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he, "and what you did was 'Big Medicine/ which 

 you are not likely to beat to their minds. Your 

 turkey name is going to stick." 



But it didn't, for the very next day an eagle 

 lit near the top of a tree which was fifty-five 

 vards from where I stood and I killed it with mv 

 revolver. When Jones reported that the In- 

 dians were amazed at the shot, which happily had 

 been made in the presence of several of them, 

 he added, 



"You have earned your new name and you are 

 'Queena Pareivo/ or Eagle Chief, to the 

 Comanches, but I'd like to bet that you couldn't 

 make that shot once in a hundred times." 



I turned the eagle over to Tavetossa and never 

 saw him thereafter without some of its feathers 

 in his hair. 



When the hunt was over we started on a slow 

 trail for Fort Sill. The Indian ponies, except- 

 ing those used for running buffalo or on less 

 peaceful occasions as war ponies, were heavily 

 burdened and their pace was slow. Jack Still- 

 well had days before gone back with the officers to 



