Give him your love, or for want of it he may become lonely and as savage as the animals are." The two older children promised, and the father died at sunset, and went into the unknown life whence he came.
The old Indian had lived apart from the villages of men for the sake of peace; but now, after his death, the oldest son sought the villages and he desired to live in them.

"My sister," he said, "can look out for my little brother.

I must look out for myself." But the sister tired of solitude, and longed to go to the villages.

So one day she said to her little brother: "I am going away to find our brother who has taken up his abode in the villages.

I will come back in a few moons.