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he stayed longer, and almost forgot the chase he was making. He 
finally thought of the chase again, and began talking to himself. The 
woman heard every word he said, for she had been given power to hear 
him at a long distance. She was going fast, but still her man was a 
much faster traveler than she. 
It was now day, and she heard him coming again. She emptied 
the bundle of fine red-colored stones for painting. Then she left behind 
her much of her red-colored paint. She went on, still using the double- 
ball to travel on. When her man came to this place he stopped, for he 
found just what he had been wanting for a long time. He said to him- 
self that he had been a long time wanting to get such paint and finally 
he had found it, and he was going to get all he wanted. He remained 
here for a while, gathering up stones. Finally he was reminded of his 
chase for his wife, and he said: “Never mind, I will get you. You will 
never get away from me.” ‘Then he started after her again. This time, 
his wife found that she was getting nearer home. It was not very long 
until she heard her man coming.. She used the stick, which was the last 
resort she had. She struck the ground, making a deep canyon. She 
continued her journey, using the double-ball. Now she was near her 
home, when some way or other Man-fond-of-Deer-Meat got over the 
canyon. She could now barely see the hill next to the village where she 
was going. She kept on going until she reached the top of the hill. 
When she looked back she saw her man coming right after her. It 
was now late in the evening. She saw young women of her age playing 
the double-ball. She kept on going toward her home. She frightened 
every woman-who was out playing, and the women said among them- 
selves that there must be something after her. She went right into the 
grass-lodge of her father and went straight to him. 
There were a good many men inside of this place. When it grew 
dark they could hear Man-fond-of-Deer-Meat talking outside of the 
lodge, asking that she might be turned out and saying that he wanted 
her. The woman’s father said to her, “et me tell you a story.” He 
then commenced to tell her the story about a chief having a daughter 
who married and left home for the sake of keeping her husband, when 
the old folks did not want her to keep her man. The chief told her 
the whole tale of her life while out by herself and with her man; how 
her man lost his arrow; how they soon ate up everything; how greedy 
her man became after losing his arrow; how some one came to notify 
her that her life was threatened; that in a short time on that day she 
should be killed by her husband; how she was compelled to make her 
escape by various means, in order to prevent her man from catching 
