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After they had left him, he worked himself out of his wrappings 

 and took out his ix>w-case, quiver and knife. He then cut the robes and 

 clothing into pieces, leaving part hanging on the tree, but throwing 

 the most of them upon the ground. Then he gathered the bones of 

 animals and strewed them upon the ground, scattered some strings and 

 chewed the ends of some rawhide ropes and threw them down, in 

 order to make it appear as though the wolves had been around. Then 

 he would step off a short distance and look at everything to see if it 

 looked like a real burial place. 



Now he started in different directions, but toward the course of 

 his family, until he came to the place on the creek where they had made 

 a camp. Every day for four days the father would camp out a little dis- 

 tance from the tipi of his family. And at the end of this time the 

 mother and daughter went back to see the burial place once more. 

 Upon their arrival they found bones piled up, some scattered around 

 and the robes in small strips, some still hanging on the tree, and other 

 parts on the ground. 



"Your father must have decomposed rapidly, on account of the 

 hot weather, and dropped down ; the wolves and coyotes have been 

 around^ and see those ropes chewed off!" said the mother. 



Then they both took up the bones and wrapi>ed them up again 

 with remnants of the robes and clothing, and placed the bundle of 

 bones on the tree. Then they cried for some time. "This is the last 

 time I shall see my father's remains," said the daughter, still weeping. 



So they went back to their camp on the creek. That night the 

 daughter and mother slept, but were very sad. In the morning, after 

 breakfast, the daughter went out to look around, when at a short dis- 

 tance from the tipi, she saw a man dressed in white, and who had a 

 white bow-case, quiver, robe, shirt, leggings and moccasins. (The man 

 had whitened them with lime he had found at the clifif near the creek. 

 He had also covered over one eye with this lime.) The daughter went in 

 and told her mother that somebody dressed in white was standing 

 outside. So the mother and daughter went out to see who it was. 

 When they came up to him they saw that he had only one eye, and a 

 white bow-case and quiver. 



"Who are you ? Where do you come from ?" said the mother, in 

 the sign language. The man answered, in sign language that he was a 

 Sioux, that his name was One-Eyed-Sioux. After the mother and 

 daughter had consulted each other about him (the man understanding 

 all that was said), they invited him in to the tipi. So he went in and 

 took his seat at the back of the tipi to get his meal. 



