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between the neck and shoulder, sending his arrow out of sight; 

 another one he shot at the other place, sending it out of sight, too, 

 killing the animal instantly. This gave a red appearance to the river; 

 because this monster extended into this tipi from the river. He then 

 took up a stone club and beat the horns off from the monster and let 

 it go. 



Just then the old woman returned with some more beef for them- 

 selves. "Say, grandmother, here are two beautiful horns that you 

 can use for spoons," said Little-Star, joyfully. "Well, my dear 

 grandmother, after you had gone, I saw a big creature eating up our 

 victuals that you had laid away. I then took my bow and arrows and 

 shot him dead," said he, before the old woman had a chance to speak. 



"Oh! Did you really kill him? My dear child, he is your grand- 

 father," said Night-Old-Woman. (She was actually married, secretly, 

 to this water monster. She might have told Little-Star before that 

 the monster was her husband, but she had kept this a secret. ) 



After they had had their breakfast on the morning of- the next 

 day, the old woman said to Little-Star, who was amusing himself 

 inside the lodge: "Dear grandchild, I want you to remain at home 

 while I go out into the woods after 'yeaneeshe' "(which means, pitched- 

 tipi, refers to the erection of the Offerings-lodge), a red bush that 

 grows in bunches in river bottoms. Late in the afternoon Old-Woman- 

 Night returned and entered the tipi in gloomy spirit. 



"Well, grandmother, what is the matter with your legs?" said 

 Little-Star, looking at his grandmother's legs. "Dear grandchild, 

 my legs got scratched up terribly when I was going through the 

 thicket this morning, and that is why they are somewhat bloody," 

 said Old-Woman-Night, with a sigh. This old woman had tortured 

 her legs by gashing the muscles crosswise, leaving a clotted blood 

 appearance. 



For some time Little-Star remained with his grandmother and 

 grew up to be quite a young man. During that time she made his 

 bow into a beautiful lance,' using the feathers that she had carefully 

 preserved in her tipi. She caught eagles and other species of birds 

 and various kinds of animals at her traps. 



When Little-Star had completed his lance ("coyote-bow"), he 

 said, in manly way and with signs of adventure, to his grandmother, 

 who was in the act of cooking a meal: "Well, grandmother, I am 



' The lance was like that of Lime-Crazy in appearance. At the bottom were numerous kinds 

 of feathers of small and large birds. The bow was reversed for a lance, the end with the knot being 

 next to the ground; in this position it had owl feathers at the lower end. then just above them 

 magpie feathers, then at the knot bluebird feathers, while near the top was a hawk feather, and at 

 the top an eagle-wing feather. 



