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‘Hey, Partridge-Claw, do you now go courting! Go court this chief's 
daughter!” 
“Ha, so it seems you are again making trouble!” he said to his elder 
brother. 
‘Hoho, if you do not care to, it may as well be I!” 
‘Oh, big sister, it says your husband is going courting!” said that 
man's daughter. 
They listened to it, waking up. 
Then that boy went there. Then the arrow of the other boy, the one 
who was bashful, did not move at all, for he slept; only the prattler’s 
arrow bobbed up and down. Then he went courting. 
WTien he entered the lodge, “Make the fire bright!” said the chief’s 
daughter. 
Then, when she beheld the child looking at her, and in turn gazed at 
him, he smiled at her. 
“Put out the fire!” said the young woman. 
The fire was put out for her. 
He told her of how they had acquired a supply of meat. 
“Of as many tents as are in their camp-site, all the drying-scaffolds 
are filled. I shall come back here. When I do so, you will tell your father, 
when I shall have come into the tent; then you will all know about it. 
Your father will announce it. When I come in here again, then you will 
tell him about it. Now tomorrow we shall go back; for my brother has 
come here with me. Well, that is all. I am going back. It is almost day- 
light.” 
“Very well,” she answered him. 
Thereupon he went out of the tipi. He entered his grandmother’s 
lodge. He lay down. As soon as he had lain down, his arrow off yonder 
lay at rest. They slept. W^hen day broke, early in the morning they went 
back home. Towards evening they arrived at their dwelling. 
“Where have you been?” their wives asked them. 
“Well, far enough to use up the provisions you gave me, and then we 
came home. You gave us too little food for the way,” they told them. 
So when the next day came, the younger one drove buffalo. He brought 
many buffalo. On the next day after that he again asked for provisions; 
and they were given much of the very best food. Then early they went out 
of the tent. As soon as they were behind a rise in the land, they flew up. 
It was as before; in the evening they arrived. They went into their 
grandmother’s lodge. This time at once their grandmother gave them 
bedding. As soon as night had fallen they gave it to their grandmother, 
“Keep these good victuals, grandmother. Early tomorrow morning 
call the chief’s daughter: she is to come here,” he told his grandmother. 
Off yonder where they dwelt he was heard through his arrow. 
“So now you are to have a fellow-wife, big sister!” the man’s daughter 
was told. 
“You surely do carry on in a dreadful way!” his younger brother said 
to him. 
“It is you, rather, who go on in a dreadful way!” he answered him. 
