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him Standing Coyote from a dream in which he saw a coyote standing looking 

 out over the land. 



I slept with All-Comes-Out while Otter was nursing Standing Coyote. Ante- 

 lope Woman's mother and sisters talked of giving me Antelope Woman, too, 

 but I did not learn of that until later. One day I lay in bed with the rear cur- 

 tain raised for it was hot in the earth lodge. I had just come from bathing in 

 the river and was lying in bed naked. Antelope Woman came around to the 

 back of the bed and said, "I will lie beside this man." I moved over and she 

 crawled in with me. While I possessed her, my oldest wife lifted the curtain 

 and told us it was wrong so Antelope Woman left. Then I went outside and 

 stayed in the village until late that evening. Otter met me when I came in 

 and said "Why don't you go to your new wife? I saw you in there. You have 

 treated my younger sister like a dog. You can leave. We are not dogs." 



I left because it was their lodge. I did not mind so much leaving my wives 

 even though Otter had been in the walking ceremony twice with me for she was 

 not a blood relative. It was hardest to leave my son. When the other women 

 heard about it, there was trouble in the family, for Antelope Woman had been 

 married before even though she was the youngest of the three sisters. The family 

 did not object to my coming to see the boy, for it was not my fault, and then I 

 stayed with All-Comes-Out again. Otter would quarrel with me even though I 

 did not stay with her since she was nursing the baby. One day she said to me, 

 "Why don't you go back to Antelope Woman and leave All-Comes-Out alone? 

 Antelope Woman may have a disease and then you will pass it on to my sister, 

 All-Comes-Out. We have had plenty of chances to marry. You are not the 

 only eligible husband around here." That made me very angry so I left Red- 

 Buffalo-Cow's lodge. 



Two days later my mother said, "Your mother-in-law was here while you were 

 out; she wants you to come back." 



I replied, "I do not think I will go back; they made me angry telling me that I 

 was not the only man and that the other girl might be diseased." 



A few days afterward I had my eyes on another girl named Rubs Herself and 

 I thought that I would like to marry her. I stood around near her lodge, trying 

 to get a chance to talk to her. At the same time. White Belly was watching for 

 her. Then I learned that she had married him. I had met her once alone and 

 talked to her. I was hurt when I learned that another had got ahead of me. 

 I still tried to talk to her but it was much harder now that she was married. One 

 dark evening I saw her in front of her husband's lodge and seized her saying, "I 

 have tried hard to see you." 



She said, "You must not do that for I am married now and they might hear 

 you." Her husband did hear us and came running out so I ran oflf before he could 

 see who was with her. 



It was customary for the men to sit on the earth lodges during the day and watch 

 the people as they went about their work in the village. I sat down on a lodge 

 with some of my friends where I could watch White Belly's lodge. I wanted to 

 find out if she had been beaten. I saw her going toward the bank and met her 

 between the lodges. She had been crying. She said, "He found out about 

 last night and has been beating me. The last time he hit me on the shoulder and 

 nearly knocked me down." 



I said, "You should go to my lodge for he is angry; I do not think he will treat 

 you kindly now that he knows I have been with you. I think I will treat you 

 better than my clan brother, White Belly." 



