A YANKTON STORY. 627 
@ti> 1 te. Ikisa”¢i" ¢af yi, qd¢a ag¢ai te. Wat ¢é téyi¢e ¢ankaja alti 
he sat the Outofsight they when, back hestart- the Woman this killed to the ones he 
(past went again edback (past ~ themselves reached 
act). act). again 
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té. pijébe ma*¢in’ka ma®-bisé Ajii té ug¢iqpaga-bi ega™, yf mate alii 
the Door-way earth cubes of sod piled up the haying made fallfromaheight tent within ar- 
(past (col. by pulling, they say, rived 
act). ob.) 
2 wy 
2 z A st cpene / . . ley Ni qe: Sts 
te. Egi¢e watt aki¢a ja” yi‘a”he ihéwa¢a-bi ¢ankama. EK di ahi-bi ega”, 
the Behold woman both reclining they had been laid, they say. There having arrived, 
(past together (?) they say, 
act). 
4 / uA 2 f/ , —/ . St i, - , 
u¢iza® té uta™na tibasne ja” akima. Gan’yi t’éyi¢é akama. 
middle the space makinga he was lying, they And then he was killing himself, 
split by say. they say. 
pushing (?) 
TRANSLATION. 
There was once a Yankton village in which was a young man who was wait- 
ing for a chance to marry. The chief had two daughters, full sisters, who were un- 
married, and one son who was the youngest child. And this man who, as I have said, 
was waiting for a chance to marry, wished to court the sisters, and he was waiting on 
their account. 
One night he went to their tent, which was a whitened one, and he lay down out- 
side at the rear of the tent in order to listen to what the sisters might say. Atlength 
the sisters began a conversation. One said, “ Younger sister, we shall marry the per- 
son who takes our little brother and enables him to insult our enemies.” “Oho!” 
thought the listener. As he lay there he matured a plan. Returning home he asked 
his female kindred to sew moccasins. And they did it for him. The next evening, 
when it was too dark for persons to distinguish one another's faces, he started to seek 
the boy. The boy was playing, and the young man found him. When he said, “Come, 
younger brother,” the boy went with him. The young man carried him on his back 
all night long, going across the prairie in a straight line. When he carried him thus 
he was going on the war path. He killed a buffalo bull, cut up the carcass, and cooked 
the fresh meat that it might serve as rations for the journey. He carried the provisions 
on his back, and besides them he carried the boy. When he reached a stream he 
seated the boy among the undergrowth and gave him some dried meat to eat. Then 
said he, “ Do not depart! Remain here! Beware lest you peep outside of the under- 
growth! I will return.” Then he went asascout. Not discovering any one at all, he 
returned to the boy, and spoke to him as if he were a full-grown man, “O war captain, 
there is no one at all. I did not find anything whatever.” Then he took him on his 
back again, resuming his march. Late in the evening he seated the boy amidst the 
undergrowth and went off as a scout. At length there was some one shooting. It 
was a man who killed an elk. The young man wished to fetch the boy, but it was 
difficult, so he sat considering what todo. He crept up carefully towards the man 
and killed him before his presence could be detected. 
Then he fetched the boy. “O war captain, I have killed aman. Hasten!” He 
carried the boy on his back, running to the place. On arriving there he caused the 
boy to tread on the dead man. Then the two started home, taking part of the scalp of 
the slain man. As the man started back, he thought intently of the women, ‘TI will 
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