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In the morning, after the husband and wife got their breakfast, 

 relatives began to inquire of their trouble. "The boy got mad and 

 fought me when I was trying to quiet him, and I threw him out of 

 doors to punish him, and since that time I am unable to find him," said 

 the mother. 'Well, well! We did not hear any boy crying last night. 

 He might be at his partner's folks across the camp. Be contented, he 

 will return soon," said the people standing around close to their tipi. 

 So she started at the end of the camp, searching for her boy, until she 

 had made a complete circuit, still the boy was missing. "I think thai 

 you people have hidden my boy from me. Please let me have him 

 again," said she to the people. "No, no! woman! We would not do 

 that. If we did know of him in the camp we would be glad to let you 

 know it," said the crowd. There was quite a good deal of comment 

 among the people, yet no one could tell the whereabouts of the boy. 

 The relatives of this husband became somewhat indignant toward the 

 wife. Finally this woman went back to her own tipi in much grief. 



While she was lamenting over the mystery of the disappearance of 

 the boy, a thought came into her mind. "Well, although I have pun- 

 ished my child for disobedience in such a way that people bitterly 

 criticise me for it, I will this day pledge to make articles with nice, 

 straight porcupine quills." Having provided herself with material, 

 she then sat down inside of her tipi, and began her work in solitude and 

 continued for days. In the first place she had the patterns cut out, and 

 designs for porcupine work drawn out on wearing apparel and robes. 

 For days she worked making two pairs of men's moccasins ; one pair of 

 woman's leggings with moccasins attached ; one short shirt quilled from 

 shoulders to the sides of the chest, also from shculders to the hands, and 

 pendants of quill designs from each arm ; one scalp-lock shirt orna- 

 mented with discs at the breast and at the back, also bearing scalp lock 

 pendants from each arm ; one buffalo robe, well quilled ; one buffalo 

 robe, called image robe or shadow (this robe is a hard one to make, for 

 it is quilled with many designs) ; one buffalo robe called an eagle-de- 

 sign robe (this is also well ornamented with pictures of eagles at the 

 four corners of it) , and one buffalo robe called one-hundredth robe (this 

 robe is also nicely ornamented with parallel lines from one end to the 

 other). 



During all the time she was alone at her work her mind was strictly 

 on the designs, for she wanted to make them correctly so that they 

 might look tasteful and charming. Of course she would lay her work 

 aside to cook meals and go out after loads of firewood. 



The people had done much hunting, etc., and had entirely forgotten 



