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just went over the divide when they had reached the place. The third 

 time they went after the boy as fast as they could run. but they saw the 

 boy at the same distance. The boy was slowly gaining this time. 

 The company made another charge, but when they reached the divide, 

 instead of seeing the boy, they saw a coyote running, occasionally 

 looking toward them. They then gave up the chase and returned 

 home, wondering what had become of the boy. 



About five years afterward, this boy, who had grown to manhood, 

 came upon a hunting camp. The first man he met was his partner, the 

 boy who had taken the piece of liver. He asked him if there was still 

 a camp-circle of people, and the party told him that there were many 

 people. "Well," jaid he, "break up your camp at once. Go and tell 

 the people that I have returned to you and will go to the camp-circle 

 later on. So I want you to go and tell the chief to come and meet me." 

 So they went and did as he said. The chief of the people went out and 

 met him coming. He was coming from the sunset, carrying under his 

 arm a kit-fox hide. He wore a white robe and his body was painted 

 yellow. The chief saw him, saw what he looked like, left him and 

 ran home; but still the boy followed the chief. Instead of reaching 

 camp from the way he was coming, he switched around and came up 

 from the sunrise. He appeared on a buckskin colored horse, with his 

 body painted yellow, his face yellow, his forehead fed, with a red streak 

 from his eyes, and his chin painted green. On his scalp-lock was tied 

 a kit-fox hide, while in his hand he carried a bow and lance, with 

 feather pendants strung along the bow. He galloped his horse from 

 north to south twice, everybody seeing him. He then made a change, 

 coming from the south to the north, riding a gray horse this time. He 

 did this twice. He had a horn bonnet on his head and carried a rattle 

 in his right hand. Attached to the horn bonnet or cap were long 

 fringed pendants, well quilled in yellow color. His face was painted in 

 yellow, his forehead in green, with a perpendicular black streak down 

 his face like a coyote's face. These two appearances before the people 

 at the rising of the sun, originated the Kit-Fox and Star societies. 

 The latter appearance relates to the Star Society. — D. 



-Told by Coming-on-Horse-Back. See note to No. 7. 



9. — Origin of the Ceremonial Lodges.' 



A man lived in a tent that stood alone. Something came toward 

 him from the East. It was a young bufifalo bull ( waxa<;6u) . The man 

 went to head it off [in order to shoot it], but it went around him . Then 



• From informant F. 



