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asked the man if he could stop there for about a week. The man told 

 him it was all right, he could. So the boy told the man the troubles 

 which had caused him to leave his own people. The man told the 

 boy it was too bad for him to leave his home. The boy stayed with this 

 old man a long time, and he would go out and bring in deer and tur- 

 keys, and the old man learned to think very well of the boy. The boy 

 said to the old man that he would like to make his home there if he 

 was willing, and the old man said he did not care if he did. 



In about two weeks, some one came after the boy, to prove that the 

 man with the dogs had killed the man-eater. The boy went with this 

 man, but first told the old man that he would return to him. 



When he got back home, the people were washing a black man in 

 hot water, trying to make him white. The black man had told that he 

 it was who had killed this man-eater. The boy told them that it was 

 another man, who had killed the man-eater with his dogs. So they 

 took a butcher-knife and cut this black man's ears off, and they threw 

 him into the creek for telling a lie. So the other man married the 

 chief's daughter. The boy now went to see his parents, and his father 

 gave him a long talk and told him that he was sorry that he had given 

 him a whipping, but that he would never whip him any more. 



The mother was crying, and said that the boy had been having a 

 good time. The old man asked him if he was going to stay at home 

 or not. The boy told him that he would, and so his father was glad 

 to give him a good house. 



The man that had married the chief's daughter had a feast and 

 invited everybody to come and eat dinner. So they all went to the 

 wedding feast, but the old man and his son did not go, because the old 

 man wanted his son to marry the chief's daughter. The old man said, 

 "I would let my daughter marry a man like him, and my son wants 

 the girl ;" but the chief made his daughter live with this man who had 

 killed Big-Nest. 



30. — The Deserted Boy and his Sister. 



Some boys and girls were roasting acorns. An acorn popped and 

 struck one of the boys on the stomach ; it grew to be a tree in his 

 stomach. All went off hunting and left this boy and his youngest 

 sister. The boy lay on his back always. His sister went after water 

 and saw a big turkey, deer and buffalo. They ate all these animals. 

 The girl went after water again and saw a man at the spring, with a 

 big elk. "It was I who killed those animals. I feel very sorry for you 

 and your brother." The brother had told his sister to bring this man 



