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cloth. And as many as are those horses, around the necks of all you will 
bind a piece of red cloth. These are my instructions to you, my grandson. 
You will ask for many strands of incense grass, that you may burn incense 
to the horses. You will have them go about with the strands of incense 
grass in their mouths. Your kinsmen will help you put the grass into the 
horses’ mouths. And in that wise, from that time on they will eat; they 
will eat grass. For indeed they do not eat, whom you are about to take 
home with you,” he told him; “In consequence of this you will be a chief 
among your people. When you are at war, if you are mounted on this 
your steed, nothing will wound you,” he told him; “And so it seems, in 
fact, that you have deceived me, in that on your way here you came to 
the abode of my wife!” he told him; “Well, that is all, my grandson! 
Go home!” 
Accordingly, that youth came home. Riding all day, not at all did 
he see his grandmother; her dwelling was no longer there. As he had 
walked a long time, far away was the place from which he had come. 
When it grew dark, at the place which he had reached, being sleepy, he 
dismounted, thinking, “I shall sleep,” He sat there, holding that horse 
of his by the bridle, thinking, “He would run away from me, if my grand- 
father perchance should be deceiving me!” 
Presently he heard, “Grandson, let go your horse! Lie down! Here 
come your horses!” he heard him call. 
Accordingly, he let it go and lay down. He went right to sleep. While 
he slept, presently there came the thudding of those horses approaching 
at a run. They came there and ran about in a circle, like this. At last 
they remained still there. He was yet asleep. When he awoke, it was 
daybreak. There were those horses resting about the place. He rose to 
his feet and took his own horse. Then, as he mounted and started forth, 
then they all rose to their feet and followed him, as he rode straight on. 
Towards evening at last he saw a human being. He rode in that direc- 
tion. The youth, for such he turned out to be, recognized him, and rejoiced. 
“ ‘Doubtless he has gone to destruction!’ has been the thought con- 
cerning you. Your father and your brother are very unhappy,” the other 
told him. 
“Well now, go home! Let my father and his household set up a tent 
off to one side. As soon as I see a tent off to one side, I shall go there,” 
he told the other; “From anywhere at all let my father try to get berries 
and incense grass. If he has not much, let him ask in all of the tipis, as 
many as they are, for incense grass. And let him inquire if any of his people 
have pieces of red cloth, that he may ask to have them,” he said, as a 
message to his father; “There, go tell this to my father,” he told the other. 
Accordingly, that young man ran home and went to that old man. 
“Old man! You will rejoice at what I shall tell you. Listen care- 
fully to me,” he told him; “Your son whom long ago you lost I have seen 
but now. This is his message to you; ‘Off alone let him set up a tent. 
When he has completed the tent, perhaps there are some berries; these let 
them prepare,’ ” he told him; “ ‘And let him inquire everywhere for pieces 
of red cloth, that he may ask to have it. And if he have but little incense 
grass, this too let him go about demanding. Let him try to get much of it,’ 
is his message to you. ‘When I see the tent, I shall go there,’ says your 
son,” he was told. “Well, that is all!” 
