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I with stump-horn and bladder and come back with enemy's horses and four 

 ,' times with enemies' scalps. Boys' medicines are stars, enclosed in bladder, 

 which come out and execute deeds required of them. Third boy joins and then 

 fourth boy. Boys go to enemies' camp and stars come from bladder as warriors 

 who defeat enemy. Boys take home scalps and prisoners. Fourth boy tells two 

 daughters of chief how keeper of bladder and associates were so victorious. 

 Keeper of bladder thereupon disappears, with medicine, in sky where he be- 

 longed and was formerly big star. 



21. — The Beautiful Daughter of a Chief, her Wicked Husband 

 and the Seven Brothers. 



Daughter of chief says she will marry man she next meets at spring. She 

 sees man in buffalo robe and follows him to camp. Man accustomed to go after 

 beautiful women and, when they vex him four times, to throw them over steep 

 bank into river, then father, in shape of alligator, devours them. Chief's daugh- 

 ter told by man to comb his halir. She finds snakes in hair and pushes man 

 away, which vexes him first time. Next day man orders her to wipe his neck. 

 She finds worms crawling around it and again pushes him away, which vexes 

 him second time. Man then directs her to wash his feet. They are decayed 

 and badly swollen. She vexes him third time by refusing. Man then tells her 

 to make robe of thick buffalo hide. She has no tools and cannot do so, but he 

 insists and is vexed for fourth time. They go to pick bernies and on return 

 man tells her to go to work on buffalo robe. She tries, but cannot, folds up as 

 pillow, lays head upon it and cries. Ants come and ask why she is crying. They 

 tell her to leave it there and come back on fourth day. She does and finds beau- 

 tiful robe. Ants warn her that husband would try to push her over bank for 

 his father to eat, show her how to escape and say that only seven brothers 

 living on side of mountain peak can help her. .Next day husband takes her to 

 bank and tries to push her over but he goes into river instead. Woman flees 

 to mountain peak. Father eats son but vomits him and puts him together again 

 and tells hlim to catch wife. He is just behind her when she reaches tipi of 

 seven brothers. She calls for help and small brother, who alone is at home, 

 tells her to run four times around tipi. She does so and at fourth time door 

 opens and she runs in, leaving husband outside. Husband four times demands 

 wife of little brother, who sends, first watch dog (mountain lion), then bear, 

 and finally both together to kill husband, but both return badly wounded and 

 die. Little brother then tries to kill husband. At fourth time he throws hus- 

 band. Wife makes big fire. Husband is burned, sparks being thrown back 

 that his father may not bring him back to life. Six brothers return from hunt- 

 ing and they agree to keep woman for sister. Little brother when going hunting 

 warns her not to let in woman carrying old man on her back as baby. Old 

 woman comes and asks for admission. Sister refuses, but lets her in when she 

 has demanded four times. When brothers return, little brother knows old wo- 

 man has been there and says they must leave or sister will soon die, as old 

 woman is bad and powerful. He takes arrow from each brother and one of his 

 own and shoots arrow through smoke-hole of tipi. All brothers and 

 sister follow arrow through air. As arrow about to drop another ar- 

 row shot upwards and so on until seventh arrow shot. Brother and 

 sister follow to top of high mountain. Old woman comes to tipi, sees breath 



