THE OLD-AGE-DOG WHO RESCUED THE CHIEF'S SON.|| 159 
before they were able to find any trail of the Trickster-Spies, though 
spies were sent on ahead every day. On the tenth day Chief’s-Son and 
his dog went out alone to scout, leaving all the rest to remain at their 
camping place during their absence. They followed up the trail and at 
about midnight came to the enemy’s village. Chief’s-Son was asked to 
stay behind the dog. As they drew nearer to the village he was asked 
to stop and remain, the dog going on alone. By the place where the 
village was situated was a high hill, and on this hill White-Dog howled 
as dogs always do—not barking, but howling. After he had howled 
this way the dogs in the village all began to howl and they came to 
White-Dog, for he was calling them to him. In a little while all the dogs 
of the Trickster-Spies were assembled. White-Dog now asked all the 
dogs how they were being treated by their masters. All said they had 
not been treated right. White-Dog then told them all to return to their 
village, carry off all the weapons and chew off the bow-strings, saying 
that he had a war-party that was ready to attack the Trickster-Spies, 
and that the party would be there at break of day. The dogs all went 
down the hill howling. White-Dog went back to Chief’s-Son and told 
him that he had arranged everything so that the enemy would have no 
opportunity to do anything. Both now returned to the war-party and 
Chief’s-Son told what had been done. All the men began to move 
toward the enemy’s camp. About daylight they attacked the village, 
and when the enemy, seeing their village attacked, tried to find their 
weapons, they found their bow-strings gnawed in two, so that there 
was nothing left to do but to run for their lives. Chief’s-Son and 
White-Dog went through the village, paying no attention to any one 
until they overtook the captive woman and her man. When they had 
overtaken them Chief’s-Son called to the woman, and said: ‘‘Your life 
is mine. I am going to take your life.” The woman turned back and 
begged not to be harmed, but the dog jumped on her and bit her right on 
her throat and killed ther, and Chief’s-Son went after her man. When 
they had killed the two they went through the rest of the people and 
killed others. Chief’s-Son captured a young woman about the age of 
the woman they had killed to place her in the family from which she 
had been taken, as an adopted daughter for her father, who was in the 
crowd. The war-party began to return home, and soon completed their 
journey. Before they reached the village, according to custom, they set 
fire to the prairie, to show the people at home that they were victorious. 
Having shown the people at home that they were victorious they told 
them how they had made the people suffer. Of course, the father of 
' the girl adopted the captured woman to live with him permanently. 
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