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but would not go in. He said: "I have been eating some women, 

 and one got away. I see her tracks, and she must be in your lodge. 

 If she is there, send her out, so I can eat her." The man said the 

 girl was not there, but the Mountain-Lion knew the girl was there. 

 So he went closer to the lodge. The man looked at him with his left 

 eye and the Dogs both jumped right on the Mountain-Lion and killed 

 him in no time. 



17. — The Rolling Head. 



There was once a village whose chief had a girl named Michihi, 

 and one by the name of Hokah. A family bought Michihi that their 

 boy might marry her. After they had been married two days, one 

 of the men of the village mourned. They had the mourning cere- 

 mony. They went hunting for scalps. The boy, who had just 

 been married, made up his mind to go with the rest of the party 

 to hunt scalps. He told his father-in-law and mother-in-law that 

 he was going scalp hunting. They started. They went a long 

 way. 



Now this boy had a friend that he used to go with before he had 

 got married. So they went on, and the}" came to another village. 

 All stopped, and they were in three groups. The boy and his 

 friend were with those who went to the chief's tipi. There was a 

 nice pretty girl there that the boy at once liked. All then went 

 away from the camp, and, as they were going, the boy said to his 

 friend that he was going to take that girl and marry her. His 

 friend advised him not to do it, because he had a nice woman at 

 home. The boy's friend said, "You might talk to her," and he told 

 her he would like to marry her, which he did, at last. , 



The next morning the boy's new father-in-law told him to invite 

 all his friends to come and eat with him. This the boy did, and 

 all ate with him. The next morning, the boy went and told his 

 men that he did not want them to tell his first wife that he was 

 married again. All promised that they would not. He told them 

 to say that some one had killed him. 



All got home in a few days and they told that the boy had been 

 killed. The boy's former wife mourned for him, cut her ears off 

 and her hair, and cried all the time, all through the village. The 

 girl was very sorry and would not forget her husband. She would 

 go without eating for four days at a time. She cried in the timber 

 until she heard a Woodpecker, saying, "Michihi, I want to tell 

 you something." She got tired of the Woodpecker, and said: 



