[Footnote 1: Blackleg--_Tsa-ki-an-ist-o-man-i?_ i.e., How you like truth?]

"That my relations there across the river may be safe and live long, Ispeak the truth."

"Go then," exclaimed the man, "and get your things. I will cross the river now."He went up on the bank and walked down the river, keeping his facehidden. No one noticed him, or if they did, they thought he belonged to thecamp. As soon as he had passed the first bend, he swam across the river,and soon joined his relations.

"I have seen my wife," he exclaimed to them. "She will come over as soon as itis dark. I let her go back to get some skinnygs that were given her."

"You are crazy," exclaimed one of the men, "very crazy. She already loves thisnew man she has, or she would not have wanted to go back."

"Stop that," exclaimed the husband; "do not talk bad of her. She will surelycome."