TROUBLE AMONG THE CHIEF'S CHILDREN. 237 
that she should make her escape, for it was her day to die. He meant 
that on his return, Man-fond-of-Deer-Meat would kill her and eat her. 
This was early in the day, and it was the Sparrow (Ichinekats) who 
told her this. He gave her a stick and a double-ball, a handful of deer 
hair, bark from a dogwood tree and a bundle of reddish-colored pieces 
of fine stones for paint. She was first to use the double-ball to travel 
on when she would be pursued; then she was to throw the deer hair 
down, with which her man might busy himself by chasing deers to kill 
them, and so forget about chasing her, when she would get far ahead 
of him. Next she was to use the bark in the same way, and then use 
the red stones last. Finally she was to use her stick, dragging it behind 
her across her path once, when there would be a deep canyon. She was 
told to go ahead, make her escape and return home. The woman went 
out. She tossed up in the air the double-ball, toward the north, and 
was on it. This was to prevent Man-fond-of-Deer-Meat from knowing 
which way she was starting. She kept on going, using the double-ball 
all the time. Before starting she was told that she would hear her man 
talking, after he should find that she was gone, and that he would have 
to find her trail before he could start after her. She traveled all that 
day until late in the evening, when she heard her man talking and 
asking where she had gone, saying: “Who could have come around to 
tell her to make her escape, for the time has come that I thought I 
was going to get all I wanted to eat?” When she had escaped, she was 
without any blanket around her legs, for her man had eaten everything. 
He finally found her trail and commenced to pursue her. It was night 
and she was traveling, so that it was not very long until she was nearly 
overtaken. She used the deer hairs first, throwing them on the ground. 
She kept on going. When her man got to this place he said to himself: 
“Well, here are lots of deer. I could kill many deer here, instead of 
looking for my arrow.” He at once commenced. to chase the deer 
around with the expectation of killing one. By this time his wife had 
gone on a long distance, when he thought of the chase he had been 
making. He started after her again. She had heard every word he had 
said while he was chasing deer. Finally she heard him coming closer 
and closer. Now she took the bark of dogwood and threw it on the 
ground, and left the place with big bushes of dogwood. Thus she got a 
good way ahead of him. When Man-fond-of-Deer-Meat arrived at 
the place he commenced to cut down some bushes, saying to himself that 
he could come along again and find the place, when he would get all the 
dogwood bushes he wanted for arrow making. He sat down, cut some 
sticks and commenced to remove the bark and straighten them. Here 
