If you will let us rub your face and hands with this medicine it will
put new life into the skin and you will assume your complexion again and
it will put flesh on you." The figure assented and the hunter rubbed the
medicine on her hands and face. Then she arose and walked back to the
scaffold. The next day the hunter moved camp towards the home village.
That night he camped within a few miles of the village. When night came,
the dogs, as usual, set up a great barking, and looking out, the wife
saw the girl approaching.
When the girl had entered and sat down, the hunter noticed that the girl
did not keep her robe so closely together over her face. When the wife
gave her something to eat, the girl reached out and took the dish, thus
exposing her hands, which they at once noticed were again natural. After
she had finished her meal, the hunter said: "Did my medicine help you?"
She nodded assent. "Do you want my medicine rubbed all over your body?"
Again she nodded. "I will mix enough to rub your entire body, and I will
go outside and let my wife rub it on for you." He mixed a good supply
and going out left his wife to rub the girl. When his wife had completed
the task she called to her husband to come in, and when he came in he
sat down and said to the girl: "Tomorrow we will reach the village. Do
you want to go with us?" She shook her head. "Will you come again to our
camp tomorrow night after we have camped in the village?" She nodded
her head in assent. "Then do you want to see your parents?" She nodded
again, and arose and disappeared into the darkness.
Early the next morning the hunter broke camp and traveled far into the
afternoon, when he arrived at the village. He instructed his wife to go
at once and inform the old couple of what had happened. The wife did
so and at sunset the old couple came to the hunter's tepee. They were
invited to enter and a fine supper was served them. Soon after they had
finished their supper the dogs of the camp set up a great barking. "Now
she is coming, so be brave and you will soon see your lost daughter,"
said the hunter. Hardly had he finished speaking when she entered the
tent as natural as ever she was in life. Her parents clung to her and
smothered her with kisses.
They wanted her to return home with them, but she would stay with the
hunter who had brought her back to life, and she married him, becoming
his second wife. A short time after taking the girl for his wife, the
hun
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