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saw us. We tried unsuccessfully | to do something.” Then they 
started. Now it was night. | They went along, and they arrived at 
the town of their enemies. | It was a bad place. There were rough 
bowlders around there. They could not | go down. The same one, 
Lamb Hat, said: || ‘Come here, the way I am going!”” They went 
that way, and started. | Lamb Hat said: ‘““When I am going to step, | 
come this way also.’’ Then they started, going down. They did not 
make any noise on the stones. | Even though there were small stones, 
they did not make any noise stepping on them. Then | they all 
went down to the place where there was good grass, and | they sur- 
rounded the place where the enemy was encamped. Then | they 
watched for them. They stood there. Early in the morning | they 
threw up something. They saw it clearly, | and they said: “Now 
fight them!’’ Then | they blew whistles and fought the || enemy. | 
Crazy Old Woman’s son was the youngest one. He had not seen | 
‘any fighting. He thought: “Ill go with Chief | Not-sitting-down- 
Long. Whatever he does, I’ll do.’”’ | Then Not-sitting-down-Long 
began to pursue them, and the | youth named Rattling Claws did not 
turn his eyes from | thechief, Not-sitting-down-Long. Then he heard | 
that the town was being destroyed. They said: | ‘‘Ha, he! There is 
nobody like me [no man]. I hold Chief Harelip with my knife. | His 
clothing is fringed on one side.’’ The two friends, || Not-sitting-down- 
Long and Rattling Claws, went along. The friends were already | 
. way in the town. They did not look at the tents. | They went to 
the middle. There was a tent there in the middle. | Not-sitting- 
down-Long jumped quickly to the head of the tent and stabbed him 
there. | He said: ‘“‘Ha, he! There is nobody like me. I am the first 
to hold down with my knife || Chief Harelip.”” Then Rattling Claws | 
also spoke, and said: ‘‘Ha, he! There is nobody like me. Iam the 
first | to count coup for Chief Not-sitting-down-Long.” .Then | Not- 
sitting-down-Long, did not pull out his spear, and | Rattling Claws 
also did not pull out his spear || from the place where he had stabbed 
him. Then the noise stopped. |: 
Very early in the morning all the enemies had been killed. | The 
two friends stood there. The people went there. | They looked, and 
it was seen that | the friends Not-sitting-down-Long and Rattling 
Claws had killed the chief. Then it was seen || that it was Chief 
Harelip. Then they started back. | 
The one who had seen the people the day before | always thought: 
“T have seen people. | It is sure that they have turned into a lamb 
and a bird. | I shall not sleep to-night.’ Then he did so. || At night 
_ when they slept, he hid himself. He went away | higher up. There 
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