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brothers. They saw her coming and were afraid that she would 
overtake them, when they met three white doves. They asked the 
doves to take them and their dog on their backs and carry them to the 
sky. The doves agreed and flew to the sky with them and left them 
there. As the doves were flying down they flew through so much 
smoke that their white feathers became gray. ‘The girl met the doves 
and asked them where her brothers and the little bob-tailed dog were. 
The doves pointed to three bright stars in the southern part of the 
sky. The girl looked, and when she saw that her brothers and their 
dog had become stars she fell dead. 
12. THE MAN AND THE DOG WHO BECAME STARS. 
A young man had a Dog which he always took with him whenever 
he went to hunt. When he was at home he did not pay much atten- 
tion to the Dog, and the Dog acted like any other dog, but when they 
were off alone the Dog would talk to his master just as if he were a 
man. He had the power of a prophet and could always tell what was 
goingtohappen. One time, while they were out hunting, the Dog came 
running back to his master and told him that they were about to come 
to a very dangerous place. The young man asked where the place 
was, and the Dog said that he did not know just where it was, but that 
he knew it was not faraway. In another instant the Dog scented a 
deer and started out on its trail, and the man followed. Soon they 
came upon the deer. The man shot it, but only wounded it, and it 
continued to run until it reached the lake, and then jumped into the 
water. The Dog jumped in after it and soon caught it, because he 
could swim faster than the wounded deer. He held it while the young 
man threw off his clothes and swam to his assistance. Soon they killed 
the deer, and then the man put it on his shoulders and started to swim 
to the shore. All at once the Dog cried out, ‘‘ Look out!’’ There 
before them and all around them were all kinds of poisonous and dan- 
gerous water animals. The man thought that they would surely be 
killed, for the animals were so numerous that they could not possibly 
swim past them. He began to pray to the spirits to help him, and as 
he prayed the water leaped up and threw them on the shore. The 
young man felt so grateful to the spirits who had saved his and his 
Dog’s lives that he cut some of the flesh from the deer and threw it 
into the water as a sacrifice. Then he and the Dog decided that they 
would not stay longer in this dangerous world, and so they went to the 
sky to live. There they can be seen as two bright stars in the south. 
The one to the east is the young man, and the one to the west is the Dog. 
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