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This young woman was charmed by the music in. the center of the 

 Sun-dance lodge, and saw the crowd of people around the lodge from 

 her tipi. So she decided to go and see the dance. She heard the people 

 calling for Split- Rump to come over quickly ; that Spitting-Horn-Shell 

 was waiting for him. Split-Rump returned to his own tipi again and 

 saw his wife dressing ug. "Say, they are calling for you at the lodge," 

 said the beautiful woman. "Yes, I am the one who takes a prominent 

 position and occupies a leading place," said Split- Rump; but the woman 

 knew that he must be the platform of Spitting-Horn-Shell. "This man 

 is surely not the man that I am looking for. I shall go over and see 

 the lodge," said the woman. Split-Rump had already gone to the lodge, 

 and had become the platform of Spitting-Horn-Shell. After she had 

 dressed herself in her best, she went out of her tipi and started to the 

 Sun-dance lodge. 



When she was seen by the people they admired her beauty. She 

 peeped in to see the dancers. In the background, back from the center 

 pole, there was a beautiful young man, dressed in war bonnet, buckskin 

 shirt,, with hair pendants, a pair of buckskin leggings with hair pen- 

 dants, and moccasins well quilled. The shirt and leggings were also 

 quilled^ When this beautiful young man stopped for rest, he would 

 spit out his saliva of horn shells on the ground. The children would 

 immediately pick them up. "You children, and all, keep yourselves away 

 from the young man ! Let that woman who has come to see Spitting- 

 Horn-Shell take the opportunity to gather up the shells !" said the 

 chiefs. So this beautiful woman made her way .through the crowd and 

 went directly to the beautiful young man and seated herself close to 

 him, which showed that she gave herself up to him, as if he had won 

 her as his wife. 



After the dance was over, they both walked out, as married people, 

 to the tipi of Spitting-Horn-Shell. Some time afterward, Split-Rump, 

 being mad at the young man when he was lying on the ground for him, 

 took advantage of his rival and by some means, killed him. When the 

 news of this killing spread among the people, it was fully decided to 

 look for Split-Rump, as being the guilty party. As soon as he knew 

 he was being searched for, he escaped to the river and he dived into the 

 water, up the stream. Split-Rump then came out on the other side 

 of the river. The people still chased after him. A distance from the 

 river was a big lake in which Split-Rump dived and remained. This 

 lake was very deep. 



The people then decided to kill buffalo and save all the intestine 

 linings, with which to make water bags. So the people slaughtered 



