He said to them, “How came you here?”
They answered, “What do you mean? We came for wood and something brought us here. Now you also are lost.”
He looked behind him, and lo! there was a hole.
“What is this?” he asked.
“Stop!” they said. “That is the thing itself.”
He drew out an arrow and shot it. Then suddenly it opened out and behold! it was the ear of an owl in which they had been shut up. When it was killed, it opened out. Then he said, “Young men and women, come out,” so they went home.
Again they offered him two wives. But he said, “My friend will marry them. I am traveling.”
Again he passed on. And he came to a dwelling place of people and found them shooting the hoop. There stood a young man looking on. He joined him as his friend. While they stood there together, he said:
“Friend, let us go to your home.” So he went with him to his tepee.
The young man said, “Grandmother, I have brought my friend home with me; get him something to eat.”