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the one next put the sharp pieces, the arrow-heads, in the ends of the arrow shafts; 
he finished a hundred. And then the one glued on the feathers, and again the other 
sat putting the arrow-heads in the ends of the shafts. They finished. And they slit 
a skin from one end to the other, for quivers. When each had finished making a 
quiver for himself, he filled it with arrows. And one said as follows: ‘My friend, 
let us go traveling.” And they went. At length there were a great many lodges. 
They arrived there when it was dark. And they stole horses. These Indians hated 
each other, so they made shields. Those, too, the two boys stole; and with them they 
took the quivers and quiver-straps. And they went home. They also took the horses 
home; they took many from the foe. They reached home. And they gave just a 
sufficient number of ponies to the grown boys who were that tall (7. ¢., about four 
feet). And they gave the mares to the girls. And to the boys who were that high 
(i. é., about three feet), they gave colts. ‘Friend, it is enough,” said one. And they 
went to no place; they were always at the place where they arrived when they had 
been abandoned at play. At length it was winter. It happened that the buffa’ses 
came. And these two boys who had reached manhood had bows and quivers. And 
they attacked the buffaloes. Hach one killed four of them. And they reached home, 
the boys who caused the ponies to carry the meat having gone thither to meet them. 
And as the people sat in equal numbers in the seven grass lodges which they made, 
the hunters followed the camp circle, distributing the fresh meat, and were coming 
back to the other end of the circle. And as they had killed a great many buffaloes, 
they gave a great quantity of fresh meat to every lodge. And they gave the skins 
equally, for beds; and they gave to the lodges equal shares of deer-sinew. And they 
went again to surround the buffaloes. And each (chief) killed six. Hence they were 
in good spirits. And they were very rich in fresh meat. And they gave again to 
those who had been left without green hides. It came to pass when it was summer, 
that two, three, or ten of the boys were grown by that time, and an equal number 
of the women were grown. And the two boys talked to each other. ‘Friend, alas! 
we are sufferers. Let us marry.” And these two leading boys had two sisters. And 
each boy having given his sister to the other boy, they married them. And they 
caused the rest to marry one another. And that summer, all who were somewhat 
grown took wives, twenty-odd. And they alone made lodges, they made skin-lodges 
of buffalo hides; the rest who were not grown, dwelt in the lodges that were very 
full. At length they went on the war-path again. And both of these two boys who 
went before on the war-path, went again. And they took two hundred ponies from 
the foe, and brought them home. And they gave equal shares of the ponies to the 
grown boys; and so they gave ponies to the smaller boys. At length it was winter 
again. When it was winter, they shot at the buffaloes. All of the persons who had 
taken wives shot at them. And hence every one had a sufficiency of the beds which 
were given and of the deer-sinew, in fact, they caused them to have a sufficiency of all. 
And that winter they caused all the rest to marry one another. And after that there 
was nothing worthy of note. And it was summer. And they shot again at the buf- 
faloes. All dwelt in upright lodges; they set up lodges, a hundred and seventy. 
Thus they dwelt. At length it was said, “‘We are attacked!” These two prepared 
themselves for battle. The lodges had been made for them in the very center. (The 
boys had said it to the people: ‘When ye make the circle, make ye lodges for us in 
