move away from the main camp and take
up their winter quarters in a grove of timber some distance from the
principal village. The reason they did this was that he was a great
hunter and where a village was located for the winter the game was
usually very scarce. Therefore, he always camped by himself in order to
have an abundance of game adjacent to his camp.

All summer he had roamed around following the tribe to wherever their
fancy might take them. During their travels this particular year there
came to the village a strange girl who had no relatives there. No one
seemed very anxious to take her into their family, so the great hunter's
daughter, taking a fancy to the poor girl, took her to their home and
kept her. She addressed her as sister, and the parents, on account of
their daughter, addressed her as daughter.

This strange girl became desperately in love with the young man of the
family, but being addressed as daughter by the parents, she could not
openly show her feelings as the young man was considered her brother.

In the fall when the main village moved into a large belt of timber for
their winter quarters, the hunter moved on to another place two days'
travel from the main winter camp, where he would not be disturbed by any
other hunters.

The young man had a tent by himself, and it was always kept nice and
clean by his sister, who was very much attached to him. After a long
day's hunt in the woods, he would go into his tent and lie down to rest,
and when his supper was ready his sister would say, "My brother is so
tired. I will carry his supper to him."

Her friend, whom she addressed as sister, would never go into the young
man's tent. Along towards spring there came one night into the young
man's tent a woman. She sat down by the door and kept her face covered
so that it was hidden from view. She sat there a long time and finally
arose and went away. The young man could not imagine who this could be.
He knew that it was a long distance from the village and could not make
out where the woman could have come from. The next night the woman came
again and this time she came a little nearer to where the young man lay.
She sat down and kept her face covered as before. Neither spoke a word.
She sat there for a long time and then arose and departed. He was very
much puzzled over the actions of this woman and decided to ascertain on
her next visit who she was.

He kindled a small fire in his tent and had s