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"You may cook the food for him, daughter, while I erect a tipi 

 outside," said the mother ; the man in the mean time looking from time 

 to time, gloating over the girl with whom he expected to sleep. He 

 talked the Sioux language, and used the sign language when he an- 

 swered the girl. The girl gave him the food, of which he ate very 

 little, passing it back to her, and thanking her for the favor. 



"Say, One-Eyed-Sioux, we are in hardship, and in fact we are yet 

 in sorrow. My father has died but a few days ago. We are searching 

 for the camp-circle now. Before my father died he told us that who- 

 soever should come along to our camp while we were on the way 

 back to the camp-circle, should he show himself friendly, or any one 

 that would give some help at the camp-circle, I should marry. Now 

 1 want to tell you that my mother is erecting a separate tipi for us. 

 You will have to take me as a wife. We are thankful to have you. for 

 we want you to show us the way back to the big camp-circle," said the 

 girl to One-Eyed-Sioux. One-Eyed-Sioux then answered the girl in 

 his own language [Sioux], at some length, and signed to her, saying, 

 "It is good." 



"Now, daughter, bring your willow mattress, lean-back, tripods, 

 and the rest of the bedding, and let us fix up your tipi," said the 

 mother. 



"Say, One-Eyed-Sioux, I am going to take out this bedding to 

 make our bed," said the girl. "Good!" said One-Eyed-Sioux, in the 

 sign language, the girl making signs to him in return. So she took 

 them out and made the tipi look like something and took the man inside 

 as her husband. Then the man wished that night would come on 

 soon, for he desired her. Late in the afternoon she would occasionally 

 gape, rema'rking, "I am sleepy, Sioux." 



Night came on and the man and his wife went to bed early. Hav- 

 ing been awake with his wife during the entire, fore part of the night, 

 he slept late the next morning, while the girl got up to get his break- 

 fast. 



While she was putting on her leggings, she looked at her husband 

 and saw that he had a mud-covered eye. The clay was drying up, 

 and had shrunken on account of the heat of the sun in the morning. 

 She looked under the plaster and noticed that his eye was all right. 

 Then she looked at his face and body and said to herself, "This man 

 looks like my own father. His nose, eyes, head and body resemble 

 his. Surely it must be he." 



She went to her mother and said, ''That man looks like my own 

 father, both his eyes are all right. I took a good look at him. He just 



