THE POOR BOY WHO MARRIED THE CHIEF’S DAUGHTER. 69 
behind. The boy would go through the village picking up pieces of 
sinew and pieces of meat which had been dropped by the people. These 
he ate and then followed on. When he would arrive at the camp he 
would enter some of the lodges for something to eat. The poorer class 
of people were very good to him, but the people who were well-to-do 
did not like the boy. 
One day the boy decided that he would enter the tipiof the chief. As 
soon as he entered the tipi the chief’s daughter spoke and said to the 
poor boy: “You dirty, good-for-nothing boy, go on out. I do not 
like you. I do not want you in our lodge.”” The father of the girl said 
to the boy: ‘‘You may be seated. When the girl cooks something to 
eat you shall have some of it.’’ The girl was angry and refused to cook. 
She told the poor boy that if he wanted anything to eat he had to go for 
water for her. The poor boy went for the water. After the boy had 
eaten something from the tipi of the chief, he went through the village 
and slept at another place. After that, although the girl did not like 
the boy, the boy went to their tipi. She called him names and made 
_ him do things for her, such as carry wood and pack water. One time the 
poor boy, on entering the lodge of the chief, saw the girl by herself. 
The girl saw the poor boy come, and she said, ‘‘ You dirty, good-for- 
nothing boy, go on out of this tipi or I will get a stick and drive you out.” 
The boy did not move. The girl picked up the stick, went up to the boy, 
and hit him upon the back several times. The boy ran out and went 
through the village crying. He went outside of the village and there 
he stood upon a little hill and cried. 
The next day when the people broke camp there was left behind 
a poor, broken-down, crippled horse. This horse was a_ bay horse. 
It had been a very fine horse, but somehow the horse had its ankle 
unjointed and it had grown large. The horse became very poor, for the 
people who owned it never took any more care of it. This pony was 
left behind by the owners. The boy saw the horse, went up to it, and 
spoke to it. Then he took his robe and with his knife he cut his robe 
into strings, so that he had a lariat rope for the pony. He led the pony 
on. The pony could hardly walk. When he came near to the village 
he left the pony in the valley where there was good grass. He went into 
the village and there he remained. When it was daylight he went to 
where his pony was. For several days they traveled behind the people, 
but soon the pony began to gain, so that now it had flesh. At this 
time the boy was quite large, so that when he entered the village 
many people called to him to do work for them. He never would go 
near the tipi of the chief any more. 
