44 Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol. VII. 



One day she told him to go and find a good place to live. He 

 found a place on a creek, and they moved there. He dragged trees 

 all around, and made a corral. He also made a big lodge, and inside 

 the lodge he dug a well. 



One morning they got up, and they were living in a big fine lodge, 

 and they had a fine corral and a good many horses, their corn field was 

 in good condition, and they had a good many negro slaves to wait on 

 them. One day he went after his people, and his wife told him to bring 

 his mother. 



37. — The Water Baby. 



There was once a woman who went from her camp to the creek to 

 wash. She had a little baby with her while she was washing. All at 

 once it disappeared. The woman hunted all around the creek, but she 

 could not find her baby anywhere. 



The woman cried all the time. She went home and told the In- 

 dians that she had lost her child. They all went over to hunt the child, 

 but they could not find it. The woman was crying all the time. She 

 thought the baby was dead or had been taken by some beast. She 

 mourned day after day and would eat nothing for several days at a 

 time. About a year after this the woman cut off her hair, threw her 

 shirt away and was feeling bad about her child, that it should be lost 

 when so young. 



Two boys had told about camp that they knew where the child was 

 and all about it. Some one in the camp told the woman that two boys 

 had seen the child. The woman would not believe, but her husband 

 advised her to cook something to eat, and invite the two boys and ask 

 them what they knew about her child. So she went to work and cooked 

 a meal and invited the two boys. When they came, the first thing the 

 woman asked them, was, if they knew anything about her child. The 

 boys said, "Yes, we know where it is and can get it back if you want 

 it back." She cried out, "Yes, I want the child if you can get him! 

 I will give you my best horse, which is a very pretty one." So one 

 of the boys went to work to get the woman's child back. He told her 

 that the child was in the water ; that it would not act like a baby, but 

 like a monster in the water. The boy went out, and stayed about four 

 days. He came back and brought the baby. 



The woman was glad to see her child that she had missed for about 

 a year. The boy got the horse. 



