The boy became a great hunter.  He made fine arrows that went faster than a bird could fly, and when he was hunting he watched all the animals and all the birds, and learned their ways and how to imitate them when they called.  While he was hunting, the girl dressed buffalo-hides and the skins of deer and other animals.  She made a fine new lodge, and the boy painted it with figures of all the birds and the animals he had killed.

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 some 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 man 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 them, 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