble, and 
we are likely to meet more, and in order to prevent this we must leave 
our old home and be something else.’’ So, as Child-of-a-Dog was the 
son of the Wind, he became the Wind and his boy child also became 
something. Sometimes, when the Wind blows and is blowing slowly, 
it is the child of Child-of-a-Dog, and sometimes, when it blows harder, 
it is Child-of-a~Dog. The mother then became a Raccoon. This is 
why the raccoons know so much, for it is said that raccoons are the 
smartest of living ‘beasts. 
Now the old woman was left at home by herself. She then 
thought that it would not do for her to live by herself and so she took 
a gourd of water and poured it on the fire, and as the smoke went up, 
she went up too, and became Black-EFagle (Kosetskawe). 
20. THE OLD-AGE-DOG WHO RESCUED THE CHIEF’S SON.* 
Young-Man-Chief (Toniketsanias) was a young man belonging to 
a chief’s family; therefore he was considered a fine young man, and 
everybody admired him, because he was a kind-hearted young man; 
but he refused to marry and wanted to be single. The village where 
he lived was built on a wide, open place, with timber quite a good way 
off, on the north, east, south, and west. The people were rather fearful 
of their enemies, the Trickster-Spies (Kinas Kitikeahara), for they 
were troubled by them. In time of wood-hauling the women who hauled 
the wood were accompanied by men with weapons, who were always 
*Told by Ahahe (Waco). 
