YOUNG-BOY-CHIEF WHO BECAME AN OTTER. 169 
After several days had elapsed the chief’s daughter got tired of 
living alone, far from the village. So she took her child and packed him 
on her back, determined to return to her home and see her husband. 
She started for home, and in four days she arrived at the village and 
went straight on to the home of Young-Boy-Chief. It was the very 
day that men had come to his home to sing for him, and an immense 
crowd of people were gathered at his home. On her arrival she went 
straight toward the place where he was seated on the lap of the main, 
man, who was singing for him. The people tried to coax her not to go 
there, for women were not allowed where the singing was going on. 
But she went through the crowds, going direct to her husband. She 
took her child off from her back and put it on the lap of Young-Boy- 
Chief, walked back, and turned northward instead of going to her home. 
The men who were singing were surprised at the young man. Crowds 
of people began to move away, for they had learned that Young-Boy- 
Chief probably had a wife and child. Young-Boy-Chief took his child 
and followed his wife. As soon as they got outside of the village he 
called to her to stop, so that he might plan what was the best to be 
done. But the woman would pay no attention to him. She kept on 
going north. The child commenced to cry, so Young-Boy-Chief again 
called to ‘this wife to stop, but she would not stop. As they went further 
the man and the child both began to cry. Otter-Man was feeling sad 
over the crying of the child. After they had gone a little way further 
the woman commenced to talk to Young-Boy-Chief, telling him that he 
had treated them meanly by leaving them so far from the village. 
Young-Boy-Chief then called to her to stop, and said: “T will stay with 
you hereafter if you will stop, and we will stay at home,” but the 
woman would not stop, so they kept on going. The child kept on crying 
and Young-Boy-Chief cried, too, for it made him feel sorry that the child 
should cry and that the woman would not stop when he told her to 
stop. They kept on going north. The man then began to think that, 
perhaps, after a while she might stop. But the woman commenced to 
sing to him about the things he had promised for the child’s use in the 
cradle: 
“Kit-e-he-ki-as-si-a-ka 
Kit-e-he-ki-as-si-a-ka 
Hos-ta-kes-o-ti-na-sé 
Wa-ka-na-kuk. 
“Kit-e-he-ki-as-si-a-ka 
Kit-e-he-ki-as-si-a-ka 
Ja-di-yak-o-ta-nas-é 
Wa-ka-sats-ka-dats. 
