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Found-in-Grass. "If I were you, sister, I would not accept him as 

 my husband," said Crow- Woman. "Oh, never mind, he will grow up 

 all right ; you must remember that he is young yet," answered her sister. 

 Early in the morning Crow- Woman would get up and pour water on the 

 bed of her younger sister secretly. "Get up, your husband has urinated 1 

 Shame on you for having such a husband," said Crow- Woman, which 

 made the young girl embarrassed. The next night Crow-Woman did 

 the same by her sister's husband, pouring water on the bedding. "Get 

 up, you f oiks ; you would rather sleep too late; shame on you, sister! 

 That husband of yours has urinated again. Can't you stop that habit?" 

 said Crow-Woman. The younger woman paid no further attention to 

 her sister's remarks, but told her to attend to her own affairs. The 

 third night Crow-Woman went to bed early, and so did the younger 

 sister, but Found-in-Grass was out late. Crow- Woman continued ma- 

 ligning Found-in-Grass, that she might break the marriage of her sister 

 to him. Sometimes Found-in-Grass would come in late at night with 

 such nice perfume and such a manly appearance that his wife came to 

 know what sort of a man he was, and she loved him more dearly than 

 ever. Early in the morning Crow- Woman poured more water on her 

 sistei*'s bedding. "Can't you folks wake earlier than this?" she said, 

 pulling the robes away from them. "Your husband has urinated again ; 

 take your bedding and put it out where it will get dry." The young 

 sister said nothing, for she knew that her husband was changing all the 

 time. The fourth night, Found-in-Grass' wife went to bed early, as 

 usual, as also did the sister, but the young husband was out late, per- 

 haps with his grandmother. Late in the night Found-in-Grass came, 

 placing his feather lance against a forked stick at the back of the tipi. 

 He had on a quilled buffalo robe and good clothes, a good panther hide 

 bow-case and a, quiver of bow and arrows, which he brought into the tipi. 

 As soon as he came it smelled as though sweet grass were growing in- 

 side. 'Found-in-Grass hung his bow-case, quiver and- the rest of his 

 clothing upon his lean-back or tripod, for the night. His wife knew 

 when he came in and embraced him and was happy to have such a good 

 husband to present before the people. In the morning Crow- Woman 

 got up to wet this young husband's bed, but noticing the young man's 

 appearance on the bed and his clothing on the tripod, she changed her 

 mind. 



When Found-in-Grass got up his appearance attracted Crow- 

 Woman very much, and, when the breakfast was brought in Crow- 

 Woman wanted to wait on the young husband, but the sister objected. 

 "No ! You can't come in the way, I can wait on my husband !" said 



