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So she went back and told her brother-in-law at their tipi. "Well, 

 sister-in-law, you make take this club-board in to the dancers and tell 

 them that I have returned to the tribe," said the brother-in-law. 

 So she went back to the dancers and went into the tipi. "My 

 brother-in-law told me to come here and tell you that he has returned," 

 said she. "Oh, you crazy thing, get out of here, go back home !" 

 said the men. So she returned to her husband's tipi, and said to her 

 brother-in-law, "They won't let me finish my errand for you and have 

 shamefully abused me!" "Well, sister-in-law," said he in a manly 

 voice, "take this club-board and go over there again and tell them that 

 I have returned to my brother." So without hesitation she went again 

 to the dance and went into the tipi. "My brother-in-law has returned." 

 said she. The men became angry "and took the tallow and hit her with 

 it, greasing her dress, and she was very much insulted this time, but 

 she bore it in a womanly way. and returned to her husband's tipi. 

 "My dear brother-in-law, the company has treated me meanly, they 

 struck me with a piece of heated tallow, which made my last dress 

 dirty. I tried to endure the abuse, but could not." "Well, let us go 

 over there together," said the young man (Lime-Crazy). "When you 

 go in this time, tell them I have returned." So they went in together, 

 and the woman said to the men, "My brother-in-law has returned." 

 "Oh ! You are a liar ! Go out," again said the men. 



Just then Lime-Crazy stepped in. "Yes, I am here with this wo- 

 man," said he roughly, carrying the lean-back club-board. Everybody 

 ceased talking and was silent. "Now every one of you sit erect in a 

 row and put your legs to the fire and do not move till I tell you," said 

 Lime-Crazy. "My sister-in-law, take this club-board and strike the 

 shin bones of these young men, beginning here and continuing to the 

 very last one !" Then the woman struck every man's shin bones. They 

 said nothing, and endured the punishment willingly. "Now that is in 

 return for your ill treatment of my sister-in-law," he said. Then 

 Lime-Crazy and his sister-in-law returned to their tipi. 



In the morning, Lime-Crazy got up and said to his sister-in-law, 

 "Go into the camp-circle, to the biggest tipi with the long poles, and get 

 the best furniture among the tribe. See that your husband gets the 

 very best ponies and see that he gets what he needs. Order the people 

 to give you food, put up your tipi and they will help you hereafter." 

 So Big-Chief and his wife did as they were told, and in a short time 

 they had a plenty of everything. They lived happy and well again 

 and were treated respectfully by the people. They had servants to 

 look after their belongings, to get the water and wood for them. But 



