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"'Well, well, said his friend, after looking him over carefully, 'you seem to be in a sad case. What has happened to you? "'Oh, replied Sun-ka, speaking with difficulty, 'I tried to get my share of the meat, which my mistress has in her lodge, and she beat me for it. She beat me till I am stiff and sore, and can scarcely move. "'Well, said his friend, 'I wouldn't stand it if I were you.
Then Stillbiter crept up softly to the lodge and bit off all the thongs which fastened the covering to the lodge poles. "When this was done, Strongneck crept in and seized the meat and carried it away. Then Sharptooth ripped open the bag which held the meat, and before morning the six dogs ate it all up. "When the meat was all gone, Sun-ka ran away and became a wild dog.
When Sun-ka tried to get the meat, she beat him over the head with a club until he ran away yelping with pain. "The next morning one of his dog friends came to visit him. 'Good morning, Sun-ka, said he, but Sun-ka made no reply. Indeed, his head was so swelled from the blows he had received, that he could hardly open his mouth.
What she could not eat at once, she dried and put away for another time. To Sun-ka she gave only the bones and other poor scraps, so that most of the time he was half starved. "At last there came a season when game was very scarce. The old woman, it is true, had plenty of dried meat in her wigwam, but she gave none of it to Sun-ka. He almost died of starvation.
What became of the old Indian woman I do not know." "Served her right," said the little boy. "If she hadn't been so stingy with her meat, she wouldn't have lost it. And Sun-ka would have stayed with her to help catch more." It was hot. Little Luke sat on the doorstep in the shade. Over in the pasture Old Boze the Hound gave tongue. He was at his favorite sport of trailing rabbits all by himself.
And he began the following tale. "Many winters ago there was a wise dog whose name was Sun-ka. He lived with an old Indian woman. Now Sun-ka was a good hunter, and often brought home to the lodge rabbits and other small animals which he had hunted and caught by himself. "But his mistress was a bad, greedy old woman. She took all the game which he brought, and used it for herself.
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