The child had cried itself to sleep; and the Dahcotah, worn out with fatigue and grief, thought he would go to sleep too.
After a while a woman came and touched him on the shoulder, and awaked him as of old.

He started and looked at her, and perceiving it was not his wife, felt inclined to take little notice of her.
"What," said she, "does a Dahcotah warrior still love a woman who hates him ?" "Mocassin Flower loves me well," replied the Dahcotah; "she has been a good wife." "Yes," replied the woman, "she was for a time; but she sighs to return home--her heart yearns towards the lover of her youth." Chaske was very angry.

"Can this be true ?" he said; and he looked towards the beaver dam where his wife still sat.

In the meantime the woman who had waked him, brought him some food in bark dishes worked with porcupine.
"Eat," she said to the Dahcotah; "you are hungry." But who can tell the fury that Mocassin Flower was in when she saw that strange woman bringing her husband food.

"Who are you," she cried, "that are troubling yourself about my husband?
I know you well; you are the 'Bear-Woman.'" "And if I am," said the Bear woman, "do not the souls of the bears enjoy forever the heaven of the Dahcotah ?" Poor Chaske! he could not prevent their quarrelling, so, being very hungry, he soon disposed of what the Bear woman had brought him.