THE JEALOUS HUSBAND. 79 
46. THE JEALOUS HUSBAND.* 
One time the people decided to go on the war-path, and when they 
were about to start they selected one man to be their leader. They 
started out and they had to go a long way before they could find the 
enemy. After they had traveled several days, the head man selected 
from eight to twelve men to go ahead and spy and see if they could 
locate the enemy. When any of these men located any of the enemy 
they would go back and tell what they had seen, and then all the others 
would ride out tofightthe enemy. The leader chose for spies two men 
who were very close friends and who would always go together from 
place to place. Oneof these two was married and the other was single. 
One day they went out for some distance, and after they had gone 
about two miles, climbing up and down the hills, they came to a high 
hill, almost like a mountain. They decided to climb up this mountain 
so they could look far out over the country. They found on top a big 
hole in the rock that looked like an old well, and when they looked 
down into the hole they saw water. ‘The married man told his friend 
to go down in the hole to get some water, for they were very thirsty. 
They had a long buffalo-hide rope and on this he descended. When he 
got tothe bottom, he cried out to his friend to pull him up. Instead of 
pulling him up he threw the rope down the hole and went away and 
left him. He started for the camp, and when he reached there he told 
the head man that some of the enemy pursued them and that his friend 
was killed. It was a custom for the war party to continue the journey 
until they met the enemy in open battle, but if anything happened to 
a member of the party, or if any member should die through sickness 
or be killed, otherwise than in open fight with the enemy, then the 
expedition was given up and the entire party returned home. When 
the man told the head man that his friend had been killed, the camp 
broke up and all prepared to start home. When they returned to their 
homes, the errand-man was sent by the chief to all the camps to call the 
people together. When the people came the chief told them what had 
happened. 
The man in the hole was starving, for he had been in there several 
days without food. Whenever any birds passed over him he would 
ask for help and pray them to take him out of the hole, but the birds 
did not seem to take any notice of him. One day, after he had been 
in the hole nine days, there was a certain kind of bird passed over the 
hole and the man asked it for help. The bird went on, but finally flew 
* Told by Wing. 
