One day, when the girl was bringing water, she saw a little way off a person coming.  When she went in the lodge, she told her brother, and he went out to meet the stranger.  He found that he was friendly and was hunting, but had had bad luck and killed nothing.  He was starving and in despair, when he saw this lone lodge and made up his mind to go to it.  As he came near it, he began to be afraid, and to wonder if the people who lived there were enemies or ghosts; but he thought, “I may as well die here as starve,” so he went boldly to it.  The strange person was very much surprised to see this handsome young man with the kind face, who could speak his own language.  The boy took him into the lodge, and the girl put food before him.  After he had eaten, he told his story, saying that the game had left them, and that many of his people were dying of hunger.  As he talked, the girl listened; and at last she remembered the man, and knew that he belonged to her camp.  She asked him questions, and he talked about all the people in the camp, and even spoke of the old woman who owned the dog.  The boy advised the stranger, after he had rested, to return to his camp, and tell the people to move up to this place, that here they would find plenty of game.  After he had gone, the boy and his sister talked of these things.  The girl had often told him what she had suffered, what the chief had said and done, and how their own parents had turned against her, and that the only person whose heart had been good to her was this old woman.  As the young man heard all this again, he was angry at his parents and the chief, but he felt great kindness for the old woman and her dog.  When he learned that those bad people were living, he made up his mind that they should suffer and die.

When the strange person reached his own camp, he told the people how well he had been treated by these two persons, and that they wished him to bring the whole camp to where they were, and that there they should have plenty.  This made great joy in the camp, and all got ready to move.  When they reached the lost children’s camp, they found everything as the stranger had said.  The brother gave a feast; and to those whom he liked he gave many presents, but to the old woman and the dog he gave the best presents of all.  To the chief nothing at all was given, and this made him very much ashamed.  To the parents no food was given, but the boy tied a bone to the lodge poles above the fire, and told the parents to eat from it without touching it with their hands.  They were very hungry, and tried to eat from this bone; and as they were stretching out their necks to reach it—­for it was above them—­the boy cut off their heads with his knife.  This frightened all the people, the chief most of all; but the boy told them how it all was, and how he and his sister had survived.

When he had finished speaking, the chief said he was sorry for what he had done, and he proposed to his people that this young man should be made their chief.  They were glad to do this.  The boy was made the chief, and lived long to rule the people in that camp.