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camp-circle for three long days. The Dog-Men blessed the man and 

 promised that he should be successful in all of his undertakings and 

 that his people, his society, and his band would become the greatest 

 of all if he carried out their instructions. On the fourth day they were 

 discovered by two Cheyenne, who were looking for the man and for 

 their dogs of burden. They observed the form of the circle and the 

 lodge within and saw that it was like the camp-circle of their tribe. 

 They went so near that within they heard their own language spoken. 

 They did not enter the lodge, but hurriedly returned to their people, 

 to tell them what they had seen. On the day after the first dis- 

 appearance of the man and the dogs, the medicine-men counseled 

 with the great Prophet, who knew all about it. The great Prophet 

 told the medicine-men that the man was obeying his commands, and 

 that this, the fourth day, they might find him with the dogs. The two 

 Cheyenne, who had hunted four days before finding the new camp, 

 returned on this day, and when they announced to the people what 

 they had seen, the whole camp moved to the lodge of the man and 

 the dogs. As they came into view of the wonderful camp the Dog 

 lodge instantly disappeared and the Dog-Men were transformed into 

 dogs. The medicine-men and warriors were by this time very sorry 

 that they had refused to join this man's society. To express their 

 sorrow they went in advance to the young man, and asked him to have 

 mercy upon them and forgive the whole tribe for its treatment of him. 

 The young man took the pipe and smoked, to show that he had for- 

 given his people. The young man then instructed them to go to 

 their own dogs and pitch their tipis according to the position of their 

 dogs, so that they would make a horseshoe-shaped camp, just as the 

 dogs had made. Every man became busy and the dogs alone seemed 

 to be very indifferent as to what was happening. The young man 

 still remained in the center of the camp, and the next day, according to 

 his instructions from the Great Prophet, he again asked the warriors 

 to join his society, and many hundreds of men joined it. He 

 directed the society to imitate the Dog-Men's dress, and to sing the 

 way the Dog-Men sang. This is why the other warrior societies call 

 the warriors of this society "Dog-Men Warriors." 



When the Dog-Men society has its four days' lodge put up for a 

 dance, they repair their head-dresses, reorganize all the warriors, and 

 should one of the four brave warriors have died or been killed by the 

 enemy, they name some one to take his place. When the other warrior 

 societies put up their lodges to dance or for reorganization, they must 

 place their lodges in the center of the camp-circle; but the Dog-Men 

 warriors may locate their lodge in the center of the circle or at any big 



