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When we stepped anioiig the horses, one of them snorted at a stranger. Then the 

 Crows came with their guns. They had seen us. though we did not know it. My 

 eyes were only for the horses. They began firing, and before I had a chance to get 

 away my horse was shot. I snatched the reins and pulled, but the horse's jaw was 

 broken. I went on. They shot again, and he fell. I jumped as he went down. 

 The man who went with me ran away at the first attack and loft me alone. I ran 

 ahead, and as the Crows Avere loading (heir guns, I dodged from one shelter to another. 

 They kept firing in the direction I had started to go. 



The young man who ran away saw me. Ho was in a safe place, and he shouted, 

 "Come this way." He was on horseback, and we sat double on his horse. We 

 traveled some distance and came to the creek by which we had approached the Crow 

 camp. We staid at the creek that night. T^e Crows broke camp, and late the next 

 day we went back to the deserted ground. There lay my horse, dead. We examined 

 the horse and found that his shoulder was broken. My oldest sister had raised that 

 horse. 



We went back to tlie creek and staid that night. The Sioux were moving to their 

 last camp of the year, and there we joined them. 



Plots of Songs of War 



The songs of war, as already noted, are called "wolf songs." Many 

 of them make reference to the wolf and many pertain to horses, hence 

 we find among the plots of these songs (fig. 35) numerous examples of 

 Class D (see p. 54). Song No. 120, however, is an example of Class A; 

 No. 101 has the same general trend; and No. 136 is a good example 

 of Class B. These types, as already stated, appear throughout the 

 series. The interval of a fourth is prominent in songs concerning 

 animals and implying motion, and this appears in the plots of the 

 songs. Songs Nos. Ill, 127, 145, and 174, as reference to their 

 respective titles will show, are songs concerning horses, and the plots 

 of the songs are seen to resemble one another. Songs 146 and 161 con- 

 cern man and contain the idea of motion; their titles are, respectively, 

 "He is returning," and "I wish to roam." These plots show the 

 characteristics of Class D. No. 177 is called "A song of self-rehance," 

 and we note in the plot of the song the emphasis and dwelling on the 

 lowest, or keynote, which characterizes Class C and appears to be 

 coincident with firmness of purpose and self-confidence. The interval 

 of a fourth characterizes songs Nos. 99 and 100, the first of which is 

 a song concerning the buffalo, and the second, the personal song of 

 a man named Brave Buffalo, the words being "Brave Buffalo I am, 

 I come." Such a song as the latter would undoubtedly be received 

 in a dream of buffalo. The ascending interval at the openmg of song 

 No. 99 suggests Class E (see p. 519), and on reference to the words 

 of the song we find in them the idea of suffering on the part of the 

 buffalo, who are being driven in such a way that the wind strikes their 

 faces like a lance. 



