36 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
he is coming.’’ When Long-Tongue had almost overtaken her the girl 
took the arrow and stuck it into the ground and dogwood timber formed 
along the ravines. When Long-Tongue came to the timber he saw that 
the dogwood was straight and had no knots. He stopped and said, “‘I 
shall cut this dogwood and place it in piles so that the girl can carry 
them, for | want arrows.’’ Hestopped and cut and cut and thus gave the 
girl a good chance to get some distance away from him. When the dogwood 
was all cut and placed in piles, Long-Tongue thought about the girl and he 
began to run again. He gained upon the girl, and when he was about 
to lay his hands upon her, the girl dropped some sinew. She threw the 
sinew upon the ground and there was scattered over the ground many 
dead buffalo. Long-Tongue said: ‘‘This is good. I have my arrow- 
points, my dogwood for my arrows, and now I must have sinew with which 
to fasten these things.’’ Long-Tongue began to take the sinew from the 
buffalo. When he had taken all the sinew from the buffalo he placed 
them in a big pile and said, “‘I will make that girl carry those things to 
my home.’”’ Then he remembered that he was after the girl, and he ran 
again. 
Every time that he ran he turned into a rattling, rolling skull, so that 
the skull rolled upon the ground and made its teeth clatter and made a 
great noise upon the earth. The girl went on. Long-Tongue followed 
her again. He saw her and ran fast. Just as Long-Tongue was about 
to overtake the girl she dropped a piece of afeather. When Long-Tongue 
got to the place where the feather was he found many dead turkeys all 
around. He stopped and said, “‘I will take the feathers off of those tur- 
keys and pile the feathers here and I shall make the woman pack them 
and I will have feathers for all my arrows.’’ After he did this he thought 
of the girl and he ran after her again. This time the girl dropped upon 
the ground the flint knife, which made a gulch in the earth, so that when 
Long-Tongue fell into it he could not climb up on the other side, but ran 
back and forth. 
' The Raven flew over the girl and said, ‘‘You are near the place now.”’ 
The girl looked up and she saw what seemed to her to be amound. She 
went around the mound and she saw a man sitting outside of the lodge 
making a bow. The girl went to this man and said: ‘I come to you. 
Save me. There is a mysterious being coming who has been following 
me for several days. J am tired and weak.’’ The man said, ‘‘Walk into 
the lodge.’’ The girl went into the lodge and she saw another sacred 
bundle hanging up in the lodge. She went to where the bundle was hang- 
ing and sat down under the bundle. Long-Tongue finally climbed out 
of the gulch and began to chase the girl again. When he came to the 

