All the people in the camp ran to his lodge, so that it was crowded full of people.  There was a big fire in the lodge, and the wind was blowing hard from the west.  Men, women, and children were huddled together in the lodge, and were very much afraid of the ghost.  They could hear her walking toward the lodge, grumbling, and saying:  “I will kill all these dogs.  Not one of them shall get away.”  The sounds kept coming closer and closer, until they were right at the lodge door.  Then she said, “I will smoke you to death.”  And as she said this, she moved the poles, so that the wings of the lodge turned toward the west, and the wind could blow in freely through the smoke hole.  All this time she was threatening terrible things against them.  The lodge began to get full of smoke, and the children were crying, and all were in great distress—­almost suffocating.  So they said, “Let us lift one man up here inside, and let him try to fix the ears, so that the lodge will get clear of smoke.”  They raised a man up, and he was standing on the shoulders of the others, and, blinded and half strangled by the smoke, was trying to turn the wings.  While he was doing this, the ghost suddenly hit the lodge a blow, and said, “Un!” and this scared the people who were holding the man, and they jumped and let him go, and he fell down.  Then the people were in despair, and said, “It is no use; she is resolved to smoke us to death.”  All the time the smoke was getting thicker in the lodge.

Heavy Collar said:  “Is it possible that she can destroy us?  Is there no one here who has some strong dream power that can overcome this ghost?”

His mother said:  “I will try to do something.  I am older than any of you, and I will see what I can do.”  So she got down her medicine bundle and painted herself, and got out a pipe and filled it and lighted it, and stuck the stem out through the lodge door, and sat there and began to pray to the ghost woman.  She said:  “Oh ghost, take pity on us, and go away.  We have never wronged you, but you are troubling us and frightening our children.  Accept what I offer you, and leave us alone.”

A voice came from behind the lodge and said:  “No, no, no; you dogs, I will not listen to you.  Every one of you must die.”

The old woman repeated her prayer:  “Ghost, take pity on us.  Accept this smoke and go away.”

Then the ghost said:  “How can you expect me to smoke, when I am way back here?  Bring that pipe out here.  I have no long bill to reach round the lodge.”  So the old woman went out of the lodge door, and reached out the stem of the pipe as far as she could reach around toward the back of the lodge.  The ghost said:  “No, I do not wish to go around there to where you have that pipe.  If you want me to smoke it, you must bring it here.”  The old woman went around the lodge toward her, and the ghost woman began to back away, and said, “No, I do not smoke that kind of a pipe.”  And when the ghost started away, the old woman followed her, and she could not help herself.