HOW EVENING-STAR’S DAUGHTER WAS OVERCOME. 39 
and carry it with you. Go into yonder village and when you see that 
girl win her for yourself. I shall always be near you and will protect 
you.’’ He gave the boy a moccasin and in the moccasin was the symbol 
of Morning-Star. The boy was told that when he should go to visit the 
girl he would meet obstacles. At each obstacle he was to throw the 
moccasin with the symbol of Morning-Star, and the obstacle would 
disappear. 
The boy went home. He sent for an old man and told the old man 
to lead him to the other village, as he wanted to marry the girl in that 
other village. The old man led him and when they came to a certain 
place, the girl came out singing. She hit upon the ground with her war 
club, and there was a deep canyon in front of the boy and the old man. 
The old man looked atthe boy and said, ‘‘What?’’ The young man 
stepped forward and dropped the symbol of Morning-Star into the deep 
canyon and the sides moved together and brought the symbol up, and 
the canyon was gone. They went on and again the girl came out. 
She struck upon the ground and there was a wide stream of water. The 
‘boy dropped the symbol into the water and the water disappeared. 
They went on and the girl came out again. When she came out she 
sang her song, and touched the ground with her war club, and there in 
front of the boy was formed a thick timber. The boy threw the symbol 
into it and the timber disappeared. Thenthey went up tothe tipi. The 
girl had gone in and taken her seat in front of the men. The animals 
began to come out, but as each animal came the boy struck it with the 
symbol and so they all disappeared. When the old man and the boy 
entered the lodge the girl was told that she was to marry the young man. 
Then the girl said, ‘‘He must first go and get the baby-board for me.”’ 
The boy went north to a strange country, and began to cry. A 
strange man came to him, and he was the same man who had appeared 
to him before. He asked what he was crying about. The boy said, 
“Father, I am now married, but the girl wants a baby-board.”’ The man 
said: ‘‘My son, you shall see me again. I will get the baby-board for 
you. [am Morning-Star. The baby-board which I shall get shall be 
adopted by your people and they shall always be under my protection. 
The child will grow tobe a man or awoman.”’ Themanwent off. He 
went to a lodge of animals and told the animals what he wanted. There 
was a certain lodge where the Beavers were, and these Beavers were 
making baby-boards, but fires were kept up by the Turtles, so that no 
one could go near enough to get a baby-board. When the animals heard 
what the man wanted, they called a council to see who would go and get 
the baby-board. Coyote stood up and said, “I willgoand get the baby- 
