140 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
was a grove of trees, and there the warriors were dancing around in a 
circle. They were singing this song: ‘‘Scabs from the sore head drop.”’ 
Whenever one scab fell off they all yelled, ‘‘There is the scab upon the 
ground.’’ They sang this again and again. The man went down and 
saw that the warriors who were dancing were the same ones who had 
gone away upon the war-path and had not returned; that now they were 
scalped men. The man shot over them,so that they ran through the tim- 
ber. He lost sight of them, but he knew they were living. He followed 
them up and at last he came to a big cave where their home was. The 
man was now afraid and did not go into the cave, but returned to his 
home and told the people that he had seen the men who had gone upon 
the war-path. He said that they were now scalped men and would never 
return. 
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