THE POOR BOY WHO MARRIED THE CHIEF’S DAUGHTER. 71 
must have stolen the chief’s daughter.’’ Others made fun of him. In 
a few days, however, the enemy attacked the village. The boy was 
spoken to by the pony. It said to the boy, ‘‘Make haste; we must go 
and join in the battle.”” The boy took the quiver filled with arrows, 
put it over his shoulder, got on the pony, and went tothe scene. The 
people were already fighting. When the people saw the poor boy com- 
ing on his poor horse they made fun of him. But when the poor boy 
saw an enemy in the center he rode right into the enemy, and as he rode 
up against the enemy the people thought that his horse had fallen and 
that he had got up and got on a horse belonging to the enemy. But 
this was a trick of the poor pony so that the people would not recognize 
it as the poor crippled pony. After the boy had counted coup, and it 
seemed as if he had taken a pony from the enemy, he returned to the 
village and then to the hollow. Some of the men said, ‘‘I wonder 
where that boy came from?’’ After the battle the poor boy disap- 
peared. Ina few days the enemy attacked the village again. This time 
the boy went up to the village. He had red clay all over his body. 
The clay had been given to him by the horse. He got upon the horse 
and entered the line of fighters. There he killed an enemy and took 
his horse. Then he rode back into the timber where his wife was. He 
gave the pony which he had taken from the enemy to his wife. The 
people wondered what had become of the poor boy. 
A few days afterwards the village was again attacked by the enemy. 
This time when he went into the fight the people knew him. He killed 
another enemy, took his scalp, and went to his place. The fourth time 
when the enemy attacked the village the boy remained in the battle. 
Then the people knew that it was the poor boy who had done all the 
killing in the other fights. 
After the fighting was over, and the people had had three or 
four days’ rejoicing for killing the enemy, the old man who was the 
crier for the people went through the village and notified the people 
that the next day they were to break camp and leave. The next day as 
the people were breaking camp the poor boy and the girl came out from 
their hiding place and entered the village. The boy was all dressed in 
buckskins and so was his wife. When the people saw the poor boy with 
the daughter of the chief, the young man who tried to marry her thought 
that her mind was not right because she had married the poor boy. 
When the chief heard that his daughter was married to the poor boy 
he was glad of it, for he said, ‘‘This poor boy is a great warrior and he 
has shown it in battle.’”’ After all the poor boy married the girl who 
hated him. 
