THE OLD-AGE-DOG WHO RESCUED THE CHIEF'S SON. I51 
long piece of grass and put it through the hole and punched the woman’s 
back. Finally the woman walked out, and he met her. He told her that 
he had made a long trip to look for her, and that her folks were anxious 
for her to return home, and that this was her best chance to make her 
escape and to return home. The woman was rather contrary about it 
and asked him that she might go inside the tipi and get her moccasins 
and robe, but Young-Man-Chief told her that he already had a pair of 
moccasins for her and a robe, too. Still the woman wanted to return 
into the tipi again before leaving, and she promised that she would be 
out again in a little while. When the woman returned into the tipi 
she quietly told her husband, that some one was outside begging her 
to make her escape from him, and this man was the man who had left 
her when she was captured. So the woman sought revenge on Young- 
Man-Chief for leaving her behind and permitting her to be captured. 
The woman at once stepped out, having her husband behind her, and 
walked toward Young-Man-Chief, whom, when she reached him and 
was talking with him, her husband attacked, making a big yell and call- 
ing for help and saying that he had captured some one from another 
place; and being a chief he at once ordered his men to set a big fire. 
The men immediately brought in wood and made a big fire, and be- 
sides this the chief ordered the men to get a long pole and stick it by 
the fire so they might tie the man to it and dance around him while he 
was burning up. When they had built the fire they then stuck up a long 
pole by it and tied’ their victim to it. The people began to come in, and 
at once started a big victory dance. ‘They were in the habit of dancing 
around their victims in their dances. The woman and her husband 
danced around Young-Man-Chief, saying he had once done her wrong 
and they were now going to have their revenge. While the dance was 
going on they scorched him until he was burned to death and the dance 
ended. | 
On the next day the Trickster people moved their homes to another 
place, their custom being to wander; but they left behind an old dog by 
the name of Old-Age-Dog (Waadihasa). The Old-Age-Dog wandered 
around and finally found the place where the body of Young-Man- 
Chief had been left. The Old-Age-Dog thought to himself: ‘Well, I 
might as well save this man that the Trickster people have put to death.” 
So the old dog sat by the body and made a big howl, then stopped and 
looked at the body ; again he howled, looked at the body, and there was 
no sign of its coming to life. The third time he howled and called out: 
“Young-Man-Chief, you have gone to sleep. Too bad! Get up!” 
Then the body began to move around a little. The fourth time the dog 
