As they travelled on, the woman, when she got tired, would sit down, and because she was very tired, she would fall asleep; and when she awoke and looked up, she always saw the person walking away from her, and she would get up and follow him.  When day came, the shape would be far ahead of her, but at night it would keep closer.  When she spoke to this person, the woman would call him “young man.”  At one time she said to him, “Young man, my moccasins are all worn out, and my feet are getting very sore, and I am very tired and hungry.”  When she had said this, she sat down and fell asleep, and as she was falling asleep, she saw the person going away from her.  He went back to the lodge of the medicine man.

During this night the camp heard the medicine man singing his song, and they knew that the dream person must be back again, or that his chief must be calling him.  The medicine man had unwrapped his bundle, and had taken out all his things, and again had a fire of coals, on which he burned sweet pine and sweet grass.  Those who were listening heard a voice say:  “Well, my chief, I am back again, and I am here to tell you something.  I am bringing the woman you sent me after.  She is very hungry and has no moccasins.  Get me those things, and I will take them back to her.”  The medicine man went out of the lodge, and called to the poor man, who was mourning for his wife, that he wanted to see him.  The man came, carrying the child on his back, to hear what the medicine man had to say.  He said to him:  “Get some moccasins and something to eat for your wife.  I want to send them to her.  She is coming.”  The poor man went to his sister, and told her to give him some moccasins and some pemmican.  She made a bundle of these things, and the man took them to the medicine man, who gave them to the dream person; and again he disappeared out of the lodge like a wind.

IV

When the woman awoke in the morning and started to get up, she hit her face against a bundle lying by her, and when she opened it, she found in it moccasins and some pemmican; and she put on the moccasins and ate, and while she was putting on the moccasins and eating, she looked over to where she had last seen the person, and he was sitting there with his back toward her.  She could never see his face.  When she had finished eating, he got up and went on, and she rose and followed.  They went on, and the woman thought, “Now I have travelled two days and two nights with this young man, and I wonder what kind of a man he is.  He seems to take no notice of me.”  So she made up her mind to walk fast and to try to overtake him, and see what sort of a man he was.  She started to do so, but however fast she walked, it made no difference.  She could not overtake him.  Whether she walked fast, or whether she walked slow, he was always the same distance from her.  They travelled on until night, and then she lay down again and fell asleep.  She dreamed that the young man had left her again.