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days, and at last they saw where the enemy had camped. They started 

 on again and camped. Then the youngest boy said to his brothers, 

 "You boys must stay here, and I will go about a mile, and turn round 

 and come back." So he went, and took his Dog with him, and they 

 went about a hundred yards and stopped, and the Dog said to his 

 master, "You must stay here. I will go and see if I can get on the 

 right trail of them." So the Dog started and came back in a little 

 while and told his master that he had seen where the enemy had 

 camped the last night, and that the fire was still burning. So they 

 went back and told the rest of the boys, who started on a run, and kept 

 it up all night, stopping early in the morning. Again the youngest 

 brother said that he would go in advance, as before, and the Dog told 

 him that he would go and see how far behind they were. The Dog 

 went on, and he saw the smoke from the enemy's fire, turned round and 

 came back. He told his master that he had seen the smoke, and to 

 tell his brothers that they had caught up with the enemy. When he 

 had done this, they all started, and ran all night, and stopped about 

 daybreak. 



The boy and his Dog went down to the creek, and the Dog told his 

 master that he was going to "Hoo Hoo !" just like a wolf, and after the 

 fourth time the Wolves would come from all directions and catch the 

 Pawnee ; and he told his master to tell his brothers to make wooden 

 clubs to break the Pawnee's heads with. Then the Dog went about a 

 mile and "Hoo — d !" four times, and the fourth time, the Wolves came 

 from all directions and jumped on the Pawnee, bit them on the throat 

 and killed them. After this had happened, the boys came up and 

 scalped the Pawnee, and then they went home with their women. 



29. — The Boy and Big-Nest. 



Once there was a camp on a big creek, and every night the people 

 would miss somebody, but they could not find out what became of the 

 missing ones. After a while, they found out that it was some beast, 

 who lived near the creek, that carried them off. It was called "Wausk- 

 tah" (Big-Nest). After a few days they caught this big man-eater 

 and put him in a little house where no one could see him. 



One day some boys were playing shinny near the little house, and 

 one of the boys happened to roll his ball inside of this house. He took 

 a stick and tried to get it back out, but he could not even touch the ball. 

 He remained near the house after the other boys had gone home. He 

 stayed and cried all day. Finally Big-Nest said, "Boy, if you will open 

 the door and let me out, I will give you back your ball." But the boy 



