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in. but the door sprung back, and being sharp, cut their heads oflf, and 

 they dropped inside, leaving victory to the young man. 



''Now, Sleepy- Young-Man, you may give m.e my husband's head, 

 so that I can keep it, and you can skin the rest for yourself,'' said she, 

 which he did. "Now you can go back home with those scalp-locks, and 

 give all to your father," said the woman. (These cannibals were well 

 built in body. Their hair was like a blaze of fire.) 



So Sleepy-Young-Man returned, having achieved a glorious vic- 

 tory, to his home, traveling during the night and sleeping during the 

 day. Whenever he struck the place of a camp-circle which he had 

 passed while on the way to the home of the cannibals, the people saw 

 him and always recognized him, but he did not stop. Finally he 

 reached the camp-circle to which he belonged, and went directly to his 

 father's tent, late in the night. 



He lay down on his bed, which had been unoccupied since he had 

 left his father. In the morning, when his father woke up, the old man 

 saw a man sleeping on the bed. "Say, young man, get up!' he said, 

 "you might spoil my son's bed, although he is away." The old man 

 was sarcastic, but the young man, who had just returned, did not an- 

 swer for some time, but the old man kept punching at him until he 

 got up. When he was up, the father recognized his son's beautiful face 

 and went and kissed him. This old man went out rejoicing, throwing 

 the scalp-locks up in the air. waving them to the people. And this is the 

 reason the Indians often refer to cannibals when their sons are sleep- 

 ing rather late in the day. 



When those cannibals were killed, that was the end of their raids. 

 — D. 



Told by Found. Cf. 70 and see note 2. 



70. — The Beheaded Ones." 



There was a young man who was in the habit of sleeping too long. 

 Every morning he was the only one who was still in bed when the sun 

 was high up. "Get up! You have not reached the beheaded ones 

 ha°titaeinici),*'his father would say to him in the morning, pulling 

 off his blanket and throwing it towards the door. "Get up ! You have 

 no reason to lie in bed." "Do not trouble me ; let me sleep as I wish ; I 

 have not done anything to you," the young man said to his father when- 

 ever he was told to get up. Once he was sleeping with his head covered 

 while all the resi had already eaten their breakfast. His father was 

 displeased at his sleeping so long and tore off his blanket. Then at 



'Informant A. Text. Probably from informant F. 



