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started. The fast runner thought | he would bring home meat early. 
He went along and saw | a bighorn sheep. He followed it the whole 
day, but he could not catch it. || Rattling Claws went with one of his 
elder brothers. He went along. | His elder brother thought: ‘How 
is Rattling Claws going to look? | Let me deceive him.’’ Then he 
said to him: | ‘Grizzly Bear is following us, Rattling Claws.” He 
ran away quickly. | Then his elder brother laughed at him. They 
went on. || Now, the elder brother saw that a grizzly bear was follow- 
ing them. | He said to his younger brother: “‘A grizzly bear is fol- 
lowing us.”’ | The elder one ran away. Rattling Claws | thought: 
“He is deceiving me.’’ And he did not mind him. | Then the 
grizzly bear took him and killed him. The elder brother || rolled 
down to the water. | 
At night they came home. They told: “ Rattling Claws | has been 
bitten by a grizzly bear.” It was not long before they spoke, | and 
said: ‘‘Crazy Old Woman’s son fell down.” After some time, | late 
at night, Chief Crazy Old Woman went out, || and said: ‘‘ What has 
happened? You must have done something when you were out 
fighting; | therefore the misfortune happened. That is the reason.” 
Then | he went back into his tent. They went in, and he was told: | 
“Tt is this way: Chief Not-sitting-down-Long held with his spear | 
Chief Harelip and counted coup. || When they started back, they 
always said: ‘Not-sitting-down-Long | held down with his spear the 
chief.’ Then, when they arrived at | Low Hill, they said: ‘Rattling 
Claws held down with his spear | Chief Harelip. Not-sitting-down- 
Long counted coup for | Rattling Claws.’ Then (Not-sitting-down- 
Long) spoke there, and said: | ‘The grizzly bear || will never be taken 
ce 
away from him. 
Now, I have told it. | 
72. PINE ConE 
Now I'll tell about Pine Cone. | 
There was a party traveling. They were encamped at Timbered 
Hollow. | Two friends went hunting to a place named Bottle. | The 
friends went along and shot a mountain goat. || There were rocks in 
the center of the precipice. They made a fire to roast the game. | 
One of the friends was called Lamb Hat, | the other one was called 
Wolverene Hat. The one was eating | the brisket. They were sitting 
there eating. They said to each other: “O friend! | what would you 
do?’ They knew that the place that they had passed was bad. 
The || only good place was narrow. ‘Therefore they said so to each 
other. | They said to each other: “What would you do if we should 
be attacked?’ | Lamb Hat said: ‘“O friend! I. should work my 
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