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Two young men who were comrades said, " Let us sleep there and see what will 

 happen." Next morning one of them asked the other whether he had had a dream. 

 " Yes, a bear showed me how to mix hash with rosebush berries, and I know some- 

 thing about that Tobacco now." " We'll join," said the two friends, " when we have 

 grown older." After some time the two got married, and the dreamer then said, " I'll 

 join in the ceremony and stay for some time, then I'll adopt you and we'll enter with- 

 out being adopted by anyone else, I'll stay one month before I adopt you." So the 

 two comrades also became members. 



The owners of necklaces continued to use them, turning them over to one another. 

 When the man who originated the use of drums was old, he decided to make a neck- 

 lace for himself and his ' children.' In the old days when they wanted to be adopted, 

 they had to ask for it, while now the adopter takes the initiative and asks someone to 

 become his ' child ' after giving the novice a present. 



A certain young man dreamt in the Tobacco garden and saw a white bird. He 

 adopted someone and told his ' child ' to get the head of a white bird and pass it on 

 to his 'child,' also to use the Tobacco necklace. Thus the bird continued to be 

 handed down. One old man had a vision of a paunch-skin and of the Tobacco mix- 

 ture. " We'll use this in planting." He also made a stick to tie his paunch to. One 

 of the men initiated by the drum- visionary dreamt of the adoption lodge. He went to 

 the head of the Eagle chapter, told him of his vision, and said, " Our fathers never 

 told us of the lodge." The other said, " I have had the same dream. If we dream 

 again, then we'll make it." He saw it again and then said, " Let us start it, and let 

 one of your children adopt someone." 



In the beginning there was only one Tobacco society, but now they were all 

 splitting up. Now also all novices had to pay in order to be adopted, and invariably 

 bows and arrows were included in the initiation fee. The novice dreamt of the inside 

 of the lodge, thus discovering how to fix it up, then asked and received of his ' father ' 

 the privilege to erect the lodge. For this he paid his ' father ' ten horses, then he 

 himself fixed up the inside. The ' father ' said, " I was never told about this, but 

 it must be right." Then horses and other property were taken to the lodge. The one 

 who had the bird medicine said to his ' father,' " You have forgotten one thing." 

 " What is it?" " That they put buffalo chips along a line and put medicine sacks on 

 top, and that back of it there is a buffalo robe headed towards the mountains/' 

 " It must be so, but I have never heard of it. It is good." Onty Tobacco is taken out 

 of the sack at an adoption. The novice had a vision of the song of rejoicing sung and 

 of the man sent for water, and of the building of a fire. He dreamt that this was all 

 there was to the adoption lodge and told the rest accordingly. My grandfather was 

 the first one to exchange presents at an adoption; he and the other man exchanged 

 the best horses they had. 



Until this time there had never been a leader in marching to the Tobacco garden. 

 Once some young men went on the warpath, accompanied by a woman who lay with 

 them. They were chased by the Piegan. Though they formed breastworks, they 

 were driven away from them and the woman was captured. One of the Piegan had 

 an otter which he would pack when on the warpath. By its aid he fetched horses and 

 performed other deeds. The Crow woman saw it and decided to steal it since it was a 

 big medicine. She stole it and ran home with it. She was overtaken by a snowstorm 

 when along a big river, and she slept there with the otter by her bosom. The otter 



